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.
Hosts Barbara DeMarco-Barrett and Marrie Stone have interviewed 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).
Music and sound editing are provided by Travis Barrett.
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EPISODES
(2001 - present)
Samantha Peale and Victoria Patterson
Marrie Stone interviews Samantha Peale, author of The American Painter Emma Dial and Victoria Patterson, author of Drift: Stories.
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(Broadcast date: September 2, 2009)
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(Broadcast date: September 2, 2009)
Mary Karr
Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Mary Karr, author of Lit: A Memoir.
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(Broadcast date: Jan 7, 2010)
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(Broadcast date: Jan 7, 2010)
Beverly Gologorsky and A. Manette Ansay
Marrie Stone interviews Beverly Gologorsky, author of The Things We Do To Make It Home, and A. Manette Ansay, author of Good Things I Wish You.
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(Broadcast date: Dec 23, 2009)
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(Broadcast date: Dec 23, 2009)
Steven Thomas and Stephen Elliott
Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Steven Thomas, author of Criminal Karma, and Stephen Elliott, author of The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder.
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(Broadcast date: Dec 16, 2009)
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(Broadcast date: Dec 16, 2009)
Robert Olen Butler
Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Robert Olen Butler, author of Hell.
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(Broadcast date: Dec 9, 2009)
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(Broadcast date: Dec 9, 2009)
Jonathan Lethem and Elizabeth Benedict
Marrie Stone interviews Jonathan Lethem, author of Chronic City, and Elizabeth Benedict, author of Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives.
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(Broadcast date: Nov 18, 2009)
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(Broadcast date: Nov 18, 2009)
Memoirists Michelle Maisto and Abigail Thomas
Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Michelle Maisto, author of The Gastronomy of Marriage: A Memoir of Food and Love and Abigail Thomas, author of Thinking About Memoir.
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(Broadcast Date: November 11, 2009)
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(Broadcast Date: November 11, 2009)
Michael Blake and Dylan Landis
Marrie Stone interviews Michael Blake, author of Twelve, the King, and Dylan Landis, author of Normal People Don't Live Like This.
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(Broadcast date: Nov 4, 2009)
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(Broadcast date: Nov 4, 2009)
Jonathan Tropper and Stewart O'Nan
Marrie Stone interviews Jonathan Tropper, author of This is Where I Leave You, and Stewart O'Nan, author of Songs for the Missing.
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(Broadcast date: Oct 7, 2009)
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(Broadcast date: Oct 7, 2009)
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)