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Barbara DeMarco-Barrett and Marrie Stone•www.writers-on-writing.com

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A weekly podcast hosted by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett and Marrie Stone on the art and business of writing.

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Flynn Berry, author of TRUST HER

Flynn Berry is author of Trust Her . Berry is the New York Times bestselling author of Under the Harrow , winner of the 2017 Edgar Award for Best First Novel; A Double Life , a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice; and Northern Spy , a Reese’s Book Club pick that was named one of the ten best thrillers of 2021 by The New York Times and The Washington Post . Northern Spy is being adapted for film by Netflix. Flynn joins Barbara DeMarco-Barrett to talk about her new thriller, Trust Her , and...

Aug 06, 2024•54 min

Kimberly McCreight, author of LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER

New York Times bestseller Kimberly McCreight is the author of eight novels, including A Good Marriage, Friends Like These and Reconstructing Amelia . She’s also the author of the New York Times bestselling young adult trilogy The Outliers . Several of her novels have been optioned for the screen. Her latest is Like Mother, Like Daughter . She joins Marrie Stone to talk about it. Along the way, Kimberly shares how her prior career in the law serves her fiction and how she generates her ideas. She...

Jul 29, 2024•1 hr 1 min

Jill Ciment, author of the memoir, CONSENT

Jill Ciment is the author of the collection of short stories and novellas, Small Claims ; the novels The Law of Falling Bodies , Teeth of the Dog , The Tattoo Artist , Heroic Measures , Act of God , The Body in Question ; and the memoirs, Half a Life and Consent . She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, among them a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, two New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships, the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, and a Guggenheim fellowship. Jill is ...

Jul 24, 2024•1 hr 1 min

Teddy Wayne, author of THE WINNER

Teddy Wayne is the author of the novels The Winner , The Great Man Theory , Apartment , Loner , The Love Song of Jonny Valentine , and Kapitoil . He is the winner of a Whiting Writers’ Award and an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship as well as a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award, PEN/Bingham Prize, and Dayton Literary Peace Prize. A former columnist for the New York Times and McSweeney’s and a frequent contributor to The New Yorker , he has taught at Columbia University and Washington Univ...

Jul 22, 2024•53 min

Kevin Barry, author of THE HEART IN WINTER

Kevin Barry is the author of four novels — Night Boat to Tangier, Beatlebone , City of Bohane (which was longlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize) and, most recently, The Heart in Winter . He’s also the author of three short story collections, including That Old Country Music . The Heart in Winter was 25 years in the making. Unlike his other works, the story is set not in Ireland, but in Montana and Idaho in the late 1800s. Kevin joins Marrie Stone to chat about it. They talk about why he always fin...

Jul 15, 2024•1 hr 1 min

Dawn Tripp, author of the novel JACKIE

(This podcast was recorded live on June 22, 2024 at Arvida Book Co in Tustin, California.) Dawn Tripp is the author of the novel Georgia , a national bestseller. She is the author of three previous novels: Game of Secrets, Moon Tide , and The Season of Open Water , which won the Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction. Her poems and essays have appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Harvard Review, AGNI, Conjunctions, and NPR, among others. She serves on the board of the Boston Book Festival an...

Jul 08, 2024•1 hr 6 min

Joyce Maynard, author of HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN

Joyce Maynard has been publishing since she was 13 years old. She first came to national attention with the publication of her New York Times cover story, “ An Eighteen Year Old Looks Back on Life ,” in 1972, when she was a freshman at Yale. Since then, she has published 20 books, including the New York Times bestselling novel, Labor Day and To Die For (both adapted for film), Under the Influence and the memoirs, At Home in the World and The Best of Us . Count the Ways —the story of a marriage a...

Jul 01, 2024•1 hr 2 min

Literary agent Dani Segelbaum

Dani Segelbaum began her publishing career as an editorial assistant at HarperCollins Publishers, focusing primarily on highly designed non-fiction titles. She ‘s worked as a literary assistant at New Leaf Literary & Media, working with established and debut authors. Dani joined Arc Literary in 2024 after three years at the Carol Mann Agency. Born and raised in Minneapolis, Dani is a graduate of Boston University’s College of Communication where she studied journalism and political science. ...

Jun 25, 2024•53 min

Curtis Sittenfeld, author of ROMANTIC COMEDY

Curtis Sittenfeld is the bestselling author of seven novels and one collection of short stories. Her books have been on many “Best Books of the Year” lists, optioned for television and film, and translated into 30 languages. Romantic Comedy is her latest. It was picked for Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club in 2023 and it’s now out in paperback. She joins Marrie Stone to talk about researching late-night comedy shows and how she accomplished her research during the pandemic, writing authentically abo...

Jun 17, 2024•1 hr 2 min

Tracy Sierra, author of NIGHTWATCHING

Tracy Sierra was born and raised in the Colorado mountains. She is an attorney who currently lives in New England in an antique colonial-era home complete with its own secret room. When not writing, she spends time with her husband and two children. Nightwatching is her debut novel and was the Spring pick of the Jimmy Fallon Book Club. Tracy joins Barbara DeMarco-Barrett to discuss unnamed narrators, unreliable characters, beginning the crisis on the first page, writing scenes that take place in...

Jun 10, 2024•55 min

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