Writer's Bone

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 need to write all the time.

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.

Lexi Alexander, whose credits include “Punisher: War Zone,” “Lifted,” and “Green Street Hooligans,” talks to Sean Tuohy about how she got her start in filmmaking, why martial arts are an important part of her identity, and fighting against Hollywood’s diversity issues.

Adam Vitcavage, a contributing editor to Writer’s Bone and host of the recently launched pop culture podcast Internal Review, talks to Daniel Ford about being a storyteller at a young age, his favorite books of 2016 (so far), and his mission to shed light on up-and-coming musicians and authors.

Tyler Dilts, author of the widely popular Long Beach Homicide series, talks to Sean Tuohy about his new book Come Twilight, his plans for the series, how he's gone about developing his characters, taking time to appreciate the world he's built, and, of course, Danny Beckett's favorite food haunts.

Inspired by this week’s podcast interview with Scott Mosier, Daniel Ford and Sean Tuohy discuss how screenwriters and authors can still effectively surprise a media-saturated audience. The pair also chat about the different hustles involved in screenwriting and fiction writing, the right way to deal with literary jealousy, and what projects they are currently working on.

Producer/screenwriter/movie manimal Scott Mosier, whose credits include “Clerks,” "Good Will Hunting," “Chasing Amy,” “Dogma,” “Milius,” “A Band Called Death,” and “Ultimate Spider-Man,” talks to Sean Tuohy about what inspired him to get into filmmaking, the differences between producing a documentary versus a feature, exploring other storytelling mediums to inform your own work, and the challenge filmmakers face trying to surprise today’s media-saturated moviegoers. 

Social media comedian James Breakwell talks to Sean Tuohy about how he got started on Twitter, what it takes to craft a successful joke online, dealing with joke thieves and trolls, landing a book deal, and what the future holds.

Julia Claiborne Johnson, author of the wonderfully heartfelt Be Frank With Me, talks to Daniel Ford about the typewriter that inspired her to become a writer, her writing process, how she shopped her debut novel, and what’s she’s learned while promoting Be Frank With Me.