Ross Gay reads from The Book of (More) Delights (Algonquin Press 2023). We talk about life projects, joy, poems, and getting lost. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2023-12-06-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio *many thanks to Jason Voss for engineering
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, …
From the archive 2017 Joy Harjo talks about Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings and Crazy Brave (W.W. Norton). We talk about perceived power, flying, stories and the saxophone, and debut her latest song! Joy Harjo gave the Second Annual Robert …
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 …
Jeannie Gaffigan reads from When Life Gives You Pears (Grand Central Publishing 2019). We talk about memoir, comedy writing and The Imagine Society. We also talk about family, faith, and healing.
Summer host Amanda Uhle talks with Joanna Howard, author of the novel Foreign Correspondent and three short story collections. Her memoir, Rerun Era, is due out in October 2019 from McSweeney’s. We talk about memory and memoir, The …
In May of this year Lorna Goodison became the Poet Laureate of Jamaica. In a conversation from December 2014, we talk about how place has influenced her poems – from sunshine and salt to Michigan’s …
Hilary Gustafson of Literati Bookstore talks about her picks for great summer reading by the lake shore or here in town, as well as the latest happenings at the shop. Also, as we say hallo …
Steve Hamilton talks about his latest Nick Mason novel Exit Strategy out with Putnam. We talk about working in a series, screenplays, switching publishers, promises, writers groups, and the dark side of the self. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2017-05-17-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio To …
Elizabeth George reads from the crime novel in her Inspector Lynley Series A Banquet of Consequences out in paperback from Viking/Penguin Books. We talk about developing characters over the course of a long series and about researching your novel when …
Christopher Hebert reads from Angels of Detroit: A Novel out with Bloomsbury. We talk about the long term project, letting characters lead you to the next story, and the rust belt. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2016-09-28-170001-EDT.mp3 Download For more about the author, click here!
Musician Julia Holter talks about her latest album Have You in My Wilderness with guest host Elizabeth Wason. They talk about writing music, making field recordings, what life is like when you’re bankrolled by a …
Writer, activist and Wallenberg Medalist Masha Gessen discusses her book The Brothers: The Road to An American Tragedy published by Riverhead Books. We talk about her current book project and her books The Man Without A …
Translator Ann Goldstein reads from her latest work, the fourth and final Neapolitan novel, The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante published by Europa Editions. We talk about working on such a long …
Detroit’s own Tyree Guyton talks about his current exhibits at UMMA The Art of Tyree Guyton: A Thirty-Year Journey and What Time Is It? Tyree Guyton, New Work at the GalleryDAAS. We talk about his amazing …
This Summer Reads special edition of Living Writers features Hilary and Mike Gustafson from Literati Bookstore. We talk about books that are great for summer. Also, about the much anticipated release of Harper Lee’s Go …
Poet Katie Hartsock reads from her chapbook Hotels, Motels, and Extended Stays published by Toadlily Press in the book A Good Wall from their Quartet Series, with an introduction by Laura Kasischke. We talk about …
Poet Lorna Goodison reads from her many lovely books. We talk about place, friends, family, songs and joy –and what is coming next. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2015-01-07-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio Show replayed November 2017.
Phoebe Gloekner reads from The Diary of a Teenage Girl: an account in words and pictures published by North Atlantic Books. We talk about drawing as a kid to a medical illustrator, Crumb and comics, …
Lolita Hernandez reads from her story collection Making Callaloo in Detroit published by Wayne State University Press. We talk about storytelling, magic, factories and dasheen leaves. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-09-24-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here!
Edward Hirsch reads from The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems (2010) published by Borzoi Book/Knopf. We talk about insomnia, messages in a bottle, and how poetry saves something from vanishing. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2013-11-06-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio For more …
Poet Laurence Goldstein discusses the life and poems of Robert Hayden as we look forward to the Robert Hayden Centennial Conference (November 2013) featuring keynote address by Harryette Mullen. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2013-10-23-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
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 …
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 …
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 …
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
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. …
From the Archives: Donald Hall reads two poems that he wrote while teaching here at Michigan. We also talk about poetry as a vocation, Eagle Pond farm, a life inside and outside academia, the art of revision, …
Jim Shepard reads from his latest story collection Like You’d Understand, Anyway in paperback from Vintage. Ron Hansen reads from his novel Exiles published with FSG. A sort of homecoming–these two writers met here at Michigan some years ago, their offices across the …
From the archive: 2008 Amy Hempel reads from The Collected Stories (Scribner 2007). We talk about writing short shorts and writing prose poems–and about having that first line–how it shows you the way to the story. …