2011 – LIVING WRITERS

2011

Hisham Matar

Hisham Matar reads from his novel Anatomy of a Disappearance published by The Dial Press. We talk about when fiction and the imagination intersect with what the writer knows first hand. We also talk about Libya, London and New York City. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2011-11-23-163001-EST.mp3 Download Audio

Dava Sobel

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 the grim reaper. We also talk about why she chose to write a play about Copernicus as the central section of her nonfiction …

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Franz Wright

Franz Wright reads poems from Kindertotenwald (Knopf 2013).  We talk about wearing masks, about the difficult twenties, and about seeing the drawbacks of MFA programs (while still loving scholars and universities).  We also talk about finding your secret of writing, “king of the cats,” and the universal. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2011-10-12-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio photo credit: Garin Horner In 2011 Franz Wright …

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Stacey D’Erasmo

Stacey D‘Erasmo reads from her latest novel The Sky Below published by Mariner Books. We talk about the worlds of journalism and fiction, Rome, and dancing. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2011-10-05-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here! photo credit:  Nina Subin

Derek Mong

Derek Mong reads poems from his debut collection Other Romes published by Saturnalia Books. We talk about “the Latin corpus,” octopuses, and putting together your first collection. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2011-09-14-163002-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here!

Donovan Hohn

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. We talk about how an essay grows into a project of this magnitude–and about adventure on the high seas. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2011-09-07-163001-EDT.mp3 …

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Charles McLeod

Charles McLeod reads from his debut novel American Weather published by Random House UK. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2011-08-10-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio

Raymond McDaniel, Sarah Messer, and Mark Wunderlich

Sarah Messer, Mark Wunderlich and Raymond McDaniel talk about poems and craft.  We hear new poems by all–and also selections from Messer‘s Bandit Letters, Wunderlich‘s Voluntary Servitude, and McDaniel‘s Saltwater Empire. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2011-04-20-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio

Ish Klein

Ish Klein reads from Moving Day published by Canarium Books.  We talk about the momentum of long poems, connection and compassion, filmmaking and puppets. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2011-04-06-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio photo credit: Nerve Lantern

Nicholas Delbanco

Nicholas Delbanco reads from Lastingness: The Art of Old Age published by Grand Central.  We talk about what it means to work and create for a lifetime, with the time that is given you–and what work becomes part of the human story and consciousness.  We also talk about Shakespeare, Henry Moore, and four leaf clovers. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2011-03-23-163001-EDT.mp3 Download …

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