A conversation with Jonathan Lethem, a very good sport indeed. Jonathan Lethem‘s visit also marks WCBN’s fundraising week. We talk about his books Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude and Chronic City published in paperback by Vintage. If you like quirky, insightful, danceable programming, please support your local radio. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2011-03-16-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click […]
From the archive: 2011 Carl Phillips reads from Double Shadow (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011). We also hear poems from The Rest of Love, Riding Westward, and A Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986-2006. We talk about Dickinson, Cape Cod, the influences of the Ancient Greeks, the lyric, love, and how poems are like prayers.
George Bornstein reads from The Colors of Zion: Blacks, Jews, and Irish from 1845 to 1945 published by Harvard University Press. We talk about the process of looking closely at the connections and relationships among Blacks, Jews, and Irish between the Irish Famine and the end of World War II. We also talk about the writing life
Izzeldin Abuelaish reads from his book I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor’s Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity (2010) published by Walker & Company. We talk about growing up in the Jabalia refugee camp, his work at the Soroka Medical Center in Israel, and the loss of his three daughters in 2009. More about
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John Beer reads from his debut collection The Waste Land and Other Poems (2010) published Canarium Books. We talk about first books, Bob Hope, Boston terriers and a “Theses on Failure” which could be another way to talk about love. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2011-01-19-163001-EST.mp3 Download Audio
