Interviews, Podcasts & Reviews

Interviews

June 15, 2024
New Books Network with Rebekah Buchanan
C. J. Spataro, "More Strange Than True" (Sagging Meniscus Press, 2024)

June 13, 2024
The Italian-American Herald by Al Kemp
https://italianamericanherald.com/publishing-milestones-for-authors-from-millsboro-ardmore-philadelphia/

June 11, 2024
Author CJ Spataro On How to Get a Publisher to Publish Your Book
Authority Interview with Teri Gault
https://medium.com/authority-magazine/author-cj-spataro-on-how-to-get-a-publisher-to-publish-your-book-9cc6cc73e2fe

April 15, 2024 
Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb
https://deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com/2024/04/q-with-cj-spataro.html

April 12, 2024 
”Book Summary Apps: Are They a Gateway to Reading?”
Suswati Basu from How to Be… Books
https://howtobe247.com/book-summary-apps-are-they-a-gateway-to-reading/

April 12, 2024 
”Book summary apps: are they helping or hindering our reading? - FRIDAY OPINION”
How to Be… Books Podcast with Suswati Basu
📚 Book summary apps: are they helping or hindering our reading? - FRIDAY OPINION (youtube.com)

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/

Podcasts

August 23, 2024
Arts Calling Podcast with Jaime Alejandro
https://artscalling.com/2024/08/23/153-c-j-spataro-more-strange-than-true-short-fiction-and-adaptations/

August 8, 2024
Stateside with April Baer, Michigan Public Radio
Stateside: Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024

July 29, 2024
The Creative Writing Life Podcast with Paul Zeidman
https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/TWDuT4Q8gMb
https://youtu.be/v8Kqv2xlnsQ

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.

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

Reviews

September 18, 2024
Maudlin House, Alana M. Kelly
https://maudlinhouse.net/if-there-were-a-sympathy-in-choice-a-review-of-c-j-spataros-more-strange-than-true/