We are so excited about today’s guest, Manjula Martin. We’ve been big fans of hers for a long time, and her anthology Scratch, about writers and money, has always been a big influence on this podcast. She’s always been a dream guest, and of course was top of our list for this season.
Manjula Martin is the editor of Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living (Simon & Schuster, 2017). Her writing has appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Pacific Standard, Aeon Magazine, Hazlitt Magazine, Nieman Storyboard, and The Awl, among other publications.
Martin’s next nonfiction book will be Fruit Trees for Every Garden, cowritten with Orin Martin, forthcoming in Fall 2019 from Ten Speed Press.
Martin is the managing editor of Zoetrope: All-Story, the National Magazine Award–winning fiction and art magazine published by Francis Ford Coppola. She has previously worked in varied editorial and writing capacities with book and magazine publishers, nonprofit organizations, and arts organizations. She lives in San Francisco.
We talk about:
- What Manjula has learned from many years of writing, blogging and editing about writers and money;
- Balancing (or not) many creative projects when you have a day job;
- The importance of prioritizing the work you consider to be your art;
- YOLO;
- Her gardening book coming out in 2019;
- Branding and genre-hopping
In this episode:
Jane Friedman (our guest in episode 44)
Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living
People who’ve done well since Scratch, including Sarah Smarsh and Meaghan O’Connell
People who have stayed in their jobs: Roxane Gay and Nell Boeschenstein
Manjula’s father, Orin Martin, at UC Santa Cruz’s Alan Chadwick Garden
Fruit Trees for Every Garden with Orin Martin – Ten Speed Press
Rebecca Solnit
- River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
- Political essays
Amy Stewart – Girl Waits With Gun + Drunken Botanist
