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Claire Vaye Watkins

Claire Vaye Watkins reads from her novel Gold Fame Citrus published by Riverhead Books. We’ll talk about invention, faith, the desert, water. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2015-09-30-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here!

Cat Warren

Cat Warren reads from What the Dog Knows: Scent, Science, and the Amazing Ways Dogs Perceive the World published by Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, Inc. We talk about science journalism and creative nonfiction. We also talk about working dogs — cadaver dogs, particularly. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2015-08-12-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here!

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Jean Valentine

From the archive: 2015 Poet Jean Valentine reads from Break the Glass and Shirt In Heaven (Copper Canyon Press). We talk about memory, elegy, music and dreaming. Take heart. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2015-04-22-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here! Original airdate: April 22, 2015

Jesse Walker

Jesse Walker reads from The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory (2013) published by HarperCollins. We talk about things that might make you nervous – and also rebels on the air. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-11-12-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here!

Alice Walker

From the archives Alice Walker talks about Zora Neale Hurston, voting, activism, inheritance, offerings,”This Human Journey,” and gardens. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2014-11-05-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio Original air date: November 5, 2014

Franz Wright

Franz Wright reads poems from Kindertotenwald (Knopf 2013).  We talk about wearing masks, about the difficult twenties, and about seeing the drawbacks of MFA programs (while still loving scholars and universities).  We also talk about finding your secret of writing, “king of the cats,” and the universal. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2011-10-12-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio photo credit: Garin Horner In 2011 Franz Wright …

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Andre Williams

From the archive: 2010 Andre Williams reads from his book Sweets and Other Stories (Kicks Books 2009). You may know Andre, as many do, as “Mr. Rhythm” from his time at Fortune Records and Chess Records and in Motown with hits such as “Bacon Fat,” “Greasy Chicken,” Jail Bait,” and many others.  A true legend. …

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Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead reads from his novel Sag Harbor published by Doubleday. We talk about drawing on your own past and using elements of autobiography to frame what ideas you want to explore in your fiction.  What are the risks and pay-offs involved?  We also talk about summer at the shore and the 80s:  music, fashion, and …

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C.D. Wright

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

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