Ep 131: The Paper Palace and Beyond with Miranda Cowley Heller

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Miranda Cowley Heller's father was a book editor; her grandfather edited Jack Kerouac and was friends with Hemingway. That legacy, while inspiring, left her frozen when it came to pursuing her own writing.

Instead, she built a thriving career in publishing and TV, eventually heading up drama series at HBO. Then, in her 50s, she wrote the novel she’d been carrying around for years, The Paper Palace, which became a New York Times #1 bestseller and a Reese’s Book Club pick.

Now, she's returned to her first creative love—poetry—with a stunning new collection: The Deep Water Knows. “Poetry is almost like putting snapshots of your soul into the world,” she tells me.

In this episode, Miranda gets real about the myth of getting wiser with age, the vulnerability of releasing creative work into the world, and why your voice is never too late to matter.

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1. Ep 131: The Paper Palace and Beyond with Miranda Cowley Heller (00:00:00)

2. Welcome to Miranda Cowley Heller (00:01:53)

3. The Path is Long (00:04:25)

4. From Editor to Author (00:11:36)

5. Success and Its Aftermath (00:23:18)

6. The Deep Water Knows (00:33:41)

7. Evolving Through Poetry (00:38:52)

8. Reading Recommendations and Closing (00:55:36)