Tune in today to hear Miles Harvey read from The Registry of Forgotten Objects: Stories (Mad Creek Books 2024). We talk about linking stories, Michigan moments, MFA programs, a sense of loss, listening to old stories, and… Read more: Miles Harvey
Tune in today to hear co-editor Rebekah Modrak read from Trouble In Censorville: The Far Right’s Assault on Public Education and the Teachers Who Are Fighting Back (Disobedience Press 2024). We are joined via phone by Willie… Read more: Rebekah Modrak, Willie Carver and Martha Hickson
Today poets Katie Hartsock, J.C. Scharl, and James Matthew Wilson read poems from their latest collections, Wolf Trees (Able Muse Press 2023), Ponds (Cascade Books 2024), and Saint Thomas and the Forbidden Birds (Word on Fire 2024), respectively. We talk about… Read more: Katie Hartsock, J.C. Scharl, and James Matthew Wilson
Stream or tune in today to hear Mary Gaitskill read poems from The Devil’s Treasure: A Book of Stories & Dreams (McNally Editions). We talk about dreams, novels, short stories, memoirs, and collage. We also talk about… Read more: Mary Gaitskill
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,… Read more: Katie Hartsock and Jennifer Metsker
Tune in today for an interview with writer/historian/musician Michael Hurtt, co-author with Billy Miller of Mind Over Matter – the Myths and Mysteries of Detroit’s Fortune Records (Kicks Books, 2020). This exhaustively-researched, lavishly-illustrated booktells the fascinating story of… Read more: Michael Hurtt
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
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… Read more: Joanna Howard
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… Read more: Lorna Goodison
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… Read more: Hilary Gustafson
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… Read more: Steve Hamilton
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… Read more: Joy Harjo
Amy Haimerl, author of Detroit Hustle, talks with Amanda on books, writing, Detroit, money, home ownership, finance, and everything else they’ll try to cover in one sweet hour. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2016-12-28-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio To visit this author’s website, click here!
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… Read more: Elizabeth George
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… Read more: Julia Holter
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… Read more: Masha Gessen
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… Read more: Ann Goldstein
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… Read more: Tyree Guyton
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… Read more: Hilary and Mike Gustafson
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… Read more: Katie Hartsock
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,… Read more: Phoebe Gloekner
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-2014-07-09-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here!
From the archives: Nikki Giovanni reads from Chasing Utopia (William Morrow/HarperCollins 2013). We talk about passion and poems, speaking out and spoken word, mothers, grandmothers, watching, and wine. Stay busy! http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2013-12-11-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio photo credit:… Read more: Nikki Giovanni
A wonderful group of Michigan poets gather to read from the anthology Poetry In Michigan/Michigan In Poetry published by New Issues Poetry & Prose. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2013-12-04-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio
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… Read more: Edward Hirsch
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
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… Read more: Terrance Hayes
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… Read more: Dan Gerber + Joseph Bednarik
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… 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… Read more: Christopher Hebert
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… Read more: Lizzie Hutton
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.… Read more: Donovan Hohn
Tune in today to hear Christine Hume talk about poems from “Shot” published by Counterpath Press, “Musca Domestica” from Beacon Press and also new projects on deck. We’ll talk about her poems in translation, global… Read more: Christine Hume
Hear Tung-Hui Hu read from “Mine” published by Ausable Press in 2007 and from “The Book of Motion” published by University of Georgia Press (2003). We will talk about his current project Last Time You… Read more: Tung-Hui Hu
V.V. “Sugi” Ganeshananthan reads from her novel Love Marriage (Random House 2008). We talk about marriage, politics, and religion. We also talk about writing your first novel. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2010-03-24-161502-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
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,… Read more: Donald Hall
Hear John Hodgman talk about his books “The Areas of My Expertise” and “More” out in paperback this fall with Riverhead Books. We’ll talk about the glory of lists and tables–and the lost art of… Read more: John Hodgman
Hear a conversation with Henry Grimes, the legendary and visionary jazz musician. He will read from his book of poems “Signs Along the Road” published by Buddy’s Knife in 2007 and also will play the… Read more: Henry Grimes
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… Read more: Ron Hansen and Jim Shepard
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.… Read more: Amy Hempel
Tune in today for a conversation with Jim Shepard and Ron Hansen. A sort of homecoming–these two writers met here at Michigan some years ago, their offices across the hall from each other in Angell. Jim Shepard… Read more: Jim Shepard and Ron Hansen
John Hodgman, a famous minor television personality, offering “More Information Than You Require” published by Dutton on October 21, 2008. We’ll talk about the arduous journey of writing a trilogy (this is book two) and how fame… Read more: John Hodgman
Tune in today to hear Miles Harvey read from his latest book “Painter in a Savage Land: The Strange Saga of the First European Artist inNorth America” published this summer by Random House. We’ll talk about… Read more: Miles Harvey
Tune in today to hear Lincoln Hall, writer and adventurer, read from“Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest” published byTarcher/Penguin and released in May 2008 in the US. We’ll talk about how to write an emotional… Read more: Lincoln Hall
Tune in to hear author Daniel Handler talk about many things, some unfortunate and others not. We’ll talk about his latest book that’s out in paperback with Harper Perennial “Adverbs: A Novel” and Milan Kundera and the… Read more: Daniel Handler