Podcast appearances and mentions of Bill Clegg

In today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 381, my conversation with author and literary agent Bill Clegg. It first aired on September 23, 2015. Clegg is a literary agent in New York and the author of the bestselling memoirs Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man and Ninety Days. The author of the novels Did You Ever Have a Family and The End of the Day, he has written for the New York Times, Lapham's Quarterly, New York magazine, The Guardian, and Harper's Bazaar. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi's email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram  TikTok Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

RMA-Episode 103 Show Notes:   RMA-Episode 103: Crack is Wack! This week Mike and Nat travel the rocky road and discuss Bill Clegg's memoirs, Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man, and Ninety Days. Literary agent Bill Clegg was talented, successful and secretly addicted to crack. His 2010 memoir Portrait of the Artist, describes the highs and (mostly) lows of living with a crack addiction in New York at the turn of the millennia. His follow-up memoir, Ninety Days, details his struggle to string together 90 days of sobriety after leaving rehab and his efforts to try and put together the pieces of his shattered life.    Please remember to SUBSCRIBE to the podcast on your favorite platform to get the latest episode delivered right to your devices as soon as it's released. We are a listener-supported podcast. If you like what we're doing here at RMA and want to support the show, JOIN THE RECOVERY IN THE MIDDLE AGES PATREON    Our sole mission is to help other people achieve sobriety and become their best, most authentic selves. As little as $3 a month makes a big difference and helps us keep the lights on.    https://www.patreon.com/RecoveryintheMiddleAges As always, we thank you for your support.   LINKS:    Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man   Ninety Days   Recovery in the News   The Sober Together App   Recovery News You Can Use, Any Day of the Week:   www.soberliningsplaybook.com LISTEN TO RMA ON YOUTUBE PLEASE leave us a 5 star review on I-Tunes if you're enjoying the show and SUBSCRIBE to get the latest episodes.    You can reach us by email at: MikeR@middleagesrecovery.com Natx@middleagesrecovery.com   Send comments, complaints, death threats, ideas and requests to be interviewed. We'll talk to anyone!   Check out the website:   Www.middleagesrecovery.com    While you're there, buy a T-Shirt and support your favorite recovery podcast.   We all have a story. Tell us yours and we'll share it on the show!   E-Mail your story to miker@middleagesrecovery.com   FOLLOW US ON TWITTER  Join the Facebook Page! Exciting things are happening there!   We also have a Facebook Group! Request to join the group. It's a private space for continuing the discussion of what Nat and Mike talk about on the podcast. Hope to see you there.   If you're in trouble with substance abuse and need help, reach out. There are thousands of people who have put problems with addiction in their rear-view mirrors and you can be one of them. While we neither endorse nor condemn any particular program, the sheer number of available AA and NA meetings suggest that reaching out to those organizations would be a good first step (but maybe not the last step), on your road to recovery.     https://www.aa.org/ https://www.na.org/meetingsearch/   Marijuana Anonymous (just in case):   This Naked Mind

Top Ten Black Ops Moments #310.) A collaborator/spy brings an author I met at a panel years ago as a date to her show. But why? Best not to engage.9.) An agent I queried called me and echoed confidential statements I made in a query to a completely different agent, then offers to vet my book for $5,000.8.) I came up with and recorded the idea to sing Gregorian covers of popular hits a full year before The Handmaid's Tale on Hulu started doing it. Clearly Scientology hired a creative on the show to steal the idea from my private garageband files just to make me slowly lose my sanity.7.) Kind of flattered by this one but a probable Scientology spy stole my academic analysis of Froot Loops as a symbol of rich white feminist fragility to create the iconic Froot Loops scene in Jordan Peele's “Get Out” because Jordan Peele is unwittingly surveilled by Scientology through Elisabeth Moss and the cast of “Girls” by Lena Dunham, who Bill Clegg thanked in his book.6.) My landlord offered $400 for me to find a room mate to fill a vacant room. Every time I posted on Craigslist, the person tried to make me late for work and then never showed up. Previously I was amazing at filling rooms using Craigslist. Then my landlord put someone in the room who trolled me with neurolinguistic programming for two months, probably wanted to get me to develop a drinking habit, and possibly planted a roach bomb. 5.) A subway conductor literally changed the route of the train I was on to Grand Central Station, to mockingly correspond with an email I had satirically just sent about “plans to centralize my power”. A man follows me off the train with a creepy passing mention just coincidental enough to reference my show but just mundane enough to also suggest that I might be forming delusional projections like Leonardo DiCaprio in Shutter Island. Might this have anything to do with the MTA's link to Scientology private investigator Dan Ribacoff?4.) A long time collaborator puts an idea that I had written in my private notes and shared with no one into his screenplay. Then he invites me to read a tiny role in the reading as a form of psychological warfare.3.) Why is my co-worker who I only see at work repeatedly singing a not very well known song that I passive aggressively played through the apartment while my partner and I were going through our separation in 2016?2.) Why did my first roommate on Lefferts Place, after I moved out of my partner's apartment in 2016, claim Twitter founder Jack Dorsey was in our living room? Why did it seem like the landlord had my room mate/leaseholder tell me a story about the land lord's son being shot to death in their living room and then abruptly deliver a notice that we had to move out because I didn't react sympathetically enough?1.) I've lost track of whether that was Black Ops Moment Number 9 or Black Ops Moment Number 10 but either way it's far too many. Happy 2022 everybody.

I'm Jim McKeown , welcome to Likely Stories, a weekly review of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. If you enjoy twisty plots, building and breaking, secrets, love and forgiveness, Bill Clegg's emotional novel, The End of the Day is captivating.

Marcin Wilk z bloga "Wyliczanka" rozmawia z Billem Cleggiem o jego książce "Koniec dnia" - rozmowa miała miejsce 15 kwietnia 2021 roku

First Draft Episode #281: David Levithan David Levithan is editorial director at Scholastic and the author of many young adult novels, including Boy Meets Boy, Every Day, and co-author with Rachel Cohn of Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist and Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares. Sips By is the only mutl-brand, personalized monthly tea subscription box, which makes discovering tea fun and affordable! Use the code “firstdraft” for 50% off your first Sips By box at www.sipsby.com. On the Remember Reading podcast, discover the tales behind these beloved children’s book classics. Hear from award-winning authors like Meg Cabot, Katherine Paterson, and Tiffany Jackson, and guests as they uncover the unique story behind each story. Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode The Babysitters Club series by Anne M. Martin David launched PUSH, the Scholastic imprint still there today Jean Feiwel, Senior Vice President and Publisher, Feiwel & Friends, Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, Swoon Reads, Square Fish Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Dan Ehrenhaft, author of The Last Dog on Earth, Friend is Not a Verb, and That’s Life, Samara Brooks Sarah Mlynowski, author of Just a Boy and a Girl in a Little Canoe, I See London, I See France, and co-author of Upside-Down Magic The New York City Teen Author Festival Nancy Garden, author of Annie on My Mind, The Year They Burned the Books, and Endgame. Francesca Lia Block, Francesca Lia Block, author of more than 25 books, including seminal YA novel WEETZIE BAT, talks about her most recent book, THE THORN NECKLACE, a memoir-driven guide to healing through the craft of writing. (listen to her First Draft interview here) Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award and Newberry Honor winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming, Another Brooklyn, Miracle’s Boys and many more Brent Hartinger’s Geography Club Bermudez Triangle by Maureen Johnson, New York Times bestselling author of of several YA novels, including 13 Little Blue Envelopes, Suite Scarlett, The Name of the Star, and Truly Devious: A Mystery. She has also done collaborative works, such as Let It Snow (with John Green and Lauren Myracle), and The Bane Chronicles (with Cassandra Clare and Sarah Rees Brennan). (Listen to my interview with Maureen Johnson here) Lauren Myracle’s Kissing Kate Alex Sanchez’s The Rainbow Boys series Sara Ryan’s Empress of the World David edits Suzanne Collins, author of The Hunger Games David edits Garth Nix, author of the Sabriel series, Angel Mage, and many more Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (movie) Bill Clegg, a literary agent formerly with WME and now at The Clegg Agency Gingerbread by Rachel Cohn Will Grayson, Will Grayson which David co-wrote with John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars and Looking For Alaska You Know Me Well with Nina LaCour (listen to her First Draft episodes here and here) Maggie Stiefvater, author of the The Raven Boys series, Shiver, and The Scorpio Races Alex Gino’s Stonewall Award-winning George I want to hear from you! Have a question about writing or creativity for Sarah Enni or her guests to answer? To leave a voicemail, call (818) 533-1998 or send an email to mailbag @ firstdraftpod dot com! Subscribe To First Draft with Sarah Enni Every Tuesday, I speak to storytellers like Veronica Roth, author of Divergent; National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Jason Reynolds; Leigh Bardugo, author of Ninth House and the Grishaverse series; Creator of Sex and the City Candace Bushnell; YouTube empresario and author Hank Green; Actors, comedians and screenwriters Jessica St. Clair and Lennon Parham; author and host of NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast Linda Holmes; Bestselling authors and co-hosts of the Call Your Girlfriend podcast, Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow; Michael Dante  DiMartino, co-creator of Avatar: The Last Airbender; John August, screenwriter of Big Fish and co-host of the Sciptnotes podcast; or Rhett Miller, musician and frontman for The Old 97s. Together, we take deep dives on their careers and creative works. Don’t miss an episode! Subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. Track Changes If you’re looking for more information on how to get published, or the traditional publishing industry, check out the Track Changes podcast series, and sign up for the Track Changes weekly newsletter. Support the Show Love the show? Make a monthly or one-time donation at Paypal.me/FirstDraft. Rate, Review, and Recommend Take a moment to rate and review First Draft with Sarah Enni in Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts. Your honest and positive review helps others discover the show -- so thank you! Is there someone you think would love this podcast as much as you do? Just click the Share button at the bottom of this post! Thanks again!

Bill Clegg is a literary agent in New York and the author of the bestselling memoirs Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man and Ninety Days. His first novel, Did You Ever Have a Family, hit the New York Times bestseller list and was longlisted for the National Book Award, Man Booker Prize, PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, and Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. His new novel is called The End of the Day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The End of the Day by Bill Clegg. He has a talent for writing the stories of characters who don't have obvious connections, and then slowly bringing them together in ways that are both intriguing and hugely satisfying. I loved his first book Did You Ever Have a Family and this one is just as good – about family and friendship and long held secrets. All the good ingredients!Impossible : My Story by Stan Walker. His story is really well known I think, and he's been on the interview circuit for this book which was delayed because of all the shipping issues from Australia – but his book is fantastic and I think everyone should read it. Absolutely remarkable, profound writing from someone just 30 years old – he's wise, mature, insightful and inspirational. We should be very proud he's a New Zealander.

Bill Clegg returns with an emotionally resonant novel about the complexities of friendship, memory, secrets and longing. About this Event In The End of the Day, Bill Clegg,literary agent originally from Sharon, brings us his second novel in which a series... Read More ›

Bill Clegg returns with an emotionally resonant novel about the complexities of friendship, memory, secrets and longing. About this Event In The End of the Day, Bill Clegg,literary agent originally from Sharon, brings us his second novel in which a series... Read More ›

Zibby has been a longtime fan of Bill Clegg's beautiful writing especially his fantastic memoir, Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man. They talked about everything from addiction to parenting to audiobooks… and everything in between. 

Odysseus, the “man of twists and turns”, goes on five new adventures, portrayed by five amazing actors. Sing for our time, too. To contact Make-Believe, email us at talk@makebelieve.fm --------------- Lost Books of the OdysseyBy Jeremy McCarterAdapted from the novel by Zachary MasonMusic composed and sound team led by Mikhail FikselDirected by Jess McLeodExecutive produced by Jeremy McCarter Performed and recorded live at the Harold Washington Library, Chicago CAST (in order of playing Odysseus)Kareem BandealyKristina Valada-ViarsLily MojekwuIan Paul CusterHenry Godinez SOUND TEAMSound designer - Mikhail FikselAssociate sound designer and audio technician - Robert HornbostelRecording engineer - Joe Palermo PRODUCTION STAFFProduction manager - Madeleine BorgStage manager - Brennan T. JonesCommunity manager - Kaitlin Fine POST-PRODUCTIONEditing, mixing, and additional recording by Mikhail FikselAdditional sound design, final mixing and mastering by Joe Palermo Graphic design by Carly Pearlman Equipment provided by TechMagic Designs Make-Believe theme music by Mikhail Fiksel SPECIAL THANKSCatherine Allen and The Den Theater; Brian Bannon and the staff of Chicago Public Library; Carolyn Casselman of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton, and Garrison; Bill Clegg; Nancy García Loza; Nate Marshall; Kevin Reader, Max Temkin, and Cards Against Humanity; Chris Rooney; SAG-AFTRA. PRODUCTION SPONSORSThe Chauncey and Marion Deering McCormick Family Foundation, for an essential launch grantThe Poetry Foundation, our lead season sponsorJoyce Chelberg, whose generosity supports the work of Make-Believe’s actorsAll our donors and supporters To support Make-Believe with a tax-deductible contribution, please visit:https://makebelieve.fm/support-us/

“I didn't think that anybody thought or felt or experienced the world the way that I did until I came into recovery,” Bill Clegg tells our chief content officer, Elise Loehnen. Clegg is the author of two harrowing, poignant memoirs: Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man and Ninety Days. (He’s also a novelist—read Did You Ever Have a Family—and one of the most respected literary agents in publishing.) Clegg doesn’t often talk about his experience with addiction and recovery these days, which makes today’s conversation feel all the more intimate. Whether or not you recognize some piece of his story as your own or as belonging to someone you love, it’s a conversation that will stick with you. (For more, see The goop Podcast hub.)

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Chandler Kling Smith author of The Sky is Yours, published this January by Hogarth. Chandler is a graduate of Bennington and the creative writing MFA program at Columbia. She has worked in book publishing and currently lives, teaches and tutors in New York City. The Sky is Yours is Chandler’s first novel but will not be her last. We are in the future. We are in Empire Island, a lot like New York. It is a crumbling edifice to man’s folly. And on top of that it is beset by a pair of fire breathing dragons who languidly circle the city, belching fire at buildings and people in a somewhat (perhaps) haphazard way, especially interested in Torch town, a prison colony set inside of the city and self governed in a Machiavellian but workable manner. Against this background, emerge our three protagonists, Duncan, Swanny and Abby who run away under the most unsettling of circumstances and settle in various parts of the heart of darkness that is Empire. Because of the ubiquitous dragons and their flame throwing, Duncan who is (or was) a spoiled brat with a serious case of “affluenza” (he has an inhaler) becomes a fireman, and a good one, Abby a magical and lovely enchantress of sorts takes us through a maze of riddles and wonders to a crystalline point and which to say more would be a spoiler, and Abby surprises all of us with a mouthful of extra teeth, a lot more spunk than one would expect as she settles and thrives in Torch town with an unkempt and canny Sharkey, who reminds me of Danny DeVito where she doles out licorice- like skeins of soporific and vintage drugs. The momentum of the novel is almost musical and the latter part of the book is like the pull string at the top of a velvet bag, drawing the characters and there are many finely drawn ones, beside the protagonists, tighter and tighter into to a point where we all understand (kinda sorta) where we have been and perhaps where we are going. And on top of everything else, Chandler’s agent is Bill Clegg who is probably the best in the world. And with that and my usual run-on sentences, welcome to the show Chandler and thanks so much for joining us today.

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Chandler Kling Smith author of The Sky is Yours, published this January by Hogarth. Chandler is a graduate of Bennington and the creative writing MFA program at Columbia. She has worked in book publishing and currently lives, teaches and tutors in New York City. The Sky is Yours is Chandler’s first novel but will not be her last. We are in the future. We are in Empire Island, a lot like New York. It is a crumbling edifice to man’s folly. And on top of that it is beset by a pair of fire breathing dragons who languidly circle the city, belching fire at buildings and people in a somewhat (perhaps) haphazard way, especially interested in Torch town, a prison colony set inside of the city and self governed in a Machiavellian but workable manner. Against this background, emerge our three protagonists, Duncan, Swanny and Abby who run away under the most unsettling of circumstances and settle in various parts of the heart of darkness that is Empire. Because of the ubiquitous dragons and their flame throwing, Duncan who is (or was) a spoiled brat with a serious case of “affluenza” (he has an inhaler) becomes a fireman, and a good one, Abby a magical and lovely enchantress of sorts takes us through a maze of riddles and wonders to a crystalline point and which to say more would be a spoiler, and Abby surprises all of us with a mouthful of extra teeth, a lot more spunk than one would expect as she settles and thrives in Torch town with an unkempt and canny Sharkey, who reminds me of Danny DeVito where she doles out licorice- like skeins of soporific and vintage drugs. The momentum of the novel is almost musical and the latter part of the book is like the pull string at the top of a velvet bag, drawing the characters and there are many finely drawn ones, beside the protagonists, tighter and tighter into to a point where we all understand (kinda sorta) where we have been and perhaps where we are going. And on top of everything else, Chandler’s agent is Bill Clegg who is probably the best in the world. And with that and my usual run-on sentences, welcome to the show Chandler and thanks so much for joining us today.

Bill Clegg ends his marathon appearance on This Writing Life podcast by talking about his (then) recent Man Booker longlisting for his first novel, Did You Ever Have a Family? Alternating between his twin literary hats - writer and agent - he talks the pros of literary prizes and literary culture in general. ----more---- After the shock of learning that I reviewed Did You Ever Have a Family?, Clegg moved onto a broader discussion of attractive misery in contemporary American fiction: who's sadder: Clegg or Hanya Yanagihara (or neither)? the problem with novels with the word 'Girl' in the title the Ashley Madison debacleAdrian Piper's 'Everything' (Will be Taken Away)Bam!, Black Swans and age-old advice: how to deal with the unexpectedself-consciousness about self-consciousness: Foster Wallace, WS Merwin, perhaps?the future and some literary recommendations

Part four of Bill Clegg's This Writing Life podcast, begins with a discussion about paying attention to the workings of our own consciousness. After a critique of Alan Ball's Six Feet Under (Clegg's working out box set of choice) we moved to: ----more----death as existential wake-up call family, blame and redemption: Clegg's relationship with his fathersuffering, realism and writing: Clegg on Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Lifeaddiction, control and trauma (and writing)does telling it slant help Clegg resolve his own problems?Clegg on Thomas Hardyregret in Did You Ever Have a Family? a tragedy told through its aftermath?the persistence of childhood embarrassmentThe final part to follow.

Part 3 of Bill Clegg's chat with This Writing Life podcast about his debut novel, Did You Ever Have a Family?, begins with the personal: 'There are some people born restless. I certainly was.' ----more---- From here we compare childhood ambitions with Clegg's actual route to becoming a successful literary agent in New York City. The conversation continues: chocolate lab puppies, work and the strange, epic story of how he became an agentwhat's the New Yorker? Clegg's introduction to New York City lifezombie vampires: do agents have to be cynical? 'Don't overthink it': from agent to novelist writing to carpentry: the evolution of Clegg's charactersdid writing a novel help Clegg make sense of his upbringing and hometown? reading as a form of sceptical engagementfear and judgement vs curiosity: Clegg's childhood the obligatory, short, mention of Donal Trump Part 4 of 5 to follow.

In part two of Bill Clegg's chat with This Writing Life's podcast, we begin with the trauma (a house fire on the night before a wedding) that propels his debut novel, Did You Ever Have a Family? ----more----From there (soundtracked by some funky flutes) we move to: how the novel began and progressed for Cleggfirst vs third person narration Wilkie Collins, collective truths and the range of voiceswhat we think about each other, for right and mainly wrongempathy, judgement and global problemswhy small-towns are a metaphor for the entire worldtown vs wealthy, weekending outsiderssmall-town life and small-town thinking?how do you break family destiny and leave small-towns?Part 3, with more funky background music and cell phone buzzes, to come.

This Writing Life podcast talked to Bill Clegg shortly after the publication of his first novel, Did You Ever Have a Family? Just longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, it was one of the year's most intriguing debuts. ----more----It begins with a tragedy: a house-fire that kills a family on the eve of a wedding in a small-town in rural America. What holds the interest is not the mystery of what happened, but the vapour trails of grief that float between the survivors: above all June, the mother of the bride, and Lydia, the mother of the groom. During a lengthy conversation, we discussed his childhood, the death of his father, his successful career as a literary agent, the drug addiction that almost lost him everything, not to mention his more recent adventures as a writer. In part one of Episode 68, backed by some nice hi hat cymbal, we talked about: economics and small-town AmericaBill Clegg's own childhood in small-town Americahow rural small-town America is changing from farmlands to weekending New Yorkerslove, envy and resentment in Sharon, Connecticut (Clegg's hometown)the pros and cons of growing up in small-town America car crashes, anonymity v small-town fame (how many times can I write small-town)Did You Ever Have a Family? chatter (with some Stevie Wonder in the background)fiction v non-fictionaddiction, sobriety, writing and coming to terms with the past:tragedy, addiction and Did You Ever Have a Family?the death of fathers and writing the novelPart 2 to follow.

In this prologue to our next guest on This Writing Life podcast, Bill Clegg answers my pilfered Paris Review question: is there one writer that inspired you to write? Find out by clicking play. In the next episode, we start our lengthy conversation about Bill's Man Booker longlisted debut novel, Did You Ever Have a Family?

Comentario sobre la narración autobiográfica de Bill Clegg titulada Retrato de un joven adicto a todo. En ella se narra la recaída del protagonista en el consumo de drogas, en especial el crack.

Pauls tells James about his new book, DOG GONE, his path to sobriety, his favorite pencil, and how his life has (thankfully) changed since their days at Middlebury College. Plus Emily Crowe from Odyssey Bookshop suggests summer reading (listed below), discusses the value of independent bookstores, and makes suggestions for a good book event.      James and Pauls Discuss: Baker & Spice Bakery Portland, OR  Oakley Skis Tesla Automobiles  The Rotring Tikky- The Official Pencil of Pauls Toutonghi  Knopf  Salman Rushdie  Bill Clegg  Tim O'Connell  Renee Zuckerbrot  LitHub  Joy Williams  Karen Russell Jim Shepard  GOODHOUSE by Peyton Marshall  Skip Horack  Printer's Row Book Festival  Watermark Books  Jay Parini    Emily and James discuss: HOMEGOING by Yaa Giasi*  THE SPORT OF KINGS by C.E. Morgan* THE PRINCE & THE PAUPER by Mark Twain  ALL THE LIVING by C.E. Morgan CHURCH OF MARVELS by Leslie Parry*  THE ROAD by Cormac McCarthy  THE REASON I JUMP by Naoki Higashida (translated by David Mitchell)* Tom Franklin & Beth Ann Fennelly  *= Summer reading recommendation    http://tkpod.com // tkwithjs@gmail.com // Twitter: @JamesScottTK  Instagram: tkwithjs // Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs

Bill Clegg har skrevet noe som virkelig er en bemerkelsesverdig skjønnlitterær debut. "Vi som hadde en familie" er en bok som gir oss mye å tenke på og som berører dypt. I denne episoden av Bokprat hører dere forfatteren i samtale med Anette Garpestad, om hvor fortellingen kom fra, å skrive selv når man jobber med litteratur og forventningene til videre skriving. Denne samtalen foregår stort sett på engelsk.

Bill Clegg  is the author of two memoirs, Portrait of an Addict as A Young Man: A Memoir and Ninety Days. His novel, Did You Ever Have a Family, was long listed for the 2015 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award.  Clegg is also a literary agent and owner of The Clegg Agency. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bill Clegg makes the transition from memoirist to novelist. His book and its title are a statement on the kindness of strangers and the necessity to fashion one's own family.

First Draft interview with Bill Clegg

Author and literary agent Bill Clegg talks to Gary Almeter at the Baltimore Book Festival about his serendipitous path into the literary world and the inspiration behind his debut novel Did You Ever Have a Family.

Bill Clegg is the guest. His debut novel, Did You Ever Have a Family?, is available now from Scout Press. It has been long-listed for both the Man Booker Award and National Book Award. Bill and I talked on the hottest day of the year in LA, or one of the hottest days of the year. It was sweltering in the garage and it had rained the night before (odd), which made it humid, which made the heat worse. Plus, we did the interview at four in the afternoon, the hottest time of the day. So it was hot. And Bill, bless him, arrived at my door after a day of media and travel and was, despite the heat and fatigue, completely game and willing to sit there and field my questions for an hour. We had a great conversation in spite of it all. Not much of a monologue today.  I just get to the main event.  I do, however, get more expansive than usual at the tail end of the show.  Stay tuned. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mariella Frostrup talks to literary agent turned author Bill Clegg

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Elegant and heartrending, and one of the most accomplished fiction debuts of the year, Did You Ever Have a Family is an absorbing, unforgettable tale that reveals humanity at its best through forgiveness and hope. At its core is a celebration of family—the ones we are born with and the ones we create. - Amazon Review The Avid Reader Show is sponsored by Wellington Square Bookshop in Chester County, PA. The Show airs on Mondays at 5PM EST on WCHE AM 1520. Please visit our website at www.wellingtonsquarebooks.com

This week, Bill Clegg talks about “Did You Ever Have a Family”; Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world; Kathryn J. Edin discusses "$2.00 a Day”; feedback from readers; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.

Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Bill Clegg, Stevie Phillips, Janice Kaplan and Amy Seek.