Jayne Ann Phillips, author of The Secret Country, Fast Lanes, Black Tickets, Machine Dreams, Shelter, and Motherkind, talks with Don Swaim about her first book, Sweethearts. She wrote Sweethearts before she went to college in Iowa, which was a small press book and discusses how helpful it was to be published before attending college. She also talks about easing into writing novels by starting out writing poems and short stories first.

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For many years most of the best writers of the English language found their way to Don Swaim's CBS Radio studio in New York. Wired for Books is proud to webcast these interviews in RealAudio.