Podcasts

Literary agent Vicky Bijur and novelist Robert Olen Butler on Writers on Writing

This show was broadcast back in 2011, then sent to podcast. For some odd reason, the podcast wasn’t working and a listener got in touch and wanted to hear this one. So, here it is, working now! If you come across any bad links, do let me know and I’ll try to fix them. – Barbara

Literary agent Vicky Bijur and Robert Olen Butler, for Part II of the interview with him. Part I took place on 8/2/11. He’s author of A Small Hotel.

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(Broadcast date: August 10, 2011.)

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Vicky Bijur, New York City literary agent.

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(Broadcast date: February 11, 2009)

Lit agent Ted Weinstein talks about the current state of publishing on Writers on Writing

San Francisco-based agent Ted Weinstein talks about the current state of publishing, and offers advice to writers: Let agents find you (he talks about how), become a multimedia empire (he talks about how), new publishing models (he talks about these), and more.

(Note: There’s a bit of technical trouble toward the beginning of the interview and at the end, about 50 minutes in. It’s not you, it’s me.)

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Broadcast date: June 26, 2013)

Elinor Lipman on Writers on Writing with Barbara

Elinor Lipman, author of the novel, The View from Penthouse B, and I Can’t Complain, a collection of essays came on the show to talk about her fiction and nonfiction and more. She’s so charming, someone you’d want for your confidante, best friend, mentor, whatever!

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(Broadcast date: May 15, 2013)