How to Find Writing Space with Sara Johnson Allen, Cara Wood, and Joanna Rakoff

We hear from two listeners today: The first worries about narrative dissonance and his ability to spot it, the second is aching for a room of her own. Authors Sara Johnson Allen, Cara Wood, and Joanna Rakoff join us.

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Sara Johnson Allen is a professor and author whose debut novel, Down Here We Come Up, was the winner of the 2022 Big Moose Prize from Black Lawrence Press. She is currently finishing a second novel and starting a book of nonfiction about her 17th century home in coastal Massachusetts. 

Cara Wood is a professional writer and marketer with a master's degree from Clark University. A graduate of GrubStreet Novel Incubator, her fiction is set in a future only slightly more terrifying than the present. 

Joanna Rakoff is the author of the bestselling memoir My Salinger Year and the novel A Fortunate Age. 

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