Print Run Podcast

Hosted ByErik Hane & Laura Zats

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.


All Episodes

Episode 36 — Shoot Your Shot (featuring Shea Serrano)

This week, we’re thrilled to have an interview wi…

Episode 35 — Please Blurb Us, Gary

What’s in a blurb? This week we talk about one of…

Episode 34 — Summer Friday

Summer Fridays: they’re fun, people love them, an…

Episode 33 — Current Fiction, Post-Truth

It’s safe to say that most people are feeling som…

Episode 32 — The Game’s Got Rules

After last week’s big, heavy episode, we’re more …

Episode 31 — Amazon vs. Everyone

It’s time. This week, we discuss by far the most …

Episode 30 — All That Power

This week, we discuss the levers of power that ar…

Episode 29 — We Used to Be Readers

This week’s show is on maybe the most fundamental…

Episode 28 — Trending

This week we talk about the seemingly surface-lev…

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