Nicholas Delbanco reads from his 29th book Dear Wizard: The Letters of Nicholas Delbanco and Jon Manchip White published by University of Michigan Press. We talk about the art of teaching, music and memories, and departure. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-12-10-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here!
Charles Baxter reads from There’s Something I Want You to Do from Pantheon Books. We talk about geography, requests, and surprises. We also talk about the upcoming symposium in honor of Nicholas Delbanco. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-12-03-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here!
Poet Scott Beal reads from his debut collection Wait ‘Til You Have Real Problems out with Dzanc Books. We talk about “outlandish” writing, poems from memory, and building community. We also talk about fury and fire and, of course, Thanksgiving. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-11-26-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here!
Phoebe Gloekner reads from The Diary of a Teenage Girl: an account in words and pictures published by North Atlantic Books. We talk about drawing as a kid to a medical illustrator, Crumb and comics, a child’s life, and installations. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-11-19-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio
Jesse Walker reads from The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory (2013) published by HarperCollins. We talk about things that might make you nervous – and also rebels on the air. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-11-12-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here!
From the archives Alice Walker talks about Zora Neale Hurston, voting, activism, inheritance, offerings,”This Human Journey,” and gardens. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-11-05-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio Original air date: November 5, 2014
Lisa Russ Spaar talks about her book The Hide-and Seek Muse: Annotations of Contemporary Poetry. We also talk about London, Dickinson, ineffability and experience. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-10-22-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Eric Bogosian visits the studio to talk about his book 100 (monologues) published by Theatre Communications Group (2014). We also talk about writing for stage and screen,Talk Radio, and the 100 (monologues) project website. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-10-15-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Lolita Hernandez reads from her story collection Making Callaloo in Detroit published by Wayne State University Press. We talk about storytelling, magic, factories and dasheen leaves. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-09-24-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here!
Kodi Scheer reads from her debut story collection Incendiary Girls published by New Harvest. We talk about magical realism, horses, the mind and body, and Prairie Lights. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-09-03-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here!
J. A. Jance reads from the latest in her Joanna Brady mystery series Remains of Innocence published by William Morrow. We talk about telling a good story and creating suspense. We also talk about her other long time character J.P. Beaumont. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-08-13-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Kwame Dawes reads from Duppy Conqueror: New and Selected Poems (2013) published by Copper Canyon Press. We talk about movement, Marley, hope and memory. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-07-16-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here! photo credit: Chris Abani
Karen Joy Fowler discusses her novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (Plume 2013). We talk about imagination, character, Kafka, Jane Austen, and animal – human relationship. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-07-02-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here! photo credit: Beth Gwinn
Jane Smiley, author of A Thousand Acres (1991), talks about horses, King Lear, research and writing a novel. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-04-02-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Thomas Lynch joins T in a conversation to celebrate National Poetry Month, featuring poems by Conrad Hilberry and his collection published by Wayne State University Press Until The Full Moon Has Its Say. Also on the table are poems by Dennis O’Driscoll, Michael Donaghy, Maxine Kumin, and Seamus Heaney. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-03-26-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Jim Ottaviani reads from his graphic novel Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birute Galdikas published by First Second. We talk about making comic books about the history of science, Feynman, and research as inspiration. We also talk about nuclear reactors and quetzals. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-01-08-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio
Nicholas Delbanco reads from his 29th book Dear Wizard: The Letters of Nicholas Delbanco and Jon Manchip White published by University of Michigan Press. We talk about the art of teaching, music and memories, and departure. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-12-10-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here!
Charles Baxter reads from There’s Something I Want You to Do from Pantheon Books. We talk about geography, requests, and surprises. We also talk about the upcoming symposium in honor of Nicholas Delbanco. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-12-03-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here!
Poet Scott Beal reads from his debut collection Wait ‘Til You Have Real Problems out with Dzanc Books. We talk about “outlandish” writing, poems from memory, and building community. We also talk about fury and fire and, of course, Thanksgiving. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-11-26-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here!
Phoebe Gloekner reads from The Diary of a Teenage Girl: an account in words and pictures published by North Atlantic Books. We talk about drawing as a kid to a medical illustrator, Crumb and comics, a child’s life, and installations. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-11-19-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio
Jesse Walker reads from The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory (2013) published by HarperCollins. We talk about things that might make you nervous – and also rebels on the air. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-11-12-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here!
From the archives Alice Walker talks about Zora Neale Hurston, voting, activism, inheritance, offerings,”This Human Journey,” and gardens. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-11-05-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio Original air date: November 5, 2014
Lisa Russ Spaar talks about her book The Hide-and Seek Muse: Annotations of Contemporary Poetry. We also talk about London, Dickinson, ineffability and experience. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-10-22-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Eric Bogosian visits the studio to talk about his book 100 (monologues) published by Theatre Communications Group (2014). We also talk about writing for stage and screen,Talk Radio, and the 100 (monologues) project website. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-10-15-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Lolita Hernandez reads from her story collection Making Callaloo in Detroit published by Wayne State University Press. We talk about storytelling, magic, factories and dasheen leaves. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-09-24-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here!
Kodi Scheer reads from her debut story collection Incendiary Girls published by New Harvest. We talk about magical realism, horses, the mind and body, and Prairie Lights. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-09-03-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here!
J. A. Jance reads from the latest in her Joanna Brady mystery series Remains of Innocence published by William Morrow. We talk about telling a good story and creating suspense. We also talk about her other long time character J.P. Beaumont. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-08-13-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Kwame Dawes reads from Duppy Conqueror: New and Selected Poems (2013) published by Copper Canyon Press. We talk about movement, Marley, hope and memory. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-07-16-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here! photo credit: Chris Abani
Karen Joy Fowler discusses her novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (Plume 2013). We talk about imagination, character, Kafka, Jane Austen, and animal – human relationship. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-07-02-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here! photo credit: Beth Gwinn
Jane Smiley, author of A Thousand Acres (1991), talks about horses, King Lear, research and writing a novel. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-04-02-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Thomas Lynch joins T in a conversation to celebrate National Poetry Month, featuring poems by Conrad Hilberry and his collection published by Wayne State University Press Until The Full Moon Has Its Say. Also on the table are poems by Dennis O’Driscoll, Michael Donaghy, Maxine Kumin, and Seamus Heaney. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-03-26-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Jim Ottaviani reads from his graphic novel Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birute Galdikas published by First Second. We talk about making comic books about the history of science, Feynman, and research as inspiration. We also talk about nuclear reactors and quetzals. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-01-08-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio
