Lyanda Lynn Haupt and lit agent Kelly Sonnack

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Lyanda Lynn Haupt, author of Crow Nation and literary agent Kelly Sonnack with the Andrea Brown Literary Agency.

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(Broadcast date: 1/11/12)

Alethea Black and Robyn Griggs Lawrence

Marrie Stone interviews Alethea Black, author of I Knew You'd Be Lovely, and Robyn Griggs Lawrence, author of Simply Imperfect: Revisiting the Wabi-Sabi House.

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(Broadcast date: Jul 6, 2011)

Tom Perrotta and Jane Mendelsohn

Marrie Stone interviews Tom Perrotta, author of The Leftovers and Jane Mendelsohn, author of American Music.

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(Broadcast date: September 21, 2011)

Amy Bloom and Hilary Davidson

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett and Marrie Stone interview Amy Bloom, author of Where the God of Love Hangs Out and Hilary Davidson, author of The Damage Done.

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(Broadcast date: October 6, 2010)

Chris Van Allsburg and Erin Morgenstern

Marrie Stone interviews Chris Van Allsburg, author of The Chronicles of Harris Burdick, and Erin Morgenstern, author of The Night Circus.

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(Broadcast date: Oct 5, 2011)

Alexandra Penney and Donna Albrecht

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Alexandra Penney, author of Magic Words: 101 Ways to Talk Your Way Through Life's Challenges and Donna Albrecht, author of Buying a Home When You're Single.

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Amy Alkon and Tracy Ross

Marrie Stone interviews Amy Alkon, author of I See Rude People: One Woman's Battle to Beat Some Manners Into Impolite Society, and Tracy Ross, author of The Source of All Things: A Memoir.

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(Broadcast date: Apr 6, 2011)

Allison Brennan and Alisa Bowman

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Allison Brennan, author of Kiss Me, Kill Me: A Novel of Suspense and Alisa Bowman, author of Project: Happily Ever After: Saving Your Marriage When the Fairytale Falters.

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(Broadcast date: February 2, 2011)

Allison Burnett and Merrill Markoe

Allison Burnett, author of The House Beautiful and Merrill Markoe, author of Walking in Circles Before Lying Down.

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(Broadcast date: Jul 26, 2007)

Andrea Barrett and Claire Davis

Marrie Stone interviews Andrea Barrett, author of The Air We Breathe: A Novel and Claire Davis, author of Labors of the Heart: Stories.

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(Broadcast date: Oct 24, 2007)

Amy Bloom and Wally Lamb

Marrie Stone interviews Amy Bloom, author of Away: A Novel and Wally Lamb, author I'll Fly Away: Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison.

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(Broadcast date: Sep 27, 2007)

Adam Chromy and Diana Abu-Jaber

Literary agent Adam Chromy and Diana Abu-Jaber, author of Origin: A Novel.

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(Broadcast date: Aug 09, 2007)

David Vann, Ellen Bell, Jay Asher & Carolyn Mackler

Marrie Stone interviews David Vann, author of Last Day on Earth: A Portrait of the NIU School Shooter; Ellen Bell, author of Irvine (Images of America); and Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler, co-authors of The Future of Us.

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(Broadcast date: November 19, 2011)

Andrew Vachss

Andrew Vachss, author of Two Trains Running : A Novel.

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(Broadcast date: Jun 23, 2005)

Amy Hempel

Amy Hempel, author of The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel.

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(Broadcast date: May 18, 2006)

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Andre Dubus III

Andre Dubus III, author of The Garden of Last Days: A Novel.

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(Broadcast date: Jul 30, 2008)

Andrew Vachss

Andrew Vachss, author of Only Child : A Burke Novel.

(Broadcast date: Dec 19, 2002)

Caroline Adderson, Anastasia Royal, and Jennie Nash

Fiction roundtable moderated by Marrie Stone with authors Caroline Adderson (Sitting Practice), Anastasia Royal (Undoing I Do), and Jennie Nash (Last Beach Bungalow).

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(Broadcast Date: Feb 20, 2007)

Heather King and Nell Casey

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Heather King, author of Shirt of Flame: A Year With St. Therese of Lisieux, and Nell Casey, author of The Journals of Spalding Gray.

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(Broadcast date: November 23, 2011)

Amy Ephron & Karen Karbo, with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, author of Pen on Fire, discusses books and writing with Amy Ephron, author of the memoir, Loose Diamonds, and Karen Karbo, author of How Georgia Became O'Keeffe.

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(Broadcast date: November 9, 2011)

Carole Moore and Stephen Wetta

Marrie Stone interviews Carole Moore, author of The Last Place You'd Look: True Stories of Missing Persons and the People Who Search for Them and Stephen Wetta, author of If Jack's In Love.

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(Broadcast date: October 19, 2011)

Heidi Durrow and William Todd Schultz

Heidi Durrow, author of The Girl Who Fell From the Sky and William Todd Schultz, author of An Emergency in Slow Motion: The Inner Life of Diane Arbus.


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(Broadcast date: Oct. 26, 2011)

Denise Hamilton

Denise Hamilton, author of Damage Control.

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(Broadcast date: September 28, 2011)

Melissa Bank & Leah Hager Cohen

Melissa Bank, author of the reissued Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing and Leah Hager Cohen, author of The Grief of Others.

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Broadcast date: October 12, 2011

Dani Shapiro at the Pen on Fire Writers Salon

Dani Shapiro, author of Devotion, was a guest at the Pen on Fire Writers Salon in February of 2010. Here is that live event.

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Kim Wyatt & Danzy Senna

Kim Wyatt, editor of Permanent Vacation and Danzy Senna, author of You Are Free, a collection of short stories, in conversation with Barbara.

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(Broadcast date: 9/14/2011)

Justin Torres and Helen Schulman

Marrie Stone interviews Justin Torres, author of We the Animals, and Helen Schulman, author of This Beautiful Life.

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(Broadcast date: Aug 31, 2011)

Traci Foust and Christina Shea

Marrie Stone interviews Traci Foust, author of Nowhere Near Normal: A Memoir of OCD, and Christina Shea, author of Smuggled.

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(Broadcast date: Aug 24, 2011)

Literary agent Vicky Bijur & Robert Olen Butler, Part II

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.)

Robert Olen Butler and Anita Shreve

Robert Olen Butler, author of A Small Hotel (Grove) and Anita Shreve, author of Rescue (Back Bay Books) talk with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett.

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(The interview with Butler is Part I. Part II will be broadcast and taped on August 10, 2011.

(Broadcast date: August 3, 2011)

Memoirist Glen Retief

Glen Retief, author of the memoir, The Jack Bank, in conversation for the entire hour with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett.

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(Broadcast date: July 20, 2011)

Literary attorney Mark Fowler & Pageant of the Masters writer Dan Duling

Mark Fowler, New York City-based literary attorney, and Dan Duling, playwright and writer for Laguna Beach's Pageant of the Masters talk with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett about writers' legal issues and writing plays and narration for Laguna Beach's Pageant of the Masters.


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Broadcast date: July 13, 2011.

Tamar Cohen and Jane Smiley

Marrie Stone interviews Tamar Cohen, author of The Mistress's Revenge, and Jane Smiley, author of Private Life.

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(Broadcast date: Jun 29, 2011)

Susie Bright and Melissa Schroeder

Marrie Stone interviews Susie Bright, author of Big Sex Little Death: A Memoir, and Melissa Schroeder, author of A Little Harmless Obsession.

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(Broadcast date: Jun 22, 2011)

Our first donation!

A shout out to Ron Alvarez (former NYC cop) who clicked the donation button over on the right side of the screen and sent $$ our way, which I will, in turn, send to our podcast guru Rob Roy. It's because of Rob that the Writers on Writing podcast started up, and it's largely because of him that it functions. When it recently fell off the iTunes radar, Rob put in time to get it going again. So thanks Ron, and thanks again to Rob for all that he does.

Geraldine Brooks and Laura Furman

Marrie Stone interviews Geraldine Brooks, author of Caleb's Crossing, and Laura Furman, author of The Mother Who Stayed.

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(Broadcast date: May 18, 2011)

Arielle Eckstut, David Henry Sterry and Arthur Plotnik

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry, co-authors of The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published, and Arthur Plotnik, author of Better Than Great: A Plenitudinous Compendium of Wallopingly Fresh Superlatives.

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(Broadcast date: Jun 12, 2011)

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Pen on Fire Salon with Aimee Bender and Michael Jaime-Becerra

The Pen on Fire Writers Salon. Barbara DeMarco-Barrett in conversation with Aimee Bender, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake and Michael Jaime-Becerra, author of This Time Tomorrow.

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(Event date: June 2010)

Robert Sabbag and Ander Monson

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Robert Sabbag, author of Down Around Midnight: A Memoir of Crash and Survival and Ander Monson, author of Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir.

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(Broadcast Date: May 19, 2010)

An earlier, incomplete version of this show was posted in 2010.

Mira Bartok and Maira Kalman on Writers on Writing

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Mira Bartok, author of The Memory Palace and Maira Kalman, author/illustrator of In Pursuit of Happiness.

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(Broadcast date: March 16, 2011)

Catherine Friend and Caitlin Kelly on Writers on Writing

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Catherine Friend, author of Sheepish: Two Women, Fifty Sheep & Enough Wool to Save the Planet, and Caitlin Kelly, author of Malled: My Untentional Career in Retail.

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(Broadcast date: May 11, 2011)

Sarah Porter and Gayle Forman

Marrie Stone interviews Sarah Porter, author of Lost Voices, and Gayle Forman, author of Where She Went.

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(Broadcast date: May 4, 2011)

Joshua Kendall and Darin Strauss

Marrie Stone interviews Joshua Kendall, author of The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster's Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture, and Darin Strauss, author of Half a Life.

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(Broadcast date: Apr 27, 2011)

Olga Grushin and Stewart O'Nan

Marrie Stone interviews Olga Grushin, author of The Line, and Stewart O'Nan, author of Emily, Alone.

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(Broadcast date: Apr 13, 2011)

Victor Infante and Kim Dower: Poetry Month

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Victor Infante, author of City of Insomnia, and Kim Dower, author of Air Kissing on Mars.

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(Broadcast date: April 20, 2011)

Ruta Sepetys and Alina Tugend

Marrie Stone interviews Ruta Sepetys, author of Between Shades of Gray, and Alina Tugend, author of Better by Mistake: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong.

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(Broadcast date: Mar 23, 2011)

Dori Ostermiller & Memoir Panelists Lisa Catherine Harper and Katherine Ellison

Marrie Stone interviews Dori Ostermiller, author of Outside the Ordinary World and, in the second half hour, moderates a memoir panel with authors Lisa Catherine Harper (A Double Life: Discovering Motherhood) and Katherine Ellison (BUZZ: A Year of Paying Attention).

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(Broadcast Date: March 9, 2011)

Jo-Ann Mapson

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews JoAnn Mapson, author of Solomon's Oak.

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David Vann

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews David Vann, author of Caribou Island: A Novel.

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(Broadcast date: February, 2011)

Jessie Sholl

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Jessie Sholl, author of Dirty Secret: A Daughter Comes Clean About Her Mother's Compulsive Hoarding.

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(Broadcast date: March 2, 2011)

Caroline Leavitt and Christina Meldrum

Marrie Stone interviews Caroline Leavitt, author of Pictures of You and Christina Meldrum, author of Amaryllis in Blueberry.

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(Broadcast date: February 16, 2011)

Susan Maushart and Cathleen Schine

Marrie Stone interviews Susan Maushart, author of The Winter of Our Disconnect: How Three Totally Wired Teenagers (and a Mother Who Slept with her iPhone) Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Lived to Tell the Tale and Cathleen Schine, author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport: A Novel.

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(Broadcast date:February 9, 2011)

Jill Bialosky and Linda Gray Sexton

Marrie Stone interviews Jill Bialosky, author of History of a Suicide: My Sister's Unfinished Life and Linda Gray Sexton, author of Half in Love: Surviving the Legacy of Suicide.

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(Broadcast date: January 26, 2011)

Maira Kalman

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Maira Kalman, author of And the Pursuit of Happiness.

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(Broadcast date: December 14, 2010)

Rosalind Wiseman and Kim Edwards

Join Marrie Stone as she interviews internationally recognized author and educator Rosalind Wiseman, author of Queen Bees and Wannabes and her debut young adult novel Boys, Girls and Other Hazardous Materials, and Kim Edwards, author of The Memory Keeper's Daughter and The Lake of Dreams.

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(Broadcast date: January 19, 2011)

Lyanda Lynn Haupt and Stacy Schiff

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Lyanda Lynn Haupt, author of Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness and Marrie Stone interviews Stacy Schiff, author of the biography, Cleopatra: A Life.

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(Broadcast Date: January 2011)

Arthur Plotnik and Mark SaFranko

Marrie Stone interviews Arthur Plotnik, author of Spunk and Bite and the forthcoming Better Than Great: A Plenitudinous Compendium of Wallopingly Fresh Superlatives and Mark SaFranko, author of Hating Olivia: A Love Story.

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(Broadcast date: December, 2010)

Valerie Trueblood and Caroline Fraser

Marrie Stone interviews Valerie Trueblood, author of Marry or Burn: Stories and Caroline Fraser, author of Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution.

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(Broadcast date: December 22, 2010)

T. Jefferson Parker and Joan Schenkar

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews T. Jefferson Parker, author of The Border Lords (Charlie Hood) and Marrie Stone interviews Joan Schenkar, author of The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith.

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(Broadcast date: January 5, 2011)

2nd Annual Agents Night - Pen on Fire Writers Salon

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett hosts literary agents Jill Marr, Jamie Weiss Chilton, and Sally van Haitsma at the Pen on Fire Writers Salon.

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(Event date: July 13, 2010)

Pen on Fire Speaker Series: Merrill Markoe

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett welcomes Merrill Markoe, author of Nose Down, Eyes Up: A Novel, to the Pen on Fire Speaker Series at the Scape Gallery in Corona del Mar.

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Edwidge Dandicat

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Edwidge Dandicat, author of Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work.

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(Broadcast date: October 20, 2010)

Betsy Lerner and Susan Straight

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews literary agent and writer Betsy Lerner, author of The Forest for the Trees (Revised and Updated): An Editor's Advice to Writers and Susan Straight, author of Take One Candle Light a Room.

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(Broadcast date: October 27, 2010)

Nicole Krauss

Marrie Stone interviews Nicole Krauss, author of Great House: A Novel.

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(Broadcast date: November 17, 2010)

Piper Kerman

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison.

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(Broadcast Date: December 8, 2010)

Linda Sue Park and Christian Lander

Marrie Stone interviews children and young adult writer Linda Sue Park, author of A Long Walk to Water and Christian Lander, author of Whiter Shades of Pale: Stuff White People Like, Coast to Coast, from Seattle's Sweaters to Maine's Microbrews.

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(Broadcast date: November 10, 2010)

Debra Ginsberg

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Debra Ginsberg, author of The Neighbors Are Watching.

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(Broadcast date: Nov 24, 2010)

Betsy Lerner

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett and Marrie Stone take listeners' questions for author, former editor and literary agent Betsy Lerner, author of The Forest for the Trees (Revised and Updated): An Editor's Advice to Writers.

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(Broadcast Date: December 1, 2010)

Sharon Dogar and Roy P. Clark

Marrie Stone interviews Sharon Dogar, author of Annexed and Roy P. Clark, author of The Glamour of Grammar.

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(Broadcast date: October 13, 2010)

Amy Bloom and Hilary Davidson

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett and Marrie Stone interview Amy Bloom, author of Where the God of Love Hangs Out: Stories and Hilary Davidson, author of The Damage Done.

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(Broadcast date: October 2010)

Dennis Palumbo and Daniel Pyne -- Pen on Fire Writers Salon

The Pen on Fire Writers Salon presents Dennis Palumbo, author of Mirror Image and Daniel Pyne, author of TwentyNine Palms.

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(Event date: September 14, 2010)

Kim Dower and Kate Gale

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Kim Dower, literary agent and author of Air Kissing on Mars and Kate Gale, managing editor of Red Hen Press, poet, and a recent two-term president of PEN USA.

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(Broadcast date: November 3, 2010)

Daniyal Mueenuddin and Shawna Ryan

Marrie Stone interviews Daniyal Mueenuddin, author In Other Rooms Other Wonders and Shawna Ryan, author of Water Ghosts.

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(Broadcast date: August 4, 2010)

Sara Gruen and Dennis Palumbo

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett and Marrie Stone interview Sara Gruen, author of Ape House and Dennis Palumbo, author of Mirror Image.

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(Broadcast date: September 29, 2010)

Claudia Dreyfus and Jeff Lindsay

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Claudia Dreyfus, author of Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids and What We Can Do About It and Jeff Lindsay, author of Dexter is Delicious.

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(Broadcast date: September 15, 2010)

John McNally and Ted Weinstein

Marrie Stone interviews John McNally, author of The Creative Writer's Survival Guide: Advice from an Unrepentant Novelist and literary agent Ted Weinstein.

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(Broadcast date: September 1, 2010)

Greg Breining and Literary Agent Jill Marr

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Greg Breining, author of Super Volcano: The Ticking Time Bomb Beneath Yellowstone National Park and literary agent Jill Marr.

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(Broadcast date: April 28, 2010)

Novella Carpenter

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Novella Carpenter, author of Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer.

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(Broadcast date: July 8, 2010)

Speaker Series: Susan Straight and Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum

Susan Straight, author of A Million Nightingales, Highwire Moon and the forthcoming Take One Candle Light a Room (October 2010) and Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, author of Ms. Hempel Chronicles and Madeleine is Sleeping appear at the Pen on Fire Speaker Series at the Scape Gallery in Corona del Mar on October 27, 2009.

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(Broadcast date: October 27, 2009)

Mary Roach and Jane Vandenburgh

Marrie Stone interviews Mary Roach, author of Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void and Jane Vandenburgh, author of Architecture of the Novel: A Writer's Handbook

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(Broadcast date:August 18, 2010)

Laila Lalami and Howard Norman

Marrie Stone interviews Laila Lalami, author of Secret Son and Howard Norman, author of What is Left the Daughter.

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(Broadcast date: August 11, 2010)

Ann Brashares and Raymond Bean

Marrie Stone interviews Ann Brashares, author of My Name Is Memory, and Raymond Bean, author of Sweet Farts.

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(Broadcast date: Jul 28, 2010)

Laura Jacobs

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Laura Jacobs, author of The Bird Catcher.

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(Broadcast date: July 14, 2010)

Anita Shreve and John McNally

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Anita Shreve, author of A Change in Altitude and John McNally, author of After the Workshop.

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(Broadcast Date: June 10, 2010)

Emily White and Anne Lamott

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Emily White, author of Lonely: A Memoir, and Anne Lamott, author of Imperfect Birds.

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(Broadcast date: May 5, 2010)

Melissa Febos and Bonnie Jo Campbell

Marrie Stone interviews Melissa Febos, author of Whip Smart: A Memoir, and Bonnie Jo Campbell, author of American Salvage.

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(Broadcast date: May 26, 2010)

Yann Martel and Tatjana Soli

Marrie Stone interviews Yann Martel, author of Beatrice and Virgil, and Tatjana Soli, author of The Lotus Eaters.

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(Broadcast date: Jun 9, 2010)

Scott Turow

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Scott Turow, author of Innocent.

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(Broadcast date: June 2, 2010)

Susannah Charleson and Sarah Moss

Marrie Stone interviews Susannah Charleson, author of Scent of the Missing: Love and Partnership with a Search-and-Rescue Dog and Sarah Moss, author of Cold Earth.

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(Broadcast date: May 12, 2010)

Rebecca Miller and Victoria Chang

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Rebecca Miller, author of The Private Lives of Pippa Lee and poet Victoria Chang, author of Salvinia Molesta: Poems.

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(Broadcast date: March 10, 2010)

Orange County Noir

Marrie Stone interviews Gary Phillips (editor and contributor), Patricia McFall and Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, contributors to Orange County Noir.

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(Broadcast date: April 14, 2010)

Danielle Trussoni and Lois Lowry

Marrie Stone interviews Danielle Trussoni, author of Angelology, and Lois Lowry, author of The Birthday Ball.

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(Broadcast date: Apr 7, 2010)

Maile Meloy and Marisa Matarazzo

Marrie Stone interviews Maile Meloy, author of Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It, and Marisa Matarazzo, author of Drenched: Stories of Love and Other Deliriums.

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(Broadcast date: Mar 24, 2010)

Pen on Fire Speaker Series (T. Jefferson Parker)

T. Jefferson Parker, author of Iron River, is interviewed by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett at the Pen on Fire Speaker Series at the Scape Gallery in Corona del Mar.

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(Broadcast date: Jan 26, 2010)

Michael Zadoorian

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Michael Zadoorian, author of The Leisure Seeker.

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(Broadcast date: Mar 31, 2010)

Siri Hustvedt and Raj Patel

Marrie Stone interviews Siri Hustvedt, author of The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves, and Raj Patel, author of The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy.

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(Broadcast date: Mar 3, 2010)

Jess Walter

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Jess Walter, author of The Financial Lives of Poets.

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(Broadcast date: March 17, 2010)

Short Story Authors T.C. Boyle and Lydia Millet

Marrie Stone interviews T.C. Boyle, author of Wild Child and Other Stories and Lydia Millet, author of Love in Infant Monkeys: Stories.

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(Broadcast date: January 20, 2010)

Chris Bohjalian

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Chris Bohjalian, author of Secrets of Eden.

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(Broadcast date: February 24, 2010)

Pen on Fire Speaker Series: Susan Straight and Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum

The Pen on Fire Speaker Series presents an evening with Susan Straight, author of Highwire Moon and Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, author of Ms. Hempel Chronicles.

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(Event date: October 27, 2009)

Colum McCann

Marrie Stone interviews Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin.

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(Broadcast date: February 03, 2010)

Memoirists Dani Shapiro and Rhoda Janzen

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Dani Shapiro, author of Devotion: A Memoir and Rhoda Janzen, author of Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home.

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(Broadcast date: February 10, 2010)

Elizabeth Gilbert and Kelly Sonnack

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace With Marriage and literary agent Kelly Sonnack of the Andrea Brown Literary Agency.

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(Broadcast date: January 27, 2010)

Samantha Peale and Victoria Patterson

Marrie Stone interviews Samantha Peale, author of The American Painter Emma Dial and Victoria Patterson, author of Drift: Stories.

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(Broadcast date: September 2, 2009)

Mary Karr

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

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(Broadcast date: Jan 7, 2010)

Beverly Gologorsky and A. Manette Ansay

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)

Steven Thomas and Stephen Elliott

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Steven Thomas, author of Criminal Karma, and Stephen Elliott, author of The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder.

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(Broadcast date: Dec 16, 2009)

Robert Olen Butler

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Robert Olen Butler, author of Hell.

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(Broadcast date: Dec 9, 2009)

Jonathan Lethem and Elizabeth Benedict

Marrie Stone interviews Jonathan Lethem, author of Chronic City, and Elizabeth Benedict, author of Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives.

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(Broadcast date: Nov 18, 2009)

Memoirists Michelle Maisto and Abigail Thomas

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Michelle Maisto, author of The Gastronomy of Marriage: A Memoir of Food and Love and Abigail Thomas, author of Thinking About Memoir.

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(Broadcast Date: November 11, 2009)

Michael Blake and Dylan Landis

Marrie Stone interviews Michael Blake, author of Twelve, the King, and Dylan Landis, author of Normal People Don't Live Like This.

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(Broadcast date: Nov 4, 2009)

Jonathan Tropper and Stewart O'Nan

Marrie Stone interviews Jonathan Tropper, author of This is Where I Leave You, and Stewart O'Nan, author of Songs for the Missing.

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(Broadcast date: Oct 7, 2009)

Ethan Canin and Nick Baker

Marrie Stone interviews Ethan Canin, author of America America and Nick Baker, author of The Anthologist.

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(Broadcast date: Sep 23, 2009)

Judith Schwartz and Literary Agent Sally Van Haitsma

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Judith D. Schwartz , author of The Therapist's New Clothes, and literary agent Sally Van Haitsma.

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(Broadcast date: September 09, 2009)

Debra Ollivier, Karen Karbo and Jennifer Niven

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Debra Ollivier, author of What French Women Know: About Love, Sex and Other Matters of the Heart and Mind; Karen Karbo, author of The Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons from the World's Most Elegant Woman; and Jennifer Niven, author of Velva Jean Learns to Drive.

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(Broadcast date: Sep 9, 2009)

Betsy Lerner and Rachel Resnick

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews literary agent Betsy Lerner and Rachel Resnick, author of Love Junkie.

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(Broadcast date: September 09, 2009)

Luis Alberto Urrea and Jill Ciment

Marrie Stone interviews Luis Alberto Urrea, author of Into the Beautiful North and Jill Ciment, author of Heroic Measures.

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(Broadcast date: July 29, 2009)

Pen on Fire Speaker Series: Lisa See

Lisa See, author of Shanghai Girls, shares her wit, wisdom and writing during the Pen On Fire Speaker Series at the SCAPE Gallery in Corona Del Mar.

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(Event Date: June 06, 2009)

Dean Kuipers, Trish Riley and Christine Heinrichs

Marrie Stone interviews Dean Kuipers, author of Operation Bite Back: Rod Coronado's War to Save American Wilderness, Trish Riley, author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Greening Your Business and Christine Heinrichs, author of How to Raise Poultry.

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(Broadcast date: August 5, 2009)

Nick Reding and Richard Wolffe

Marrie Stone interviews Nick Reding, author of Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town and Richard Wolffe, author of Renegade: The Making of a President.

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(Broadcast date: July 29, 2009)

Katherine Russell Rich

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Katherine Russell Rich, author of Dreaming in Hindi.

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(Broadcast date: July 22, 2009)

Vicki Forman and Scott Martelle

Marrie Stone interviews Vicki Forman, author of the memoir This Lovely Life and Scott Martelle, journalist and author of Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West.

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(Broadcast date: July 15, 2009)

Norman Ollestad

Marrie Stone interviews Norman Ollestad, author of Crazy for the Storm.

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(Broadcast date: July 08, 2009)

Poetry Panel with Stanley Plumly, B.H. Fairchild and A. Van Jordan

Marrie Stone moderates a poetry panel with poets Stanley Plumly, author of Old Heart, B.H. Fairchild, author of Usher, and A. Van Jordan, author of Quantum Lyrics.

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(Broadcast date: June 3, 2009)

Pen on Fire Speaker Series: Merrill Markoe

Merrill Markoe, author of Nose Down, Eyes Up and Walking in Circles Before Lying Down, shares her wit, wisdom and writing during the Pen On Fire Speaker Series at the SCAPE Gallery in Corona Del Mar.

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(Event Date: April 09, 2009)

Literary Agent Dorian Karchmar

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Dorian Karchmar, literary agent with the William Morris Agency in New York.

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(Broadcast date: May 26, 2009)

Geoff Dyer and Mary Gaitskill

Marrie Stone interviews Geoff Dyer, author of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, and Mary Gaitskill, author of Don't Cry.

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(Broadcast date: May 20, 2009)

Fiction Panel with Janelle Brown, Bo Caldwell & Lisa Fugard

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett moderates a fiction panel featuring Janelle Brown, author of All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, Bo Caldwell, author of The Distant Land of My Father, and Lisa Fugard, author of Skinner's Drift.

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(Broadcast date: May 13, 2009)

Poet Stephen Dunn

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Stephen Dunn, author of What Goes On: Selected and New Poems 1995-2009.

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(Broadcast date: January 07, 2009)

Ed Husain and Paul Harris

Marrie Stone interviews Ed Husain, author of The Islamist: Why I Became an Islamic Fundamentalist, What I Saw Inside, and Why I Left and Paul Harris, author of The Secret Keeper.

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(Broadcast date: May 06, 2009)

Tom Epperson

Marrie Stone interviews Tom Epperson, author of The Kind One.

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(Broadcast date: April 29, 2009)

L.A. Times Book Award Winner Zoe Ferraris and Dennis Palumbo

Marrie Stone interviews L.A. Times 2008 Book Award Winner Zoe Ferraris, author of Finding Nouf: A Novel, winner of the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and Dennis Palumbo, author of From Crime to Crime.

To see all L.A Times 2008 Book Award winners, click here. Congratulations Zoe!

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(Broadcast date: Aug 13, 2008)

Pulitzer Prize Winning Novelist Elizabeth Strout

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Elizabeth Strout, author of Olive Kitteridge. Congratulations Elizabeth!

To view a complete list of winners of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize, click here.

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Jay Asher

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Jay Asher, author of Thirteen Reasons Why.

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(Broadcast date: April 15, 2009)

Pen On Fire Speaker Series: T. Jefferson Parker

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews T. Jefferson Parker, author of The Renegades, during the Pen On Fire Speaker Series at University of California, Irvine.

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(Event date: February 10, 2009)

Lauren Groff

Marrie Stone interviews Lauren Groff, author of Delicate Edible Birds: And Other Stories.

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(Broadcast date: Feb 4, 2009)

Martha Lawrence

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Martha Lawrence, author of Pisces Rising (Elizabeth Chase Mysteries).

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(Broadcast date: September 28, 2000)

Kim Addonizio and Jim Tomlinson

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Kim Addonizio, author of Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within and Jim Tomlinson, author of Nothing Like an Ocean: Stories.

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(Broadcast date: March 25, 2009)

Sara Davidson

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Sara Davidson, author of Cowboy.

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(Broadcast date: April 13, 2000)

Stephen Lovely and Thomas Robisheaux

Marrie Stone interviews Stephen Lovely, author of Irreplaceable, and Thomas Robisheaux, author of The Last Witch of Langenburg.

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(Broadcast date: March 18, 2009)

Beth Kephart

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Beth Kephart, author of Into the Tangle of Friendship: A Memoir of the Things That Matter.

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(Broadcast date: September 13, 2000)

Beth Kephart

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Beth Kephart, author of Nothing but Ghosts.

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(Broadcast date: March 11, 2009)

Amy Dickinson and T.C. Boyle

Marrie Stone interviews Amy Dickinson, author of The Mighty Queens of Freeville and T.C. Boyle, author of The Women.

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(Broadcast date: March 4, 2009)

Debra Gwartney and Sonja Lyubomirsky

Marrie Stone interviews Debra Gwartney, author of Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love and Sonja Lyubomirsky, author of The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want.

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(Broadcast date: February 18, 2009)

Judith Ryan Hendricks and Peter Craig

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Judith Ryan Hendricks, author of The Baker's Apprentice and Peter Craig, author of Hot Plastic.

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(Broadcast date: April 29, 2005)

Shreve Stockton and Andrea Portes

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Shreve Stockton, author of The Daily Coyote: A Story of Love, Survival, and Trust in the Wilds of Wyoming and Andrea Portes, author of Hick.

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(Broadcast date: February 25, 2009)

Janice Y.K. Lee and Sylvia Sellers-Garcia

Marrie Stone interviews Janice Y.K. Lee, author of The Piano Teacher and Sylvia Sellers-Garcia, author of When the Ground Turns in Its Sleep.

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(Broadcast date: January 14, 2009)

Literary Agent Vicky Bijur

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

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(Broadcast date: February 11, 2009)

Amy MacKinnon and Jincy Willett

Marrie Stone interviews Amy MacKinnon, author of Tethered and Jincy Willett, author of Jenny and the Jaws of Life and The Writing Class.

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(Broadcast date: January 28, 2008)

Sarah Murray and Gail Belsky

Marrie Stone interviews Sarah Murray, author of Moveable Feasts: From Ancient Rome to the 21st Century, the Incredible Journeys of the Food We Eat and Gail Belsky, author of The List: 100 Ways to Shake Up Your Life.

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(Broadcast date: December 31, 2008)

Jo-Ann Mapson

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Jo-Ann Mapson, author of The Wilder Sisters, Blue Rodeo, Hank & Chloe, Loving Chloe, Along Came Mary, Goodbye, Earl and The Owl & Moon Cafe.

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(Broadcast date: May 5, 2000)

Elizabeth Strout

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Elizabeth Strout, author of Olive Kitteridge.

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Terri Cheney and Beth Lisick

Marrie Stone interviews Terri Cheney, author of Manic: A Memoir and Beth Lisick, author of Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone.

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(Broadcast date: April 9, 2008)

Nora Raleigh Baskin

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Nora Raleigh Baskin, author of All We Know of Love.

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(Broadcast date: January 21, 2009)

Kirsten Menger-Anderson and Jennifer Traig

Marrie Stone interviews Kirsten Menger-Anderson, author of Doctor Olaf Van Schuler's Brain and Jennifer Traig, author of Well Enough Alone: A Cultural History of My Hypochondria.

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(Broadcast date: November 19, 2008)

Lisa See and Jacquelyn Mitchard

Marrie Stone interviews Lisa See, author of Peony in Love and Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of All We Know of Heaven.

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(Broadcast date: June 25, 2008)

Janice Y.K. Lee and Silvia Sellers Garcia on Wednesday, January 14

This week, co-host Marrie Stone will be joined by Janice Y.K. Lee, author of The Piano Teacher (Viking, 2009) and Silvia Sellers Garcia, author of When the Ground Turns In Its Sleep (Riverhead Books).

Tune in Wednesday morning at 9 a.m. PT at 88.9 FM, KUCI, listen live at www.kuci.org, or go to iTunes and listen via public radio.

Past shows can be heard at http://penonfire.blogspot.com.

Thanks for listening!

Official White House photographer Pete Souza

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Pete Souza, author of The Rise of Barack Obama.

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(Broadcast date: December 17, 2008)

Peter Ferry, Anne Roiphe and Heather King

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Peter Ferry, author of Travel Writing, Anne Roiphe, author of Epilogue: A Memoir and Heather King, author of Redeemed: A Spiritual Misfit Stumbles Toward God, Marginal Sanity, and the Peace That Passes All Understanding.

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(Broadcast date: October 29, 2008)

Laurence Gonzales and John Demos

Marrie Stone interviews Laurence Gonzales, author of Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things and John Demos, author of The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-hunting in the Western World.

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(Broadcast date: October 15, 2008)

"Writers on Writing" Holiday Show

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett and Marrie Stone are joined by The Green Room in a special Holiday episode of Writers on Writing. Enjoy music and readings by the cast and crew of the show.

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(Broadcast date: December 24, 2008)

Preeta Samarasan and Dan Ariely

Marrie Stone interviews Preeta Samarasan, author of Evening is the Whole Day and Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions.

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(Broadcast date: August 6, 2008)

David Francis and Jon Fasman

Marrie Stone interviews David Francis, author of Stray Dog Winter and Jon Fasman, author of The Unpossessed City.

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(Broadcast date: December 3, 2008)

Julia Glass

Julia Glass, author of I See You Everywhere.

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(Broadcast date: December 10, 2008)

Linda Pastan, Martha Serpas and Lisa Williams

Marrie Stone moderates a poetry panel with Linda Pastan, author of Queen of a Rainy Country, Martha Serpas, author of The Dirty Side of the Storm, and Lisa Williams, author of Woman Reading to the Sea.

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(Broadcast date: November 5, 2008)

Stephen Baker and Padma Viswanathan

Marrie Stone interviews Stephen Baker, author of The Numerati and Padma Viswanathan, author of The Toss of a Lemon

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(Broadcast date: October 1, 2008)

Melissa Bank

Melissa Bank, author of The Wonder Spot.

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(Broadcast date: Nov 26, 2008) 

Sam Greengard

Sam Greengard, author of AARP Crash Course in Finding the Work You Love.

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(Broadcast date: Nov-12-2008) 

Robert Masello

Robert Masello, author of A Friend in the Business: Honest Advice for Anyone Trying to Break into Television Writing.

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(Broadcast date: Nov 09, 2000)

Marvin Bell and John Morgan Wilson

Marvin Bell, author of Nightworks: Poems 1962-2000 and John Morgan Wilson, author of The Limits of Justice.

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(Broadcast date: Nov 02, 2000)

Rochelle Krich and Dennis Palumbo

Rochelle Krich, author of Dead Air: A Jessie Drake Mystery and Dennis Palumbo, author of Writing From The Inside Out.

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(Broadcast date: Oct 26, 2000)

Billy Collins

Poet Billy Collins, author of Questions About Angels: Poems.

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(Broadcast date: Jan 18, 2001)

Betsy Amster and Jackie Green

"Before and After The Book Deal" - Literary agent, Betsy Amster and book publicist, Jackie Green.

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(Broadcast date: Mar 23, 2000)

Maxine O'Callaghan

Maxine O'Callaghan, author of Down for the Count: A Delilah West Novel.

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(Broadcast date: Dec 29, 1999)

Ted Conover

Ted Conover, author of Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing.

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(Broadcast date: Dec 14, 2000)

Donald Maass

Literary agent Donald Maass, author of Writing the Breakout Novel.

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(Broadcast date: Jan 16, 2002)

Jenoyne Adams

Literary agent Jenoyne Adams.

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(Broadcast date: Oct 22, 2008)

Billy Collins

Billy Collins, author of Ballistics: Poems.

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(Broadcast date: Oct 22, 2008)

Irvine Welsh and Roxana Robinson

Marrie Stone interviews Irvine Welsh, author of Crime: A Novel and Roxana Robinson, author of Cost: A Novel.

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(Broadcast date: Sep 17, 2008)

Eric Weiner and Alan Weisman

Marrie Stone interviews Eric Weiner, author of The Geography of Bliss and Alan Weisman, author of The World Without Us.

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(Broadcast date: Aug 27, 2008)

Steven Lukes and Sarah Lyall

Marrie Stone interviews Steven Lukes, author of Moral Relativism: Big Ideas/Small Books and Sarah Lyall, author of The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British.

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(Broadcast date: Sep 10, 2008)

Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum

Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, author of the Ms. Hempel Chronicles.

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(Broadcast date: Sep 24, 2008)

Dr. Michael Klaper

Dr. Michael Klaper, author of Becoming Vegan: The Complete Guide to Adopting a Healthy Plant-Based Diet.

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(Broadcast date: Jan 21, 2000)

Ken Kalfus

Ken Kalfus, author of Pu-239 And Other Russian Fantasies.

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(Broadcast date: Jan 13, 2000)

Mimi Latt

Mimi Latt, author of Ultimate Justice.

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(Broadcast date: Oct 07, 1999)

Carolyn See

Carolyn See, author of Handyman: A Novel.

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(Broadcast date: Apr 28, 1999)

Carolina Garcia Aguilera

Carolina Garcia Aguilera, author of Bloody Secrets.

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(Broadcast date: Jun 16, 1999)