Writerscast - Author Interviews

Helen Sheehy: Just Willa (a novel) Helen Sheehy: Just Willa (a novel)

Just Willa (a novel)—Helen Sheehy—Cave Hollow Press—978-2-7342678-3-9—paperback—428 pages—$21.95—April 13, 2025—ebook versions available at varying lower prices As many Writerscast listeners know, I only interview writers about books I like and enjoyed reading... [Listen to this podcast]

Tamara Dean: Shelter and Storm: At Home in the Driftless Tamara Dean: Shelter and Storm: At Home in the Driftless

Shelter and Storm: At Home in the Driftless – Tamara Dean – University of Minnesota Press – 9781517918569 – Paperback – 224 pages – April 22, 2025 – $19.95 -ebook editions available at lower prices Books like Shelter and Storm are... [Listen to this podcast]

Annalee Newitz: Automatic Noodle Annalee Newitz: Automatic Noodle

Automatic Noodle – Annalee Newitz – Tordotcom – 9781250357465 – Hardcover – 176 pages – August 5, 2025 – $24.99 – ebook versions available at lower prices Annalee Newitz is one of the best and most original science fiction... [Listen to this podcast]

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Publishing Talks - About Publishing

Publishing Talks Interviews Derek Newton/Verify My Writing Publishing Talks Interviews Derek Newton/Verify My Writing

Publishing Talks started as a series of conversations I had with book industry professionals and others involved in media and technology, talking about the future of publishing, books, and culture. It was great fun discussing the evolution of publishing in the context of... [Listen to this podcast]

Publishing Talks Interview with Carol Fitzgerald of The Book Report Network Publishing Talks Interview with Carol Fitzgerald of The Book Report Network

Publishing Talks started as a series of conversations with book industry professionals and others involved in media and technology, mostly talking about the future of publishing, books, and culture. It was great fun talking with people in the book industry about the evolution... [Listen to this podcast]

Publishing Talks Interview with Lauren Woods of LitBox Publishing Talks Interview with Lauren Woods of LitBox

Publishing Talks started as a series of conversations with book industry professionals and others involved in media and technology, mostly talking about the future of publishing, books, and culture. It was great fun talking with people in the book industry about the evolution... [Listen to this podcast]

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Authors Voices - Live Readings

Rachel Blau DuPlessis reading from The Complete Drafts Rachel Blau DuPlessis reading from The Complete Drafts

Authors Voices gives writers a platform for reading their work. It’s an honor for me to be able to present poet and literary critic Rachel Blau DuPlessis reading from her extraordinary long poem, Drafts, which she began in 1986 and completed in 2012. Now the great Minneapolis-based... [Listen to this podcast]

Maureen Owen and Barbara Henning reading in Tucson, Arizona Maureen Owen and Barbara Henning reading in Tucson, Arizona

What a great trip! Starting January 18, 2019, with a reading at McNally Jackson Bookstore in Brooklyn, New York, poets Maureen Owen and Barbara Henning, started a cross country journey together (you can view their trip itinerary here). Appropriately, their story and journey... [Listen to this podcast]

Gordon Ball reading from ’66 Frames Gordon Ball reading from ’66 Frames

’66 Frames – Gordon Ball – Coffee House Press – 9781566890823 – paperback – 320 pages – $15.95 Allen Ginsberg, who helped Ball with some of the research for his book, once remarked on Ball’s vantage point: From city and country... [Listen to this podcast]

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Pipeline - News & Commentary

Publisher and editor John O’Brien has died Publisher and editor John O’Brien has died

Old friend and colleague John O’Brien, founder of Review of Contemporary Fiction and Dalkey Archive Press passed away on November 21st. John and I had many mutual friends in literature and similar tastes and interests, and his vision of writing and books led me to learn... [Read this article]

Writer and editor Richard Marek has died. Writer and editor Richard Marek has died.

Dick Marek was a legendary book editor and later an extremely successful writer and ghost writer. He lived in Westport, Connecticut with his second wife, the writer and therapist, Dalma Heyn. I had the honor to interview Dick for Writerscast in 2015, in which he talked at... [Read this article]

Joy Harjo has been named U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo has been named U.S. Poet Laureate

Congratulations to Muscogee Creek Nation poet Joy Harjo who has been appointed the Poet Laureate for the United States, succeeding Tracy K. Smith. Joy is a poet, writer and musician whose work has inspired for many years. She is fearless in her work, unflinching in her approach... [Read this article]

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