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Sonia Faleiro and David Bezmozgis

Posted June 9 2012 by Marrie Stone

Marrie Stone interviews Sonia Faleiro, author of Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay’s Dance Bars, and David Bezmozgis, author of The Free World.

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(Broadcast date: May 16, 2012)

Soundtracks, part 2

Posted June 4 2012 by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett

Monday morning, back at the memoir. I’m in tweaking/restructuring mode. And what music did I just turn on? Why, the Godfather, of course. What music do you use to trigger your mojo? I wrote about this last June, too, when I was in first draft mode–well, new draft mode anyway. I’d already wrote a draft that Sally sent out to editors who said, Like/love the writing but what’s the story? I had to find the story in my massive hutch full of bizarre to interesting to sad family stories. When my brother was diagnosed as terminal and I found I was still pissed off at him, I had to forgive him fast. The book is about how you forgive the unforgivable. I didn’t have a focus until that point.

William Todd Schultz and Hope Edelman on “Writers on Writing”

Posted May 27 2012 by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett

It’s nonfiction day on “Writers on Writing” with a psychobiography author and a memoirist. William Todd Schultz, author of Tiny Terror: Why Truman Capote (Almost) Wrote Answered Prayers (Oxford) and Hope Edelman, co-author (along with Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez) of Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son (Free Press) discuss their books and the art and craft of writing with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett.

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(Broadcast date: May 23, 2012)

Photos from the Pen on Fire Writers Salon

Posted May 25 2012 by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett

If you’d like to see the photos from our May 15 Salon with James Brown, Dinah Lenney, and Claire Bidwell Smith, click here. (I’ve been trying to post them here, to no avail.)

Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories

Posted May 24 2012 by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett

One of the many reasons I love doing the show is because of what my guests bring to me. Thank you, Hope Edelman, for mentioning this video on the show yesterday.

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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