Hear poet Nancy K. Pearson read from her first collection “Two Minutes of Light” winner of the 2008 Perugia Press Prize. We’ll talk about winning a first book prize, addiction and survival, and Provincetown, too. We’ll also talk about confessional poetry, autobiography and art. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2008-12-31-161501-EST.mp3 Download Audio *this new program was taped on the 5th […]
Hear poet Adam Zagajewski read from his latest book “Eternal Enemies” published this year by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. We’ll talk about Lvov, Poland and Milosz, Herbert, essays and eternity. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2008-12-24-161501-EST.mp3 Download Audio *this program was taped on the 4th of December.
Hear Honor Moore read from her book “The Bishop’s Daughter: A Memoir” published this May by W.W.Norton. We’ll talk about choosing the artist’s life as a way of the spirit and a way toward mystery. We’ll also talk about love, activism and the risk of writing memoir–how sometimes it begins with “secret pages.” Honor will also read
Julian Levinson reads from his book “Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Writers and American Literary Culture” published this year by Indiana University Press. We’ll talk about Walt Whitman, Emma Lazarus and The Rolling Stones. We’ll talk about the origins of this project– and why the introduction begins with this from Allen Ginsberg’s America: “America I still
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. We hear a poem called “Sing to It.” And we talk about dogs. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2008-12-03-161501-EST.mp3 Download Audio Original airdate: December 3,
Hear poet Zilka Joseph read from “Lands I Live In” published by Mayapple Press in 2007. We’ll talk about Bob Dylan and Rabindranath Tagore. We’ll also talk about how each of us carries worlds within us–no matter the number of arrivals and departures. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2008-11-26-161501-EST.mp3 Download Audio
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 will read from his latest story collection “Like You’d Understand, Anyway” now in paperback from Vintage. Ron Hansen will read
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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 and fortune has changed Hodgman’s writing as well as his wardrobe. Also included: the first of its kind–a radio thumb war. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2008-11-05-161501-EST.mp3
Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum reads from Ms. Hempel Chronicles (Harcourt 2008) and Salvatore Scibona reads from The End (Graywolf Press 2008). We talk about the interior pyschology of a character– and the attention to the beauty of language leading to revelation. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2008-10-22-161501-EDT.mp3 Download Audio Original airdate: October 22, 2008
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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 life, fiction and privacy. We also talk about empathy in fiction and economy of language. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2008-10-15-161501-EDT.mp3 Download Audio Photo credit:
