Hear Deborah Eisenberg read from “The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg” published this April by Picador. We will talk about the intensity of the short story form. We’ll also talk about dialogue and character–ex-pats and superheroes. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2010-04-07-161501-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
John Freeman reads from his book “The Tyranny of E-mail: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox” published by Scribner in 2009. We’ll talk about the genesis of this project, his passion for writers and reading, and his work at the helm of Granta. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2010-03-10-161501-EST.mp3 Download Audio March 10, 2010 4:15-5:15
Hear Joshua Ferris read from his new novel “The Unnamed” published in January by Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown. We’ll talk about writing the second novel, Emily Dickinson, Key West, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2010-02-10-161501-EST.mp3 Download Audio **Thanks to Sabrina Callahan and Marlena Bittner at Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown for sending copies of “The Unnamed” and “Then
Joshua Ferris reads from his new novel The Unnamed published by Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown. We talk about writing the second novel, Emily Dickinson, Key West, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2010-02-10-161501-EST.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here!
Poet Matthew Dickman called from Portland, Oregon earlier this year to talk about his book “All American Poem”– http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2009-12-30-163001-EST.mp3 Download Audio
Robert Fanning reads from his collection American Prophet out with Marick Press. We talk about creating a character that speaks for an entire book of poems and what that allows to surface in the work. We also talk about humor, Detroit, the vision within Elvisfest and the karaoke of a Master. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2009-07-29-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio To visit
From the archive: 2008 Deborah Eisenberg reads from her latest collection of short stories Twilight of the Superheroes (Picador 2007). We talk about the glories of the short story–and plays and politics. We talk about public life, fiction and privacy. We also talk about empathy in fiction and economy of language. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2008-10-15-161501-EDT.mp3 Download Audio Photo credit:
