Aisha Sabatini Sloan reads from DREAMING OF RAMADI IN DETROIT (1913 Press 2017). We talk about interconnectedness, vulnerability, art, Galway Kinnell, and a Detroit ride-along. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2019-06-19-1700-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
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Eugene Huskey reads from Encounters at the Edge of the Muslim World: A Political Memoir of Kyrgyzstan (Rowman & Littlefield 2018). We talk about revolutions, fledgling democracy, friendship and the twists of fate. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2019-06-12-1700-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
Triple the fun on Living Writers with guests Patti F. Smith and Britain Woodman talking about Vanishing Ann Arbor (The History Press 2019) and Michael Andreoni talking about his short story collection The Window Is A Mirror (bhc Press 2018). We talk about Ann Arbor’s story, then, and now; putting together a long form history; paths to being a writer; and,
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David Maraniss reads from his twelfth book A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father (Simon & Schuster 2019). We talk about what it means to be American, the Spanish Civil War, 1952 and now, HUAC, and his father’s typed imperfect S. We also hear his father’s full statement that he was not allowed to
Jessica Abel reads from her latest book Growing Gills: How to find creative focus when you’re drowning in your daily life (2017). We talk about radio, podcasts, graphic novels, comics, self-publishing, creative focus and doing what you believe in. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2019-04-17-1700-EDT.mp3 Download Audio photo credit: Jessica Abel
Ellen Muehlberger reads from Moment of Reckoning: Imagined Death and Its Consequences in Late Ancient Christianity (Oxford University Press 2019). We talk about the postmortal, compulsion, morality and violence. We also talk about working on the big project, the making of a new idea– and then the making of the book. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2019-04-10-1700-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
Carol Jacobsen reads from For Dear Life: Women’s Decriminalization and Human Rights in Focus (University of Michigan Press 2019). We talk about social justice documentaries, the Michigan Women’s Justice and Clemency Project, feminism, human rights, survival, and art. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2019-02-13-1700-EST.mp3 Download Audio
Guest host Amanda Uhle talks with Samantha Irby, author of the bestseller We Are Never Meeting in Real Life and Meaty. Samantha is also creator of the blog Bitches Gotta Eat. Meaty is currently being developed as a comedy series with FX, starring Broad City’s Abbi Jacobson. They will talk about humor, feminism, Michigan, and snacks. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2018-12-19-1700-EST.mp3 Download Audio
Guest host Amanda Uhle talks with Luke Shaefer, co-author with Kathryn Edin of $2.00 A Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America. They talk about how poverty in the U.S. has deepened and expanded in the last 25 years and about the role of public policy in those changes. They also talk about eye-opening data and the
