Guest host Amanda Uhle talks with Abbey Mei Otis about her stories Alien Virus Love Disaster (Small Beer Press 2018). Strong and haunting science fiction. What more do you need for your poolside, or mountain top? http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2018-08-16-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Richard Russo reads from Destiny Thief: Essays on Writing, Writers and Life (Knopf 2018). We talk about looking backwards to make sense of things, creativity and mental illness, voice and honesty, Springsteen, and destiny. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2018-07-12-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio *taped on June 6th, 2018, anniversary of D-Day
Guest host Amanda Uhle talks with Fatima Farheen Mirza about her novel A Place For Us (SJP for Hogarth/Penguin 2018); they talk about family relationships, the challenges of writing a first novel, and how characters can live on after a story is done. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2018-06-28-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
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Guest host Amanda Uhle speaks with Hannah Pittard about her novel Visible Empire (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018), book tours, writing inspired by true events, racism, siblings, and the legacy of loss. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2018-06-21-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Lillian Li reads from her debut novel Number One Chinese Restaurant (Henry Holt 2018). We talk about family, a donkey fable, working at a restaurant, and asking yourself questions as a writer. We also talk about duck. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2018-06-14-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Michael A. Ferro reads from his debut novel Title 13 (Harvard Square Editions 2018). We talk about navigating the writing world, postmodernists, humor writing, government workers and the wood wasp. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2018-06-07-170001-EDT.mp3 Download audio
Jim Shepard reads from his story collection The World To Come (Vintage 2018). We talk about natural disasters, humanity, keeping in contact with the notion of play, last lines and beagles. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2018-05-31-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Michael Zadoorian reads from his new novel Beautiful Music (Akashic Books 2018). We talk about his factory-town approach to writing and his strong sense of place; we also talk about his father’s struggle with Alzheimer’s, his novel The Leisure Seeker and Italy. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2018-05-24-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Leah Stewart reads from her novel What You Don’t Know About Charlie Outlaw (Putnam 2018). We talk about identity, researching character, being an observer, voice and Cincinnati. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2018-05-10-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Weike Wang reads from her debut novel Chemistry now out in paperback (Vintage Books 2018). We talk about voice, nontraditional chapters and leaps, writing the second book, dogs and fun facts about chemistry. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2018-05-03-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
