Writers on Writing

Marrie Stone interviews poet and novelist Laura Kasischke, discussing her latest novel Mind of Winter and poet Michael Miller about his latest collection, The First Thing Mastered. April is poetry month, and Michael discusses some of the more accessible poets for those intimidated by poetry.  Tune in to hear his recommendations, and check out these selections from The Huffington Post. Download audio. (Broadcast date: March 19, 2014)

Nicole Nelson speaks with Nicole Mones, about her new novel Night in Shanghai, and about research,  incorporating history in fiction, and the importance of living a full life as a writer. During the second half, memoirist Sue William Silverman, discusses her third memoir The Pat Boone Fan Club: My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew, sharing how she, through digging deep, found the metaphor for her identity search. Download audio (Mones)  Download audio (Silverman) (Broadcast date: March 12, 2014)

Nicole Nelson speaks with Molly Antopol, named one of 5 under 35 by the National Book Foundation, about her new collection of stories The Unamericans, and about using autobiography as an inspiration for fiction. During the second half, Golden Globe award-winning television writer Cindy Chupack, who wrote for HBO's Sex and the City for five years, discusses the art of essay writing and her new comic memoir, The Longest Date: Life as a Wife. Download audio for Antopol Download audio for Chupack (Broadcast date: February 12, 2014)

Guest host Marrie Stone talks with Erika Hayasaki about narrative nonfiction, reluctant interview subjects and death, inspired by her latest work, The Death Class: A True Story About Life.  Debut novelist James Scott talks about his book The Kept. Download audio. (Broadcast date: February 26, 2014)

Guest host Nicole Nelson interviews novelists Lara Vapnyar, The Scent of Pine, and Kirstin Chen, Soy Sauce for Beginners. (Note: The beginning of the Vapnyar interview has some minor bumps due to a technical issue, but the rest is fine.) Download audio (Broadcast date: January 15, 2014)

In the first half of the show, guest host Nicole Nelson interviews Ruth Ozeki, author of A Tale for the Time Being. Download audio (Ozeki) and Gina Frangello talks to guest host Marrie Stone about her new novel, A Life in Men. Download audio (Frangello) (Broadcast date: January 29, 2014)

New York Times Modern Love editor Daniel Jones, author of the new book, Love Illuminated, talks with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett about his book and about the column he's been editor of since its inception.  Download audio. (Broadcast date: March 5, 2014)

Guest host Marrie Stone talks with Susan Steinberg about experimental short fiction, creative punctuation, and her latest short story collection Spectacle.  Dennis Palumbo joins in the second half to talk about Daniel Rinaldi mystery, Night Terrors.  Download audio. (Broadcast date: February 5, 2014)

Suspense novelist Laura Lippman talks about And When She Was Good on Writers on Writing with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett. Download audio. (Broadcast date: Sept. 9, 2012)

Ed Valentine, who recently won a Daytime Emmy for Children’s TV Writing for Sesame Street, and Graeme Simsion, with his debut novel The Rosie Project optioned to Sony Pictures, talk with guest host Nicole Nelson on this episode of Writers on Writing. Download audio. (Broadcast date: Dec. 18, 2013)

Marrie Stone talks with author and editor Jane Isay about her latest work, Secrets and Lies: Surviving the Truths That Change Our Lives and young adult writer Laurie Halse Anderson, author of The Impossible Knife of Memory. Download audio. (Broadcast date: January 22, 2014)

Scott Turow, author of Identical, and Rose George, author of Ninety Percent of Everything, were guests on the show and spoke with me about their new books. Download audio. (Broadcast date: Nov. 30, 2013)

Novelist Jodi Picoult, author of The Storyteller, talks with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett about her new book, and Dani Shapiro, author of Still Writing, talks with Marrie Stone about her new memoir/writing book. Download audio. (Broadcast date: November 20, 2013.)

In the first half hour, songwriter Alex Forbes, author of Write Songs Write Now talks with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett,  and in the second half, novelists Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack, co-authors of Freud's Mistress, talk with Nicole Nelson.  Download audio.  (Broadcast date: November 13, 2013)

Fiction writers Robert Olen Butler and Russell Banks talk with guest host Marrie Stone about writing fiction, what becomes short stories and what becomes novels, and where it all comes from.  Download audio. (Broadcast date: Nov 6, 2013)