Print Run Podcast
Hosted by Laura Zats · Erik Hane and Laura Zats
4.8from 359 ratings
- 194
- Episodes
- 21
- Transcribed
- 359
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2016
- First episode
About Print Run Podcast
Print Run is a podcast created and hosted by Laura Zats and Erik Hane. Its aim is simple: to have the conversations surrounding the book and writing industries that too often are glossed over by conventional wisdom, institutional optimism, and false seriousness. We’re book people, and we want to examine the questions that lie at the heart of that life: why do books, specifically, matter? In a digital world, what cultural ground does book publishing still occupy? Whether it’s trends in the queries from writers that hit our inboxes or the social ramifications of an industry that pays so little being based in Manhattan, we’re here for it. Probably to laugh at it and call it names, but here for it nonetheless. Print Run is the happy-hour conversation after a long day at a catalog launch; it’s the bottle of wine you drink most of on a Tuesday when the manuscripts are no good. We’re for writers, for publishers, for anyone who’s opened a book and wanted to know—really know—what goes into getting the damn thing made. Join us. We’ll talk about the worst sex scene we’ve ever read and wonder aloud about how millennials will affect the books of the future. We’ll figure out why Jonathan Franzen wants to replace your child with a penguin and whether or not that penguin will be buying hardcovers when he grows up.
- Publisher
- Erik Hane and Laura Zats
- Category
- arts
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 16 Sept 2016
- Latest episode
- 21 Aug 2026
Latest episodes
21 of 194 episodes have a transcript.
21 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 189—Scams! New York! Miscellany!
13 Jul 2026
Episode 188—The Red-flagisode
12 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 187—Goblins in the Source Code
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Episode 189—Scams! New York! Miscellany!
Published 21 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Like you can't lie to me about your book being science fiction. If your book is science fiction, like you, you can't like figuring out how to sell it in a market where something isn't super trendy is my job, not your job to like obscure and lie about what your book is. I've also heard from writers who, who are always told to be creative with the query. I've also, one of my forever rules that I keep bumping up against and screaming about to anyone who will listen is that you need personalization no matter what. And that includes, your website said you represent fantasy. And I just... Nobody should say anything about queries except for me. […]
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 311 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 48 ratings
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- Engagement
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Laura Zats host the show. Published by Erik Hane and Laura Zats.
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