Karen Russell reads from her collection of short stories Vampires in the Lemon Grove published by Alfred A. Knopf. We talk about the imagination and the making of short stories or a novel. We also talk about Florida and “Swamplandia!” and the weather (of all things!). http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2013-12-18-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here!
Christine Montross reads from her book Falling Into the Fire: A Psychiatrist’s Encounters with the Mind in Crisis published by Penguin Press. We talk about ambiguity, doubt, and the inherent discomfort doctors have with helplessness. We also talk about the writing of a memoir as a way to more deeply understand the stories we are living… Read more: Christine Montross
Edward Hirsch reads from The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems (2010) published by Borzoi Book/Knopf. We talk about insomnia, messages in a bottle, and how poetry saves something from vanishing. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2013-11-06-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here!
Poet Laurence Goldstein discusses the life and poems of Robert Hayden as we look forward to the Robert Hayden Centennial Conference (November 2013) featuring keynote address by Harryette Mullen. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2013-10-23-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Aaron McCollough reads from his book of poems Underlight published by Ugly Duckling Presse (2012). We talk about music, forms, and the book in an increasingly digital world. We also talk about the American self and passion. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2013-08-14-160001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here!
From the archive: 2013 A. Van Jordan reads poems from The Cineaste (W. W. Norton & Company 2014). We talk about the love of film, family, and organists. We talk about disappearing and emerging in stories. We also have a drum roll! http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2013-05-15-160001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio Original airdate: May 15, 2013
Edward Kelsey Moore reads from his debut novel The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can- Eat published by Knopf. We talk about ghosts, the cello, good storytelling, and courageous female characters. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2013-04-24-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here! photo credit: Laura Hamm
Alexander McCall Smith read from his novel in the Isabel Dalhousie series The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds published by Pantheon Books. We talk about working in a series, Edinburgh, and suspension of disbelief. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2013-04-17-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here!
Philip Stead and Erin Stead talk about their picture books, including the Caldecott Medal winning book A Sick Day for Amos McGee, and Erin Stead’s If You Want to See A Whale and Philip Stead’s Hello, My Name Is Ruby, all published by Roaring Brook Press. We talk about being a picture book maker and about… Read more: Philip Stead and Erin Stead
Michigan’s own Ellen Muehlberger reads from Angels in Late Ancient Christianity published by Oxford University Press. We talk about narrative, research, the City of God, “the half-known world” and, of course, angels–past and present. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2013-03-20-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
From the archive: 2013 Farnoosh Fathi reads from Great Gus (Canarium Books 2013). We talk about Brazil, translation, Emily Dickinson, art and interviewing. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2013-03-13-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio Original airdate: March 13, 2013 Photo credit: Alan Bernheimer
Heather McHugh reads from Upgraded to Serious (Copper Canyon Press 2009). We talk about syntactic flexibility and music and skeletons. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2013-01-23-163001-EST.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here! Photo credit: WBEZ