The Fail Safe podcast explores how today’s most successful writers grapple with and learn from creative failure. From the blank page to the broken sentence, we examine the many challenges and pitfalls of the literary life and discover how authors transform false starts, dead ends, and assorted blunders into works of literary genius. Produced collaboratively by draft: the journal of process and The Iowa Writers’ House, The Fail Safe provides encouragement for anyone who’s ever wanted to write and pulls back the curtain on the creative process for a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the writer-at-work. Created and hosted by Rachel Yoder.
Garth Greenwell
discusses his new book, What Belongs To You, and explores his creative process. Taped live at the Clinton Street Social Club in downtown Iowa City, with bonus audience interviews.
“It’s impossible to make art unless you give yourself permission to fail.”
