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 173—The Manuscript Wish List at the End of the World

We don’t need to tell you that the world feels pr…

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Episode 172—The End of the Social Media Marketing Era

This week we talk about the functional death of s…

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Episode 171—Summer, Again

It’s time for the annual Print Run Summer Check-I…

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Episode 170—A Culture of Mistrust

On the heels of some recent discourse on the trus…

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Episode 169—We’re Just a Bunch of Guys

In light of yet another round of agent chaos over…

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Episode 168—You Don’t Have To Sit There

This week we get a little bit mad at the Forced W…

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Episode 167—Dread, But Make It Fashion

In our first episode of 2024, we take a look at t…

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Episode 166—Give ‘Em What They’re Owed

This week’s theme, across multiple topics, is tha…

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Episode 165—Private Equity, AI, and the Techification of Publishing

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