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)
Olga Grushin and Stewart O'Nan
Marrie Stone interviews Olga Grushin, author of The Line, and Stewart O'Nan, author of Emily, Alone.
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(Broadcast date: Apr 13, 2011)
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(Broadcast date: Apr 13, 2011)
Victor Infante and Kim Dower: Poetry Month
Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Victor Infante, author of City of Insomnia, and Kim Dower, author of Air Kissing on Mars.
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(Broadcast date: April 20, 2011)
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(Broadcast date: April 20, 2011)
Ruta Sepetys and Alina Tugend
Marrie Stone interviews Ruta Sepetys, author of Between Shades of Gray, and Alina Tugend, author of Better by Mistake: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong.
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(Broadcast date: Mar 23, 2011)
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(Broadcast date: Mar 23, 2011)
Dori Ostermiller & Memoir Panelists Lisa Catherine Harper and Katherine Ellison
Marrie Stone interviews Dori Ostermiller, author of Outside the Ordinary World and, in the second half hour, moderates a memoir panel with authors Lisa Catherine Harper (A Double Life: Discovering Motherhood) and Katherine Ellison (BUZZ: A Year of Paying Attention).
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(Broadcast Date: March 9, 2011)
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(Broadcast Date: March 9, 2011)
David Vann
Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews David Vann, author of Caribou Island: A Novel.
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(Broadcast date: February, 2011)
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(Broadcast date: February, 2011)
Jessie Sholl
Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Jessie Sholl, author of Dirty Secret: A Daughter Comes Clean About Her Mother's Compulsive Hoarding.
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(Broadcast date: March 2, 2011)
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(Broadcast date: March 2, 2011)
Caroline Leavitt and Christina Meldrum
Marrie Stone interviews Caroline Leavitt, author of Pictures of You and Christina Meldrum, author of Amaryllis in Blueberry.
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(Broadcast date: February 16, 2011)
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(Broadcast date: February 16, 2011)
Susan Maushart and Cathleen Schine
Marrie Stone interviews Susan Maushart, author of The Winter of Our Disconnect: How Three Totally Wired Teenagers (and a Mother Who Slept with her iPhone) Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Lived to Tell the Tale and Cathleen Schine, author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport: A Novel.
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(Broadcast date:February 9, 2011)
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(Broadcast date:February 9, 2011)
Jill Bialosky and Linda Gray Sexton
Marrie Stone interviews Jill Bialosky, author of History of a Suicide: My Sister's Unfinished Life and Linda Gray Sexton, author of Half in Love: Surviving the Legacy of Suicide.
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(Broadcast date: January 26, 2011)
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(Broadcast date: January 26, 2011)
Maira Kalman
Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Maira Kalman, author of And the Pursuit of Happiness.
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(Broadcast date: December 14, 2010)
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(Broadcast date: December 14, 2010)
Rosalind Wiseman and Kim Edwards
Join Marrie Stone as she interviews internationally recognized author and educator Rosalind Wiseman, author of Queen Bees and Wannabes and her debut young adult novel Boys, Girls and Other Hazardous Materials, and Kim Edwards, author of The Memory Keeper's Daughter and The Lake of Dreams.
(Broadcast date: January 19, 2011)
(Broadcast date: January 19, 2011)
Lyanda Lynn Haupt and Stacy Schiff
Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Lyanda Lynn Haupt, author of Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness and Marrie Stone interviews Stacy Schiff, author of the biography, Cleopatra: A Life.
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(Broadcast Date: January 2011)
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(Broadcast Date: January 2011)
Arthur Plotnik and Mark SaFranko
Marrie Stone interviews Arthur Plotnik, author of Spunk and Bite and the forthcoming Better Than Great: A Plenitudinous Compendium of Wallopingly Fresh Superlatives and Mark SaFranko, author of Hating Olivia: A Love Story.
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(Broadcast date: December, 2010)
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(Broadcast date: December, 2010)
Valerie Trueblood and Caroline Fraser
Marrie Stone interviews Valerie Trueblood, author of Marry or Burn: Stories and Caroline Fraser, author of Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution.
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(Broadcast date: December 22, 2010)
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(Broadcast date: December 22, 2010)
T. Jefferson Parker and Joan Schenkar
Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews T. Jefferson Parker, author of The Border Lords (Charlie Hood) and Marrie Stone interviews Joan Schenkar, author of The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith.
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(Broadcast date: January 5, 2011)
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(Broadcast date: January 5, 2011)
2nd Annual Agents Night - Pen on Fire Writers Salon
Barbara DeMarco-Barrett hosts literary agents Jill Marr, Jamie Weiss Chilton, and Sally van Haitsma at the Pen on Fire Writers Salon.
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(Event date: July 13, 2010)
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(Event date: July 13, 2010)
Pen on Fire Speaker Series: Merrill Markoe
Barbara DeMarco-Barrett welcomes Merrill Markoe, author of Nose Down, Eyes Up: A Novel, to the Pen on Fire Speaker Series at the Scape Gallery in Corona del Mar.
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Edwidge Dandicat
Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Edwidge Dandicat, author of Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work.
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(Broadcast date: October 20, 2010)
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(Broadcast date: October 20, 2010)
Betsy Lerner and Susan Straight
Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews literary agent and writer Betsy Lerner, author of The Forest for the Trees (Revised and Updated): An Editor's Advice to Writers and Susan Straight, author of Take One Candle Light a Room.
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(Broadcast date: October 27, 2010)
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(Broadcast date: October 27, 2010)