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 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
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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Wendy S. Walters read from her books Multiply/Divide: On the American Real and Surreal (Sarabande) and Troy, Michigan (Futurepoem). We talk about the blurring of genre in creative nonfiction, about long poems, lyric essays, Detroit electronica and more. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2023-03-29-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio *thanks to Ashley Bates and Zell Visiting Writers Series *recorded 23 March 2023 in the studio *many thanks to Frank Uhle for engineering
Elizabeth Wason talks about science writing and her work as managing editor for Resources for the Future, a DC think tank. We talk about getting accessible expert insight and research in front of policymakers. We also talk about writing through editing, about “getting out of the way” in collaboration, and about creating visually compelling composition.
Ryan Walsh reads from his book of poems Reckonings (Baobab 2019). We talk about a poem’s responsibility, connecting across time, and a spelter zinc plant.
Markus Zusak reads from Bridge of Clay (Knopf 2018). We talk about the lives of boys, long projects, structure and redemption.
Summer host Amanda Uhle talks with historian, author, journalist, essayist, and actress Sarah Vowell. Vowell has written seven nonfiction books on American history and culture, was a contributing editor to This American Life from 1996 to 2008, and was the voice of Violet Parr in the animated film The Incredibles and its sequel. We talk about what it
Guest host Amanda Uhle talks with Ocean Vuong author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin Press 2019) about poetry, memory, masculinity, language, newcomers to America, and finding a sense of home and belonging. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2019-06-26-1700-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Mabel O. Wilson reads from Begin With the Past: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture (Smithsonian Books 2016). We’ll talk about design, dissertation to book, museums, making, Virginia, and Who Builds Your Architecture? http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2019-02-27-1700-EST.mp3 Download Audio
