John Marshall reads from his book Meaning a Cloud published by Oberlin Press. We talk about chapbooks and broadsides, James Tate, and the shop in Seattle he co-owns with his wife–Open Books: A Poem Emporium. We also talk about how to structure a book that spans several decades of poems–and the marketplace. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2008-10-08-161502-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For […]
Sam Quinones reads from his book “Antonio’s Gun and Delfino’s Dream: True Tales of Mexican Migration” published by University of New Mexico Press in 2007. We’ll talk about creative nonfiction and journalism. We’ll talk about what it means to work for over a decade in your subject–the people, the politics. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2008-09-24-161501-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Randa Jarrar reads from her debut novel “A Map of Home” published this September by Other Press. We’ll talk about writing a coming of age novel that takes place in Kuwait and Texas–and about how a story is still fiction when it is rooted to the writer’s biography, how the truths become more true in the fictional telling.
Uwem Akpan reads from his first collection of stories “Say You’re One of Them” published this June by Little, Brown. We’ll talk about writing from the perspective and voice of a child. We’ll also talk about his work as a writer of fiction and essays–and his work as a Jesuit priest. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2008-07-23-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Preeta Samarasan reads from her debut novel “Evening is the Whole Day” published this year by Houghton Mifflin. We’ll talk about setting and historical context with Malaysia as our focus. We’ll also talk about structure and first book tours–and life post-Michigan in France. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2008-07-16-161501-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Janet Kauffman reads from her latest collection “Trespassing: Dirt Stories & Field Notes” published this year by Wayne State University Press for the Made in Michigan Writers Series. We’ll talk about the obvious: fiction and nonfiction in one book jacket, and the not so obvious–that should be: our surrounding landscape, pollution, CAFOs and buried water. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2008-07-09-163001-EDT.mp3 Download
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 investigating history as a creative writer: how to find the project and how to frame it. We’ll also talk about Florida
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, and fact checking. We also talk about balancing humor, unstable fables and little known ant facts. *archives: taped June 9, 2008 *photo credit:
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 and dramatic story and getit as true as one can on the page. We’ll talk about choices instructure too, but
Tune in today to hear Jeff Parker read from “Ovenman” published by TinHouse Books in 2007. We’ll talk about the first person voice-driven narrative and breakingaway from the tradition of the gifted narrator as in “The Catcher inthe Rye.” We’ll also talk about time as a landscape, skateboarding,juggling–and Florida, “a wonderful and terrible place.” Please
