While in Ann Arbor, Kristin Hersh, Grant-Lee Phillips, and John Doe talk about their The Exile Follies 2020 tour.
We talk about collaboration and process, mystery, and creating experience. We also talk about how music is fearless.
Ilya Kaminsky reads from Deaf Republic (Graywolf Press 2019).
We talk about language and silence, fabulism, the imagined town of Vasenka with its puppet theater, and poets that inspire.
Kiley Reid reads from her debut novel Such A Fun Age (Putnam 2019).
We talk about listening to your characters, writing about class and race, and building strong plots.
Rion Amilcar Scott reads from The World Doesn’t Require You: Stories (Liveright Publishing Corporation/W.W.Norton & Company 2019).
We talk about narrative forms, beautiful lines and building a world. We also talk about imagination, characters, and Cross River.
Carmen Bugan reads from Lilies from America: New & Selected Poems (Shearsman Books UK 2019).
We talk about narrative poems, memoir, and recording a documentary. We also talk about resistance, reclaiming your story, and planting a garden.
Poet Shane McCrae reads from The Gilded Auction Block (FSG Originals 2019).
We talk about history and the contemporary moment, meter, narrative, epigraphs and a robot bird.
Guest host Frank Uhle talks with Mike McGonigal, editor of Maggot Brain magazine from Third Man Records, about the joys and challenges of print-only publishing, Detroit gospel music, and the state of the record industry. Mike McGonigal has also edited Chemical Imbalance and Yeti magazines; written a 33 1/3 series entry on My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless and for Spin, Pitchfork, and the Village Voice; served as music editor of the Metro Times; and produced or written liner notes for numerous music reissues.
Guest host Amanda Uhle speaks with Adrienne Brodeur, author of Wild Game (HMH, 2019) about keeping our parents’ secrets, the art of memoir writing, and gourmet meals by the sea. Brodeur co-founded the fiction magazine Zoetrope: All-Story with filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, was an editor at Harcourt, and currently serves as Executive Director of Aspen Words, a literary arts program of the Aspen Institute.
photo credit: Julia Cumes Photography
Jac Jemc reads from False Bingo (FSG Originals 2019).
We talk about tactical elements of the writing life. We also talk about being playful, about finding and building community, and about a frog.
Arthur Sze reads from Sight Lines, (Copper Canyon Press 2019) the 2019 National Book Award winner for poetry.
We talk about poems in a series, the natural world, and language systems.
