R.J. Fox reads from his debut novel Love & Vodka: My Surreal Adventures in Ukraine published by Fish Out of Water Books. We are joined in the studio by Jon and Laurie Wilson, the publishers. We talk music and travel and love stories. What could be better? http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2016-03-09-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, […]
Martin Espada reads poems from The Trouble Ball (Norton 2011) and The Republic of Poetry (2006) and talks about his collection of essays The Lover of a Subversive Is Also a Subversive (The University of Michigan Press: Poets on Poetry Series 2010). We talk about practical poetry and a sense of urgency. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2015-03-18-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Nicholas Delbanco reads from his 29th book Dear Wizard: The Letters of Nicholas Delbanco and Jon Manchip White published by University of Michigan Press. We talk about the art of teaching, music and memories, and departure. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-12-10-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here!
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
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
From the archive: 2013 Farnoosh Fathi reads from Great Gus (Canarium Books 2013). We talk about Brazil, translation, Emily Dickinson, art and interviewing. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2013-03-13-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio Original airdate: March 13, 2013 Photo credit: Alan Bernheimer
From the archive: 2012 Toi Derricotte reads from The Undertaker’s Daughter (University of Pittsburgh Press 2011). We talk about nuns, about chaos, about balance and a sense of what’s true. We also hear Toi lead off the show singing one of her favorite songs by Billie Holiday. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-11-21-163001-EST.mp3 Download Audio Original airdate: November 21, 2012
Carrie Fountain reads from Burn Lake (2010) published by Penguin Books. We talk about history and region in poems, naming a book, The Broken Spoke and dancing in Austin. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-09-19-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here!
Bruce Duffy reads from Disaster Was My God: A novel of the outlaw life of Arthur Rimbaud (2011) published by Doubleday. We talk about nonfiction novels–what is real, imagined–and the mystery of the boundaries that imagination crosses. We also hear stories about travels in Ethiopia, retracing Rimbaud’s steps. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-04-11-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Calvin Forbes reads from The Shine Poems published by Louisiana State University Press. We talk about radio and creating a character from a song–traveling, folklore, and the music of Janis Joplin and Donny Hathaway. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-02-22-163001-EST.mp3 Download Audio
