Owen King

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Arts, Performing Arts, Music

5.0 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Owen King is the author of Double Feature, and We’re All in This Together: A Novella and Stories. He is the coauthor of Sleeping Beauties and Intro to Alien Invasion and the coeditor of Who Can Save Us Now? Brand-New Superheroes and Their Amazing (Short) Stories. Owen joins Rhett to talk about how he built the world that The Curator takes place in and what it means to capture the “sound” of a novel. The two discuss the value of early reader feedback, recognizing work-life balance, and Owen shares a story about the time when he had to dig the galleys for his first book out of a snowstorm, along with the Fedex guy who was delivering them. His new novel, The Curator, is out today and available here Owen King website Owen on IG @owenkingauthor Rhett on IG: @rhettmiller Website: Rhettmiller.com Wheels Off is brought to you by Osiris Media. Hosted and produced by Rhett Miller. Co-produced by Kirsten Cluthe in partnership with Nick Ruffini (Revoice Media). Editing by Matt Dwyer. Music by OLD 97’s. Episode artwork by Katherine Boils and Mark Dowd. Show logo by Tim Skirven. This podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also ask Alexa to play it. Please leave us a rating or review on iTunes. Revisit previous episodes of Wheels Off with Rosanne Cash, Rob Thomas, Will Forte, Lydia Loveless, Allison Moorer, Ted Leo, Paul F. Tompkins, Jen Kirkman, and more. Find Rhett's podcast #WheelsOff and other music-powered shows on @Osirispod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	O'SIRUS
0:02.0	Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.
0:09.0	I'm Rhett Miller.
0:10.0	That's when it got wheels off.
0:13.0	He started ugly ain't gonna stop.
0:16.0	Oh, she made me feel like a good car.
0:19.0	That's when it got wheels off. Owen King is a novelist, a writer of short stories, novellas, a professor of creative writing at times.
0:31.9	And full disclosure, one of my best friends here in the Hudson Valley.
0:36.0	He's a great dude.
0:37.3	I'm really excited for his new
0:38.8	novel, The Curator, which is just out. I've read it. I highly recommend it. And I'm so glad to
0:46.7	have him on wheels off. I always approach interviews with close friends with some trepidation
0:52.9	because I never know if you know, if the chemistry
0:57.0	we have in real life will translate to the interview format. In this case, I think it does. I think
1:04.8	the world of Owen and I think his particular sense of humor, as well as his generosity and the thoughtfulness with
1:12.9	which he approaches his craft. I think all of that comes through during the course of this
1:18.0	conversation. I highly recommend that you go seek out some of his work. It's all over the place. He describes a lot of it in the course of this
1:31.1	interview, so you'll hear sort of the scope of his output. Anyway, I'm really glad to welcome to
1:38.7	Wheels Off, the great Owen King. Welcome to Wheels Off.
1:44.9	Owen King.
1:45.9	Hello, my friend.
1:46.5	How are you?
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