Hear author, educator, and environmentalist BillMcKibben. “The Bill McKibben Reader” is out this spring from HoltPaperbacks. We’ll talk about ideas from his book “Deep Economy: The Wealth ofCommunities and the Durable Future” as well as 350.org, his project toencourage a global grassroots campaign on climate change. Also we’ll talk about community radio, the predicament of “fighting,not writing” and […]
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 tuba. We’ll also hear about what it’s like to be the representative of Lemony Snicket and why one can’t travel
From the archives: 2008 C.D. Wright reads from her book of poems Rising, Falling, Hovering (Copper Canyon Press). We talk about misery and love, “making it up,” and what it means to be an American Artist. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2008-04-16-161501-EDT.mp3 Download Audio Photo credit: Forrest Gander Original airdate: April 16, 2008
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 talk about the online arts community, the Scandanavian connection and the art of arranging sound in journal form. Download Audio
From the archives: 2008 Richard Price reads from his novel Lush Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008) . We talk about Manhattan’s Lower East Side and his method for finding the story. We also talk about screenwriting versus the novel, dynamic dialogue and The Wire. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2008-03-26-161501-EDT.mp3 Download Audio Photo credit: Lorraine Adams Original airdate:
Randall Kennedy reads from Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal (Pantheon Books 2008). We talk about the power of language and Clarence Thomas as a case study. Download Audio
