# Pulitzer Finalist Alice McDermott Talks Novels and Writing Process with David Rubenstein Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/america-s-book-club-7465201/pulitzer-finalist-alice-mcdermott-talks-novels-and-writing-process-with-david-rubenstein Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/america-s-book-club-7465201/pulitzer-finalist-alice-mcdermott-talks-novels-and-writing-process-with-david-rubenstein.md Podcast: [America’s Book Club](https://stenobird.com/podcast/america-s-book-club-7465201) Published: 2026-04-19T22:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSPAN1489703719.mp3?updated=1776265421 Audio file: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSPAN1489703719.mp3?updated=1776265421 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/america-s-book-club-7465201/episodes/pulitzer-finalist-alice-mcdermott-talks-novels-and-writing-process-with-david-rubenstein Duration seconds: 3730 ## Resource Three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Alice McDermott joins David M. Rubenstein to discuss her novels, writing process, and work as a creative writing professor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/america-s-book-club-7465201/episodes/pulitzer-finalist-alice-mcdermott-talks-novels-and-writing-process-with-david-rubenstein/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/america-s-book-club-7465201/pulitzer-finalist-alice-mcdermott-talks-novels-and-writing-process-with-david-rubenstein.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.