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Episode 98: Michael E. Long

Oct 21, 2025

Podcast guest Michael E. Long calls himself “a professional explainer with a restive mind.”
 
He is just that.
 
Trained as physicist, Mike is the co-author of the international bestseller The Molecule of More, which has been translated into more than 20 languages, and the sole author of the recently-published follow-up title Taming the Molecule of More.
 
As a speechwriter, he has written for members of Congress, U.S Cabinet secretaries, presidential candidates, governors, diplomats, and business leaders. As a ghostwriter, he has collaborated on several books of non-fiction. As a playwright, he’s had more than two dozen of his shows produced, most on New York stages. He was finalist for the grand prize in screenwriting at the Slamdance Film Festival. A popular keynote speaker, Mr. Long has addressed audiences around the world, including at Oxford University. He teaches writing at Georgetown University, where he is a former director of writing.
 
The son of a southern preacher, Mike’s call to writing found him close to home. “I learned how to write,” he says, “and how words should go together, by listening to the music of my father’s voice.”
 
Join us for a fun, freewheeling conversation on a writing life lived at the crosshairs of the written word and the spoken word.
 
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