Megan Levad reads poems from You Are Where You Live and from Another & Another: an anthology from The Grind Daily Writing Series published by Bull City Press. We talk about composing a libretto for an opera, the Vermont Studio Center, writing a poem every day–and sending poems out into the world. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-12-12-163001-EST.mp3 Download Audio… Read more: Megan Levad
From the archive: 2012 Terrance Hayes reads poems from Lighthead ( 2010) and Wind in A Box (Penguin Books 2006). We’ll talk about the making of titles, Antony & the Johnson’s album “I am a Bird Now” and writing MJ Fan Letters. We’ll also talk about life choices that lead to Pittsburgh and reading (and perhaps memorizing) the… Read more: Terrance Hayes
From the archive: 2012 Toi Derricotte reads from The Undertaker’s Daughter (University of Pittsburgh Press 2011). We talk about nuns, about chaos, about balance and a sense of what’s true. We also hear Toi lead off the show singing one of her favorite songs by Billie Holiday. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-11-21-163001-EST.mp3 Download Audio Original airdate: November 21, 2012… Read more: Toi Derricotte
From the archive: 2012 Emma Straub reads from her debut novel Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures (Riverhead Books 2012). We talk about research in Hollywood, the Herrick Library, New York City, Twitter, and working as a bookseller. We also talk about short stories and her collection Other People We Married (Riverhead Books) also out this… Read more: Emma Straub
Dan Gerber reads poems from Sailing Through Cassiopeia (Copper Canyon Press 2012). We are joined in the studio by Joseph Bednarik of Copper Canyon Press. We talk about creating experience in a poem and being awake, “the opportunity room,” ars poetica and deer. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-11-07-163001-EST.mp3 Download Audio
From the archive: 2012 David Mitchell reads from his novel The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (Random House Trade paperback 2011). We talk about “word nerdery” and future novels circling one’s head like planes in a holding pattern. We also talk about Dejima, Cloud Atlas and how music means everything, or close to it.… Read more: David Mitchell
From the archive: 2012 Philip Levine talks about writing every day. We also talk about Aunt Belle, Spain, anarchism, Larry Levis, pianist Bill Evans, Detroit, and Adrienne Rich. Books on the table with us: NEWS OF THE WORLD (2009), BREATH (2004), THE SIMPLE TRUTH (1994), WHAT WORK IS (1991) and NEW SELECTED POEMS (1991) http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-10-10-163001-EDT.mp3… Read more: Philip Levine
Oni Buchanan and Jon Woodward discuss their books of poems. We have Oni Buchanan’s “Must A Violence” (University of Iowa Press, 2012) and “What Animal” (University of Georgia Press, 2003) and Jon Woodward’s “Uncanny Valley” (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2012) on the table. We talk about their collaboration with electroacoustic composer John Gibson “Uncanny… Read more: Oni Buchanan and Jon Woodward
Carrie Fountain reads from Burn Lake (2010) published by Penguin Books. We talk about history and region in poems, naming a book, The Broken Spoke and dancing in Austin. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-09-19-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here!
first show to add later A. Van Jordan reads from his books “M A C N O L I A” and “Quantum Lyrics” (W. W. Norton & Company). We’ll talk about finding poems in D.C. in his twenties, spelling and other equations. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-09-05-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio Original airdate: September 5, 2012 4:30-5:30
Scott Lasser talks about his novel Say Nice Things About Detroit published by W.W. Norton & Company. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-07-18-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here! photo credit: Joanne Chen
Karin Slaughter read from her novel Criminal published by Delacorte Press. We talk about what it takes to write a thriller. We also talk about saving our public libraries and writing from a southern identity. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-07-11-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here!
Anne Waldman reads from The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment–a project that spanned 26 years (Coffee House Press). We talk about collaboration, Ginsberg, manatees, and walking meditation. We also talk about her archive at the University of Michigan Library. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-04-25-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio *recorded April 12, 2012
Bruce Duffy reads from Disaster Was My God: A novel of the outlaw life of Arthur Rimbaud (2011) published by Doubleday. We talk about nonfiction novels–what is real, imagined–and the mystery of the boundaries that imagination crosses. We also hear stories about travels in Ethiopia, retracing Rimbaud’s steps. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-04-11-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Jennifer Holm reads from her sequel The Trouble with May Amelia (2011) published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, Simon & Schuster. We take a look at her book series with her brother Matthew Holm, the wonderful Babymouse: Mad Scientist” and “Squish: Super Amoeba published by Random House. We also talk about how drawing from the spring… Read more: Jennifer Holm
Christopher Hebert reads from The Boiling Season (HarperCollins 2012). We talk about imagining one’s own politically volatile Caribbean island nation, being an Editor-at-Large for the University of Michigan Press, and teaching in Tennessee. And we talk about why Charles Baxter says he “asks all the right questions.” http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-03-21-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio Original airdate: March 21, 2012
Lizzie Hutton reads from her debut poetry collection She’d Waited Millennia published by New Issues. We talk about musicality, childhood, the interior world and Brooklyn. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-03-14-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here! photo credit: Alexander Ralph
francine j. harris reads from her book Allegiance published by Wayne State University Press. We talk about Detroit, InsideOut, and love of language. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-03-07-163001-EST.mp3 Download Audio
Calvin Forbes reads from The Shine Poems published by Louisiana State University Press. We talk about radio and creating a character from a song–traveling, folklore, and the music of Janis Joplin and Donny Hathaway. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-02-22-163001-EST.mp3 Download Audio
Benjamin Paloff reads from his book of poems The Politics (2011) published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. We talk about philosophers, Polish poets, Atlantic City and Boston. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-02-01-163001-EST.mp3 Download Audio
In a special live Living Writers evening event celebrating WCBN FM’s 40th Anniversary, Naomi Shihab Nye reads from Transfer (BOA Editions Ltd 2011) and also There is No Long Distance Now: Very Short Stories (Greenwillow Books 2011). We talk about fathers, elementary school poets and fig trees. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-live-2012-01-25.mp3 Download Audio Photo credit: Chehalis Hegner
Julian Levinson reads from his book Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Writers and American Literary Cultur” (2008) published by Indiana University Press. We talk about Walt Whitman, Emma Lazarus and The Rolling Stones. We also talk about the origins of this project– and why the introduction begins with this from Allen Ginsberg’s America: “America I still haven’t told… Read more: Julian Levinson
Megan Levad reads poems from You Are Where You Live and from Another & Another: an anthology from The Grind Daily Writing Series published by Bull City Press. We talk about composing a libretto for an opera, the Vermont Studio Center, writing a poem every day–and sending poems out into the world. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-12-12-163001-EST.mp3 Download Audio… Read more: Megan Levad
From the archive: 2012 Toi Derricotte reads from The Undertaker’s Daughter (University of Pittsburgh Press 2011). We talk about nuns, about chaos, about balance and a sense of what’s true. We also hear Toi lead off the show singing one of her favorite songs by Billie Holiday. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-11-21-163001-EST.mp3 Download Audio Original airdate: November 21, 2012… Read more: Toi Derricotte
From the archive: 2012 Emma Straub reads from her debut novel Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures (Riverhead Books 2012). We talk about research in Hollywood, the Herrick Library, New York City, Twitter, and working as a bookseller. We also talk about short stories and her collection Other People We Married (Riverhead Books) also out this… Read more: Emma Straub
Dan Gerber reads poems from Sailing Through Cassiopeia (Copper Canyon Press 2012). We are joined in the studio by Joseph Bednarik of Copper Canyon Press. We talk about creating experience in a poem and being awake, “the opportunity room,” ars poetica and deer. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-11-07-163001-EST.mp3 Download Audio
From the archive: 2012 David Mitchell reads from his novel The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (Random House Trade paperback 2011). We talk about “word nerdery” and future novels circling one’s head like planes in a holding pattern. We also talk about Dejima, Cloud Atlas and how music means everything, or close to it.… Read more: David Mitchell
From the archive: 2012 Philip Levine talks about writing every day. We also talk about Aunt Belle, Spain, anarchism, Larry Levis, pianist Bill Evans, Detroit, and Adrienne Rich. Books on the table with us: NEWS OF THE WORLD (2009), BREATH (2004), THE SIMPLE TRUTH (1994), WHAT WORK IS (1991) and NEW SELECTED POEMS (1991) http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-10-10-163001-EDT.mp3… Read more: Philip Levine
Carrie Fountain reads from Burn Lake (2010) published by Penguin Books. We talk about history and region in poems, naming a book, The Broken Spoke and dancing in Austin. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-09-19-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here!
Scott Lasser talks about his novel Say Nice Things About Detroit published by W.W. Norton & Company. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-07-18-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here! photo credit: Joanne Chen
Karin Slaughter read from her novel Criminal published by Delacorte Press. We talk about what it takes to write a thriller. We also talk about saving our public libraries and writing from a southern identity. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-07-11-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here!
Anne Waldman reads from The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment–a project that spanned 26 years (Coffee House Press). We talk about collaboration, Ginsberg, manatees, and walking meditation. We also talk about her archive at the University of Michigan Library. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-04-25-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio *recorded April 12, 2012
Bruce Duffy reads from Disaster Was My God: A novel of the outlaw life of Arthur Rimbaud (2011) published by Doubleday. We talk about nonfiction novels–what is real, imagined–and the mystery of the boundaries that imagination crosses. We also hear stories about travels in Ethiopia, retracing Rimbaud’s steps. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-04-11-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Jennifer Holm reads from her sequel The Trouble with May Amelia (2011) published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, Simon & Schuster. We take a look at her book series with her brother Matthew Holm, the wonderful Babymouse: Mad Scientist” and “Squish: Super Amoeba published by Random House. We also talk about how drawing from the spring… Read more: Jennifer Holm
Christopher Hebert reads from The Boiling Season (HarperCollins 2012). We talk about imagining one’s own politically volatile Caribbean island nation, being an Editor-at-Large for the University of Michigan Press, and teaching in Tennessee. And we talk about why Charles Baxter says he “asks all the right questions.” http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-03-21-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio Original airdate: March 21, 2012
Lizzie Hutton reads from her debut poetry collection She’d Waited Millennia published by New Issues. We talk about musicality, childhood, the interior world and Brooklyn. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-03-14-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here! photo credit: Alexander Ralph
francine j. harris reads from her book Allegiance published by Wayne State University Press. We talk about Detroit, InsideOut, and love of language. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-03-07-163001-EST.mp3 Download Audio
Benjamin Paloff reads from his book of poems The Politics (2011) published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. We talk about philosophers, Polish poets, Atlantic City and Boston. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-02-01-163001-EST.mp3 Download Audio
In a special live Living Writers evening event celebrating WCBN FM’s 40th Anniversary, Naomi Shihab Nye reads from Transfer (BOA Editions Ltd 2011) and also There is No Long Distance Now: Very Short Stories (Greenwillow Books 2011). We talk about fathers, elementary school poets and fig trees. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-live-2012-01-25.mp3 Download Audio Photo credit: Chehalis Hegner
Julian Levinson reads from his book Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Writers and American Literary Cultur” (2008) published by Indiana University Press. We talk about Walt Whitman, Emma Lazarus and The Rolling Stones. We also talk about the origins of this project– and why the introduction begins with this from Allen Ginsberg’s America: “America I still haven’t told… Read more: Julian Levinson
