Here’s a special Fundraiser 2019 edition of Living Writers with wonderful guests George Cooper, Brent Bryan of Big Love Recording Collective, Angie Berkley + Gina Brandolino of the podcast Behind the Scaffolding, and Scott Beal from Skazat!
Fun-Fundraiser 2019: any pledge big or small counts greatly to us. Donate online here!
Guest host Amanda Uhle talks with Leland de la Durantaye, author of Hannah vs. the Tree (McSweeney’s 2018). A Michigan native, De la Durantaye is currently a professor, critic, and translator based in Los Angeles. They talk about the book’s Michigan setting, the power of families in novels, and much more.
photo credit: Rosalie Atkinson
Lo Dagerman reads from her father Stig Dagerman’s novel now available in translation Wedding Worries (David R. Godine 2018). We talk about vocation, youth, fathers, legacy and coming home to art.
Stig Dagerman collage by Lo Dagerman, featuring Stig Dagerman at 9 years old with his paternal grandparents and their farmhouse–all inspiration for his novel Wedding Worries, written at age 26.
Hannah Ensor reads poems from her debut LOVE DREAM WITH TELEVISION (Noemi Press 2018). We talk about the desert, basketball, book sections, shapes of poems, anxiety + of course love dreams.
Michael A. Ferro reads from his debut novel Title 13 (Harvard Square Editions 2018). We talk about navigating the writing world, postmodernists, humor writing, government workers and the wood wasp.
Lydia Davis and Maya West in the studio
Does your cat write love letters? Does your dog write odes?
Please join us today to hear George Cooper, Lillian Li, Ali Shapiro, Stephanie Douglass Carpenter, Gina Brandolino and Jim Shepard read dog and cat poems and more.
And…the world premiere of Maybe by Home:George.
Lillian Li with her debut novel Number One Chinese Restaurant and George Cooper of Home:George
Karen Dionne reads from The Marsh King’s Daughter (Putnam 2017). We talk about writing a psychological suspense, fairy tales, and the UP.
Jill Darling reads poems from a geography of syntax (Lavender Ink 2016). We talk about lyric intervention, topography, Gertrude Stein and movement.
To learn more, click this link to head to the writer’s website.
