Courtney Maum | Alan Opts Out | The Comedy About Opting Out of Everything
Alan Anderson is a visionary ad man. That is, up until the morning he isn’t.
He blows the biggest account of his career, comes apart, and moves out to live off the land, the land being his backyard in suburban Greenwich, Connecticut. He sets up in the children’s playhouse. He goes barefoot. He uses…
Episode 774: Laughing and Thinking With Courtney Maum
Author Courtney Maum (The Year of the Horses, Before and After the Book Deal) joins Daniel Ford on the show to chat about her most recent novel Alan Opts Out.
To learn more about Courtney Maum, visit her official website.
This episode is sponsored by The Darling Killers Podcast and Libro.fm.
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897: Intergenerational Space Travel
People braving the true final frontier — the gap between people born at slightly different times.
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Recently, Stacy talked with author Courtney Maum about her newest book, Alan Opts Out, a biting satire about suburban life and whether "making it" is really worth it. Can absurdity and satire heal our communities?Signed copies are available from us while supplies last! About the bo…
897: Intergenerational Space Travel
People braving the true final frontier — the gap between people born at slightly different times. Visit thisamericanlife.org/lifepartners to sign up for our premium subscription.(00:00:00) Prologue: Last fall, some NPR podcasts started getting mysterious comments on Spotify. They made no sense to …
Courtney Maum: Fictionalizing Fiction (& How a Simple Character Goal Fixes Everything)
Today, I’m talking to Courtney Maum, literary citizen extraordinaire, educator, writing coach, and author most recently of Alan Ops Out. She says the book took an “obscene” number of drafts because she couldn’t distance herself from her female character, when the story needed this character to be w…
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