This show and the next has a special focus on Detroit, in part to mark the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1967 uprising. Frances Stroh, author of Beer Money, talks about her family’s beer empire and their legacy. We talk memoir, money, families, art, and shifting perspectives on real life facts. We talk beer. And of […]
Will Schwalbe reads from Books for Living published by Knopf (2017). We talk about joy, connecting books to moments in your life, the 80s, and MMMBop. For more on this author, click here! http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2017-04-05-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio *recorded 3/9/2017
From the archive 2017 Joy Harjo talks about Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings and Crazy Brave (W.W. Norton). We talk about perceived power, flying, stories and the saxophone, and debut her latest song! Joy Harjo gave the Second Annual Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr. Lecture in Native American Studies. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2017-03-15-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio Original airdate: March 15, 2017
From the archives: Nikki Giovanni reads from Chasing Utopia (William Morrow/HarperCollins 2013). We talk about passion and poems, speaking out and spoken word, mothers, grandmothers, watching, and wine. Stay busy! http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2013-12-11-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio photo credit: Nikki Giovanni
Christine Montross reads from her book Falling Into the Fire: A Psychiatrist’s Encounters with the Mind in Crisis published by Penguin Press. We talk about ambiguity, doubt, and the inherent discomfort doctors have with helplessness. We also talk about the writing of a memoir as a way to more deeply understand the stories we are living
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Dale Peck reads from The Garden of Lost and Found (2012) published by Mischief & Mayhem. We talk about novels, memoir, criticism, activism, young adult books, pie, and a writer’s manifesto. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2013-10-09-1700-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Kristin Hersh reads from her book Rat Girl: A Memoir out with Penguin Books. We talk about Throwing Muses, and unlikely friends and mentors, and the lives of songs. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2013-05-29-160001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio For more about the author, click here! photo credit: from Kristin Hersh’s website
From the archive: 2010 Kazim Ali reads from Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities (Wesleyan University Press 2009). We talk about gender theory, Yoko Ono, and blurring genre. We also talk about the geography of emotion and the past. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2010-10-13-163001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio Original airdate: October 13, 2010 Recording date: October 7, 2010 Photo credit: press kit
