Authors Jan Burke and Marcia Clark return for "Write Murder Madness" to discuss their favorite mystery and detective novels. Plus, adorably incompetent critic-at-large Jordan Ampersand's ongoing effort to derail the publication of Eric Shaw Quinn's new novel "Write Murder" leads him to examine the mysteries of book signings in "Jordan Ampersand Investigates." And Christopher and Eric offer their exasperated take on current headlines in "The Not Report."


This is worse than court.MARCIA CLARK



The Dinner Party Show Podcast — Ep. 122 Jan Burke and Marcia Clark Interview Transcript



{This transcript is the interview portion of Episode 122}{This transcript is provided as a courtesy and was transcribed as best as possible. Any errors or omissions in the transcript are unintentional. The recorded audio file of the podcast episode is considered the master of what was said.}



Announcer: You are listening to The Dinner Party Show with Christopher Rice and Eric Shaw Quinn. And now it's time for The Dish. We hope you kept your silverware.



Christopher Rice: Welcome back to The Dinner Party Show. I'm Christopher Rice.



Eric Shaw Quinn: I'm Eric Shaw Quinn.



Christopher Rice: And the lovely Jan Burke is joining us.



Jan Burke: Hi everyone.



Eric Shaw Quinn: Hi Jan.



Jan Burke: Hi.



Christopher Rice: And the chair next to Jan is empty unfortunately. I was going to say this was a Dinner Party Show first, but actually it is the second time we have had a guest arrive mid-show. Can anyone out there remember the first time? Can any of our party people remember?



Eric Shaw Quinn: Right. Do we have a prize?



Christopher Rice: No. I can remember. I'm going to spoil it for you. It was Laura Benanti when we used to do a two hour show. She showed up for the second hour and came…



Eric Shaw Quinn: She came straight from the plane I think. She came from the airport straight to here. It was a storm or something. New York was totally snowed in…



Christopher Rice: Well, we knew she was going to be late. The other guest was Chad Hodge, who has been on the... TV writer, had been on the show several times, and they had done the Playboy Club together. And he said, "I'm bringing Laura, but she's going to come in late. So it's just going to be exactly like an actress..." And I see Marcia Clark coming through the studio now.



Eric Shaw Quinn: She's running down the halls. Yes. We're tempted to maybe on her frequent diner card…



Christopher Rice: We're going to give her half a fork on the frequent diner card. And we're acting like it's not significant that Jan is here and Marcia's here. She's coming on. She's on the show. She's on the show.



Marcia Clark: I wanted to see carnage. I wanted to see bloodshed because with traffic that bad there better be limbs flying.



Eric Shaw Quinn: We're live. We're live. We're live.



Christopher Rice: The video's not live. You can ignore the cameraman putting the camera in your face, but welcome back to the Dinner Party Show, Marcia Clark. We're glad you're here.



Marcia Clark: My apologies. Oh my God.



Jan Burke: It's LA. There's carnage somewhere. Marcia, Marcia. Marcia.



Marcia Clark: So be of good cheer, right?



Eric Shaw Quinn: Cheer up. Somebody's dead somewhere.



Christopher Rice: Somebody's dead.



Eric Shaw Quinn: You used to be the DA, you know.



Marcia Clark:  I still know. I'm still practicing.



Christopher Rice: Pull that microphone up to your face and get those... Yeah.



Marcia Clark: I'm sorry. Here we go. Here we go.



Eric Shaw Quinn: Get her on the show.



 [crosstalk]



Christopher Rice: Everyone remembers very fondly the first time you all came on the show together.



Eric Shaw Quinn: Oh my God, one of my favorite things we have ever done on the show.



Christopher Rice: And Jan, you brought with you that time... We don't want to call them goofy murders, but they were strange murders.



Eric Shaw Quinn: Wacky crime blotter.