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Writers Who Read

Writers Who Read

著者： Gary Alan McBride
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概要

Gary Alan McBride founded the Boulder, Colorado-based Writers Who Read novel study group in May of 2018. Since then he and other local writers have been analyzing 10 novels per year within 12-18 months of their publication. Gary is also the author of the WwR reference guide, Literary Forensics: How Reading Can Make You a Better Writer, available in hardcover, paperback, and ebook in bookstores and at online retailers worldwide. More information here: https://LiteraryForensicsBook.com.


WwR is focused 100% on today's fiction, mostly in advance of academic scholarship, so we live on the cutting edge of contemporary analysis. And that's how we like it. Our goal is to read like a writer and not wait for someone else to tell us what to think. That means we read with intent--to become better at noticing what the author is doing to manage our emotions and manipulate our point of view. And so it doesn't matter whether what we read is critically acclaimed or academically vetted, because we can learn the same lessons from bad writing as from highly polished prose. We use our own reactions to the text to discover where to dig, and we use Literary Forensics techniques to sift through the layers. Our goal is to uncover the author's intent and to identify the tools they used to create their story so we can use them in our own writing.


On our monthly podcast Gary is joined by Whitney Pinion, Mira Landry, and sometimes others guest readers. We discuss our own textual discoveries as well as insights gleaned from our group discussion, because as much as we can learn on our own, we can learn so much more about how to read and write when we listen to others' viewpoints.


And that's where you come in, dear listener. We invite you to join us each month, 10 months a year, for a new episode when we discuss the latest literary techniques and publishing trends so that you can try out these techniques for yourself and maybe add your voice to ours.


We are Writers Who Read.

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  • Up Next: Isola - Allegra Goodman

    Up Next: Isola - Allegra Goodman
    2026/03/08

    Whitney, Mira, and Gary analyze another recently-published novel on the next episode of Writers Who Read. Next up: Isola by Allegra Goodman.

    Based on a historical person, Allegra Goodman's Marguerite is as real a 16th century woman as we are ever likely to find within a novel. Orphaned as a child, her fate is in the hands of an unscrupulous guardian who takes her fortune and eventually maroons her on an island in Canada. How she reacts to her situation aligns perfectly with the options available to her within her time, place, and social status--it all reads true. Prepare to be transported by Goodman's masterful use of language.

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    3 分
  • 75: We Solve Murders - Richard Osman

    75: We Solve Murders - Richard Osman
    2026/02/22

    Whitney Pinion, Mira Landry, and Gary McBride talk about We Solve Murders by Richard Osman, which is Writers Who Read book number 75. Discussion slides for this novel and all novels discussed are available at WritersWhoRead.com. You can learn more about Literary Forensics here, and find the book at bookstores everywhere.

    In every episode we analyze and discuss one novel that has been published within the past 18-24 months. We do this because we are writers who read with intent–we read to study content and form and to uncover techniques that we can apply to our own writing. We read like writers, turning our favorite authors into our writing teachers.

    We do this through Literary Forensics, a set of tools that allow us to look beyond the surface of plot points, down into the tapestry of themes, contexts, and symbols that hold the very intentions of the author.

    We uncover why they wrote this novel and how they did it.

    If you'd like to join our LIVE! meetings in person, find upcoming novel titles and event registration information here and be sure to sign up for our monthly newsletter.

    Writers Who Read has been meeting in Boulder, Colorado, since 2018, and we are affiliated with the Boulder Writers Alliance.

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    49 分
  • Up Next: We Solve Murders - Richard Osman

    Up Next: We Solve Murders - Richard Osman
    2026/02/08

    Whitney, Mira, and Gary analyze another recently-published novel on the next episode of Writers Who Read. Next up: We Solve Murders by Richard Osman.

    Best-selling British author Richard Osman kicks off a new murder mystery series by introducing us to Amy Wheeler—a hard-knuckled private bodyguard for Maximum Impact Solutions, the famous author she's protecting, her retired police officer father-in-law turned private detective, and the enigmatic character behind a series of murders, François Loubet. Snappy dialogue, good food, international travel, hijinks and other perilous situations abound for our lovable band of sleuths as they figure out who the killer really is.

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    2 分
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