Novelist Jill Ciment, author of The Body in Question and Heroic Measures (made into the film, Five Flights Up, with Morgan Freeman and Diane Keaton), and I talk about the art, craft, and business of writing.

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(Broadcast date: March 11, 2020)

Musical intro and outdo by Travis Barrett. Find him on Spotify.

Colette Sartor, author of the short story collection, Once Removed (University of Georgia Press) and I talk about the art, craft, and business of writing. This collection won the Flannery O’Conner Award. Listen!

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(Broadcast date: March 11, 2020)

Intro and outro by Travis Barrett. Find more by him on Spotify and YouTube.

Memoirist Christina Adams talks with host Barbara DeMarco-Barrett about her new memoir, Camel Crazy, published by New World Library. They discuss camel milk, autism, and the art, craft, and business of writing.

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(Broadcast date: Feb. 26, 2020

Novelists Jenny Offill, author of Weather, and Lily King, author of Writers & Lovers discuss the art, craft, and business of writing.

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(Broadcast date: Feb. 12, 2020)

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Literary agent, Danielle Svetcov, also author of Parked, and crime writer Matt Coyle, author of Lost Tomorrows, and I talk about agenting, writing, and the business of writing.

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(Broadcast date: Jan. 15, 2020)

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Stephen Dunn, Pulitzer Prize winning poet, one of my favorite poets of all time, talks about his latest volume, Pagan Virtues. (There are a few audio challenges, but keep listening. It’s worth it.)

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(Broadcast date: Dec. 4, 2019)