Airea D. Matthews read from Bread and Circus (Scribner 2023). D came through town this June. We talk about hybrid memoir, economics, family, capitalism, and resistance. We also talk about erasure poems and making things visible, Sicily, and being a poet laureate. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2023-08-30-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio *Thanks to Rev Andrew for engineering pre-recorded June 2023
David Lawrence Morse reads from The Book of Disbelieving (Sarabande Books 2023). We talk about the spark of a story. We also talk about utopia and dystopia, fables and parables–and disinformation and the craft of ethical persuasion. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2023-07-19-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio *Big thanks to Jason Voss for engineering *Many thanks to Natalie Wollenzien and Joanna Englert at Sarabande
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Frank Uhle reads from Cinema Ann Arbor: How Campus Rebels Forged A Singular Film Culture (University of Michigan Press 2023). We talk about the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Cinema Guild, revolutionaries, censorship, and cultural history. We also talk about primary documents, the archives, interviewing, and the mission to make this book and what it took. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2023-06-14-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio *Thanks to Rev Andrew for engineering *live show June 14, 2023
From the 2013 Living Writers Archives: Dedicated to the Memory of Larry Goldstein Today on LivingWriters we return to October 2013 to hear poet and scholar Laurence Goldstein talk about the life and work of Robert Hayden, in preparation for the Robert Hayden Centennial Conference that year in November. We talk about identity and Hayden’s birth name, Asa Bundy Sheffey. We talk about poems that change
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Tune in today to hear David Maraniss talk about his latest Path Lit By Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe (Simon & Schuster 2022), the third biography in his sports trilogy which includes, When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi and Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball’s Last Hero. We talk about the triumphs and trials of
Jack Driscoll reads from Twenty Stories: New and Selected (Pushcart Press 2022). We talk about the music in language, place as character, hard work and tenderness. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2023-05-03-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio *Thanks to Sheryl Johnston for sending Twenty Stories *Thanks also to Cate Hotchkiss and Pete Fromm for photos *Thanks to Frank Uhle for engineering and for post-production
We talk about muscles and Jack LaLane, paratextual boxes, the drafting process, the great outdoors and yoga. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2023-04-26-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio *thanks to Rev Andrew for engineering! *thanks to Rebecca Manery at the Hopwood Room!
John Sayles reads from his latest novel Jamie MacGillivray: the renegade’s journey (Melville House). We talk about storytelling, historical research, screenwriting, creating characters and his approach to the novel. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2023-04-19-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio * thanks to Michael Barson for sending the book *thanks to Maggie Renzi and Phil, our studio audience! *thanks to Frank Uhle for engineering and for
Tune in today to hear poet Katie Hartsock read from Wolf Trees (Able Muse Press) and poet Jennifer Metsker read from Hypergraphia and Other Failed Attempts at Paradise (New Issues). We talk about poems and process, birds and wolves, mental health, diabetes, writing groups, space on the page, the world, and trees. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2023-04-05-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
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Wendy S. Walters read from her books Multiply/Divide: On the American Real and Surreal (Sarabande) and Troy, Michigan (Futurepoem). We talk about the blurring of genre in creative nonfiction, about long poems, lyric essays, Detroit electronica and more. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2023-03-29-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio *thanks to Ashley Bates and Zell Visiting Writers Series *recorded 23 March 2023 in the studio *many thanks to Frank Uhle for engineering
