Tune in today to hear comics artist Gillian Goerz talk about Shirley & Jamila Save Their Summer and Shirley & Jamila’s Big Fall (Dial Books for Young Readers/Penguin 2021). We talk about middle grade graphic novels, Sherlock Holmes, finding your way in the project as you go, mentors, and comics camp in Alaska. Please join us this wintry afternoon– http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2025-02-12-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio […]
Tune in today to hear Miles Harvey read from The Registry of Forgotten Objects: Stories (Mad Creek Books 2024). We talk about linking stories, Michigan moments, MFA programs, a sense of loss, listening to old stories, and transformative times. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2025-01-22-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio *taped January 16, 2025 *thanks to Sheryl Johnston *thanks to Jason Adam Voss for engineering and
Tune in today to hear co-editor Rebekah Modrak read from Trouble In Censorville: The Far Right’s Assault on Public Education and the Teachers Who Are Fighting Back (Disobedience Press 2024). We are joined via phone by Willie Carver and Martha Hickson, two of the book’s contributors, who will speak about their experiences and their lives now. We
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Today poets Katie Hartsock, J.C. Scharl, and James Matthew Wilson read poems from their latest collections, Wolf Trees (Able Muse Press 2023), Ponds (Cascade Books 2024), and Saint Thomas and the Forbidden Birds (Word on Fire 2024), respectively. We talk about what it means to each poet to understand their work in today’s world as they identify as Catholic poets. What
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Stream or tune in today to hear Mary Gaitskill read poems from The Devil’s Treasure: A Book of Stories & Dreams (McNally Editions). We talk about dreams, novels, short stories, memoirs, and collage. We also talk about cats, beauty, cruelty, pity, and grace. Hope you can join us this afternoon– T Hetzel http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2024-03-20-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio *thanks to Jason
Ross Gay reads from The Book of (More) Delights (Algonquin Press 2023). We talk about life projects, joy, poems, and getting lost. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2023-12-06-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio *many thanks to Jason Voss for engineering
Tune in today to hear poet Katie Hartsock read from Wolf Trees (Able Muse Press) and poet Jennifer Metsker read from Hypergraphia and Other Failed Attempts at Paradise (New Issues). We talk about poems and process, birds and wolves, mental health, diabetes, writing groups, space on the page, the world, and trees. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2023-04-05-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
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Tune in today for an interview with writer/historian/musician Michael Hurtt, co-author with Billy Miller of Mind Over Matter – the Myths and Mysteries of Detroit’s Fortune Records (Kicks Books, 2020). This exhaustively-researched, lavishly-illustrated booktells the fascinating story of a mom-and-pop record company that issued nearly 400 records which documented Detroit’s pre-Motown blues, gospel, country, and doo wop artists. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2021-04-28-170001-EDT.mp3
While in Ann Arbor, Kristin Hersh, Grant-Lee Phillips, and John Doe talk about their The Exile Follies 2020 tour. We talk about collaboration and process, mystery, and creating experience. We also talk about how music is fearless. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2020-02-12-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio
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Jeannie Gaffigan reads from When Life Gives You Pears (Grand Central Publishing 2019). We talk about memoir, comedy writing and The Imagine Society. We also talk about family, faith, and healing.
