Writers’ Block on Podcast 

Episodes recorded before 2024 begin at about the three-quarters mark.

May 5, 2025: Helen Sheehy, author of Just Willa

April 28, 2025: Hillary Hoffman, owner of Federal Street Books in Greenfield, MA

April 21, 2025: Julie Brill, author of Hidden in Plain Sight: A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia

March 31, 2025: Emily Everett, author of All That Life Can Afford

March 24, 2025: Emma Donoghue, author of The Paris Express

March 10, 2025: Nathaniel Ian Miller, author of Red Dog Farm

March 3, 2025: Robin Glossner, adult events coordinator at Odyssey Bookshop

February 24, 2025: Developmental editor Pat Dobie

February 17, 2025: Elinor Lipman, author of Every Tom, Dick & Harry

February 10, 2025: Olufunke Grace Bankole, author of The Edge of Water

February 3, 2025: Eric Drooker, author/illustrator of Naked City

January 27, 2025: John Sayles, author of To Save the Man

January 13, 2025: Favorite books of 2024 with Roz Kreshak-Hayden of Broadside Books

January 6, 2025: Loretta Chase, author of My Inconvenient Duke

December 30, 2024: Me, talking about my favorite reads of 2024

December 23, 2024: Whatcha Reading? with writer, editor, and journalism instructor, Mo Turner (on the Massachusetts Center for the Book 2024 Reading Challenge)

December 16, 2024: Eric Bennett, author of Noodles & Albie on Thin Ice

December 9, 2024: Rachel Zimmerman, author of Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide

December 2, 2024: Megan Tady, author of Bluebird Day

November 25: 2024: Sarah Sawyer, author of The Undercurrent

November 18, 2024: Lynda Cohen Loigman, author of The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern

November 4, 2024: Kate Way, director of the book banning documentary Banned Together

October 28, 2024: Bill Roorbach, author of Beep

October 21, 2024: Joy Baglio, founder of Pioneer Valley Writer's Workshop

October 14, 2027: Marisa Labozzetta, author of Men Who Walk in Dreams

October 7, 2024: Juliet Grames, author of The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia 

September 30, 2024: Fred Waitzkin, author of Anything Is Good

September 16, 2024: Bernard Schwartz, executive producer of literary programs for the Authors Guild Foundation, and poet/novelist Luis Alberto Urrea discussing the WIT Literary Festival at Shakespeare & Company in Lennox, Sept. 27-29

September 9, 2024: Rachel Kushner, author of Creation Lake

August 19, 2024: Whatcha Reading? with musician Tommy Harte

August 5, 2024: Marjan Kamali, author of The Lion Women of Tehran

July 22, 2024: Peg Duffy, manager of Northampton's Booklink Booksellers

July 15, 2024: Tammy Greenwood, author of The Still Point

July 11, 2024: Me! Talking about romance novels and the boom in romance-themed bookstores

July 8, 2024: Jendi Reiter, author of Origin Story

July 1, 2024: Ben Shattuck, author of The History of Sound

June 24, 2024: Valerie Joseph and Michael LaRiccia, writer and illustrator of This is What Maisie Believes

June 18, 2024: Catherine Newman, author of Sandwich

June 10, 2024: Emma Copley Eisenberg, author of Housemates

June 3, 2024: Poets Jen Jabaily-Blackburn (Girl in a Bear Suit) and Amanda Shaw (It Will Have Been So Beautiful)

May 20, 2024: Peter Sokolowski, Merriam-Webster editor-at-large

May 13, 2024: Christopher Carlisle, author of Pickett's Dream

May 6, 2024: Cathie Mercier, director of the Center for the Study of Children’s Literature at Simmons University and curator of Pictures at Play: Metafiction in Art at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art (May 4–November 3, 2024)

April 29, 2024: Emily Crowe, Penguin Random House sales manager for New England and Upstate New York

April 15, 2024: Holly Gramazio, author of The Husbands

April 8, 2024: Margot Douaihy, author of Blessed Water, the second of the Sister Holiday mysteries

April 1, 2024: Ilyon Woo, author of  Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

March 25, 2024: Discussion of 1980s romance novelist Sylvia Halliday, a.k.a. Louisa Rawlings, author of Dreams so Fleeting

March 18, 2024: Judge Michael Ponsor, author of Point of Order

March 11, 2024: Writers’ Block host, Megan Rubiner Zinn (that’s me!)

March 8, 2024: Perugia Press poet, Carolina Hotchandani, author of The Book Eaters, and Perugia Press editor, Rebecca Hart Olander

February 26, 2024: Rachel Lyon, author of Fruit of the Dead

February 19, 2024: Whatcha Reading? with Northampton High School Senior Katie James

February 12, 2024: Susan Elizabeth Phillips, author of Simply the Best

February 5, 2024: Anne Pinkerton, author of  Were You Close? A Sister's Quest to Know the Brother She Lost

January 30, 2024: Ilan Stavans, co-founder of Restless Books publishing

January 22, 2024: Jon Clinch, author of The General and Julia

January 8, 2024: Lisa Prolman, assistant director of Greenfield Public Library

December 18, 2023: John Sheirer, author of For Now: One Hundred 100-Word Stories

December 11, 2023: Ana Reyes, author of The House in Pines

December 4, 2023: Liz Rosenberg, owner of the Toy Box in Amherst, on buying books for kids 

November 27, 2023: Kevin and Dianne Germain, owners of Splendor Solis Books, an antiquarian bookshop (and website) in Northampton

November 20, 2023: Robert Radin, author of Noche Triste: A Memoir of Anorexia

November 13, 2023: James Jennings, author of Wings of Red

November 6, 2023: Crystal Maldonado, author of The Fall of Whit Rivera

October 30, 2023: Suzanne Michelle Smith, author of Ag and Gunner

October 23, 2023: Kim Coleman Foote, author of Coleman Hill

October 16, 2023: 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, 2023: Amy Chua, author of The Golden Gate

October 2, 2023: Mara Breen, Mount Holyoke professor of psychology and education, talking about her research on reading acquisition and reading comprehension

September 18, 2023: With the phones and internet down at WHMP, Bill interviews me about the books I love. 

September 11, 2023: Buz and Bill interview me about attending Steamy Lit Con and the Yale Popular Romance Fiction Conference

August 28, 2023: J. Vanessa Lyon, author of Lush Lives

August 14, 2023: Emily Todd and Matteo Pangallo, editors of Teaching the History of the Book

August 7, 2023: Megan Tady, author of Super Bloom (interview at the beginning of the podcast)

July 24, 2023: Richard Russo, author of Somebody’s Fool

July 17, 2023: Chloe Gong, author Immortal Longings

July 10, 2023: Writer, coach, and editor, Kate Senecal

June 26, 2023: Boston Globe books editor, Francie Lin

June 19, 2023: Whatcha Reading? with Kate Hudson, senior lecturer at the UMass Amherst College of Education

June 12, 2023: Jeremy Bushnell, author of Relentless Melt

June 5, 2023: Claire Fuller, author of The Memory of Animals

May 22, 2023: Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, author of Drinking from Graveyard Wells

May 16, 2023: Christina Lauren (Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings), authors of The True Love Experiment

May 15, 2023: Poet and Perugia Press editor, Rebecca Hart Olander

May 1, 2023: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Chain Gang All-Stars

April 24, 2023: Susannah Noel, production editor at St. Martin’s Press

April 17, 2023: Whatcha Reading? with sixth grader, Elizabeth Galman, and her mother, UMass Amherst education professor Sally Pirie

April 10, 2023: Joan Grenier, owner of Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley, Massachusetts

April 3, 2023: Jarrett J. Krosoczka, author and illustrator of Sunshine: How One Camp Taught Me About Life, Death, and Hope

March 27, 2023: Romance novelist Sarah MacLean and romance editor Jen Prokop, hosts of the Fated Mates podcast

March 20, 2023: John Sayles, author of  Jamie MacGillivray: a Renegade’s Journey

March 13, 2023: Whatcha reading? with writer and bookseller, Sean Norton

March 6, 2023: Jennifer Rosner, author of Once We Were Home

February 27, 2023: Margot Douaihy, author of  Scorched Grace

February 20, 2023: Mary Beth O’Connor, reading specialist at Ryan Road School in Northampton, Massachusetts

February 13, 2023: Madden Aleia, owner of Bookends in Florence, Massachusetts 

February 6, 2023: Whatcha Reading? with writer and musician, Nerissa Nields

January 30, 2023: James Cambias, author of The Scarab Mission

January 23, 2023: Antiquarian book dealer Hosie Baskin

December 19, 2022: MB Caschetta, author of A Cheerleader’s Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

December 12, 2022: Lexie Walters Wright, owner of High Five Books in Florence, Massachusetts

December 5, 2022: Pete Nelson, writer and composer of the stage musical, Last Request: A Love Story

November 28, 2022: Whatcha Reading? with Greg White, Smith College professor of government

November 21, 2022: Lisa Downing, director of Forbes Library in Northampton, Massachusetts

November 14, 2022: Andrea Hariston, author of Master of Poisons

November 7, 2022: Archer Mayor, author of Fall Guy

October 31, 2022: Writer Lisa Papademetriou on Nanoramo (National Novel Writing Month)

October 24, 2022: GennaRose Nethercott, author of Thistlefoot

October 17, 2022: Whatcha Reading? with Susan Rees, school nurse in Northampton

October 10, 2022: Lynda Cohen Loigman, author of The Matchmaker’s Gift

October 3, 2022: Roz Kreshak-Hayden, bookseller at Broadside Books in Northampton

October 26, 2022: Catherine Newman, author of We All Want Impossible Things