{"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 186—Middlemen, featuring Laura B. McGrath","slug":"episode-186-middlemen-featuring-laura-b-mcgrath","published_at":"2026-05-06T17:23:45+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/print-run-podcast-470572/episode-186-middlemen-featuring-laura-b-mcgrath","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/print-run-podcast-470572","url":"https://soundcloud.com/printrunpodcast/episode-186-middlemen","audio_url":"http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2315784860-printrunpodcast-episode-186-middlemen.mp3","summary":"This week we are thrilled to bring you an interview with Laura B. McGrath, whose new book MIDDLEMEN offers the largest-scale historical look at the field of literary agenting that we’ve ever seen. We talked to Laura about her experience talking to agents for the book, how being a debut writer herself has changed her view of publishing, and how what she has her eye on as publishing heads toward an uncertain future. This is one of our best conversations in the history of the show and we think you’ll love it. And be sure to buy MIDDLEMEN, available here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/middlemen-literary-agents-and-the-making-of-american-fiction-laura-b-mcgrath/df5cb73be04facb1?ean=9780691256160&next=t","meta_description":"This week we are thrilled to bring you an interview with Laura B. McGrath, whose new book MIDDLEMEN offers the largest-scale historical look at the field…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3713,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/print-run-podcast-470572/episodes/episode-186-middlemen-featuring-laura-b-mcgrath/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-186-middlemen-featuring-laura-b-mcgrath.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}