Interviews and Podcasts

Podcasts

Tuesday, March 28, 2024
Drunken Pen Writing Podcast

Author C.J. Spataro discusses her debut novel, More Strange Than True. She also talks about the publishing world, current literary trends, how to submit your work to publishers and get accepted, and what type of magic turns a man into a dog.
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Monday, March 18, 2024
Shelley Sherwin, The Shelley Sherwin Show, WGVU Grand Valley State University Public Radio

Author C.J. Spataro discusses her novel, More Strange Than True, a modern retelling of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream. The themes of saving a man one has grown to love by giving him up or honoring wishes to watch a death in progress is both intense and captivating.

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Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Danny DeCrescenzo, WRHU Hofstra University Radio Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Danny DeCrescenzo, producer of WRHU's Hofstra Morning Wake-Up Call, is joined by CJ Spataro to talk about her upcoming novel, More Strange Than True, and to discuss Shakespeare retellings and inspiration.

Interviews

March 21, 2024 
”The Debut Novel Dream: Real-World Advice for Emerging Writers”
Words That Win with Matthew J. Castellano
https://medium.com/words-that-win/the-debut-novel-dream-real-world-advice-for-emerging-writers-1ca520f4e317 

December 16, 2019
“Finding Your Tribe: An Interview with Carla Spataro” by Curtis Smith, JMWW
https://jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2019/12/16/finding-your-tribe-an-interview-with-carla-spataro-by-curtis-smith/

October 13, 2021
Exacting Clam Cephalopodcast “The Becoming”
https://www.exactingclam.com/

December 16, 2020
A Marathon Reading of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens – producer and host
https://www.rosemont.edu/christmas-carol-reading.php 

The Liars Club Oddcast # 059 | Carla Spataro, Writer, Publisher, and Teacher