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)
Maile Meloy and Marisa Matarazzo
Marrie Stone interviews Maile Meloy, author of Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It, and Marisa Matarazzo, author of Drenched: Stories of Love and Other Deliriums.
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(Broadcast date: Mar 24, 2010)
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(Broadcast date: Mar 24, 2010)
Pen on Fire Speaker Series (T. Jefferson Parker)
T. Jefferson Parker, author of Iron River, is interviewed by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett at the Pen on Fire Speaker Series at the Scape Gallery in Corona del Mar.
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(Broadcast date: Jan 26, 2010)
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(Broadcast date: Jan 26, 2010)
Michael Zadoorian
Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Michael Zadoorian, author of The Leisure Seeker.
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(Broadcast date: Mar 31, 2010)
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(Broadcast date: Mar 31, 2010)
Siri Hustvedt and Raj Patel
Marrie Stone interviews Siri Hustvedt, author of The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves, and Raj Patel, author of The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy.
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(Broadcast date: Mar 3, 2010)
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(Broadcast date: Mar 3, 2010)
Jess Walter
Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Jess Walter, author of The Financial Lives of Poets.
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(Broadcast date: March 17, 2010)
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(Broadcast date: March 17, 2010)
Short Story Authors T.C. Boyle and Lydia Millet
Marrie Stone interviews T.C. Boyle, author of Wild Child and Other Stories and Lydia Millet, author of Love in Infant Monkeys: Stories.
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(Broadcast date: January 20, 2010)
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(Broadcast date: January 20, 2010)
Chris Bohjalian
Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Chris Bohjalian, author of Secrets of Eden.
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(Broadcast date: February 24, 2010)
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(Broadcast date: February 24, 2010)
Pen on Fire Speaker Series: Susan Straight and Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum
The Pen on Fire Speaker Series presents an evening with Susan Straight, author of Highwire Moon and Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, author of Ms. Hempel Chronicles.
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(Event date: October 27, 2009)
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(Event date: October 27, 2009)
Colum McCann
Marrie Stone interviews Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin.
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(Broadcast date: February 03, 2010)
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(Broadcast date: February 03, 2010)
Memoirists Dani Shapiro and Rhoda Janzen
Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Dani Shapiro, author of Devotion: A Memoir and Rhoda Janzen, author of Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home.
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(Broadcast date: February 10, 2010)
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(Broadcast date: February 10, 2010)
Elizabeth Gilbert and Kelly Sonnack
Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace With Marriage and literary agent Kelly Sonnack of the Andrea Brown Literary Agency.
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(Broadcast date: January 27, 2010)
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(Broadcast date: January 27, 2010)
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)