Today Michael Dickman reads from Pacific Power & Light (Copper Canyon Press 2024). We talk about poems, teaching, and life. Please join us this afternoon– T Hetzel http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2024-09-04-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio *thanks to Jason Adam Voss for engineering today’s show
John Fulton reads from The Flounder and Other Stories (Blackwater Press 2023). We talk about writing about place, the role of first sentences and first paragraphs in short stories, and listening to the language to find a shape for revision.… Read more: John Fulton
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… Read more: Jack Driscoll
Hear Michele Oka Doner talk about her books Intuitive Alphabet and Miami Beach: Blueprint of an Eden and her visit to Ann Arbor to celebrate the anniversary of the naming of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and its speaker series.… Read more: Michele Oka Doner
Susan J. Douglas talks about In Our Prime: How Older Women Are Reinventing the Road Ahead (Norton 2020). http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2020-10-14-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
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. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2020-02-12-170001-EST.mp3… Read more: Kristin Hersh, Grant-Lee Phillips and John Doe
Lo Dagerman and Nancy Pick read from The Writer and The Refugee (originally published by Norstedts Förlag, Stockholm 2017; English translation 2019). We talk about being a detective in your own family mystery, long term research projects,… Read more: Lo Dagerman + Nancy Pick
Carolyn Forché reads from What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance (Penguin Press 2019). We talk about El Salvador, keeping notebooks, what poetry can do in the world, and what people are called… Read more: Carolyn Forché
Guest host The Liz talks with Matt Doe, trumpet player of Too Many Zooz. They talk about brass house music; they also talk about starting out playing in the subway and now playing music around… Read more: Matt Doe of Too Many Zooz
Here’s a special Fundraiser 2019 edition of Living Writers with wonderful guests George Cooper, Brent Bryan of Big Love Recording Collective, Angie Berkley + Gina Brandolino of the podcast Behind the Scaffolding, and Scott Beal from Skazat! http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2019-02-20-1700-EST.mp3 Download Audio Fun-Fundraiser 2019: any… Read more: Fundraiser 2019 Edition
Guest host Amanda Uhle talks with Leland de la Durantaye, author of Hannah vs. the Tree (McSweeney’s 2018). A Michigan native, De la Durantaye is currently a professor, critic, and translator based in Los Angeles. They talk about… Read more: Leland de la Durantaye
Lo Dagerman reads from her father Stig Dagerman’s novel now available in translation Wedding Worries (David R. Godine 2018). We talk about vocation, youth, fathers, legacy and coming home to art. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2018-10-17-1700-EDT.mp3 Download Audio Stig Dagerman collage by Lo… Read more: Lo Dagerman for Stig Dagerman
Hannah Ensor reads poems from her debut LOVE DREAM WITH TELEVISION (Noemi Press 2018). We talk about the desert, basketball, book sections, shapes of poems, anxiety + of course love dreams. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2018-09-12-1700-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Michael A. Ferro reads from his debut novel Title 13 (Harvard Square Editions 2018). We talk about navigating the writing world, postmodernists, humor writing, government workers and the wood wasp. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2018-06-07-170001-EDT.mp3 Download audio
Lydia Davis reads from The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis (2010) and Can’t and Won’t (Picador 2014). We’ll talk about The Beatles, dreams, translation, and cows. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2018-03-21-1700-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Does your cat write love letters? Does your dog write odes? Please join us today to hear George Cooper, Lillian Li, Ali Shapiro, Stephanie Douglass Carpenter, Gina Brandolino and Jim Shepard read dog and cat poems and… Read more: Valentine’s Day + Writers + Dogs + Cats
Jason De León talks about his book The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail (University of California Press 2015). We talk about the Undocumented Migration Project, archeology, violence, the desert, and Drive-By Truckers. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2018-01-10-1700-EST.mp3 Download Audio
Karen Dionne reads from The Marsh King’s Daughter (Putnam 2017). We talk about writing a psychological suspense, fairy tales, and the UP. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2017-11-02-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Jill Darling reads poems from a geography of syntax (Lavender Ink 2016). We talk about lyric intervention, topography, Gertrude Stein and movement. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2017-09-21-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio To learn more, click this link to head to the writer’s website.
From the archive: 2016 Tarfia Faizullah reads poems from Seam, chosen for the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award (Southern Illinois University Press). We talk about writing a long sequence. We also talk about… Read more: Tarfia Faizullah
From the archive: 2016 Peter Ho Davies reads from his novel The Fortunes (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016). We talk about structure, identity, stereotype, Detroit, and China. We also talk about truth and fiction, citizenship, Joe Strummer,… Read more: Peter Ho Davies
Jonathan Safran Foer reads from his novel Here I Am published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. We talk about process, reflex and intuition. We also talk about valuing writing as an act of personal expression. And how… Read more: Jonathan Safran Foer
From the archive: 2016 Michele Oka Doner talks about her photobook Into the Mysterium (Regan Arts). We talk about curiosity and wonder, her life-long study of the natural world, and Miami Beach.We also talk about… Read more: Michele Oka Doner
Angela D. Dillard talks about her book Faith in the City: Preaching Radical Social Change in Detroit published by the University of Michigan Press. We talk about good and bad religion, labor unions, activism, and key figures in Detroit’s history… Read more: Angela Dillard
R.J. Fox reads from his debut novel Love & Vodka: My Surreal Adventures in Ukraine published by Fish Out of Water Books. We are joined in the studio by Jon and Laurie Wilson, the publishers.… Read more: R.J. Fox
Martin Espada reads poems from The Trouble Ball (Norton 2011) and The Republic of Poetry (2006) and talks about his collection of essays The Lover of a Subversive Is Also a Subversive (The University of… Read more: Martin Espada
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… Read more: Nicholas Delbanco
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:… Read more: Kwame Dawes
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,… Read more: Karen Joy Fowler
From the archive: 2013 Farnoosh Fathi reads from Great Gus (Canarium Books 2013). We talk about Brazil, translation, Emily Dickinson, art and interviewing. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2013-03-13-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio Original airdate: March 13, 2013 Photo credit: Alan Bernheimer
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… Read more: Toi Derricotte
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… Read more: Carrie Fountain
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… Read more: Bruce Duffy
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… Read more: Calvin Forbes
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… Read more: Stacey D’Erasmo
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… Read more: Richard Ford
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… Read more: Nicholas Delbanco
Hear Danielle Evans read from “Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self” published this September with Riverhead Books. We will talk about putting together your first short story collection, music and memory, and creating diverse… Read more: Danielle Evans
Hear Rafe Esquith talk about his book “Lighting Their Fires: How Parents and Teachers Can Raise Extraordinary Kids in a Mixed-Up, Muddled-Up, Shook-Up World” now out in paperback this summer with Penguin Books. We’ll talk… Read more: Rafe Esquith
Hear Deborah Eisenberg read from “The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg” published this April by Picador. We will talk about the intensity of the short story form. We’ll also talk about dialogue and character–ex-pats and… Read more: Deborah Eisenberg
John Freeman reads from his book “The Tyranny of E-mail: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox” published by Scribner in 2009. We’ll talk about the genesis of this project, his passion for writers and reading, and his work… Read more: John Freeman
Hear Joshua Ferris read from his new novel “The Unnamed” published in January by Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown. We’ll talk about writing the second novel, Emily Dickinson, Key West, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2010-02-10-161501-EST.mp3 Download Audio… Read more: Joshua Ferris
Joshua Ferris reads from his new novel The Unnamed published by Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown. We talk about writing the second novel, Emily Dickinson, Key West, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2010-02-10-161501-EST.mp3 Download Audio For more about… Read more: Joshua Ferris
Poet Matthew Dickman called from Portland, Oregon earlier this year to talk about his book “All American Poem”– http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2009-12-30-163001-EST.mp3 Download Audio
Robert Fanning reads from his collection American Prophet out with Marick Press. We talk about creating a character that speaks for an entire book of poems and what that allows to surface in the work. We… Read more: Robert Fanning
From the archive: 2008 Deborah Eisenberg reads from her latest collection of short stories Twilight of the Superheroes (Picador 2007). We talk about the glories of the short story–and plays and politics. We talk about public… Read more: Deborah Eisenberg
John Fulton reads from The Flounder and Other Stories (Blackwater Press 2023). We talk about writing about place, the role of first sentences and first paragraphs in short stories, and listening to the language to find a shape for revision.… Read more: John Fulton
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… Read more: Jack Driscoll
Michael Dickman reads from Days & Days (Knopf 2019). We talk about interconnectedness, structure, place and butterflies.
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. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2020-02-12-170001-EST.mp3… Read more: Kristin Hersh, Grant-Lee Phillips and John Doe
Lo Dagerman and Nancy Pick read from The Writer and The Refugee (originally published by Norstedts Förlag, Stockholm 2017; English translation 2019). We talk about being a detective in your own family mystery, long term research projects,… Read more: Lo Dagerman + Nancy Pick
Carolyn Forché reads from What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance (Penguin Press 2019). We talk about El Salvador, keeping notebooks, what poetry can do in the world, and what people are called… Read more: Carolyn Forché
Guest host The Liz talks with Matt Doe, trumpet player of Too Many Zooz. They talk about brass house music; they also talk about starting out playing in the subway and now playing music around… Read more: Matt Doe of Too Many Zooz
Here’s a special Fundraiser 2019 edition of Living Writers with wonderful guests George Cooper, Brent Bryan of Big Love Recording Collective, Angie Berkley + Gina Brandolino of the podcast Behind the Scaffolding, and Scott Beal from Skazat! http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2019-02-20-1700-EST.mp3 Download Audio Fun-Fundraiser 2019: any… Read more: Fundraiser 2019 Edition
Guest host Amanda Uhle talks with Leland de la Durantaye, author of Hannah vs. the Tree (McSweeney’s 2018). A Michigan native, De la Durantaye is currently a professor, critic, and translator based in Los Angeles. They talk about… Read more: Leland de la Durantaye
Lo Dagerman reads from her father Stig Dagerman’s novel now available in translation Wedding Worries (David R. Godine 2018). We talk about vocation, youth, fathers, legacy and coming home to art. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2018-10-17-1700-EDT.mp3 Download Audio Stig Dagerman collage by Lo… Read more: Lo Dagerman for Stig Dagerman
Hannah Ensor reads poems from her debut LOVE DREAM WITH TELEVISION (Noemi Press 2018). We talk about the desert, basketball, book sections, shapes of poems, anxiety + of course love dreams. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2018-09-12-1700-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Michael A. Ferro reads from his debut novel Title 13 (Harvard Square Editions 2018). We talk about navigating the writing world, postmodernists, humor writing, government workers and the wood wasp. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2018-06-07-170001-EDT.mp3 Download audio
Lydia Davis reads from The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis (2010) and Can’t and Won’t (Picador 2014). We’ll talk about The Beatles, dreams, translation, and cows. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2018-03-21-1700-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Does your cat write love letters? Does your dog write odes? Please join us today to hear George Cooper, Lillian Li, Ali Shapiro, Stephanie Douglass Carpenter, Gina Brandolino and Jim Shepard read dog and cat poems and… Read more: Valentine’s Day + Writers + Dogs + Cats
Jason De León talks about his book The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail (University of California Press 2015). We talk about the Undocumented Migration Project, archeology, violence, the desert, and Drive-By Truckers. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2018-01-10-1700-EST.mp3 Download Audio
Karen Dionne reads from The Marsh King’s Daughter (Putnam 2017). We talk about writing a psychological suspense, fairy tales, and the UP. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2017-11-02-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Jill Darling reads poems from a geography of syntax (Lavender Ink 2016). We talk about lyric intervention, topography, Gertrude Stein and movement. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2017-09-21-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio To learn more, click this link to head to the writer’s website.
From the archive: 2016 Tarfia Faizullah reads poems from Seam, chosen for the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award (Southern Illinois University Press). We talk about writing a long sequence. We also talk about… Read more: Tarfia Faizullah
From the archive: 2016 Peter Ho Davies reads from his novel The Fortunes (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016). We talk about structure, identity, stereotype, Detroit, and China. We also talk about truth and fiction, citizenship, Joe Strummer,… Read more: Peter Ho Davies
Jonathan Safran Foer reads from his novel Here I Am published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. We talk about process, reflex and intuition. We also talk about valuing writing as an act of personal expression. And how… Read more: Jonathan Safran Foer
From the archive: 2016 Michele Oka Doner talks about her photobook Into the Mysterium (Regan Arts). We talk about curiosity and wonder, her life-long study of the natural world, and Miami Beach.We also talk about… Read more: Michele Oka Doner
Angela D. Dillard talks about her book Faith in the City: Preaching Radical Social Change in Detroit published by the University of Michigan Press. We talk about good and bad religion, labor unions, activism, and key figures in Detroit’s history… Read more: Angela Dillard
R.J. Fox reads from his debut novel Love & Vodka: My Surreal Adventures in Ukraine published by Fish Out of Water Books. We are joined in the studio by Jon and Laurie Wilson, the publishers.… Read more: R.J. Fox
Martin Espada reads poems from The Trouble Ball (Norton 2011) and The Republic of Poetry (2006) and talks about his collection of essays The Lover of a Subversive Is Also a Subversive (The University of… Read more: Martin Espada
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… Read more: Nicholas Delbanco
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:… Read more: Kwame Dawes
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,… Read more: Karen Joy Fowler
From the archive: 2013 Farnoosh Fathi reads from Great Gus (Canarium Books 2013). We talk about Brazil, translation, Emily Dickinson, art and interviewing. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2013-03-13-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio Original airdate: March 13, 2013 Photo credit: Alan Bernheimer
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… Read more: Toi Derricotte
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… Read more: Carrie Fountain
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… Read more: Bruce Duffy
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… Read more: Stacey D’Erasmo
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… Read more: Richard Ford
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… Read more: Nicholas Delbanco
Joshua Ferris reads from his new novel The Unnamed published by Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown. We talk about writing the second novel, Emily Dickinson, Key West, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2010-02-10-161501-EST.mp3 Download Audio For more about… Read more: Joshua Ferris
Robert Fanning reads from his collection American Prophet out with Marick Press. We talk about creating a character that speaks for an entire book of poems and what that allows to surface in the work. We… Read more: Robert Fanning
From the archive: 2008 Deborah Eisenberg reads from her latest collection of short stories Twilight of the Superheroes (Picador 2007). We talk about the glories of the short story–and plays and politics. We talk about public… Read more: Deborah Eisenberg
