Jonathan Franzen: How to Write Truly Great Characters | How I Write
How I Write26 Marras 2025

Jonathan Franzen: How to Write Truly Great Characters | How I Write

Check out Sublime at https://sublime.app/?ref=perell Jonathan Franzen is one of the most influential novelists alive today. He sees fiction as the most fundamental human art, and in this conversation he explains how he actually makes it: the discipline, the daily grind, and the psychological spelunking required to write characters who feel startlingly alive. Franzen has always had an outsider’s eye. He questioned the hype of the Internet long before it was fashionable, and he’s been ruthless in diagnosing the spiritual emptiness of modern consumer life. Practically, more than anything else, this episode is about how he develops rich characters. For Franzen, the people are the story. When they’re real and true, fiction has a way of getting to the core of the human experience in a way that gives people a visceral experience, as if they’ve lived the story firsthand. About the host Hey! I’m David Perell and I’m a writer, teacher, and podcaster. I believe writing online is one of the biggest opportunities in the world today. For the first time in human history, everybody can freely share their ideas with a global audience. I seek to help as many people publish their writing online as possible. Follow me Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-i-write/id1700171470 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DavidPerellChannel Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2DjMSboniFAeGA8v9NpoPv X: https://x.com/david_perell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Rosanne Cash: Writing Masterclass from 4x Grammy Winner | How I Write

Rosanne Cash: Writing Masterclass from 4x Grammy Winner | How I Write

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David Whyte: Inside the Mind of A Master Poet | How I Write

David Whyte: Inside the Mind of A Master Poet | How I Write

I interviewed David Whyte, a poet who has mastered the art of turning life's deepest experiences into beautiful writing. We talked about how to write from the place where your inner world meets the ou...

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Alain de Botton: Writing Is Revenge | How I Write

Alain de Botton: Writing Is Revenge | How I Write

I interviewed Alain de Botton, a philosopher and writer who has turned personal pain into universal wisdom. He's written dozens of books and built The School of Life into a YouTube channel with nearly...

16 Heinä 20251h 28min

Steven Levitan: How Modern Family Rewrote The Rules of Sitcom | How I Write

Steven Levitan: How Modern Family Rewrote The Rules of Sitcom | How I Write

I interviewed Steven Levitan, the co-creator and showrunner of Modern Family, one of the most successful sitcoms of the past two decades. What makes him fascinating isn't just that he wrote hundreds o...

9 Heinä 20251h 40min

David Zucker: Hollywood Director Explains The 15 Rules of Comedy | How I Write

David Zucker: Hollywood Director Explains The 15 Rules of Comedy | How I Write

I interviewed David Zucker, the director behind Airplane!, Naked Gun, and some of the funniest movies ever made. What makes this conversation fascinating isn't just the behind the scenes stories, but ...

2 Heinä 20251h 13min

Bible Project: How Two Guys Changed Bible Education on YouTube | How I Write

Bible Project: How Two Guys Changed Bible Education on YouTube | How I Write

This is not a normal episode. There's two guests, not one. Tim Mackie and Jon Collins, and they're the founders of the Bible project, a YouTube channel with more than half a billion views. It is entir...

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Robert Macfarlane: The Most Beautiful Conversation About Language | How I Write

Robert Macfarlane: The Most Beautiful Conversation About Language | How I Write

I interviewed Robert Macfarlane, a writer who has mastered the art of nature writing. What makes him fascinating isn’t just that he writes beautifully about landscapes, but how he thinks about languag...

18 Kesä 20251h 29min

Paul Harding: A New Way To Think About Writing | How I Write

Paul Harding: A New Way To Think About Writing | How I Write

I interviewed Paul Harding, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his very first novel Tinkers. Unlike most novelists, he’s not really interested in plots, and only halfway interested in characte...

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