Anne Stevenson reads from her book Astonishment from Bloodaxe Books in the UK and her “Selected Poems” published in 2008 by The Library of America for The Poetry Foundation. We talk about her undergraduate days here in Ann Arbor, her return for an MA, her correspondence with Elizabeth Bishop–and how her next book will be released as she turns… Read more: Anne Stevenson
Hisham Matar reads from his novel Anatomy of a Disappearance published by The Dial Press. We talk about when fiction and the imagination intersect with what the writer knows first hand. We also talk about Libya, London and New York City. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2011-11-23-163001-EST.mp3 Download Audio
Dava Sobel reads from A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos published by Bloomsbury. We talk about when she first heard the term science writing and how once–while interviewing B.F. Skinner–she felt like the grim reaper. We also talk about why she chose to write a play about Copernicus as the central section of her nonfiction… Read more: Dava Sobel
Laura Wetherington reads from her debut collection A Map Predetermined and Chance published by Fence Books for The National Poetry Series. We talk about putting together a first book and about editing the audio journal textsound.org. We also talk about fake translations, erasures and Emily Dickinson–and Laura‘s love of NELP, the University of Michigan’s New England Literature Program. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2011-10-26-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here!… Read more: Laura Wetherington
From the archives: Franz Wright reads poems from Kindertotenwald (Knopf 2013). We talk about wearing masks, about the difficult twenties, and about seeing the drawbacks of MFA programs (while still loving scholars and universities). We also talk about finding your secret of writing, “king of the cats,” and the universal. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2011-10-12-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio photo credit: Garin Horner In… Read more: Franz Wright
Stacey D‘Erasmo reads from her latest novel The Sky Below published by Mariner Books. We talk about the worlds of journalism and fiction, Rome, and dancing. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2011-10-05-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here! photo credit: Nina Subin
Derek Mong reads poems from his debut collection Other Romes published by Saturnalia Books. We talk about “the Latin corpus,” octopuses, and putting together your first collection. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2011-09-14-163002-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here!
Donovan Hohn reads from his first book Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them published by Viking. We talk about how an essay grows into a project of this magnitude–and about adventure on the high seas. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2011-09-07-163001-EDT.mp3… Read more: Donovan Hohn
Charles McLeod reads from his debut novel American Weather published by Random House UK. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2011-08-10-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Sarah Messer, Mark Wunderlich and Raymond McDaniel talk about poems and craft. We hear new poems by all–and also selections from Messer‘s Bandit Letters, Wunderlich‘s Voluntary Servitude, and McDaniel‘s Saltwater Empire. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2011-04-20-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Richard Ford reads from an anthology he edited, Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar: Stories of Work, published by HarperCollins (2011). All proceeds benefit 826michigan. We talk about work and character development, and also hear a short section from Rock Springs’ “The Optimist.” https://umich.box.com/shared/static/0eou45f8xumc5r38gabasu2wi4f6xuhm.mp3 Download
Ish Klein reads from Moving Day published by Canarium Books. We talk about the momentum of long poems, connection and compassion, filmmaking and puppets. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2011-04-06-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio photo credit: Nerve Lantern
Hear Rae Armantrout read from her latest collection of poems “Money Shot” published this February by Wesleyan. We’ll talk about language poets, San Francisco, Ginsberg, humor, and politics. We’ll also talk about “Versed” and “Veil”–and why Rae says: I am attracted to minor keys. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2011-03-30-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio *Many thanks to Stephanie Elliot at Wesleyan Press… Read more: Rae Armantrout
Nicholas Delbanco reads from Lastingness: The Art of Old Age published by Grand Central. We talk about what it means to work and create for a lifetime, with the time that is given you–and what work becomes part of the human story and consciousness. We also talk about Shakespeare, Henry Moore, and four leaf clovers. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2011-03-23-163001-EDT.mp3 Download… Read more: Nicholas Delbanco
A conversation with Jonathan Lethem, a very good sport indeed. Jonathan Lethem‘s visit also marks WCBN’s fundraising week. We talk about his books Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude and Chronic City published in paperback by Vintage. If you like quirky, insightful, danceable programming, please support your local radio. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2011-03-16-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click… Read more: Jonathan Lethem
From the archive: 2011 Carl Phillips reads from Double Shadow (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011). We also hear poems from The Rest of Love, Riding Westward, and A Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986-2006. We talk about Dickinson, Cape Cod, the influences of the Ancient Greeks, the lyric, love, and how poems are like prayers.… Read more: Carl Phillips
George Bornstein reads from The Colors of Zion: Blacks, Jews, and Irish from 1845 to 1945 published by Harvard University Press. We talk about the process of looking closely at the connections and relationships among Blacks, Jews, and Irish between the Irish Famine and the end of World War II. We also talk about the writing life… Read more: George Bornstein
Hear Sara Marcus read from her book “Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution” published last year by Harper Perennial. We’ll talk about the DIY and punk movements, feminism, and micropresses. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2011-02-16-163001-EST.mp3 Download Audio *we taped this conversation on February 15.
Campbell McGrath reads from his books Shannon: a poem of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, The Seven Notebooks, and The Florida Poems published by Ecco. We talk about the power of place, Neruda, notebooks, Robert Hass, and buffalo. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2011-02-09-163001-EST.mp3 Download Audio *we taped this conversation on January 27. *thanks to Michael McKenzie and Rebecca Urbelis at HarperCollins.
Izzeldin Abuelaish reads from his book I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor’s Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity (2010) published by Walker & Company. We talk about growing up in the Jabalia refugee camp, his work at the Soroka Medical Center in Israel, and the loss of his three daughters in 2009. More about… Read more: Izzeldin Abuelaish
John Beer reads from his debut collection The Waste Land and Other Poems (2010) published Canarium Books. We talk about first books, Bob Hope, Boston terriers and a “Theses on Failure” which could be another way to talk about love. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2011-01-19-163001-EST.mp3 Download Audio
Anne Stevenson reads from her book Astonishment from Bloodaxe Books in the UK and her “Selected Poems” published in 2008 by The Library of America for The Poetry Foundation. We talk about her undergraduate days here in Ann Arbor, her return for an MA, her correspondence with Elizabeth Bishop–and how her next book will be released as she turns… Read more: Anne Stevenson
Hisham Matar reads from his novel Anatomy of a Disappearance published by The Dial Press. We talk about when fiction and the imagination intersect with what the writer knows first hand. We also talk about Libya, London and New York City. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2011-11-23-163001-EST.mp3 Download Audio
Dava Sobel reads from A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos published by Bloomsbury. We talk about when she first heard the term science writing and how once–while interviewing B.F. Skinner–she felt like the grim reaper. We also talk about why she chose to write a play about Copernicus as the central section of her nonfiction… Read more: Dava Sobel
Laura Wetherington reads from her debut collection A Map Predetermined and Chance published by Fence Books for The National Poetry Series. We talk about putting together a first book and about editing the audio journal textsound.org. We also talk about fake translations, erasures and Emily Dickinson–and Laura‘s love of NELP, the University of Michigan’s New England Literature Program. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2011-10-26-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here!… Read more: Laura Wetherington
From the archives: Franz Wright reads poems from Kindertotenwald (Knopf 2013). We talk about wearing masks, about the difficult twenties, and about seeing the drawbacks of MFA programs (while still loving scholars and universities). We also talk about finding your secret of writing, “king of the cats,” and the universal. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2011-10-12-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio photo credit: Garin Horner In… Read more: Franz Wright
Stacey D‘Erasmo reads from her latest novel The Sky Below published by Mariner Books. We talk about the worlds of journalism and fiction, Rome, and dancing. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2011-10-05-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here! photo credit: Nina Subin
Derek Mong reads poems from his debut collection Other Romes published by Saturnalia Books. We talk about “the Latin corpus,” octopuses, and putting together your first collection. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2011-09-14-163002-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here!
Donovan Hohn reads from his first book Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them published by Viking. We talk about how an essay grows into a project of this magnitude–and about adventure on the high seas. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2011-09-07-163001-EDT.mp3… Read more: Donovan Hohn
Charles McLeod reads from his debut novel American Weather published by Random House UK. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2011-08-10-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Sarah Messer, Mark Wunderlich and Raymond McDaniel talk about poems and craft. We hear new poems by all–and also selections from Messer‘s Bandit Letters, Wunderlich‘s Voluntary Servitude, and McDaniel‘s Saltwater Empire. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2011-04-20-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Richard Ford reads from an anthology he edited, Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar: Stories of Work, published by HarperCollins (2011). All proceeds benefit 826michigan. We talk about work and character development, and also hear a short section from Rock Springs’ “The Optimist.” https://umich.box.com/shared/static/0eou45f8xumc5r38gabasu2wi4f6xuhm.mp3 Download
Ish Klein reads from Moving Day published by Canarium Books. We talk about the momentum of long poems, connection and compassion, filmmaking and puppets. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2011-04-06-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio photo credit: Nerve Lantern
Nicholas Delbanco reads from Lastingness: The Art of Old Age published by Grand Central. We talk about what it means to work and create for a lifetime, with the time that is given you–and what work becomes part of the human story and consciousness. We also talk about Shakespeare, Henry Moore, and four leaf clovers. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2011-03-23-163001-EDT.mp3 Download… Read more: Nicholas Delbanco
A conversation with Jonathan Lethem, a very good sport indeed. Jonathan Lethem‘s visit also marks WCBN’s fundraising week. We talk about his books Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude and Chronic City published in paperback by Vintage. If you like quirky, insightful, danceable programming, please support your local radio. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2011-03-16-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click… Read more: Jonathan Lethem
From the archive: 2011 Carl Phillips reads from Double Shadow (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011). We also hear poems from The Rest of Love, Riding Westward, and A Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986-2006. We talk about Dickinson, Cape Cod, the influences of the Ancient Greeks, the lyric, love, and how poems are like prayers.… Read more: Carl Phillips
George Bornstein reads from The Colors of Zion: Blacks, Jews, and Irish from 1845 to 1945 published by Harvard University Press. We talk about the process of looking closely at the connections and relationships among Blacks, Jews, and Irish between the Irish Famine and the end of World War II. We also talk about the writing life… Read more: George Bornstein
Campbell McGrath reads from his books Shannon: a poem of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, The Seven Notebooks, and The Florida Poems published by Ecco. We talk about the power of place, Neruda, notebooks, Robert Hass, and buffalo. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2011-02-09-163001-EST.mp3 Download Audio *we taped this conversation on January 27. *thanks to Michael McKenzie and Rebecca Urbelis at HarperCollins.
Izzeldin Abuelaish reads from his book I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor’s Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity (2010) published by Walker & Company. We talk about growing up in the Jabalia refugee camp, his work at the Soroka Medical Center in Israel, and the loss of his three daughters in 2009. More about… Read more: Izzeldin Abuelaish
John Beer reads from his debut collection The Waste Land and Other Poems (2010) published Canarium Books. We talk about first books, Bob Hope, Boston terriers and a “Theses on Failure” which could be another way to talk about love. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2011-01-19-163001-EST.mp3 Download Audio
