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Write On! Radio interviews local, national and international authors as well as editors, playwrights, poets and more. We’re interested in all things literary, from spoken word performances to readings by writers to just plain well-written works of art.

12/31/2025

We Will Rise Again w/ Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older - Write On! Radio

This week, Molly sits down with the editors of We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope, just out from Saga Press. Bringing organizers and activists together with genre luminaries and exciting new voices in fiction, We Will Rise Again is an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer inspiration for the social justice movements of tomorrow. You can read a story from the book online! “Where Memory Meets the Sea” by Laia Asieo Odo was previewed at Electric Literature. Air Date: December 30, 2025

57 min
12/01/2025

The House on Rondo w/ Debra J. Stone - Write On! Radio

This week, Emma sits down with Debra J. Stone to discuss The House on Rondo, just out from University Of Minnesota Press. In this coming-of-age story, a young girl reckons with the demolition of a Black Saint Paul neighborhood to make way for the Interstate in the early 1960s. As Zenobia gradually learns about what’s planned for the Rondo neighborhood and what this means for everyone who lives there, she discovers how her story is intertwined with the history of her family, all the way back to Great Grandma Zenobia. The House on Rondo is available now: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1962834492 Air Date: November […]

25 min
11/05/2025

Little Rex w/ Gary Porter - Write On! Radio

This week, Josh sits down with Gary Porter to discuss Little Rex: A Night at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, a heartfelt prequel to Duffy: The Tale of a Terrier. Told from the afterlife, Little Rex follows a small Boston Terrier on an extraordinary journey through Concord, Massachusetts, where the ghosts of Concord’s greatest writers return for a single night. We get into: How a street dog became an unlikely witness to literary history What Alcott, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and Emerson can still teach young readers The challenge of writing for both young readers and adults Turning historic landmarks into magical spaces of […]

32 min
08/31/2025

Write On Radio - Joseph Whitson

This week, Emma sits down with Joseph Whitson about his debut book, Marketing the Wilderness: Outdoor Recreation, Indigenous Activism, and the Battle over Public Lands, which is an analysis of how outdoor recreation companies market public land as wilderness instead of land stolen from Indigenous people. In this interview, Emma and Joseph Whitson discuss how the myth of outdoor recreation as a pure good ignores the history and current politics of public land.

27 min
07/31/2025

Write On! Radio - Leif Weatherby

This week, Josh Weber speaks to Leif Weatherby, founding director of the Digital Theory Lab at New York University, about his new monograph ‘Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism’. The monograph discusses how what is currently described as AI is not displaying cognition, but instead revealing culture. In this interview, Josh and Leif discuss what AI is being marketed as, what AI is capable of, and how it can be used in the future.

29 min
05/04/2025

Write On Radio - Peter Geye

This week Ian Graham Leask speaks with author Peter Geye about his new novel, A Lesser Light, a story about selfhood and determinism on the rocky shores of Lake Superior. They discuss writing styles, storytelling, and how the process of revision changes the story being told.

50 min
05/04/2025

Write On! Radio - Andrea Gilats

This week, Liz Olds speaks to Andrea Gilats, author of Radical Endurance: Growing Old in an Age of Longevity, about her new book. They discuss what it means to reach old age, prolonged grief disorder, and how to live in our ageist culture.

27 min
03/29/2025

Write On! Radio - Raised to Obey w/Agustina Paglayan

This week, Josh sits down with Agustina Paglayan to discuss her book Raised to Obey: The Rise And Spread of Mass Education. Raised to Obey is about how the expansion of primary education in the West emerged not from democratic ideals but from the state’s desire to control it’s subjects. Raised to Obey is available to purchase here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/069126127X/

28 min

Write On! Radio interviews local, national and international authors as well as editors, playwrights, poets and more. We’re interested in all things literary, from spoken word performances to readings by writers to just plain well-written works of art.

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