Writer's Bone

Jade Chang, author of The Wangs vs. the World , talks to Daniel Ford about what inspired her debut novel, her approach to character development, how she navigated the publishing process, and why aspiring authors need to be ambitious.

Wally Lamb, best-selling author of She's Come Undone , I Know This Much Is True , We Are Water , and the recently published I'll Take You There , talks to Daniel Ford about how his family ignited his passion for storytelling, his pokey writing style, his partnership with Metabook, and what inspired I'll Take You There .

Daniel Ford, Adam Vitcavage, and Gary Almeter discuss Writer's Bone 's book recommendations from the past two months. Authors include Jade Chang, Nick Mainieri, Zadie Smith, Tim Murphy, Sonya Chung, and more!

William Wisher Jr.—whose credits include "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," "Judge Dredd," and "I.T."—talks to Sean Tuohy about his path to becoming a screenwriter, working as a script doctor, his screenwriting process, working with James Cameron on the Terminator movies, and why he's always learning new things having to do with filmmaking.

Gene Policinski, longtime journalist, chief operating officer for the Newseum Institute, and senior vice president of the First Amendment Center, talks to Daniel Ford about 2016 Presidential Election coverage, why we need more shoe-leather reporting, and what lessons news organizations, editors, and reporters need to learn to keep the profession relevant and necessary in the future.

Laura McHugh, award-winning author of The Weight of Blood and Arrowood , talks to Daniel Ford about how she became a storyteller, her organic writing process, how she crafts her Midwestern settings, and what she has planned next.

Nicole Blades, author of The Thunder Beneath Us and Earth's Waters , talks to Daniel Ford about her lifelong love of reading and writing, how she developed the character Best Lightburn, and why writers need to use their own voices to write the stories they would want to read.

Lee Child, author of Killing Floor  and  Make Me , talks to Sean Tuohy about why he still loves writing Jack Reacher adventures, his approach to storytelling, and why he made the decision to explore Reacher's past in his new novel Night School .

Screenwriter John Romano—whose credits include "The Lincoln Lawyer," "Nights in Rodanthe," "Intolerable Cruelty," and Ewan McGregor's directorial debut "American Pastoral"—talks to Daniel Ford about his early love for books, how he caught the screenwriting bug and moved to Los Angeles, and the challenges he faced in adapting Philip Roth's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning screenwriter Robert Schenkkan—whose credits include "All the Way," "The Pacific," "The Quiet American," and the upcoming "Hacksaw Ridge"—talks to Sean Tuohy about his career and how he helped bring U.S. Army medic Desmond T. Doss's story to the screen.

Writer's Bone 's dear friend Peter Sherwood stops by Friday Morning Coffee to talk to Daniel Ford about The Murdery Delicious Blood Stone Secret , "the devastating finale of the Murdery Delicious trilogy."

Screenwriter Ted Tally—who won an Oscar for his screenplay for "Silence of the Lambs," and whose other credits include "Red Dragon," All the Pretty Horses," and "The Juror"—talks to Sean Tuohy about the influence acting and theater had on his early career, transitioning from playwright to screenwriter, how he became involved with "Silence of the Lambs," and why any time writing is never wasted.

Daniel Ford discusses Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize win, and then talks to his father Ken Ford about the origins of his love of music, the first album he ever bought, and all the bands he saw live at Providence College from 1969 to 1973.

In Daniel Ford's short story "343," a veteran deals with a past that cryptically inhibits his future.

Tom Shroder, award-winning journalist, writer, and editor, talks to Daniel Ford about his early desire to be a writer, why he got into journalism, and what inspired him to tell his grandfather's story in The Most Famous Writer Who Ever Lived: A True Story of My Family .

Author and screenwriter Phoef Sutton—whose screenwriting credits include "Cheers," "Boston Legal," and "Terriers," and whose fiction titles include Curious Minds (written with Janet Evanovich), 15 Minutes to Live, Crush, and the upcoming Heart Attack and Vine —talks to Daniel Ford about how he broke into television, his screenwriting process, why he loves writing fiction, and why aspiring writers...

Daniel Ford and Internal Review 's Adam Vitcavagae share the Writer's Bone crew's reviews of Paul Beatty's The Sellout , Liz Moore's The Unseen World , Ben H. Winters's Underground Airlines , Nell Zink's Nicotine , and more!

Chris Sparling, whose credits include "Mercy," "Buried," and ATM," talks to Sean Tuohy about his journey from Providence, R.I. to Hollywood, how he developed and produced his early films, how his screenwriting process has evolved, and why he still feels like he has something to prove as a screenwriter, director, and filmmaker.

Singer/songwriter and rock musician Frank Turner talks to Daniel Ford about his current tour, his writing process, and how he keeps pushing the boundaries to deliver something listeners haven't heard yet.

Randi Mayem Singer, whose screenwriting credits include "Mrs. Doubtfire" and "Tooth Fairy," talks about her early love of writing, how she went from journalism to screenwriting, writing original material versus taking assignments, and the questions she has to answer before writing any script.

Alex Kava, best-selling author of the Maggie O'Dell and Ryder Creed series, talks to Daniel Ford about quitting her job to pursue writing, the affectation and appreciation she has for her readers, and what inspired her recent novel Reckless Creed .

Michael Fuller and Graham Gordy, creators of Cinemax's new show "Quarry," talk to Sean Tuohy about how they brought Max Allan Collins's Quarry to life on the screen, recreating the 1970s, and why the Vietnam veterans' experience plays a central role in their show.

We'll now be featuring our favorite books from the past month on Friday Morning Coffee! In this episode, Daniel Ford reviews Louie Cronin's Everyone Loves You Back , Tyler Dilts's Come Twilight , Paul Tremblay's Disappearance at Devil's Rock , Curtis Sittenfeld's Eligibile , Celeste Ng's Everything I Never Told You , Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer , and Meg Abbott's You Will Know Me .

Kasey Lansdale, country music artist and author, talks to Sean Tuohy about how she's always wanted to be an entertainer, what it's like working with her father (author Joe Lansdale), and her new EP "Leave Her Wild."

Daniel Paisner, author of A Single Happened Thing and co-author of Ron Darling's Game 7, 1986: Failure and Triumph in the Biggest Game of My Life , talks to Daniel Ford about how he became interested in storytelling, how an obscure baseball player inspired his recent novel, his love for the Mets, and why aspiring authors need to read widely to be successful.