Ep. 155 Matthew White

About this episode

Matthew White discusses giving yourself permission to pursue passion projects in writing.

Matthew White is an author, interior designer, antiquarian, preservationist, and a former ballet dancer. He is the author of Italy of My Dreams: The Story of an American Designer’s Real-life Passion for Italian Style. He is an emeritus board member and former chairman of Save Venice Inc. His new book is New York Minute: Public Clocks that Make the City Tick , just out from Abbeville Press. Listen in as he and I discuss how to give yourself permission and not talk yourself out of writing a passion project. The QWERTY podcast is brought to you by the book The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life. Read it, and begin your own journey to writing what you know. To learn more, join The Memoir Project free newsletter list and keep up to date on all our free webinars, instructive posts and online classes in how to write memoir , as well as our talented, available memoir editors and memoir coaches, podcast guests and more.

People in this episode

Guest: Matthew White

Topics covered

• writing
• interior design
• antiquarian
• preservation
• ballet
• Italian style
• public clocks

Keywords

• Italy of My Dreams
• New York Minute
• Save Venice Inc
• The Memoir Project

Mentioned in this episode

Products: The Memoir Project, New York Minute

Books & works: Italy of My Dreams, New York Minute: Public Clocks that Make the City Tick, The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life

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