Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
I haven’t been this struck or fallen in love this fast with a book in my life. I started reading it to my wife and couldn’t stop.
I don’t usually react to books this way. I picked this one up, got a few pages in, and went upstairs to get my wife so I could read it to her. I thought I’d read a page or two. I ended up reading fifty or sixty pages out loud before we had to get on with the day. I’ve never done that before with any book connected to this podcast.
So that’s really why I was so excited to have this conversation.
This is a discussion with Lori Carlson-Hijuelos about her book A Writing Marriage, and about the life she shared with her husband, the writer Oscar Hijuelos. We talk about writing and faith and the literary world, but mostly we talk about marriage. What it looks like when two people build a life together over decades. And what it’s like when that life changes after one of them is gone.
LINKS
lorimariecarlson.com
A Writing Marriage at Bookshop
bookshop.org/a/99692/9798888451786
frankschaeffer.substack.com/p/exploring-a-writing-marriage-with?utm_source=youtube
I haven’t been this struck or fallen in love this fast with a book in my life. I started reading it to my wife and couldn’t stop.
I don’t usually react to books this way. I picked this one up, got a few pages in, and went upstairs to get my wife so I could read it to her. I thought I’d read a page or two. I ended up reading fifty or sixty pages out loud before we had to get on with the day. I’ve never done that before with any book connected to this podcast.
So that’s really why I was so excited to have this conversation.
This is a discussion with Lori Carlson-Hijuelos about her book A Writing Marriage, and about the life she shared with her husband, the writer Oscar Hijuelos. We talk about writing and faith and the literary world, but mostly we talk about marriage. What it looks like when two people build a life together over decades. And what it’s like when that life changes after one of them is gone.
LINKS
lorimariecarlson.com
A Writing Marriage at Bookshop
bookshop.org/a/99692/9798888451786
frankschaeffer.substack.com/p/exploring-a-writing-marriage-with?utm_source=youtube
