Kwame Dawes reads from Duppy Conqueror: New and Selected Poems (2013) published by Copper Canyon Press. We talk about movement, Marley, hope and memory. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-07-16-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here! photo credit: Chris Abani
Lolita Hernandez reads from her story collection Making Callaloo in Detroit published by Wayne State University Press. We talk about storytelling, magic, factories and dasheen leaves. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-07-09-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here!
Karen Joy Fowler discusses her novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (Plume 2013). We talk about imagination, character, Kafka, Jane Austen, and animal – human relationship. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-07-02-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here! photo credit: Beth Gwinn
Leslie Jamison reads from her essay collection The Empathy Exams published by Graywolf Press. We talk about anthems, manifestos, pain and the soundtrack for driving on one Michigan night. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-05-07-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here!
Kodi Scheer reads from her debut story collection Incendiary Girls published by New Harvest. We talk about magical realism, horses, the mind and body, and Prairie Lights. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-09-03-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here!
Jane Smiley, author of A Thousand Acres (1991), talks about horses, King Lear, research and writing a novel. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-04-02-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Thomas Lynch joins T in a conversation to celebrate National Poetry Month, featuring poems by Conrad Hilberry and his collection published by Wayne State University Press Until The Full Moon Has Its Say. Also on the table are poems by Dennis O’Driscoll, Michael Donaghy, Maxine Kumin, and Seamus Heaney. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-03-26-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Jim Ottaviani reads from his graphic novel Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birute Galdikas published by First Second. We talk about making comic books about the history of science, Feynman, and research as inspiration. We also talk about nuclear reactors and quetzals. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-01-08-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio
