Michael G Wheaton

Jan 7, 2025 | journals.plos.org | Michael G Wheaton |Barnard College |Victoria Cosgrove

ResultsPooling across tools, most of the responses (79%), encouraged the user to seek help and were empathic in nature. See Table 2 and S1 Table for full results. However, only 24% of the responses included a crisis hotline number and only 4% (k = 6) of the responses included content consistent with evidence-based suicide prevention interventions. Very few (11%) of responses asked the user a follow-up question (e.g., “Would you like some guidance on finding someone to talk to?”).

Mar 28, 2024 | podcasts.apple.com | Michael G Wheaton

Sara Lippmann interviews Ben Tanzer. Topics include: small town insularity, the new novel THE MISSING, time, regimen, not being precious, persistence, prioritizing yourself, detaching from outcomes, patience, and more.

Aug 28, 2023 | identitytheory.com | Michael G Wheaton

I drop the needle on a reissue of Abbey Road in the den, a small room with a brick fireplace, the phonograph, four crates of vinyl, three bookshelves, two armchairs, and no screens. The record skips and warps after it crackles. I tell the boys, three and five, to take their hands off. In effort to model another experience not centralized by my phone, I sit on the Ikea mid-mod chair with a small thick book: The Beatles (in Pictures).

Aug 3, 2023 | podcasts.apple.com | Michael G Wheaton

Michael talks with Aaron Burch about longhand, episode 10 of this podcast, Aaron’s help getting Autofocus and The Lives of Writers noticed, HAD/WAS, Short Story Long, slowing down, A KIND OF IN BETWEEN, sounding like yourself, constraint, the HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL anthology, teaching writing by thinking about other crafts, how books might come together, and more.

Jul 20, 2023 | podcasts.apple.com | Michael G Wheaton

Guest host Sara Lippmann talks with Seth Rogoff about collaboration, a triangle of place (Berlin, Prague, Maine), a relationship with seminal texts, the old testament, THE KIRSCHBAUM LECTURES (Sagging Meniscus, 2023), decentering meaning, making choices for or against expectation, handwriting (and not outlining), working with former NBA player Kendrick Perkins, and more.