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I Need More Food

I Need More Food

Great show. Please continue with the good content! :)

Terry a O'Neal

Terry a O'Neal

Great show! Please check out the story of a missing boy from Ft. Lauderdale @ www.HopeofFindingaSon.com I will tune in this evening! Best, Terry a O'Neal www.TerryONeal.com

Avid Reader

Avid Reader

Jane Friedman is so down to earth. Great show, Kate and thanks for all your interviews. This was excellent.

Avid Reader

Avid Reader

Great Valentine's Day shows.

Judy Joy Jones Show

Judy Joy Jones Show

You have a wonderful show!..The Judy Joy Jones Show

WordSmitten.com

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WordSmitten Guidelines. For an author to be a guest on the show, these are our guidelines. (Note: We select editors and publishing executives by invitation only.) 1. We look for guests who have depth, humor, and insight into the craft of writing. 2. If you are a debut author, please send a query letter to our office and include either a synopsis or A.R.E. (advance edition) of your book. 3. If you are self-published, our policy, currently, is to not review non-trade publications. That policy may change in 2009, so check back with us. 4. We receive too many requests to personally respond to each request. If your query letter is brief, polite, and witty, we tend to respond if we are interested in bringing you in as a guest. 5. We produce and broadcast interviews from our studios located in St. Petersburg, Florida. We do broadcast live from our BTR home when our guests are based in New York. Thank you for your interest in being a guest on the WordSmitten about the books broadcast. We appreciate your support of these programs. For more information, visit us at www.wordsmitten.com and if you are interested in our workshops, visit us at Meetup.com for our schedule. The Editors and Staff WordSmitten Media, Inc, (c) 2008 WordSmitten Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. WordSmitten is a registered trademark.

Literary Media Spot

Literary Media Spot

I'll be tuning in to the archived recording. Is this show on iTunes BTR show listings, too?

Literary Media Spot

Literary Media Spot

i'll be tuning in to the archived recording. Is this show on iTunes BTR show listings, too?

Literary Media Spot

Literary Media Spot

I enjoyed listening to Joe Skibell's interview. He was entertaining. Keep up the good work, thanks.

Literary Media Spot

Literary Media Spot

Just saw you on the Features page today. Sorry I can't listen in live as my show airs same time Sundays for the past year and a half. I'll tune in to the archived recordings.

Olivia Wilder

Olivia Wilder

I'm so sorry I'll miss Natalie Goldberg live, but I'll be traveling on Sunday, the 18th! Darn. I have been a fan since I first bought "Writing Down The Bones" back in 1988 or thereabouts. I'll be sure to catch the archive. Olivia

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    This holiday show brings together the brightest authors of nonfiction to discuss the craft of writing. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, Mr. Gay Talese, joins Kate again, along with author Sherry Ellis (NOW WRITE! NONFICTION: Memoir, Journalism, and Creative Nonfiction Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers) for a fast-paced hour about what works for writers. Also joining Kate for this hour is the notable and award-winning David Vann. Tune in to the fun. Mr. Gay Talese. His books include: (The Kingdom and the Power, recently reissued in trade paperback by Random House); the inside story of a Mafia family (Honor Thy Father); the changing moral values of America between World War II and the era before AIDS (Thy Neighbor's Wife); a historical memoir about his family's immigration to America from Italy in the years preceding World War II (Unto the Sons, also recently reissued by Random House); The Bridge, about the construction of the Verrazano-Narrows span between Brooklyn and Staten Island; New York: A Serendipiter's Journey, a series of vignettes and essays on New York; and Fame and Obscurity, a collection of his articles principally from the pages of Esquire magazine, where he was credited by Tom Wolfe with the creation of an inventive form of nonfiction writing called "The New Journalism." His most recent book is A Writer's Life, a memoir about the inner workings of a writer's life and the interplay between experience and writing. Gay Talese lives with his wife, Nan, in New York City. He is working on a book about marriage for Knopf. Sherry Ellis. An educator and writing coach, she has taught in Concord, Massachusetts. Her two books, NOW WRITE! and NOW WRITE! NONFICTION are resources for emerging writers who want to begin a writing career. David Vann writes for Esquire, among other notable magazines, and is a professor at USF in California.
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    Kate interviews the author of nine novels, three collections of short stories, and a biography of St. Francis of Assisi, the notable best-selling author Valerie Martin. Her newly launched novel, "THE CONFESSIONS OF EDWARD DAY," is a romp through wild theater days when thespians went nude on stage, worked as waiters/waitresses and partied until birds announced the dawn. Hmm. Has anything changed? Her 1990 novel Mary Reilly, which purports to be the diary of Dr. Jekyll's housemaid, won the Kafka prize, was translated into 16 languages, and, some years thereafter, was the subject of a film featuring Julia Roberts, directed by Stephen Frears. Tune in to the fun. Listen every Sunday afternoon at 4 PM for the WordSmitten "About the Books" broadcast. Tune in to the fun. www.wordsmitten.com www.blogtalkradio.com/wordsmitten www.meetup.com/wordsmitten www.twitter.com/wordsmitten
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    WordSmitten :: Author Lauren Grodstein :: Rutgers

    Author Appears on WordSmitten Talk Show,lauren grodstein,Bestselling Novel,"A Friend of the Family" Author, Lauren Grodstein. Pick up a copy of the new novel, "A Friend of the Family," released this month and available at your local bookstore. WordSmitten's host, Kate Sullivan, interviews author Lauren Grodstein on Sunday afternoon. A creative writing instructor, she teaches at Rutgers-Camden, where she helps administer the college's MFA program. Lauren Grodstein’s books include the novels A Friend of the Family and Reproduction is the Flaw of Love, and The Best of Animals, a story collection. Her pseudonymous Girls Dinner Club was a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age. Her work has been translated into German, Italian, French, Turkish, and other languages, and her essays and stories have been widely anthologized. lauren grodstein,WordSmitten "About the Books",A Friend of the Family,Bestselling Novel WordSmitten. Tune in to the fun. www.wordsmitten.com (the mothership) www. meetup.com/wordsmitten (monthly writing workshops--very smart and sassy folks) www.twitter.com/wordsmitten (random notes about book publishing and authors to be interviewed) www.blogtalkradio.com/wordsmitten (interviews with authors, editors, and literary executives)

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    WordSmitten :: Blue Collar B&B

    Ready for a journey to Canada? Kate Sullivan interviews romance novelist Bobby Hutchinson, to discuss her newest book (November 2009/Langdon Street Press) titled "Blue Collar B&B," and reveal the secrets of late bloomers, reinvention, romance novels, and British Columbia. Hutchinson married young and had three sons, later on mortgaging her house to buy a business. After twelve successful years, she sold the business to train to run a marathon. Training was a bit boring so she wrote a story while running, about Pheiddipedes, the first marathoner. She sent it to a short story contest, won first prize, finished the Vancouver marathon, and became a writer. Married again and divorced again, writing all the while, mostly romances, she published more than fifty books. Hutchinson opened her first B&B, Blue Collar, in British Columbia. ======================================== Listen Sunday afternoons at 4 PM for the WordSmitten "About the Books" broadcast. Tune in to the fun. www.wordsmitten.com www.blogtalkradio.com/wordsmitten www.meetup.com/wordsmitten www.twitter.com/wordsmitten

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    WordSmitten :: Author Valerie Martin :: Julia Roberts

    Kate interviews the author of nine novels, three collections of short stories, and a biography of St. Francis of Assisi, the notable best-selling author Valerie Martin. Her newly launched novel, "THE CONFESSIONS OF EDWARD DAY," is a romp through wild theater days when thespians went nude on stage, worked as waiters/waitresses and partied until birds announced the dawn. Hmm. Has anything changed? Her 1990 novel Mary Reilly, which purports to be the diary of Dr. Jekyll's housemaid, won the Kafka prize, was translated into 16 languages, and, some years thereafter, was the subject of a film featuring Julia Roberts, directed by Stephen Frears. Tune in to the fun. Listen every Sunday afternoon at 4 PM for the WordSmitten "About the Books" broadcast. Tune in to the fun. www.wordsmitten.com www.blogtalkradio.com/wordsmitten www.meetup.com/wordsmitten www.twitter.com/wordsmitten

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    WordSmitten :: Bestselling Author Francine Prose ::

    Kate Sullivan interviews Francine Prose, the author of fifteen books of fiction, including "Blue Angel" -- a finalist for the National Book Award. Her newest book, "Anne Frank: the Book, the Life, the Afterlife," launches this week. Her novel, Goldengrove, was published in September 2008. She is the president of PEN American Center. She lives in New York City. ========================= In "Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife," Francine Prose, who is author of "Reading Like a Writer," explores the artistry, ambition, and enduring influence of Anne Frank’s classic, "The Diary of a Young Girl." Approved by both the Anne Frank House Foundation in Amsterdam and the Anne Frank-Fonds in Basel, run by the Frank family, this work of literary criticism unravels the complex, fascinating story of the diary and effectively makes the case for it being a work of art from a precociously gifted writer. ====================== Francine Prose,Anne Frank,PEN,award-winning author,Blue Angel,Anne Frank's Diary WordSmitten. www.wordsmitten.com www.twitter.com/wordsmitten

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    WordSmitten Pulitzer Prize-Winning Rick Bragg

    Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Rick Bragg Kate Sullivan interviews Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rick Bragg. His best-selling and critically acclaimed books depict the people of the foothills of the Appalachians and the titles are: "All Over but the Shoutin’" and "Ava’s Man". Bragg, a native of Calhoun County, Alabama, calls these books, including "The Prince of Frogtown," the proudest examples of his writing life, what historians and critics have described as heart-breaking anthems of people usually written about only in fiction or clichés. These books chronicle the lives of his family, cotton pickers, mill workers, whiskey makers, long sufferers and fist fighters. Bragg, who has written for numerous magazines, ranging from Sports Illustrated to Food and Wine, was a newspaper reporter for two decades, covering high school football for the Jacksonville News, and militant Islamic fundamentalism for The New York Times. He won more than 50 significant writing awards, in books and journalism, including, twice, the American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1993, and is, truthfully, still a freshman at Jacksonville State University. Bragg is currently Professor of Writing in the Journalism Department at the University of Alabama, and lives in Tuscaloosa with his wife, Dianne, a doctoral student there, and his step-son, Jake. His only real hobby is fishing, but he is the worst fisherman in his family line. Tune in to the fun. www.wordsmitten.com www.twitter.com/wordsmitten www.meetup.com/wordsmitten www.blogtalkradio.com/wordsmitten ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

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    WordSmitten :: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Jane Smiley

    WordSmitten's host, Kate Sullivan, interviews notable author Jane Smiley, the author of ten works of fiction, including The Age of Grief, The Greenlanders, and A Thousand Acres, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992. ::::::::::::Author Appears on WordSmitten Talk Show,Jane Smiley,A Thousand Acres,Pulitzer Prize-winning author,blogtalkradio.com/wordsmitten::::::::::::::: Her recent books include Horse Heaven and Moo. Her essays appear in Vogue, The New Yorker, Practical Horseman, Harper's, and the New York Times Magazine. :::::::::::: She has written on politics, farming, horse training, child-rearing, literature, impulse buying, getting dressed, Barbie, marriage, and many other topics. :::::::::::: She is now at work on a novel about sex set in Hollywood. Kate Sullivan looks forward to discussing any items that include horses, tinsel town, and critters of any persuasion, ones that make the world more interesting. We are delighted to have this outstanding writer on the broadcast. Jane Smiley lives in Northern California with her three children, three dogs, and her sixteen (and counting) horses. Born in Los Angeles, California, Jane moved to the suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri, then received her BA at Vassar College. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Tune in to the fun. www.wordsmitten.com www.blogtalkradio.com/wordsmitten www.meetup.com/wordsmitten www.twitter.com/wordsmitten

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    WordSmitten :: Best-selling Author Rick Bragg :: Appears on "About the Books"

    $0Rick Bragg is the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of best-selling and critically acclaimed books on the people of the foothills of the Appalachians – All Over but the Shoutin’, Ava’s Man and The Prince of Frogtown.  Bragg, a native of Calhoun County, Alabama, calls these books the proudest examples of his writing life, what historians and critics have described as heart-breaking anthems of people usually written about only in fiction or clichés. The chronicle the lives of his family, cotton pickers, mill workers, whiskey makers, long sufferers and fist fighters. Bragg, who has written for the numerous magazines, ranging from Sports Illustrated to Food and Wine, was a newspaper writer for two decades, covering high school football for the Jacksonville News, and militant Islamic fundamentalism for The New York Times.  He won more than 50 significant writing awards, in books and journalism, including, twice, the American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1993, and is, truthfully, still a freshman at Jacksonville State University. Bragg is currently Professor of Writing in the Journalism Department at the University of Alabama, and lives in Tuscaloosa with his wife, Dianne, a doctoral student there, and his step-son, Jake. His only real hobby is fishing, but he is the worst fisherman in his family line.$0$0$0$0

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National Book Award Honoree Fiona Maazel

Author Fiona Maazel

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