About Michael Mohr's Sincere American Writing Podcast
https://michaelmohr.substack.com/p/sincere-american-podcast
Make sure to check out my new podcast, Sincere American Podcast covering the writing process, sobriety/recovery, being an American expat in Madrid, and the complex topic of masculinity.
michaelmohr.substack.com (https://michaelmohr.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast)
The Heart of the Emerald Green (short fiction, 15 min)
Read the story HERE (https://michaelmohr.substack.com/p/the-heart-of-the-emerald-green-5fa)
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6 Oct 2025
Doubt: Sobriety, Writing and Family (26 min)
*If you enjoy the podcast please review on Apple Podcasts. It really helps.
Podcast #2: My Self-publishing journey (https://michaelmohr.substack.com/p/podcast-episode-2-literary-agents)
I discuss doubt in my life, especially around AA/12-step recovery, my writing career, and the concept of family.
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10 Sept 2025
American Pleasure: A Writer on His Own Path (23 min)
BUY AMERICAN PLEASURE HERE (https://www.judsonvereen.com/product-page/american-pleasure)
Judson’s website (https://www.judsonvereen.com/)
Judson’s Substack (https://judsonvereen.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips)
My books (https://michaelmohr.substack.com/p/links-to-my-3-published-books)
The Crew (poetic YA novel) (https://www.amazon.com/Crew-Michael-Mohr/dp/B0CTRWWNJQ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=FZUFGZCUQV25&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.htWI_FH2yiImDrJ503gsHPt3deUJhZ1swEwd1F40bcEYjznOICszSH1Ny9-I-azgGIvPu37O7b1QwVoX7yAuRLGSb-Idop_BGry0MygONxI188k47rzqyB37Pm3_q6IY7DNrJu8-zcmuNUiGDqo6yjhoZefqrUZEniE1a_EIJ_Y.OSfREcNOHnvifURV4Z6V_1Unf0Qu4OXK8aTD_mKrI-k&dib_tag=se&keywords=crew+mohr&qid=1732389938&sprefix=%2Caps%2C183&sr=8-1)
Ross Barkan book review (https://michaelmohr.substack.com/p/ross-barkans-glass-century-part-i) (Other Franzen novel I mentioned, “The Corrections.”)
Sally Rooney review (https://michaelmohr.substack.com/p/sally-rooney-queen-of-the-millennial)
Miranda July book review (https://michaelmohr.substack.com/p/miranda-julys-all-fours)
Brandon Taylor book review (https://michaelmohr.substack.com/p/brandon-taylors-the-late-americans)
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24 Aug 2025
Podcast #5: What is Violence?
What is Violence?
(Please review the podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify…re-stack, share, spread the word. Also consider becoming a paid subscriber.)
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*Boys and men falling behind in education (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/upshot/boys-falling-behind-data.html)
*Women vs Men in publishing essay (https://michaelmohr.substack.com/p/are-women-preventing-men-from-publishing)
*Gen Z = less sex (https://eu.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2025/07/22/gen-z-virginity-sex-lives-book/84415109007/)
*Essay on men (https://michaelmohr.substack.com/p/are-boys-and-men-no-longer-tested) (Are Men Still Tested?)
*Heritage of America: 1776-1783 (NOT 1883!!)
*Russia seeing good and bad differently from the West: Perhaps I should have said Putin, vs Russia as a whole, though there’s some truth here as well.
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***Please consider buying, reading and reviewing one of my books! It’s a great and helpful way to support authors you respect!!***
*My books (https://michaelmohr.substack.com/p/links-to-my-3-published-books) (all of my books, except for Disgust and Desire, are also available on Audible, if you like to listen)
~The Crew (https://www.amazon.com/Crew-Michael-Mohr/dp/B0CTRWWNJQ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=FZUFGZCUQV25&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.htWI_FH2yiImDrJ503gsHPt3deUJhZ1swEwd1F40bcEYjznOICszSH1Ny9-I-azgGIvPu37O7b1QwVoX7yAuRLGSb-Idop_BGry0MygONxI188k47rzqyB37Pm3_q6IY7DNrJu8-zcmuNUiGDqo6yjhoZefqrUZEniE1a_EIJ_Y.OSfREcNOHnvifURV4Z6V_1Unf0Qu4OXK8aTD_mKrI-k&dib_tag=se&keywords=crew+mohr&qid=1732389938&sprefix=%2Caps%2C183&sr=8-1) (literary YA)
~American Freaks (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F9LGMK7T/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0) (gritty short story collection)
~Two Years in New York: Before, During and After COVID (https://www.amazon.com/TWO-YEARS-NEW-YORK-Before-ebook/dp/B0DMCSNWLD/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1PLW6U3WJCMMK&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.SKUyn0HI66CmKLENh9Z7y1jnZzSCdGGduNRQ6ku-EI_GjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.xJdFMGA6JzJTNAxDyRYzPhG8ETor0FqPirW4qi0-9VU&dib_tag=se&keywords=mohr+two+years&qid=1732298892&sprefix=mohr+two+years%2Caps%2C181&sr=8-1) (fictional memoir)
~The Grim Room (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DPD1DFLJ) (prison suspense novel)
~Disgust and Desire (https://michaelmohr.substack.com/s/disgust-and-desire-a-covid-novel) (literary novel serialized every Thursday on my Stack)
~Controversial: The Substack Essays (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DRDWPM21) (essay collection covering politics, literature, and culture)
~~~SPREAD THE WORD, PEOPLE!~~~
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5 Aug 2025
Podcast #4: Pushing Boundaries: COVID in NYC; Violence in Harlem; Everything is material for a writer; The gift of running; Cancer
Buy a copy of my NYC COVID novel HERE (https://www.amazon.com/TWO-YEARS-NEW-YORK-Before-ebook/dp/B0DMCSNWLD/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1PLW6U3WJCMMK&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.SKUyn0HI66CmKLENh9Z7y1jnZzSCdGGduNRQ6ku-EI_GjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.xJdFMGA6JzJTNAxDyRYzPhG8ETor0FqPirW4qi0-9VU&dib_tag=se&keywords=mohr+two+years&qid=1732298892&sprefix=mohr+two+years%2Caps%2C181&sr=8-1). Please review it on Amazon!
Check out all my books HERE (https://michaelmohr.substack.com/p/links-to-my-3-published-books)
Please please please review the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc!!
Spread the word!
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25 Jul 2025
***Sorry I decided to make the podcast FREE for all (my wife was right!)...Podcast Episode #3: Being An American Expat; Spanish food and culture; Visa Bureaucracy; Violence; USA in the era of Trumpism
Notes:
*I decided to make the podcast free for all. At some point I might make the full paid and do a free sample. But I need to get the word out first. Enjoy! 😉
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Please review the pod on Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/michael-mohrs-sincere-american-writing-podcast/id1826520384), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/7kKBVoGjtKEdI2jjM118b6), etc.
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Buy my books (https://michaelmohr.substack.com/p/links-to-my-3-published-books)
Marisa’s (good friend, also sober) podcast, (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/healing-our-relationships-from-codependency-to-authenticity/id1823817283)“Healing Our Relationships: From Codependency to Authenticity” (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/healing-our-relationships-from-codependency-to-authenticity/id1823817283)
El Camino de Santiago (https://michaelmohr.substack.com/p/buen-camino-my-unexpected-walk-across), the “Walk of St. James,” which I walked (450 miles) across Northern Spain in 2016 (it took one month)
SF domestic violence piece (https://michaelmohr.substack.com/p/domestic-violence-anyone)
Paris (Bus piece) (https://michaelmohr.substack.com/p/paris-is-not-paradise)
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Clarifications
~Apologies for the excessive throat clearing. I did my best to remove and/or tamp these down. I’ve been using Garageband on my iPhone; I don’t have a MAC computer. Audacity, which I did use on my laptop, seemed harder to remove throat-clearing than my iPhone!
~Non-American expat hero authors abroad: Nabokov (https://michaelmohr.substack.com/p/nabokovs-ego-lolita) and James Joyce also had big influences on me. Nabokov fled Russia just after the Bolshevik Revolution and lived in Paris, Germany and the United States as well as Switzerland. Joyce left Ireland and lived in Switzerland and then Paris.
~We started getting rental income from one unit in Portland around October, well before we moved to Spain, and B rented out her house in Lompoc so we had passive income prior to applying (we had to have at least 3 months’ rent ahead of the visa interview)
~Africans in Lavapiés (where we first stayed via Air BnB): Moroccans, Mauritanians and Senegalese.
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16 Jul 2025
Podcast Episode #2: Literary Agents; Freelance book editing; Self-Publishing; Literary ideology: My personal journey
Podcast episode #2!
Follow me through my journey of book publication (16 years in the making) including literary agent rejections, freelance book editing, getting knocked for writing as a WSM (White Straight Male) during Trump's first reign, and eventual self-publishing.
The Crew chapter one (free) (https://michaelmohr.substack.com/p/chapter-1-of-the-crew-my-debut-novel)
The Crew (my YA novel) (https://www.amazon.com/Crew-Michael-Mohr/dp/B0CTRWWNJQ/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=3OQ4RUTIJC28T&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.24EIuxS9iOPZbubYwGuMKlckh3236wdVZP25RzhbaDGA0VF5evGLjXlvaQraXdCiAec3PVKttoXJ3BkpSSqlIuCptB37-w6ad1b6a4gbm6rU7adMhtIvYxx-pTWE1FIK.jXMwkPF2CDK4rZT-NodAOvuFHjQaDi8oEAYoDljME5k&dib_tag=se&keywords=crew+mohr&qid=1752666872&sprefix=crew+mohr%2Caps%2C223&sr=8-1)
All my books (https://michaelmohr.substack.com/p/links-to-my-3-published-books)
The Grim Room (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DPD1DFLJ)
Lit agent ideology essay (https://michaelmohr.substack.com/p/literary-agent-rejections)
Andrea Robinson (former Random House editor) (https://www.areditorial.com/)
Book cover designer for The Crew (alexander ipfelkofer) (https://substack.com/@alexanderipfelkofer)
Two Years in New York: Before, During and After COVID (https://michaelmohr.substack.com/p/links-to-my-3-published-books)
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13 Jul 2025
Sincere American Podcast...
My books HERE (https://michaelmohr.substack.com/p/links-to-my-3-published-books)
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