Michigan’s own poet Keith Taylor read from All the All the Time You Want (Dzanc Books 2024). We talk about selecting poems, Isle Royale National Park, and being outdoors, no matter the weather or terrain.… Read more: Keith Taylor
Eleni Sikelianos read from Your Kingdom (Coffee House Press 2023). We talk about song poems, family, ecopoetics, and using the space of the page with words, images, drawings. We also talk about how a glossary… Read more: Eleni Sikelianos
Paul Tran reads from their debut collection All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Books 2022). We talk about history, family, trauma and resilience. We also talk about story-telling, play, and inventiveness. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2023-11-15-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio
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,… Read more: Frank Uhle
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… Read more: John Sayles
From the archive: 2017 Will Schwalbe reads from Books for Living published by Knopf (2017). We talk about joy, connecting books to moments in your life, the 80s, and MMMBop.For more on this… Read more: Will Schwalbe
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.
Summer host Amanda Uhle talks with Lisa Taddeo, author of Three Women (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster 2019), about women’s desire and how it’s intertwined with judgement from others, how to build layered… Read more: Lisa Taddeo
Guest host Amanda Uhle talks with Luke Shaefer, co-author with Kathryn Edin of $2.00 A Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America. They talk about how poverty in the U.S. has deepened and expanded… Read more: Luke Shaefer
Guest host Amanda Uhle talks with poet & Pal of the Podcast Keith Taylor about his latest collection Ecstatic Destinations (Alice Greene & Co 2018). They talk about Canada, park benches and… Read more: Keith Taylor
Guest host Amanda Uhle talks with Julia Turshen about Feed the Resistance: Recipes and Ideas for Getting Involved (Chronicle Books 2017); they talk about about writing about food and eating, the important role… Read more: Julia Turshen
Jim Shepard reads from his story collection The World To Come (Vintage 2018). We talk about natural disasters, humanity, keeping in contact with the notion of play, last lines and beagles. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2018-05-31-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
David Sedaris came to town with his essay collection When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Little, Brown 2008). In this conversation, we talk about the wonders of the public library, Tobias Wolff and Matt Damon,… Read more: David Sedaris
Leah Stewart reads from her novel What You Don’t Know About Charlie Outlaw (Putnam 2018). We talk about identity, researching character, being an observer, voice and Cincinnati. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2018-05-10-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Douglas Trevor reads from his latest collection of stories The Book of Wonders (six one seven books 2017). We talk about Radiohead, putting together a book of connected stories, invention, the number 9, melancholy… Read more: Douglas Trevor
Mike Stax, editor/publisher of Ugly Things magazine and the author of Swim Through The Darkness speaks with Frank Uhle about folk/rock and psychedelic music, fanzine publishing, and private investigators. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2017-08-30-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
This show and the next has a special focus on Detroit, in part to mark the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1967 uprising. Frances Stroh, author of Beer Money, talks about her family’s… Read more: Frances Stroh
Guest host Amanda Uhle talks with Doree Shafrir, Senior Culture Writer at Buzzfeed and author of the novel Start Up, which skewers startup culture and tackles workplace sexual harassment, the ever changing role of… Read more: Doree Shafrir
Philip and Erin Stead, Caldecott-winning writer/illustrators of A Sick Day For Amos McGee and the forthcoming Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine talk with guest host Amanda Uhle about writing and illustrating children’s books, working with the ghost of Mark… Read more: Erin and Philip Stead
Laura Hulthen Thomas reads from her debut collection of stories States of Motion published by Wayne State University Press as part of the Made in Michigan Writers Series. We talk about place as character, process and habit. … Read more: Laura Hulthen Thomas
Keith Taylor reads poems from his collection The Bird-while out with Wayne State University Press from the Made in Michigan Writers Series. We talk about spring, driving to Muskegon to see the ruff, and Poets at Michigan. Download… Read more: Keith Taylor
Little Bang Theory–Terri Sarris, Doug Shimmin and Frank Pahl– talk about their work and about the Ann Arbor Film Festival featuring the film A Page of Madness with musical accompaniment by Little Bang Theory–with Ichiro Kataoka… Read more: Little Bang Theory: Terri Sarris, Doug Shimmin & Frank Pahl
Rebecca Solnit reads from The Mother of All Questions (Haymarket Books) the final book of essays in the trilogy that began with Men Explain Things to Me. We talk about politics, silence, language… Read more: Rebecca Solnit
Nick Tobier reads from Looping Detroit: A People Mover Travelogue published by Maize Books, Michigan Publishing. We talk about everyday places, elephants, monorails, Utopia Toolbox, and offering interruptions. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2017-02-22-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio For more on this… Read more: Nick Tobier
Young writers from 826 Michigan read their poems and stories and talk about their writing process for WCBN’s annual fundraiser. Featuring: Josiah (age 10) & his mother, Lisa Luella (6) & her… Read more: Amanda Uhle & 826Michigan Young Writers
Heather Ann Thompson reads from Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy published by Pantheon Books. We talk about process and research — and uncovering documents and artifacts that… Read more: Heather Ann Thompson
Michael J. Sandel discusses his book What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets published in 2012 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. We talk about markets, values and the common good.… Read more: Michael J. Sandel
B.A. Shapiro reads from her novel The Muralist published this November by Algonquin Books. We talk about using statistics as a plot device, moving back and forth between historical fiction set in… Read more: B.A. Shapiro
Richard Siken reads from his new collection of poems War of the Foxes published by Copper Canyon Press. We talk about fables, animals, collections and the need for making. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2015-04-15-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio… Read more: Richard Siken
Sergio Troncoso reads from his novel The Nature of Truth (Arte Publico Press 2014). We talk about crossing borders, love of philosophy in literature, and tenacity. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2015-02-04-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio For more about… Read more: Sergio Troncoso
Lisa Russ Spaar talks about her book The Hide-and Seek Muse: Annotations of Contemporary Poetry. We also talk about London, Dickinson, ineffability and experience. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-10-22-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Kodi Scheer reads from her debut story collection Incendiary Girls published by New Harvest. We talk about magical realism, horses, the mind and body, and Prairie Lights. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-09-03-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about… Read more: Kodi Scheer
Jane Smiley, author of A Thousand Acres (1991), talks about horses, King Lear, research and writing a novel. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-04-02-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Alexander McCall Smith read from his novel in the Isabel Dalhousie series The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds published by Pantheon Books. We talk about working in a series, Edinburgh, and suspension of disbelief.… Read more: Alexander McCall Smith
Philip Stead and Erin Stead talk about their picture books, including the Caldecott Medal winning book A Sick Day for Amos McGee, and Erin Stead’s If You Want to See A Whale and… Read more: Philip Stead and Erin Stead
From the archive: 2012 Emma Straub reads from her debut novel Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures (Riverhead Books 2012). We talk about research in Hollywood, the Herrick Library, New York City, Twitter,… Read more: Emma Straub
Karin Slaughter read from her novel Criminal published by Delacorte Press. We talk about what it takes to write a thriller. We also talk about saving our public libraries and writing from a… Read more: Karin Slaughter
Dava Sobel reads from A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos published by Bloomsbury. We talk about when she first heard the term science writing and how once–while interviewing B.F. Skinner–she felt like… Read more: Dava Sobel
Michael Shilling reads from his debut novel Rock Bottom from Little, Brown & Company. We talk about writing from multiple character perspectives. We also talk about humor and pacing–and the challenge of creating a story… Read more: Michael Shilling
textsound: an online audio publication: two of the founding editors, Anna Vitale and Laura Wetherington, join T in the studio. We talk about textsound’s mission and vision–and the experimental idea. We also… Read more: textsound