Woodstock Booktalk with Martha Frankel: Recent Episodes
Martha Frankel
Each week, Martha Frankel talks to authors and readers about the books they love. Discussion. Podcast features talk with current novelists, memoirists, humorists, journalists, etc.
Martha Frankel, executive director of Woodstock Bookfest, began her writing career at the original Details magazine, writing a column about plastic surgery called “Knifestyles of the Rich and Famous.” She went on to write book reviews, essays and celebrity profiles for other magazines, such as Movieline, Cosmopolitan and The New Yorker.
Her memoir, "Hats and Eyeglasses," chronicling her family’s lifelong love affair with gambling and her own later addiction to online gambling, was published in 2008 (Tarcher/Penguin Group).
This week, Martha's guests are Abigail Pesta and we hear a short story from Kathleen McKitty Harris.
This week, Martha's guest is Karen Auvinen.
Martha also recommends Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous.
This week, Martha's guests are Mark Perrusquia, Veera Hiranandani, Zach McDermott, Matt Killeen, and Helen Benedict.
This week Martha's guests are Gail Straub, Beverly Donofrio, Cyrus Bozorgmehr, and Nyna Giles.
This week, Martha's guests are Tina Alexis Allen, Tara Cousineau, Sharon Rousseau, and Larry Ruhl.
This week, Martha's guests are Christopher Yates, Sandra Allen, Brad Meltzer and Jonathan Santlofer.
This week, Martha's guests are Susan Meissner, John Pielmeier, Bruce Haynes, and Colm Toibin.
This week, Martha's guests are Joseph Califano, Thomas Mira Y Lopez, Ginger Strand, and Kitty Sheehan.
This week, Martha's guests are George Hodgman, Daphne de Marneffe, Anne Gisleson, and TC Boyle.
This week, Martha's guests are Paul Kaplan, Laurie Boris, Ruby Namdar, and Benjamin Vogt.
This week, Martha's guests are Jeannie Vanasco, Guy P. Harrison, John Bargh, and Steve Rushin.
This week, we feature three of Martha's favorite interviews from 2017: Tom Perrotta, Andrea Jarrell, and Andrew Solomon.
This week, Martha's guests are Karen Duffy, Tim Federle, and Panio Gianopoulos. With a short story from Martha Frankel herself.
This week, Martha's guests are Steven Stoll, Galt Niederhoffer, Helen Thorpe, and Jeff Goodell.
This week, Martha's guests are Jonathan Lerner, Judith Boggess, Naama Bloom, Paul Kivel, and Ana Homayoun.
This week, Martha's guests are David Hallberg, Sparrow, Leslie Korn, Carole Lawrence, and Jill Eisenstadt.
This week, Martha's guests are Matthew Walker, Julia Turshen, Frank Carollo, and Zack McDermott.
This week, Martha's guests are Kathleen McAuliffe, Deborah Copaken, Jami Attenberg and Greg Ames.
This week, Martha's guests are Will Schwalbe, Sharon Weil, James Allen Hall, and Edwidge Danticat.
This week, Martha's guests are Elizabeth Rosner, Lissa Kiernan, Grant Faulkner, and Jessica Berger Gross.
This week, Martha's guests are Betsy Carter, Ann Hood, Anne Margaret Daniel, and Alison Pick.
This week, Martha's guests are Richard Boch, Neil Pasricha, Nelson George, and Alice Anderson.
This week, Martha's guests are Tom Perrotta, Catherine Pearlman, Robyn DeLuca, and Carolyn Murnick.
This week, Martha's guests are Peter Kalmus, Ann DuBois, Ladee Hubbard, and Cyrus Bozorgmehr.
This week, Martha's guests are Stephanie Gangi, Joe Raiola, Kenji Lopez-Alt, and Ada Calhoun. With a Story Slam performance from Desiree O'Clair.
Martha's guests this week are Scott Spencer, Shelley Westerhausen, and Julie Klam. With a Story Slam performance from Zak Carey.
This week, Martha's guests are Ric Orlando, Kayla Rae Whitaker, and Becky Aikman. With Story Slam performances from Beth Broun and Kristen Garnier.
Martha's guests this week are James McGrath Morris, Susan Krowitz, Michelle Gable and Julianne Pachico. With a Story Slam performance from Evie Preston.
Martha's guests this week are Danny Goldberg, Jimmy Buff, and Yoojin Grace Wuertz. With Story Slam performances from Carolita Johnston and Marcia Zwilling.
This week, Martha's guests are Tasha Eurich, Sharon Solwitz, and Michael Frank. With a Story Slam performance from Lorraine Salmon.
Martha's guests this week are Finn Murphy, Paul Green, and Lynsey G. With Story Slam performances from Theresa Drescher and Brandon Tomassetti.
Martha's guests this week are Jon Clinch, Ann Kidd Taylor, and Ariel Levy. With a StorySlam performance from Rory Kelsch.
Martha's guests this week are Benjamin Ludwig, Ronald Rael, Betsy Lerner, and John Freeman Gill.
Martha's guests this week are Deepak Singh, Anne LeClaire, Lauren Lipton, and Michael Callahan.
Martha's guests this week are Stephen Cope, Jamie Brickhouse, Stephanie Gangi, and Tony Fletcher.
Martha's guests this week are Jonathan Lethem, Kim Wozencraft, Caitriona Lally, and Sharon Rousseau.
Martha's guests this week are Molly Haskell, Beverly Donofrio, Amy Ephron, and Huw Lewis Jones.
Martha's guests this week are Cara Hoffman, Lynn Johnston, Gail Straub, and Orli Auslander.
Martha's guests this week are Boris Fishman, Lola Cohen, Michael Ruhlman, and Leah Carroll.
Martha's guests this week are Roz Chast, Pam Jenoff, Sari Botton, and Sallie Krawcheck.
Martha's guests this week are Josh Kroner, Lisa Collier Cool, Kiera Stipovitch, Claire Fuller and Kitty Sheehan.
Martha's guests this week are Meg Wolitzer, Corey Fields, Danelle Morton and Daniel James Brown.
Martha Frankel's guests this week are Harriet Lerner, Aaron Rezny and Jordan Schaps, Rachel Cantor, and George Hodgman.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Barney Hoskyns, Steven Leigh Morris, Raquel D’Apice and Sarah Hepola.
A rebroadcast of Episode 53 - September 27, 2015
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Mary Karr, Philippe Petit, George Holz and Matthew Dicks.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Kathleen Rooney, Danielle Krysa, Neil Steinberg and Sunil Yapa.
This week's sponsor: Hudson Valley Writers Resist!
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Stephanie Danler, Elaine Khosrova, Richard Blanco and Susan Strecker.
This week's sponsors: Hudson Valley Writers Resist, Fruition Chocolateand Bistro To Go.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Neil Gaiman, Kenji López-Alt, Pamela Erens and Miranda July.
This week's sponsors: Karmic, Fruition Chocolate and Hudson Valley Writers Resist.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Ginger Strand, Andrew Solomon, Clark Strand and Dennis Lehane.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Jacqueline Woodson, Alexander Chee, Gary Alan and Tim Murphy.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Luvvie Ajayi, Kathy Gunst, Susan Faludi and Lynne Cox.
This week's sponsors: Greer Chicago, Karmic, Fruition Chocolate and Bistro To Go.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are TC Boyle, Jeffrey Davis, Anne Korkeakivi and Joshua Jelly-Shapiro.
This week's sponsors: Greer Chicago, Karmic, New World Home Cooking and Nan Tepper Design.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Allan Tannenbaum, Constance Hale, Shaun Usher, Sherry Amatenstein, Paul Lisicky and Julia Turshen.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Alan Light, Lawrence Levy, Catherine Texier, Heather Ann Thompson, Regina McBride and Andrew Wilson.
This week's sponsors: Fruition, Karmic, Nan Tepper Designand Greer Chicago.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Joyce Maynard, Leslie Bennetts, Ronni Lundy and Art Spiegelman.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Mark Green, Sulome Anderson, Jane Hamilton and Joe Dolce.
This week's sponsors: Miami Book Fair, Fruition, Karmic, Hotel Dylan and Greer Chicago.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Francine Prose, Jay McInerney, Kevin Smokler and Stephanie Gangi.
This week's sponsors: Fruition, Karmic, Women at Woodstock and Greer Chicago.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Warren Zanes, Abby Schachter, Roselee Blooston and Patrick Phillip.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Cary Elwes, Anna Solomon, Jeff Pearlman and Peter Carlin.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Brooke Hauser, Fiona Davis, Shawn Levy and Leslie Lawrence.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Imbolo Mbue, Ann Hood, Kathryn Smith and Richard Cohen.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Liz Pryor, Elizabeth Greenwood, Bryn Greenwood and Meg Little Reilly.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Linda Fairstein, Neil Steinberg, Stuart Nadler, and Clayton Anderson.
Martha Frankel's guests this week are Bernadette Murphy, Joel Selvin, Paul Brinkley-Rogers.
Martha Frankel's guests this week are Gerri Hirshey, Betsey Lerner + Carolyn Parkhurst.
Guests Amy Haimerl, Michael Gross and Steven Gainesjoin host Martha Frankel to talk about their new books!
Guests Rich Cohen, Clara Bingham + Michael Paterniti join host Martha Frankel to talk about their new books!
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Clara Bingham, Ava Ratcliff, Jessica Anya Blau and Dan Cluchey.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Jessica Goldman Foung, Marion Winik and Angela Duckworth.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Mark Green, Emily Barton, Diana Abu-Jaber and Ann Patty.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Emma Straub, Mark Kurlansky, Rana Foroohar and Ben Collins.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Christine Reilly, Pamela Erens, Dana Spiotta and Kimberly McCreight.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Joyce Goldstein, Kevin Hazzard, and Lawrence Hill.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Bar Scott, John Elder Robison, Mary Norris and Ginger Strand.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Barbara Bash, Steve Gorn, Warren Zanes and James Grissom who will appear on panels at the Woodstock Writers Festival, April 7-10, 2016.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Sunil Yapa, Kitty Sheehan, Brandon Tomassetti and Gail Straub. They will be appearing on panels and are teaching workshops at the Woodstock Writers Festival on April 7-10, 2016.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Barney Hoskyns, Tracey Helton Mitchell and Owen Gleiberman. They will be appearing as panelists at the Woodstock Writers Festival April 7-10, 2016.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Alexander Chee, Julia Claiborne Johnson and Julia Fogliano.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Amanda Haas, Dana Gunders, Sarah Marquis and Michelle Gable.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Robert Burke Warren, Kate Hamer and Juan F. Thompson.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Steve McDonald, Jason Elias, Brian O’Rourke and Kate Edwards.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Roz Chast, Jonathan Galas, Kristina McMorris and Brett Blumenthal.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Mikal Gilmore, George Hodgman, Marion Winik and George Saunders.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Chip Kidd, Michael Ruhlman, Edward Brooke-Hitching and Jessica Tom.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Rick Moody, Rebecca Rego Barry, Will Nixon and Nelson George.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Jessica Fechtor, Richard Segalman and Stephen Silverman.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Brendan Kiely, Jason Reynolds, Joseph Skibell and Francesco Marciuliano.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Linda Hirshman, Barry Moser, John Temple and Kitty Sheehan.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Dawn Lerman, Catherine McKenzie, Amy Guittard and Kitty Sheehan.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Ron Rash, Elizabeth Benedict, Bonnie Jo Campbell and Alison Bass.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Mary Karr, Philippe Petit, George Holz and Matthew Dicks.
A compilation show celebrating our first anniversary!
Superstars Neil Gaiman, George Saunders and Richard Ford at their most endearing;
surprising discoveries from from Sarah Hepola, Lily King and Jessica Knoll; and Desert Island picks from Tom Mischke, Tom Folsom and Jesse Kornbluth.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Kelly Carlin, Christa Parravani, Daniel James Brown and Joel Urschel.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Bill Clegg, Stevie Phillips, Janice Kaplan and Amy Seek.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Barry Yourgrau, Jessamyn Hope, Julene Bair and Stephen Kurkjian.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Maggie Mitchell, Joshua Mohr, Sonya Lea and Tara Ison.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Julia Pierpont, Leah Stewart, Shaun Usher and Kyra Davis.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Erika Swyler, Victoria Shorr, Mary Anna King, Amy Scheibe and Tommy Wallach.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are James Lasdun, Lawrence Block, Hollye Dexter, and Ashley Rhodes-Courter.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Jessica Knoll, Lucas Mann, Emily Bingham, and Michelle Gable.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Jenny Milchman, Ashlee Vance, Lori Lansens and Elliott Landy.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Guy Lawson, Lily Koppel, Bill Braine and Joseph P. Eckhardt.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Greg Gattine, Jon Fine, Lisa Glatt and William Joyce.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Sabaa Tahir, Joann Chang, Meredith Maran and Brenda Bowen.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Lorraine Bracco, Ylonda Gault Caviness and Bob Morris.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Jamie Rose, Anne Enright, Patricia Morrisroe and Adelle Waldman.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Elaine Dimoupolos, Mark Kelly, Lorraine Bracco, Nancy Jainchill and Clark Strand.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Mary Norris, Jillian Lauren, Sarah Tomlinson and Jamie Brickhouse.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Andrew Solomon, Sarah Schulman, Frédéric Lenoir, Melissa Holbrook, Bob Gruen and Greg Gattine.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Dennis Lehane, Alice Randall, Caroline Randall Williams and George Hodgman.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Chris Stein, Gail Straub, Lynn Johnston, Ann Hood and Kitty Sheehan.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Lisa A. Phillips, Danny Gregory, Maer Roshan and Murray Carpenter.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Andie Mitchell, Alan Lokos, David Carr and Tanya Ward Goodman.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Siri Hustvedt, Jane Green, Mette Harrison and Sharon Draper.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Chris Wells, Shari Goldhagen and Jackie Kellachan.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Megan Mayhew Bergman, Bob Berman and Ric Orlando.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Ava Ratcliff, Emily St. John Mandel and Alison Gaylin.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Meghan Daum, E.P. Cutler and Holly George-Warren.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Alan Light, Julia Reischel, Dani Shapiro and Walter Isaacson.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Lily King, Jordan Schaps, Aaron Rezny and TD Mischke.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Jenny Volvoski, Caroline Leavitt, Assaf Gavron and Frankelsense & Mirth.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Lisa Lovatt-Smith and Lissa Harris with Frankelsense and Mirth.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Meg Wolitzer, Melissa Holbrook-Pierson and Jesse Kornbluth.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Mark Whitaker, Hester Mundis, Sari Botton with Frankelsense and Mirth.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Sheila Weller, Tim Guinee and Frankelsense and Mirth.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Tom Folsom, Jane Smiley and Marion Winik with Frankelsense and Mirth.
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Julie Powell and Francine Prose with Frankelsense and Mirth.
Martha Frankel’s guests on the inaugural episode are Abigail Thomas and Ann Hood with Frankelsense and Mirth.