Karen Dionne reads from The Marsh King’s Daughter (Putnam 2017). We talk about writing a psychological suspense, fairy tales, and the UP.
Karen Dionne
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Jill Darling
Jill Darling reads poems from a geography of syntax (Lavender Ink 2016). We talk about lyric intervention, topography, Gertrude Stein and movement.
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Tarfia Faizullah
Tarfia Faizullah reads poems from Seam, chosen for the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award, published by Southern Illinois University Press. We talk about writing a long sequence. We also talk about imagination and research–and the unforgotten.
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Peter Ho Davies
Peter Ho Davies reads from his novel The Fortunes published this fall by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. We talk about structure, Detroit, and China. We also talk about truth and fiction, Joe Strummer, and other things we are thankful for.
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Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foer reads from his novel Here I Am published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
We talk about process, reflex and intuition. We also talk about valuing writing as an act of personal expression. And how he is not the same person who wrote his first two books.
Michele Oka Doner
Michele Oka Doner talks about her photobook Into the Mysterium published by Regan Arts. We talk about curiosity and wonder, her life-long study of the natural world, and Miami Beach.
We also talk about being a student at Michigan in the 60s.
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Angela Dillard
Angela D. Dillard talks about her book Faith in the City: Preaching Radical Social Change in Detroit published by the University of Michigan Press. We talk about good and bad religion, labor unions, activism, and key figures in Detroit’s history from the 30s to the 60s–and how this connects to Detroit today.
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R.J. Fox
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?
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Martin Espada
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.
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Nicholas Delbanco
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.
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