Print Run Podcast

This week, we’re talking about a fascinating copyright case involving two authors working within a larger fanfiction uni... Read more

In which we discuss the New York Review of Books' outing of Elena Ferrante's identity, identify the end of all publishin... Read more

We dig into this week’s allegations of fraud in the agent world, as well as the problems with this year’s WorldCon. Both... Read more

This week, we tackle a pretty big, speculative question: if you were to start a publishing company, what would it look l... Read more

In the November First Pages episode of Print Run, we take a look at three different novel openings and talk about the be... Read more

This week we are excited to have an interview with Genay Jackson and Wynne Kontos, two booksellers who are a part of the... Read more

This week, we examine the phenomenon of THE HATE U GIVE by Angie Thomas, and break down why exactly it was able to debut... Read more

This week, we take a look at how writing and publishing have become separate conversations, and how this divide isn’t go... Read more

This week, we walk through the many junctures in the publishing process—both within a publisher’s control and not—that l... Read more

In this week's Print Run, Laura and Erik use the current election cycle—No politics, we promise!—to discuss how book pub... Read more

This week, in the deepest valley of the summer doldrums, we mostly just catch up and talk about various things on our ag... Read more

This week’s episode is all about comp titles--far from being just something you put in a query letter, comps are how the... Read more

This week, we take a look at some of the trends and tropes in social media in the book world, from writers, agents, edit... Read more

Now a year removed from the 2016 presidential election, most everyone is feeling distracted, addled, preoccupied, and of... Read more

This week’s show takes a look at one of the zanier schemes the book world has seen in a while, in which a book almost no... Read more

This week we talk about the new California law that’s supposedly designed to help freelancers, but in practice will furt... Read more

In this episode, we discuss ways that modern publishing should address the literary canon's diversity problem. We also f... Read more

This week we talk through the reason for the season, in this stretch after National Novel Writing Month--self-editing an... Read more

In the wake of the still-unfolding RWA mess, we share our perspectives on what’s gone so badly wrong, and why we feel th... Read more

This week, we’re thrilled to have an interview with New York Times bestselling author Shea Serrano. We ask him about his... Read more