Writers’ Block on Podcast 

Each episode begins at about the three-quarters mark.

October 30: Suzanne Michelle Smith, author of Ag and Gunner

October 23: Kim Coleman Foote, author of Coleman Hill

October 16: Whatcha Reading? with Laura Tilsley Garcia (recently retired CIO/vice president of information technology and library services at Greenfield Community College) and Velma Garcia (recently retired professor of government at Smith College)

October 9: Amy Chua, author of The Golden Gate

October 2: Mara Breen, Mount Holyoke professor of psychology and education, talking about her research on reading acquisition and reading comprehension

September 18: With the phones and internet down at WHMP, Bill interviews me about the books I love. 

September 11: Buz and Bill interview me about attending Steamy Lit Con and the Yale Popular Romance Fiction Conference

August 28: J. Vanessa Lyon, author of Lush Lives

August 14: Emily Todd and Matteo Pangallo, editors of Teaching the History of the Book

August 7: Megan Tady, author of Super Bloom (interview at the beginning of the podcast)

July 24: Richard Russo, author of Somebody’s Fool

July 17: Chloe Gong, author Immortal Longings

July 10: Writer, coach, and editor, Kate Senecal

June 26: Boston Globe books editor, Francie Lin

June 19: Whatcha Reading? with Kate Hudson, senior lecturer at the UMass Amherst College of Education

June 12: Jeremy Bushnell, author of Relentless Melt

June 5: Claire Fuller, author of The Memory of Animals

May 22: Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, author of Drinking from Graveyard Wells

May 16: Christina Lauren (Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings), authors of The True Love Experiment

May 15: Poet and Perugia Press editor, Rebecca Hart Olander

May 1: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Chain Gang All-Stars

April 24: Susannah Noel, production editor at St. Martin’s Press

April 17: Whatcha Reading? with sixth grader, Elizabeth Galman, and her mother, UMass Amherst education professor Sally Pirie

April 10: Joan Grenier, owner of Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley, Massachusetts

April 3: Jarrett J. Krosoczka, author and illustrator of Sunshine: How One Camp Taught Me About Life, Death, and Hope

March 27: Romance novelist Sarah MacLean and romance editor Jen Prokop, hosts of the Fated Mates podcast

March 20: John Sayles, author of  Jamie MacGillivray: a Renegade’s Journey

March 13: Whatcha reading? with writer and bookseller, Sean Norton

March 6: Jennifer Rosner, author of Once We Were Home

February 27: Margot Douaihy, author of  Scorched Grace

February 20: Mary Beth O’Connor, reading specialist at Ryan Road School in Northampton, Massachusetts

February 13: Madden Aleia, owner of Bookends in Florence, Massachusetts 

February 6: Whatcha Reading? with writer and musician, Nerissa Nields

January 30: James Cambias, author of The Scarab Mission

January 23: Antiquarian book dealer Hosie Baskin

December 19: MB Caschetta, author of A Cheerleader’s Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

December 12: Lexie Walters Wright, owner of High Five Books in Florence, Massachusetts

December 5: Pete Nelson, writer and composer of the stage musical, Last Request: A Love Story

November 28: Whatcha Reading with Greg White, Smith College professor of government

November 21: Lisa Downing, director of Forbes Library in Northampton, Massachusetts

November 14: Andrea Hariston, author of Master of Poisons

November 7: Archer Mayor, author of Fall Guy

October 31: Writer Lisa Papademetriou on Nanoramo (National Novel Writing Month)

October 24: GennaRose Nethercott, author of Thistlefoot

October 17: Whatcha Reading? with Susan Rees, school nurse in Northampton

October 10: Lynda Cohen Loigman, author of The Matchmaker’s Gift

October 3: Roz Kreshak-Hayden, bookseller at Broadside Books in Northampton

October 26: Catherine Newman, author of We All Want Impossible Things