{"podcast":{"title":"Print Run Podcast","slug":"print-run-podcast-470572","podcast_index_feed_id":470572,"rss_url":"https://feeds.feedburner.com/PrintRunPodcast","website_url":"http://www.printrunpodcast.com","image_url":"https://i1.sndcdn.com/avatars-000267940206-xe386y-original.jpg","author":"Erik Hane and Laura Zats (printrunpodcast@gmail.com)","episode_count":193,"summary":"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 Franze…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-14T06:18:00.573573+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/print-run-podcast-470572"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 180—Can Agents Read?","slug":"episode-180-can-agents-read","published_at":"2025-08-01T17:25:16+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/print-run-podcast-470572/episode-180-can-agents-read","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/print-run-podcast-470572","url":"https://soundcloud.com/printrunpodcast/episode-180can-agents-read","audio_url":"http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2140375269-printrunpodcast-episode-180can-agents-read.mp3","summary":"This week we took a look at a substack piece (link below!) that argued that literary agents can’t or don’t read well, as a jumping-off point to discuss the big picture of the query process, the ways we sort through a high volume of submissions, when art becomes boring business emails, and much more. We can read, we promise! The piece in question is here: https://antipodes.substack.com/p/literary-agents-dont-read-how-i-proved","meta_description":"This week we took a look at a substack piece (link below!) that argued that literary agents can’t or don’t read well, as a jumping-off point to discuss th…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3361,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/print-run-podcast-470572/episodes/episode-180-can-agents-read/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/print-run-podcast-470572/episode-180-can-agents-read.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}