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 Jul 20251h 40min
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 Jul 20251h 13min
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...
25 Jun 20251h 27min
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 Jun 20251h 29min
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...
11 Jun 20251h 28min
Steven Pinker: Harvard Professor Explains The Rules of Writing | How I Write
I’m here at Harvard in the office of Steven Pinker. He’s written nine books and spent his life studying language, cognition, and writing. In this interview, we started with the practical: the rules of...
4 Jun 202543min
Ezra Klein: The Case Against Writing With AI | How I Write
Ezra Klein is one of the internet’s most influential journalists. He co-founded Vox in 2014, and it was there he really pioneered this new era of online journalism. Remember those Vox explainer videos...
28 Mai 202555min
Eric Roth: The Screenwriter Behind Forrest Gump and Dune | How I Write
Dune. Forrest Gump. Benjamin Button. Eric Roth wrote all of them. He’s been nominated for seven Oscars and won Best Adapted Screenplay for Forrest Gump. I got the chance to ask him about how you find ...
21 Mai 20251h 35min
