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Episode 187—Goblins in the Source Code
Jun 12, 2026
56m 47s
Episode 186—Middlemen, featuring Laura B. McGrath
May 6, 2026
1h 01m 53s
Episode 185—Mahjong on the Telephone
Apr 16, 2026
41m 51s
Episode 184—The Hanger Games
Feb 27, 2026
43m 29s
Episode 183—The Only Genre Is My Feelings
Jan 9, 2026
31m 23s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/12/26 | ![]() Episode 187—Goblins in the Source Code✨ | modernization of literaturechildren's literature+3 | — | children’s literatureLLM chatbot | — | goblinssource code+5 | — | 56m 47s | |
| 5/6/26 | ![]() Episode 186—Middlemen, featuring Laura B. McGrath✨ | literary agentingpublishing+3 | Laura B. McGrath | MIDDLEMEN | — | literary agentspublishing industry+3 | — | 1h 01m 53s | |
| 4/16/26 | ![]() Episode 185—Mahjong on the Telephone✨ | literary eccentricityartistic costs of online presence+3 | — | — | — | Helen DeWittWindham-Campbell Prize+3 | — | 41m 51s | |
| 2/27/26 | ![]() Episode 184—The Hanger Games✨ | politicsculture+4 | — | Open MarketZion Community Commons | Twin Cities | politics booknonfiction market+5 | — | 43m 29s | |
| 1/9/26 | ![]() Episode 183—The Only Genre Is My Feelings✨ | genreliterary fiction+3 | — | THE ANTIDOTE | Twin Cities | genreliterary+6 | — | 31m 23s | |
| 10/24/25 | ![]() Episode 182—Print Run Goes Nano✨ | podcastingliterature+3 | — | — | — | Print Runpodcast+3 | — | 18m 33s | |
| 9/12/25 | ![]() Episode 181—Tote Bag Mindset✨ | literary fictionreading culture+3 | — | AI | — | literary fictionreading culture+3 | — | 49m 42s | |
| 8/1/25 | ![]() Episode 180—Can Agents Read?✨ | literary agentsquery process+3 | — | Substack | — | literary agentsquery process+3 | — | 56m 01s | |
| 6/27/25 | ![]() Episode 179—The Psychologisode✨ | psychoanalysiscreative life+3 | — | — | — | psychoanalysiswriting+3 | — | 53m 15s | |
| 6/6/25 | ![]() Episode 178—The One About (Un)bound(less)✨ | publishingdebt+3 | — | UnboundBoundless | — | UnboundBoundless+5 | — | 59m 23s | |
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| 4/3/25 | ![]() Episode 177—The Jimmies, The Rock, The Tariffs✨ | publishing industrybook deals+3 | — | publishing | — | MrBeastDwayne Johnson+3 | — | 44m 24s | |
| 3/20/25 | Episode 176—Co-ops as the Way Forward | This week we look at the announcement of a fascinating new agreement between eight small publishers that revolves around sharing shipping costs as a way to discuss the concept of cooperation in our industry; what do co-op initiatives like this do for the survival of independent publishing–or agenting, or writing, or anything else outside the industry’s largest corporate structures? We talk about how cooperation actually exists in opposition to consolidation, and the ways moves like this can actually free up the ability to take editorial and artistic risks. | — | ||||||
| 2/20/25 | ![]() Episode 175—What We Owe Each Other | In response to an excellent listener question, today we’re talking about how writers can approach asking potential agents about how they might handle specific aspects of their lives–whether that’s gender or sexual identity, disability, pregnancy or possible pregnancy, and much more–that could affect their publishing journey. We are in an age where all of us are growing increasingly vulnerable in different ways to what feels like a genuine fascist cultural backslide–this means that we all owe each other more solidarity, that our publishing relationships must account for the different ways in which we could become exposed to risk or harm. This is a big episode on “what we owe each other”: what agents owe writers, what publishers owe writers, what anyone who works in publishing owes anyone else in terms of helping all of us stay safe and protected from an increasingly dangerous world. | — | ||||||
| 2/7/25 | ![]() Episode 174—The Subgenre is YOU | This week we use one of publishing’s favorite new portmanteaus–romantasy–to talk about the fluid nature of genre and subgenre, and discuss the ways in which these endless classifications can help bring new readers into a given category of book, as well as what drawbacks occur when we get more and more specific with our book taxonomy. We arrive at a key conclusion: the thing being categorized is not the book, but rather its readers. Join us! | — | ||||||
| 1/24/25 | ![]() Episode 173—The Manuscript Wish List at the End of the World | We don’t need to tell you that the world feels pretty dark right now. The question then becomes: as creatives, as publishing people, as writers, readers, agents, whatever–what are we looking for to get us through? This episode we talk about what we’re hoping to see from and get out of art and publishing this next stretch, when all feels lost but we’re forging ahead anyway. Join us while we look for the light in the dark! | — | ||||||
| 1/17/25 | ![]() Episode 172—The End of the Social Media Marketing Era | This week we talk about the functional death of social media as a promotional tool in the publishing industry. Now that we all agree that these platforms are actively corrosive to not only our body politic but literary culture specifically, where do we go next? What forms of cultural production might actually get people excited about books again, once we detach ourselves from the Slop Machines? We explore that vision and more. Join us! | — | ||||||
| 7/25/24 | ![]() Episode 171—Summer, Again | It’s time for the annual Print Run Summer Check-In, where we list out all the ways we’re both keeping it together and losing our marbles. Summer is strange time in publishing, and it leads us to a conversation on deep work versus shallow, frenetic work, how we manage our interior creative selves in relation to the job, and the chaos that is sure to come this fall. Join us! | — | ||||||
| 7/3/24 | ![]() Episode 170—A Culture of Mistrust | On the heels of some recent discourse on the trust between querying writers and agents managing submission piles, we go long on the culture of trust–or lack thereof–that exists between these two parts of the publishing industry, why it occurs, and what could fix it. We talk about the nature of ideas and copyright, the structures of the modern literary agency, publishing culture, and much more. It’s a fun and fiery episode–hope you enjoy! | — | ||||||
| 3/19/24 | ![]() Episode 169—We’re Just a Bunch of Guys | In light of yet another round of agent chaos over the weekend, we got together to talk about the information climate in publishing at large, the ways in which even well-intentioned agents can contribute to gatekeeping and access issues for writers. In an age when there are more agents, writers, and information about agents and writers than ever before, everyone could stand to examine whether they’re making publishing a less anxious and more transparent place that’s open to all types of people–or the opposite. | — | ||||||
| 2/29/24 | ![]() Episode 168—You Don’t Have To Sit There | This week we get a little bit mad at the Forced Waiting that publishing imposes on all of us, and it builds to a call to arms: you–writers, agents, editors, whoever–don’t just have to wait quietly for progress to happen to you. No matter your situation in publishing, you can get out there and make something happen as a person with agency and the owner of your own career and path. We address the flipside too, of course: agents (including us!) need to adjust our habits so that there’s less silence, waiting, and wondering. The world is burning! Let’s make moves! | — | ||||||
| 1/24/24 | ![]() Episode 167—Dread, But Make It Fashion | In our first episode of 2024, we take a look at the publishing landscape for the year ahead. We believe that there could be several culminating moments of rupture or change in the near future, in everything from AI’s implementation in the industry to how workers in publishing choose to respond to their own working conditions. We get a little rowdy and we have a good time–come join us! | — | ||||||
| 10/4/23 | ![]() Episode 166—Give ‘Em What They’re Owed | This week’s theme, across multiple topics, is that workers in publishing deserve to be paid and supported in all the ways required for them to live well and do their jobs to the best of their abilities. We start with a chat about the Half Price Books Union’s contract negotiations, and finish with a look at the recent survey data from AALA. Join us! | — | ||||||
| 8/16/23 | ![]() Episode 165—Private Equity, AI, and the Techification of Publishing | This week we use two recent stories–the acquisition of Simon & Schuster by the investment firm KKR and the proliferation of Artificial Intelligence usage in various book-related shenanigans–as a way of talking about something big and broad: publishing looking more and more like the tech world each day. Why might the Silicon Valley approach to business not work in publishing, and why do these recent trends alarm us for reasons big and small, aesthetic and substantive? Join us and we’ll talk through it all. | — | ||||||
| 7/27/23 | ![]() Episode 164—Level Drain | In the wake of what feels like an endless round of layoffs, restructurings, consolidations, and any other corporate terms for “good people losing their jobs,” we talk about how this constant reshuffling affects the industry as a whole and specifically our jobs as agents. Spoiler alert: it’s not great! But we talk through it and let the feelings out, and do our best to express some solidarity along the way. Join us. | — | ||||||
| 6/9/23 | ![]() Episode 163—The Annual Summer Vibe-isode | We’ve had a lot of Serious Content lately and it’s a summer Friday, so come take a break with us while we chat about what we’ve got going on this summer, in terms of book stuff and otherwise. One of our more vibey episodes rather than a big heavy topic, so come hang out! | — | ||||||
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