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MTS 05: Sense of place & compiling a book manuscript of essays with Timothy Kenny
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Welcome to episode five of More to the Story, a podcast all about telling true stories and sharing them with the world!
In this episode I talk with former Under the Gum Tree contributor, Timothy Kenny. Tim is a former USA Today foreign editor, a non profit foundation executive, a Fulbright scholar, and associate professor of journalism at the university of Connecticut. In addition to USA today, his reporting and op-ed piece shave appears in the Toronto Star, The Los Angeles Time, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Chicago Tribune, among many others. His narrative nonfiction has appeared in several literary magazines including the Kenyon Review Online, the Louisville Review, the Gettysburg Review, and of course Under the Gum Tree. His piece “Turning 66 and 6 in Umbria,” appears in the January 2013 issue of Under the Gum Tree. Tim’s first book is a collection of creative nonfiction entitled Far Country: Stories from Abroad and Other Places, and it was just published in May 2015. Before we get to the interview, here is Tim reading an excerpt from his new book.
In this episode, we talk about:
- Tim’s writing background and what draws him to creative nonfiction
- Why Tim prefers creative nonfiction to journalism
- Writing about how our sense of place affects who we are
- Process of compiling a book manuscript of essays
- Tim’s book Far Country: Stories from Abroad and Other Places on Amazon
Visit us online at moretothestorypodcast.com and visit Under the Gum Tree at underthegumtree.com.
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Manage episode 174432696 series 1402648
Welcome to episode five of More to the Story, a podcast all about telling true stories and sharing them with the world!
In this episode I talk with former Under the Gum Tree contributor, Timothy Kenny. Tim is a former USA Today foreign editor, a non profit foundation executive, a Fulbright scholar, and associate professor of journalism at the university of Connecticut. In addition to USA today, his reporting and op-ed piece shave appears in the Toronto Star, The Los Angeles Time, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Chicago Tribune, among many others. His narrative nonfiction has appeared in several literary magazines including the Kenyon Review Online, the Louisville Review, the Gettysburg Review, and of course Under the Gum Tree. His piece “Turning 66 and 6 in Umbria,” appears in the January 2013 issue of Under the Gum Tree. Tim’s first book is a collection of creative nonfiction entitled Far Country: Stories from Abroad and Other Places, and it was just published in May 2015. Before we get to the interview, here is Tim reading an excerpt from his new book.
In this episode, we talk about:
- Tim’s writing background and what draws him to creative nonfiction
- Why Tim prefers creative nonfiction to journalism
- Writing about how our sense of place affects who we are
- Process of compiling a book manuscript of essays
- Tim’s book Far Country: Stories from Abroad and Other Places on Amazon
Visit us online at moretothestorypodcast.com and visit Under the Gum Tree at underthegumtree.com.
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