John Irving, author of Last Night at Twisted River and memoirist Novella Carpenter, talk with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett about fiction and memoir, last lines, first lines, and more.

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 (Broadcast date: 7/8/2010)

Literary agent Linda Konner and author Roy Peter Clark

Linda Konner, a New York City literary agent, and friend, and Roy Peter Clark, author of Help! for Writers, in conversation with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett.

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(Broadcast date: Jan. 25, 2012)

Dennis Palumbo discusses writers' challenges and Fever Dream with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett

Dennis Palumbo, author of Fever Dream and Writing from the Inside Out, talks with Barbara about his books and the challenges that writers encounter. 

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(Broadcast date: April 4, 2012)

Pie Evangelist Beth Howard talks about her memoir with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett

Beth Howard, author of Making Piece: A Memoir of Love, Love and Pie (Harlequin) discusses how she came to write this memoir about becoming a widow at age 47, and how pie saved her. 

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 (Broadcast date: April 18, 2012)

Memoirist James Brown talks with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett on radio

Memoirist James Brown, author of The Los Angeles Diaries and This River talks with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett for the entire hour about his books, the art and craft of memoir, and the business of publishing.  (He will appear on her panel at Literary Orange on April 14, 2012 at UC-Irvine.  He will also be guest author at the Pen on Fire Writers Salon on May 15, 2012.

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 (Broadcast date: March 28, 2012)

Jeri Westerson talks with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett on Writers on Writing

Jeri Westerson, author of the Crispin Guest medieval noir mystery series, and host Barbara DeMarco-Barrett spoke for an hour about writing mysteries, noir, YA, and so many other things having to do with writing.

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(Broadcast date: February 22, 2012)

Novelist T. Jefferson Parker and memoirist Claire Bidwell Smith on Writers on Writing

Here are T. Jefferson Parker, author of The Jaguar and Claire Bidwell Smith, author of The Inheritance of Grief talking with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, author of Pen on Fire, about their new books.

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(Broadcast date: March 13, 2012)

John Hargraves & Lauren Oliver

Marrie Stone interviews John Hargraves, translator of the book The Druggist of Auschwitz written by Dieter Schlesak, and young adult author Lauren Oliver, author of the Delirium Series (Delirium, Pandemonium and Requiem), as well as the novels Before I Fall and Liesl & Po.  

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(Broadcast date: March 7, 2012)

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett with fiction writers Nathan Englander and Pam Houston

Nathan Englander, author of What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, and Pam Houston, author of Contents May Have Shifted talk with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett on this fantabulous show. Two authors that any serious student of writing should be digesting their fiction. One of my favorite shows, of late. (Of late...my son hates that phrase, and so do I! But you get the gist.)

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(Broadcast date: February 29, 2012)

Will Allison & Stacy Bierlein/Gina Frangello

Marrie Stone interviews Will Allison, author of Long Drive Home, and Stacy Bierlein and Gina Frangello, editors and contributors to the anthology Men Undressed: Women Writers on the Male Sexual Experience.  

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(Broadcast date: February 15, 2012)