WritersCast
WritersCast is the voice of writers and the publishing industry. Host David Wilk interviews authors of new and forthcoming fiction, poetry and non-fiction books, talking with them about their work as writers, the stories they tell, the subjects they write about and the books they write. Writers reveal the thoughts and ideas behind their writing, and talk about a wide variety of topics of interest to their readers. Writerscast also features a series called "Publishing Talks" where publishers, technologists, and other members of the publishing community talk about the past, present, and future of books, writers and publishing. There is even a series called AuthorsVoices, where writers read their work so you can hear how the words sound when spoken by the writers who composed them.Podcasts
Publishing Talks Interview with Jane Friedman of Hot Sheet
Published: Dec. 28, 2023, 7:02 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 10 seconds
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Chris Jones: The Swine Republic: Struggles with the Truth about Agriculture and Water Quality
Published: Nov. 30, 2023, 10:33 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 5 seconds
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Baron Wormser: The Road Washes Out in Spring
Published: Oct. 7, 2023, 8:18 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 47 seconds
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S.C. Gwynne: His Majestys Airship interview by David Wilk
Published: Aug. 28, 2023, 10:03 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 56 seconds
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Publishing Talks: An Interview with Shouvik Paul of CopyLeaks
Published: July 27, 2023, 8:28 p.m.Duration: 41 minutes 28 seconds
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Maureen Owen and Barbara Henning: Poets on the Road
Published: June 21, 2023, 6:06 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 19 seconds
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Publishing Talks: Interview with Josh Schwartz of Pubvendo
Published: May 9, 2023, 6:33 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 3 seconds
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Publishing Talks: Interview with Michael Wolfe
Published: March 1, 2023, 10:35 p.m.Duration: 44 minutes 24 seconds
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Cornelia Maude Spelman: Missing: A Memoir
Published: Oct. 25, 2022, 8:54 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 56 seconds
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Publishing Talks: Interview with Dan Harke of Mayo Clinic Press
Published: Oct. 5, 2022, 5:44 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 54 seconds
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Beatrice Hitchman: All of You Every Single One
Published: Sept. 14, 2022, 2:42 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 58 seconds
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Publishing Talks: Interview with Mark Hurst of Creative Good
Published: July 17, 2022, 7:48 p.m.Duration: 44 minutes 25 seconds
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Robert Child: Immortal Valor: The Black Medal of Honor Recipients of World War II
Published: May 26, 2022, 6:50 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 3 seconds
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Publishing Talks: Interview with Jane Friedman
Published: May 10, 2022, 5:35 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 51 seconds
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Sarah Vogel: The Farmers Lawyer: The North Dakota Nine and the Fight to Save the Family Farm
Published: April 14, 2022, 9:03 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 20 seconds
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Betsy Dovydenas: If You Want to Know How I Got Brainwashed
Published: March 15, 2022, 9:04 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 3 seconds
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Publishing Talks: Interview with George Slowik, Jr. of Publishers Weekly
Published: Feb. 23, 2022, 9:29 p.m.Duration: 42 minutes 31 seconds
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Lan Samantha Chang: The Family Chao (A Novel)
Published: Feb. 8, 2022, 8:46 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 45 seconds
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William J. Peters: At Heavens Door-What Shared Journeys to the AfterLife Teach about Dying Well and Living Better
Published: Jan. 25, 2022, 10:45 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 31 seconds
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Enrique Salmon: Iwigara: American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science
Published: Jan. 9, 2022, 10:44 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 15 seconds
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Peter Quinn: Banished Children of Eve: A Novel of Civil War New York
Published: Dec. 10, 2021, 5:30 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 44 seconds
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Geoff Rodkey: Lights Out in Lincolnwood (A Novel)
Published: Nov. 3, 2021, 7:39 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 26 seconds
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Publishing Talks: Interview with Jeff Deutsch of Seminary Co-op Bookstores
Published: Oct. 12, 2021, 5:20 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 9 seconds
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Publishing Talks: Interview with Ben Fox of Shepherd.com
Published: Sept. 20, 2021, 7:06 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 15 seconds
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Susanne Paola Antonetta: The Terrible Unlikelihood of Our Being Here
Published: Aug. 11, 2021, 10:28 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 21 seconds
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Nelson Johnson: Darrows Nightmare-The Forgotten Story of Americas Most Famous Trial Lawyer
Published: July 12, 2021, 4:01 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 2 seconds
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Publishing Talks: Interview with Roxanne Coady of R.J. Julia Booksellers
Published: June 17, 2021, 9:33 p.m.Duration: 42 minutes 31 seconds
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Ross Benes Rural Rebellion: How Nebraska Became a Republican Stronghold
Published: June 4, 2021, 2:16 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 57 seconds
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Anders Dunker: Rediscovering Earth
Published: May 18, 2021, 10:08 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 56 seconds
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Frank Figliuzzi: The FBI Way Inside the Bureaus Code of Excellence
Published: May 5, 2021, 9:43 p.m.Duration: 42 minutes 44 seconds
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Publishing Talks: Interview with Angus Yuen-Killick of Red Comet Press
Published: April 21, 2021, 2:26 p.m.Duration: 46 minutes 31 seconds
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Publishing Talks: Interview with Kyle Schlesinger of Cuneiform Press
Published: April 5, 2021, 4:23 p.m.Duration: 54 minutes 44 seconds
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Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory by Claudio Saunt
Published: March 18, 2021, 6:28 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 49 seconds
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The Brothers Mankiewicz: Hope, Heartbreak, and Hollywood Classics by Sydney Ladensohn Stern
Published: Feb. 27, 2021, 10:12 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 2 seconds
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Publishing Talks: Interview with Arthur Attwell
Published: Feb. 2, 2021, 9:29 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 37 seconds
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Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas: Jeffrey Ostler
Published: Jan. 12, 2021, 9:47 p.m.Duration: 41 minutes 58 seconds
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Even as We Breathe, A Novel: Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
Published: Dec. 1, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 16 seconds
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American Gospel, A Novel: Lin Enger
Published: Nov. 11, 2020, 9:28 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 43 seconds
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The Vanishing Sky (A Novel) by L. Annette Binder
Published: Oct. 27, 2020, 7:33 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 3 seconds
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Why We Revolt: A Patient Revolution for Careful and Kind Care by Victor Montori MD
Published: Oct. 14, 2020, 10:25 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 2 seconds
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Writerscast: David Wilk interviews Roger Angell
Published: Oct. 1, 2020, 4:02 p.m.Duration: 51 minutes 13 seconds
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Helen Zuman: Mating in Captivity [A Memoir]
Published: Sept. 8, 2020, 7:11 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 45 seconds
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Blackwood: A Novel by Michael Farris Smith
Published: Aug. 14, 2020, 8:06 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 14 seconds
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Crooked Hallelujah: Kelli Jo Ford
Published: July 20, 2020, 1:32 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 35 seconds
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Publishing Talks: David Wilk Interviews Howard Junker about Zyzzyva
Published: June 30, 2020, 8:30 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 34 seconds
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Fenton Johnson At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life
Published: June 14, 2020, 11:29 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 28 seconds
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Publishing Talks: David Wilk interviews Mary Gannon of CLMP
Published: May 30, 2020, 6:04 p.m.Duration: 53 minutes 9 seconds
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Anne Enright: Actress A Novel
Published: May 12, 2020, 9:11 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 37 seconds
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Arthur Phillips: The King at the Edge of the World
Published: April 22, 2020, 12:11 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 5 seconds
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Naomi Shulman: Be Kind: You Can Make the World a Happier Place!
Published: March 31, 2020, 8:30 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 40 seconds
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David J. Silverman: This Land is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving
Published: March 11, 2020, 4:48 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 29 seconds
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Stanley Flink: Due Diligence and the News
Published: Feb. 25, 2020, 4:35 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 2 seconds
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Fuchsia Dunlop: The Food of Sichuan
Published: Feb. 12, 2020, 2:39 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 13 seconds
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Kevin Baker: The Fall of a Great American City: New York and the Urban Crisis of Affluence
Published: Jan. 28, 2020, 10:11 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 21 seconds
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Christina Thompson: Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
Published: Jan. 15, 2020, 12:39 a.m.Duration: 36 minutes 37 seconds
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Publishing Talks: David Wilk interviews Brian Birnbaum of Dead Rabbits
Published: Dec. 31, 2019, 7:36 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 20 seconds
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Brook Simons: Nothing to Write Home About
Published: Dec. 16, 2019, 10:44 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 23 seconds
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Christopher Ingraham: If You Lived Here You’d Be Home By Now
Published: Dec. 3, 2019, 5:57 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 21 seconds
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Karl Marlantes: Deep River, a Novel
Published: Nov. 19, 2019, 6:38 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 4 seconds
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Publishing Talks: David Wilk interviews writer and entrepreneur Rachel Lehmann-Haupt
Published: Nov. 6, 2019, 4:39 a.m.Duration: 47 minutes 3 seconds
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Thom Hartmann: The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America
Published: Oct. 22, 2019, 7:14 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 25 seconds
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Publishing Talks: David Wilk interviews poet and editor Tom Montag
Published: Oct. 8, 2019, 10 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 36 seconds
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Amy Stross: The Suburban Micro-Farm
Published: Sept. 19, 2019, 1:08 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 49 seconds
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Fred Waitzkin: Deep Water Blues, a Novel
Published: Aug. 18, 2019, 6:24 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 49 seconds
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Cuong Lu: The Buddha in Jail – Restoring Lives, Finding Hope and Freedom
Published: July 18, 2019, 8:46 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 5 seconds
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Adina Hoffman: Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures
Published: June 30, 2019, 3:45 p.m.Duration: 47 minutes 34 seconds
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Ryan Leigh Dostie: Formation: A Woman’s Memoir of Stepping Out of Line
Published: June 7, 2019, 3:32 p.m.Duration: 53 minutes 28 seconds
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Erica Wagner: Chief Engineer: Washington Roebling, The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge
Published: May 6, 2019, 4:20 p.m.Duration: 39 minutes 22 seconds
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Peter Rock: The Night Swimmers (A Novel)
Published: April 7, 2019, 4:05 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 35 seconds
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Joseph Kelly: Marooned: Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America’s Origin
Published: March 18, 2019, 11:52 p.m.Duration: 39 minutes 12 seconds
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Maureen Owen and Barbara Henning reading in Tucson, Arizona
Published: March 3, 2019, 4:41 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes
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Susan Napier: Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art
Published: Feb. 20, 2019, 10:33 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 28 seconds
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Philip Connors: A Song for the River
Published: Jan. 29, 2019, 4:07 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 29 seconds
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Bram Presser: The Book of Dirt (a novel)
Published: Jan. 8, 2019, 1:39 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 36 seconds
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Publishing Talks: David Wilk interviews Dan Blank of We Grow Media
Published: Dec. 16, 2018, 5:10 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes
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Ken Krimstein: The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt
Published: Nov. 28, 2018, 4:24 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 36 seconds
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Ben Goldfarb: Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers, and Why They Matter
Published: Nov. 7, 2018, 4:57 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 45 seconds
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Justin A. Frank MD: Trump on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President
Published: Oct. 23, 2018, 9:49 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 21 seconds
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David Wilk interviews Bob Miller of Flatiron Books
Published: Oct. 8, 2018, 3:15 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 21 seconds
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Gregory McNamee: Tortillas, Tiswin & T-Bones: A Food History of the Southwest
Published: Sept. 23, 2018, 9:41 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 42 seconds
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Gordon Ball reading from ’66 Frames
Published: Aug. 28, 2018, 1:51 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 34 seconds
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Gordon Ball: East Hill Farm: Seasons with Allen Ginsberg
Published: Aug. 28, 2018, 1:41 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 4 seconds
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Joanna Cantor: Alternative Remedies for Loss (A Novel)
Published: July 31, 2018, 2:49 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 50 seconds
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