The Poised Pen: Recent Episodes
Alexcis Johnson
The Poised Pen is a literary podcast dedicated to exploring literacy as a social issue, encouraging self-expression through creative writing, and promoting diversity in writing and literature.
Native Colombian Gabriel García Márquez is an influential postwar writer who started his career as a journalist before channeling Kafkaesque surrealism into his works of fiction.
Douglas Coupland expresses his artistic talent through both writing and visual arts. His key work is his novel Generation X, and his work is known for capturing generational zeitgeist.
Recognized around the world for her masterpiece The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood is a Canadian author praised for the experimental approach she takes to her writing projects.
German author Patrick Süskind altered the literary scene with his first novel Perfume: The Story of a Murderer in 1985. While he's withdrawn from the literary scene, his contributions introduced a new take on magical realism and existentialism.
Flannery O'Connor is a renounced American short story author most known for her vivid portrayal of Southern gothic in her written pieces.
Peter Carey is a prominent Australian writer most known for his contribution to historical fiction.
Recognized for his literary masterpiece The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka establishes a place for magical realism in modern literature.
James Joyce is an influential 20th century author whose most widely known work is Ulysses.
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A renounced British writer of the 20th century, Murdoch craftily incorporates philosophical themes with spiritualism into her written pieces. While she insisted on handwriting her work and using letters as inspiration for the content of her novels, she leaves a legacy of weaving the influences of various British and Russian writers - from Shakespeare to Dostoyevsky - into her own masterpieces.
Vladimir Nabokov is a Russian writer of the postmodern literary era. Starting with his key work Lolita, Nabokov uses his writing to set new standards for what is socially acceptable in mainstream literature by introducing immoral themes and outrageous scenarios in his novels.