Uncorking a Story Podcast

Uncorking a Story

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Stories influence, teach and inspire us, but what about the storytellers who create them? Uncorking a Story profiles storytellers to uncover how their background and life experiences influence the stories they create. We learn what motivates them, their path to success, and what fuels them to keep creating. It all starts by asking one simple question, where does your story begin? Welcome to uncorking a story. All of the books promoted on Uncorking a Story can be viewed and purchased here: https://bookshop.org/shop/UncorkingaStory

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Mysterious Ways, with Kamila Shamsie

October 25, 2022 MPN Uncorking a Story 0 Comments
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U2’s seminal album Achtung Baby was released during my senior year in high school. At the time, I was a huge fan and didn’t know what to make of this new release as it was so different from their earlier work. Once I heard the song Mysterious Ways, though, I really started to dig what I was hearing. I can honestly say I love that album even more today than I did back then. What’s the connection between U2’s Mysterious Ways and today’s guest Kamila Shamsie, well, you will just have to listen to find out!

Meet Kamila Shamsie:

Kamila Shamsie is the author of several novels, including Home Fire, which won the Women’s Prize for Fiction, was longlisted for the Booker Prize, and was a finalist for the International Dublin Literary Award, among other honors. She recently joined me to talk about her career and latest novel, Best of Friends.

Key Topics:

  1. How she pursued writing as a career even though it took five books before she could earn a living by being an author.
  2. Why she was inspired to write about childhood friendships in her latest novel, Best of Friends.
  3. How the America she envisioned while growing up in Pakistan did not live up to the expectations she had watching pirated videotapes as a child.
  4. Why would she tell her younger self to take more risks. 

“Having complete control over what you are writing also means having complete responsibility. And that can be terrifying.” — Kamila Shamise

Buy Best of Friends

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kshamsie/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kamilashamsie

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