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E415 · The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O'Meara
Episode 415: Sam Jefferies, Hammering Out Screed
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20 days agoSam Jefferies is the author of Legacy on Ice: Blake Geoffrion and the Fastest Game on Earth (Univ. of Wisconsin Press).
Sam talks about how he built scenes, folded in the book writing and reporting around his family and day job, listening to tape on commutes to get the material into his bloodstream, and maintaining a sense of individual style without exhausting the reader.
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