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Casey Nott

Casey Nott

Poet, fiction writer, and memoirist; author of "Ground Work" (2018) and "This Season, The Next" (2024), poetry editor for The Wax Paper.

Jul 10, 2026

Writers Behaving Badly Podcast

Writers Behaving Badly Podcast

✍️ What Makes the Perfect Author Talk?

Jul 10 · 55m

Lisa IrelandHOST
17:04
Is that right or am I way off base?
Casey Nott
Casey NottGUEST
17:07
Well, we never rehearse because that's the gold.
Casey Nott
Casey NottGUEST
17:09
We don't like to discuss the answers to the question before the event because we like to go in sort of cold on that.
Casey Nott
Casey NottGUEST
17:17
And who knows what we will say? We are just at any time.
Casey Nott
Casey NottGUEST
17:22
This is just how we are, which is fine now.
Casey Nott
Casey NottGUEST
17:26
But I think in the early days, I was very nervous.
Casey Nott
Casey NottGUEST
17:29
Right.

12 MINS LATER

Lisa IrelandHOST
29:14
What makes you a good bet for a bookshop and how do you go about approaching people to get them to host an event for you?

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