From debut authors to Pulitzer Prize winners, Writers on Writing tackles a little of everything — novels, short stories, memoir, poetry, and more, as well as interviews with agents and publishers.
Unlike other shows dedicated to discussing books, we focus on the art, craft, and business of writing. Writers appreciate the opportunity to talk about the artistic elements of their job — the thousands of decisions that must be made to produce a manuscript. There’s no aspect of craft, creativity, and publishing we don’t explore.
We’ve hosted well over 1,500 authors on the show including Elizabeth Strout, S.A. Cosby, Ann Patchett, Amor Towles, and George Saunders. Expert advice from some of the industry’s top writers allows us to offer a show that’s been called “your own personal MFA program” (with no financial strain).
Host: Barbara DeMarco-Barrett
Host: Marrie Stone
Music and sound editing by Travis Barrett
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EPISODES
(2001 - present)
Ethan Canin and Nick Baker
Marrie Stone interviews Ethan Canin, author of America America and Nick Baker, author of The Anthologist.
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(Broadcast date: Sep 23, 2009)
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(Broadcast date: Sep 23, 2009)
Judith Schwartz and Literary Agent Sally Van Haitsma
Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Judith D. Schwartz , author of The Therapist's New Clothes, and literary agent Sally Van Haitsma.
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(Broadcast date: September 09, 2009)
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(Broadcast date: September 09, 2009)
Debra Ollivier, Karen Karbo and Jennifer Niven
Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Debra Ollivier, author of What French Women Know: About Love, Sex and Other Matters of the Heart and Mind; Karen Karbo, author of The Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons from the World's Most Elegant Woman; and Jennifer Niven, author of Velva Jean Learns to Drive.
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(Broadcast date: Sep 9, 2009)
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(Broadcast date: Sep 9, 2009)
Betsy Lerner and Rachel Resnick
Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews literary agent Betsy Lerner and Rachel Resnick, author of Love Junkie.
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(Broadcast date: September 09, 2009)
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(Broadcast date: September 09, 2009)
Luis Alberto Urrea and Jill Ciment
Marrie Stone interviews Luis Alberto Urrea, author of Into the Beautiful North and Jill Ciment, author of Heroic Measures.
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(Broadcast date: July 29, 2009)
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(Broadcast date: July 29, 2009)
Pen on Fire Speaker Series: Lisa See
Lisa See, author of Shanghai Girls, shares her wit, wisdom and writing during the Pen On Fire Speaker Series at the SCAPE Gallery in Corona Del Mar.
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(Event Date: June 06, 2009)
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(Event Date: June 06, 2009)
Dean Kuipers, Trish Riley and Christine Heinrichs
Marrie Stone interviews Dean Kuipers, author of Operation Bite Back: Rod Coronado's War to Save American Wilderness, Trish Riley, author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Greening Your Business and Christine Heinrichs, author of How to Raise Poultry.
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(Broadcast date: August 5, 2009)
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(Broadcast date: August 5, 2009)
Nick Reding and Richard Wolffe
Marrie Stone interviews Nick Reding, author of Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town and Richard Wolffe, author of Renegade: The Making of a President.
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(Broadcast date: July 29, 2009)
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(Broadcast date: July 29, 2009)
Katherine Russell Rich
Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Katherine Russell Rich, author of Dreaming in Hindi.
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(Broadcast date: July 22, 2009)
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(Broadcast date: July 22, 2009)
Vicki Forman and Scott Martelle
Marrie Stone interviews Vicki Forman, author of the memoir This Lovely Life and Scott Martelle, journalist and author of Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West.
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(Broadcast date: July 15, 2009)
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(Broadcast date: July 15, 2009)
Norman Ollestad
Marrie Stone interviews Norman Ollestad, author of Crazy for the Storm.
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(Broadcast date: July 08, 2009)
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(Broadcast date: July 08, 2009)
Poetry Panel with Stanley Plumly, B.H. Fairchild and A. Van Jordan
Marrie Stone moderates a poetry panel with poets Stanley Plumly, author of Old Heart, B.H. Fairchild, author of Usher, and A. Van Jordan, author of Quantum Lyrics.
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(Broadcast date: June 3, 2009)
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(Broadcast date: June 3, 2009)
Pen on Fire Speaker Series: Merrill Markoe
Merrill Markoe, author of Nose Down, Eyes Up and Walking in Circles Before Lying Down, shares her wit, wisdom and writing during the Pen On Fire Speaker Series at the SCAPE Gallery in Corona Del Mar.
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(Event Date: April 09, 2009)
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(Event Date: April 09, 2009)
Literary Agent Dorian Karchmar
Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Dorian Karchmar, literary agent with the William Morris Agency in New York.
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(Broadcast date: May 26, 2009)
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(Broadcast date: May 26, 2009)
Geoff Dyer and Mary Gaitskill
Marrie Stone interviews Geoff Dyer, author of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, and Mary Gaitskill, author of Don't Cry.
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(Broadcast date: May 20, 2009)
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(Broadcast date: May 20, 2009)
Fiction Panel with Janelle Brown, Bo Caldwell & Lisa Fugard
Barbara DeMarco-Barrett moderates a fiction panel featuring Janelle Brown, author of All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, Bo Caldwell, author of The Distant Land of My Father, and Lisa Fugard, author of Skinner's Drift.
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(Broadcast date: May 13, 2009)
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(Broadcast date: May 13, 2009)
Poet Stephen Dunn
Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Stephen Dunn, author of What Goes On: Selected and New Poems 1995-2009.
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(Broadcast date: January 07, 2009)
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(Broadcast date: January 07, 2009)
Ed Husain and Paul Harris
Marrie Stone interviews Ed Husain, author of The Islamist: Why I Became an Islamic Fundamentalist, What I Saw Inside, and Why I Left and Paul Harris, author of The Secret Keeper.
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(Broadcast date: May 06, 2009)
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(Broadcast date: May 06, 2009)
Tom Epperson
Marrie Stone interviews Tom Epperson, author of The Kind One.
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(Broadcast date: April 29, 2009)
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(Broadcast date: April 29, 2009)
L.A. Times Book Award Winner Zoe Ferraris and Dennis Palumbo
Marrie Stone interviews L.A. Times 2008 Book Award Winner Zoe Ferraris, author of Finding Nouf: A Novel, winner of the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and Dennis Palumbo, author of From Crime to Crime.
To see all L.A Times 2008 Book Award winners, click here. Congratulations Zoe!
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(Broadcast date: Aug 13, 2008)
To see all L.A Times 2008 Book Award winners, click here. Congratulations Zoe!
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(Broadcast date: Aug 13, 2008)