Writing It!
The Podcast About Academics & Writing
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Episode 33: Psychedelics & Writing
September 23rd, 2024 | 46 mins 44 secs
chapter structure, history of science, literary agents, margaret mead, psychedelics, trade press
We speak with historian Ben Breen (UC Santa Cruz) about the writing of his recent book, Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science, We discuss how to think about chapter organization; writing about individuals’ lives without writing biography; discovering our main characters through the writing process; books that have served as models for writing; the wonderfulness of Terry Gross; not getting caught up in the apparatus of writing tools; and why it’s most important to just get the ideas down.