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Let's Deconstruct a Story: A podcast for the story nerds!
Aspiring writers need to understand the components of a good story before they can write one. Choices of POV, plot, setting, and tone are crucial. In each episode, I'll be interviewing a writer about one of their own stories, which will be available for listeners to read for free on my website before they listen.
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Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 35 days
Average audio length:
39 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
69 episodes
since April 6, 2021
episodic
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I’m happy to share the first podcast episode for the fall! On this episode, Jessica Treadway joins me to discuss a story from her 2026 short story collection, I Felt My Life with Both My Hands (Cornerstone Press). The story first appeared in Five Points and was later chosen as one of …
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Please join us for an interview with Madeleine Stein about her prize-winning story, “Too Beautiful,” first published in The Hopkins Review. This discussion was recorded with our paid subscribers and members of the Conscious Writers Collective, hosted by Maya C. Popa.
How “Let’s Decons…
Please read “The Bed and Breakfast” before listening to the episode.
Molly Dektar is the author of two novels, The Absolutes and The Ash Family. Her short stories have been published in the Best American Short Stories 2024, the Yale Review, N+1, the Harvard Review, Ploughshares, and the Sewanee Re…
I recorded a short episode chock-full of advice from the last few podcast episodes. Hope you enjoy it! Let me know if you would like me to record more of these. I am cleaning up some old recordings, and I’m always struck by how often the person I’m interviewing offers the most unexpected yet sound …
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In this episode, I sit down with Jim Shepard to deconstruct his short story “The Queen of Bad Influences.” If you haven’t read the story yet, I recommend reading it first—this is a full short story analysis and writing craft breakdown, and we go deep.
This conversation is all about how…
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I’m so happy to share ‘Pemi Aguda’s short story, “Manifest,” with you. Please read the story before you listen to the podcast, because there will be spoilers!
Read “Manifest” here on Granta (or here: https://granta.com/manifest/).
Let’s Deconstruct a Story is available here on Substac…
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How this works:
Read the story carefully. This is important because the interview will contain spoilers.
During this session, we will talk with the author about their personal process and analyze craft elements: plot, character, setting, dialogue, pacing, and r…
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During this episode, Shastri Akella discusses his Best American Short Story, “The Magic Bangle.”
The podcast episode is also available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you get your podcasts.
Please read the story before listening to the podcast episode.
It’s available here a…
Happy New Year!
Maura Stanton and I had so much fun discussing “School for Robots.” Please be sure to read the story first before watching this video, and check out more of Maura’s fantastic stories below.
Enjoy!
Kelly
Bio: Maura Stanton’s Cities in the Sun was the recipient of the Michigan Literar…
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I hope you enjoy this episode, which features Susan Shepherd discussing her Best American Short Story, “Baboons, “ first published in The Kenyon Review.
Paid subscribers and Conscious Writers Collective members are welcome to join us for interviews, and I want to thank Paul Delong, in…
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