Julian Levinson reads from his book Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Writers and American Literary Cultur” (2008) published by Indiana University Press. We talk about Walt Whitman, Emma Lazarus and The Rolling Stones. We also talk about the origins of this project– and why the introduction begins with this from Allen Ginsberg’s America: “America I still haven’t told […]
Khaled Mattawa reads from his latest poetry collection Amorisco (2008) published by Ausable Press. We also hear selections from two books of his translations of Iman Mersal and Joumana Haddad–and talk about how working in translation impacts and informs his own poetry. We talk about his early years in Libya and what it is like to make a
Michael Shilling reads from his debut novel Rock Bottom from Little, Brown & Company. We talk about writing from multiple character perspectives. We also talk about humor and pacing–and the challenge of creating a story as an insider within a particular culture or industry that others dream about. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2009-01-14-161501-EST.mp3 Download Audio
Author, educator, and environmentalist Bill McKibben talks about his book Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future as well as 350.org, his project to encourage a global grassroots campaign on climate change. Also we talk about community radio, the predicament of “fighting, not writing” and why nature writing is our century’s major contribution to literature.
John Marshall reads from his book Meaning a Cloud published by Oberlin Press. We talk about chapbooks and broadsides, James Tate, and the shop in Seattle he co-owns with his wife–Open Books: A Poem Emporium. We also talk about how to structure a book that spans several decades of poems–and the marketplace. Download Audio For more
From the archives: 2008 C.D. Wright reads from her book of poems Rising, Falling, Hovering (Copper Canyon Press). We talk about misery and love, “making it up,” and what it means to be an American Artist. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2008-04-16-161501-EDT.mp3 Download Audio Photo credit: Forrest Gander Original airdate: April 16, 2008
textsound: an online audio publication: two of the founding editors, Anna Vitale and Laura Wetherington, join T in the studio. We talk about textsound’s mission and vision–and the experimental idea. We also talk about the online arts community, the Scandanavian connection and the art of arranging sound in journal form. Download Audio
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:
