If you missed Wednesday’s show, you can now listen to the podcast of Barbara DeMarco-Barrett and novelists Miranda July, author of The First Bad Man and Adam Langer, author of The Salinger Contract . They discuss their novels and talk about first drafts, revision, metafiction, and more.
(Broadcast date: Feb. 4, 2015)
Israeli novelist Assaf Gavron joins Marrie Stone to talk about his latest novel, The Hilltop. In the second half, Chris Baty, founder of National Novel Writing Month, talks about his book No Plot, No Problem.
(Broadcast date: December 17, 2014)
Meghan Daum, author of The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion, talks with co-host Nicole Nelson about the advantages of going unseen in Los Angeles, her favorite essayists, and writing with humor–including, and perhaps especially–while talking about serious and upsetting things.
Then novelist Siri Hustvedt, author of The Blazing World, discusses the crucial work of an author to find the emotional truth, the potential benefits of automatic writing, and starting a novel with only a glimmer or “smell” for the story.
Her PEN America workshop is titled “Why One Story and Not Another.”
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(Broadcast date: January 21, 2015)
Literary Agent Jane Dystel, founder and president of Dystel & Goderich Literary Management, joins Marrie to talk about what makes an effective agent, what to look for in an agent, how to query an agent, what’s selling and what’s not, how the industry has changed, the importance of platform, how ebooks are saving fiction, and more.
(Broadcast date: January 7, 2015)
Kim Fay, Edgar Award finalist and author of The Map of Lost Memories, talks to Marrie Stone about her passion for Southeast Asia, sustaining momentum over fourteen years of work on a project, and the value of belonging to a writing group.
Then cognitive scientist and author of The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century Steven Pinker talks to Nicole Nelson about the importance of using examples in nonfiction, the shortcomings and value of the green wiggly line in MS Word, and how he earned his rank as one of Science‘s Top 50 stars of Twitter.
(Broadcast date: December 10, 2014)
Miriam Toews talks to Nicole Nelson about her new book ALL MY PUNY SORROWS. She talks about writing the hard stuff, gaining control over life through writing, and the importance of bleeding on the page. Then monologuist Josh Kornbluth talks about his influences, how he develops a show, and the comedic gold in failure. His current monologue-in-progress is Reports from the Zen Hospice: Improvs, which will run Thursdays at 8 p.m. at the Berkeley Marsh through the end of December.
(Broadcast date: December 3, 2014)
Palm Springs Noir, an anthology published by Akashic Books, edited by Barbara, also features her short story “The Water Holds You Still.” Order anywhere you buy books.
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