About this episode

Robert Plunket discusses his novel Love Junkie and his experiences as a writer.

Robert Plunket was born in Greenville, Texas, in 1945, but raised in Havana and Mexico City. After college he moved to New York and became a writer, publishing two novels,  My Search for Warren Harding  (1983) and  Love Junkie  (1992). He later became Mr Chatterbox, the gossip columnist for  Sarasota Magazine . He is retired and lives in a trailer park in Englewood, Florida. On today’s episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his novel Love Junkie which was recently re-released by penguin Modern Classics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Neil Denny

Guest: Robert Plunket

Topics covered

• literature
• writing
• gossip
• novels
• author interview

Keywords

• Robert Plunket
• Love Junkie
• novels
• gossip columnist
• literature

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Sarasota Magazine, penguin Modern Classics

Books & works: Love Junkie, My Search for Warren Harding

Places: Greenville, Texas, Havana, Mexico City, Englewood, Florida

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