Today Weike Wang reads from her latest novel Rental House (Riverhead Books 2024). We talk about interludes, and writing challenges and discoveries. We also talk about family, race, class, money, dogs, and the beach. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2025-04-02-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio *thanks to Julie Cadman-Kim & Zell Visiting Writers Series *thanks to Jason Voss for engineering, for website work, and for music
Tune in today to hear Mason Stokes read from All the Truth I Can Stand (Calkins Creek 2024). We talk about young-adult speculative historical fiction, research, Matthew Shepard, imagination and empathy. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2025-03-12-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Tune in today to hear Millicent E. Brown read from Another Sojourner Looking for Truth: My Journey from Civil Rights to Black Power and Beyond (The University of South Carolina Press 2024). We talk about the continuing work and strength of activism, the power of telling the story, and how it all began at 270 Ashley Avenue in
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Stream or tune in today to hear Jane Wong read from Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City: A Memoir (Tin House 2023). We talk about familial and historical archives, research, and memoir. We also talk about poems, pizza, humor, and hermit crabs! http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2025-02-19-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio *thanks to Julie Cadman-Kim & Zell Visiting Writers Series *thanks to Isabel and Becky at
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 Tyehimba Jess read from Olio (Wave Books 2016). We talk about music, forms, poems on a page that folds out, research, performance, and deconstructing received history and reconstructing it in a new way through poems and prose. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2025-02-05-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio
Tune in today to hear poet Brittany Rogers read from Good Dress (Tin House 2024). We talk about writing, teaching, performance, podcasting, and the day-to-day work of humanity. Please join us this wintry afternoon– http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2025-01-29-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio *thanks to Becky and Isabel at Tin House *thanks to Jason Adam Voss for engineering today’s show and Living Writers website
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 Divya Victor read from Curb (Nightboat 2021). We talk about form/function, art books, comfort and discomfort, questionnaires, creative writing programs and creative communities, and one’s own work space. Please join us this wintry afternoon– T Hetzel http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2025-01-15-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio *thanks to Julie Cadman-Kim at Zell Visiting Writers Series *thanks to Jason Adam Voss for engineering today’s show
Tune in today to hear Michigan Poet Laureate Nandi Comer and Michigan poets Brittany Rogers, Jonah Mixon-Webster, and M. Bartley Seigel talk about Michigan Words: the project and the poems. We also will hear their poems as we celebrate this work! http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2024-12-11-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio Michigan Words Michigan Words is a statewide billboard campaign celebrating contemporary Michigan poetry. The billboards
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