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Nancy Pearl

Nancy Pearl reads from her novel George & Lizzie (Touchstone 2017).  We talk about imagining characters into life, carrying an unfinished poem within you, and being America’s Librarian. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2017-10-05-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio To head to Nancy Pearl’s website, click here!  

Little Bang Theory: Terri Sarris, Doug Shimmin & Frank Pahl

Little Bang Theory–Terri Sarris, Doug Shimmin and Frank Pahl– talk about their work and about the Ann Arbor Film Festival featuring the film A Page of Madness with musical accompaniment by Little Bang Theory–with Ichiro Kataoka as the benshi.   We talk about toys, stop motion, puppets and adaptation. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2017-03-22-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more on the band, click here!

Benjamin Paloff

Benjamin reads from And His Orchestra published by Carnegie Mellon University Press.  We talk about David Bowie, translation, riffs and associations, structure and The Nation. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2017-02-01-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio

Eileen Pollack

Eileen Pollack reads from her latest novel A Perfect LIfe published by Ecco.  We talk about writing a scientific detective story, genetic markers, uncertainty and risk.  We also talk about a book finding its time and publisher. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2016-09-21-170001-EDT.mp3 Download For more about the author, click here!

Diane Rehm

Diane Rehm reads from her latest book On My Own published by Borzoi Books, an imprint of Knopf.  We’ll talk about determination, dignity and light. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2016-03-30-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here!    

Karen Russell

Karen Russell reads from her collection of short stories Vampires in the Lemon Grove published by Alfred A. Knopf. We talk about the imagination and the making of short stories or a novel. We also talk about Florida and “Swamplandia!” and the weather (of all things!). http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2013-12-18-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here!

Benjamin Paloff

Benjamin Paloff reads from his book of poems The Politics (2011) published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. We talk about philosophers, Polish poets, Atlantic City and Boston. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2012-02-01-163001-EST.mp3 Download Audio

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Carl Phillips

From the archive: 2011 Carl Phillips reads from Double Shadow (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011). We also hear poems from The Rest of Love, Riding Westward, and A Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986-2006.  We talk about Dickinson, Cape Cod, the influences of the Ancient Greeks, the lyric, love, and how poems are like prayers. …

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ZZ Packer

From the archive: 2010 ZZ Packer reads from Buffalo Soldiers, her novel-in-progress.  We talk about Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (Riverhead Books 2003) and about sending stories out into the world–and how much work it actually takes to have someone say that your prose is “effortless.” We also talk about politics, revision, and what “Sometimes You Get …

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Richard Price

From the archives: 2008 Richard Price reads from his novel Lush Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008) .  We talk about Manhattan’s Lower East Side and his method for finding the story.  We also talk about screenwriting versus the novel, dynamic dialogue and The Wire. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2008-03-26-161501-EDT.mp3 Download Audio   Photo credit: Lorraine Adams Original airdate: …

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