Stay tuned to listen to the following guests on “Writers on Writing”:

February 17th: Charlie Huston (“Sleepless”) and Christine Fugate (“Grief Becomes Me”)

February 24th: Chris Bojalian (“Secrets of Eden”)

March 3rd: Siri Hustvedt (“The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves”) and Raj Patel (“The Value of Nothing”)

Tune in Wednesday mornings at 9:00 a.m. (Pacific Time), to 88.9 FM in Orange Co., CA, or online at www.kuci.org and iTunes/public radio.

Thanks for listening!

On Thursday, February 25, at 7 p.m., Dani Shapiro will be with us, talking about the writing of Devotion, her new memoir, and about the process of writing memoir. Here’s a recent essay of hers in the Los Angeles Times.

For more info, visit www.penonfire.com; click on speakers series. Seats are going and pre-registration is a must (seating is limited). Hope to see you there!

LOL funny (except for “the dead thing.”) Here you go.

This coming Sunday, Jan 31, at 4 p.m., my long-time private workshop students and I will be giving a reading at Laguna Beach Books, 1200 South Pacific Coast Hwy., in Laguna Beach. There will be food, drink, and us, reading from current work. Admission is free. I hope you’ll join us.

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Mary Karr, author of Lit: A Memoir.

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(Broadcast date: Jan 7, 2010)

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)