Exploring A Writing Marriage with Lori Carlson-Hijuelos

About this episode

Frank Schaeffer discusses the impact of a book he read with his wife, featuring guest Lori Carlson-Hijuelos.

I haven’t been this struck or fallen in love this fast with a book in my life. I started reading it to my wife and couldn’t stop. I don’t usually react to books this way. I picked this one up, got a few pages in, and went upstairs to get my wife so I could read it to her. I thought I’d read a page or two. I ended up reading fifty or sixty pages out loud before we had to get on with the day. I’ve never done that before with any book connected to this podcast. So that’s really why I was so exci...

People in this episode

Host: Frank Schaeffer

Guest: Lori Carlson-Hijuelos

Topics covered

• writing
• marriage
• literature
• reading
• relationships

Keywords

• writing marriage
• Lori Carlson-Hijuelos
• book reading
• literature discussion
• Frank Schaeffer

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