The Watchung Booksellers Podcast
Watchung Booksellers' community of writers and readers dive deep into what they do for the love of books.
Watchung Booksellers is located in the heart of Montclair, NJ, a literary beacon filled with writers, journalists, publishers, and avid readers. Each year we host hundreds of author events and every day the most interesting and dedicated readers walk through our doors. Their insights and enthusiasm have inspired us to share our conversations with book-lovers everywhere. We invite you to listen and be a part of our community!
Episodes
24 episodes
Episode 23: Telling It Like It Is
In this episode of the Watchung Booksellers Podcast, audiobook narrators Stephanie Willing, Sura Siu, and Khristine Hvam
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Episode 23
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44:38
Episode 22: Bookstores Are Magic
In this episode of the Watchung Booksellers Podcast, Margot Sage-EL sits down with author Emma Straub, owner of Books Are Magic in Brooklyn, to talk about writing and running a bookstore.Emma S...
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Episode 22
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48:05
Episode 21: Book Buying and Selling
In this episode of the Watchung Booksellers, owner Maddie Ciliotta-Young talks with W. W. Norton sales rep Ashanti White-Wallace about selling books to indies. Maddie Ciliotta-Young is the owner and operator of Watchung Books...
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46:47
Episode 20: Book Editing
In this episode of the Watchung Booksellers, editors Sarah McGrath and Lee Boudreaux walk us through the art of book editing. Lee Boudreaux is an executive editor at Doubleday, specializing in fiction. She edited
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Episode 20
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43:52
Episode 19: Graphic Novels
In this episode of the Watchung Booksellers, authors and TV animators Jorge Aguirre and Jason Patterson discuss the art of storytelling in graphic novels. Jason Patterson is an award win...
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Episode 19
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45:38
Episode 18: Featured Event with Dionne Ford
In this episode of the Watchung Booksellers podcast, Cleyvis Natera moderates Dionne Ford's book release event for her memoir, Go Back & Get It,...
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Episode 18
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43:58
Episode 17: Featured Event with Joyce Maynard
In this episode of the Watchung Booksellers Podcast, authors Joyce Maynard and Alice Elliott Dark rejoice in the launch of Maynard's latest novel How the Light Gets I...
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Episode 17
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50:47
Episode 16: Featured Event with Julia Phillips
In this episode of the Watchung Booksellers Podcast, novelists Julia Phillips and Boo Trundle celebrate the publication of Phillips’s latest novel Bear, recorded at an in-store event with Watchung Booksellers.Julia Phillips <...
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Episode 16
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48:32
Episode 15: Politics and History
In this episode of the Watchung Booksellers, authors Jonathan Alter and Stuart Reid delve into their political writing research processes.Jonathan Alt...
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Episode 15
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45:59
Episode 14: A Commitment to Representation
In this episode of the Watchung Booksellers podcast, Margot Sage-EL interviews Arthur Levine about his prolific career in children’s publishing.Arthur A. Levine is the founder of the independent publisher
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Episode 14
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44:33
Episode 13: Shop Talk
In this episode of the Watchung Booksellers Podcast, booksellers Asia Jannah and Nicole Ban chronicle their respective bookselling experience and share insight on the daily operations of working at Watchung Booksellers.
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Episode 13
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39:48
Episode 12: On Writing True Crime
In this episode of the Watchung Booksellers Podcast, authors Katherine Dykstra and Joe Pompeo unpack the nuances of writing in the historical true crime genre....
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Episode 12
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38:38
Episode 11: A Book by Its Cover
In this episode of the Watchung Booksellers Podcast, designers Olga Grlic and James Iacobelli relay their decades-long experience in cover design at major publishing houses with Watchung Booksellers' emeritus owner Margot Sage-El.
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Episode 11
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41:23
Episode 10: From Readers to Writers
In this episode of the Watchung Booksellers Podcast, authors Laura Marx Fitzgerald and Lily Braun-Arnold discuss how their passion for reading led to ...
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Episode 10
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48:30
Episode 9: A Love of Books
In this episode of the Watchung Booksellers Podcast, Janet Torsney and Margot Sage-EL sit down to discuss the wonderful partnership between the Montclair Public Library and Watchung Booksellers--two institutions in Montclair devoted to the love...
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Episode 9
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36:29
Episode 8: ... How It's Going
We launched the Watchung Booksellers podcast with "How It Started": an episode with Margot Sage-EL, the owner, now owner emeritus, of Watchung Booksellers, reflecting on the last 30 years of the business. Today we take a look at how it’s going ...
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Episode 8
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40:40
Episode 7: Thrill Seekers
In this episode of the Watchung Booksellers Podcast, authors Laura Sims and Hillary Frank discuss thrillers--how we define them, why we are drawn to them...
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Episode 7
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42:19
Episode 6: The Author Hustle
In this episode of the Watchung Booksellers Podcast, authors Henry Neff and Cyndie Spiegel go beyond the art of writing to discuss the art of promotion. From pre...
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Episode 6
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48:48
Episode 5: Writing and Addiction
In this episode of the Watchung Booksellers Podcast, authors Warren Zanes and Thad Ziolkowski talk about wri...
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Episode 5
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53:01
Episode 4: Mental Health Books for Kids
In this episode of the Watchung Booksellers Podcast, children's book publisher Lauri Hornik and children's buyer and bookseller Aubrey Cece discuss the much needed and growing market for mental health books for kids. Through creating and sellin...
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Episode 4
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44:32
Episode 3: Your Community Bookstore
In this episode of the Watchung Booksellers Podcast, guests Garth Risk Hallberg and Jason Tanz chronicle their history of living in Montclair and the creation of a book club enlivening their shared reading experiences. Guest bi...
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Episode 3
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49:54
Episode 2: The Writer's Life
In this episode of the Watchung Booksellers Podcast, long-time friends Dionne Ford and Alice Elliott Dark join us for a soulful conversation about living ...
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Episode 2
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57:00