Essays, Podcasts, & Short Stories

Essays:

• Paula McLain on Inherited Trauma and How to Stop the Cycle – Oprah Daily
• Why I Took a Vow of Celibacy – New York Times
• The Extraordinary Life of Martha Gellhorn, the Woman Ernest Hemingway Tried to Erase – Town & Country
• The Trouble with Hating Hemingway – Signature-Reads
• Hemingway’s Wives – Huffington Post
• What Really Happened to Amelia Earhart? – Town & Country
• My hero: Beryl Markham – The Guardian
• Into Africa: Guests and wildlife come together at Kenya’s Lewa Wilderness, a place like no other – The Globe and Mail
• Animal Attraction – Town & Country Magazine (PDF)
• The Mother I Never Had – Real Simple
• Paula McLain: I’m not really a waitress – National Post
• “I Was Always, Always Looking for More” – Good Housekeeping
• The Holiday of My Dreams Was Just That – New York Times

Podcasts:

• “An Evening with Paula McLain (2015)” – The National Writers Series Podcast
• “When Fiction Is More Personal Than Memoir” – Book Dreams Podcast
• “Paula McLain discusses her choice for Hemingway’s ‘one true sentence’ ” – One True Sentence Podcast
• “Desire is Never the Answer” – Modern Love Podcast
• “Trauma as Stigma and Inspiration, featuring Paula McLain” – Write-Minded Podcast
• “Paula McLain, When the Stars Go Dark” – Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Podcast
• “California Thriller” – The Joys Of Binge Reading

Short Stories:

• “Ash Wednesday” – from Amazon Publishing’s A Point in Time collection
• “Something That Cannot Die” – an Audible Original Read by Cynthia Nixon
• “A Mind of her Own” – an Audible Original Read by Hillary Huber