Kathleen Rooney
Kathleen Rooney reads from Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey (Penguin Books 2020). http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2020-10-07-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
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Natalie Bakopoulos
Natalie Bakopoulos discusses her novel Scorpionfish (Tin House 2020). We talk about first swims, balconies and growing into your writer self. We also talk about Elena Ferrante, identity, gender, and Greece. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2020-09-09-170001-EDT.mp3 Download Audio Bonus: For the last quarter of this episode, you’ll hear songs from Natalie’s playlist for Scorpionfish and Living Writers. For the
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Kiley Reid
Kiley Reid reads from her debut novel Such A Fun Age (Putnam 2019). We talk about listening to your characters, writing about class and race, and building strong plots.
Markus Zusak
Markus Zusak reads from Bridge of Clay (Knopf 2018). We talk about the lives of boys, long projects, structure and redemption.
Wayétu Moore
Wayétu Moore reads from She Would Be King (Graywolf Press 2018). We talk about magical realism, origin stories, Liberia, and One Moore Book.
Rebecca Clarren
Novelist and journalist Rebecca Clarren (KICKDOWN, Skyhorse Publishing, 2018) reads from her novel, a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Summer host Amanda Uhle and Rebecca Clarren talk about writing with a social cause in mind, journalistically reporting a novel, and the American West. We also consider whether KICKDOWN is maybe part of a
Joanna Howard
Summer host Amanda Uhle talks with Joanna Howard, author of the novel Foreign Correspondent and three short story collections. Her memoir, Rerun Era, is due out in October 2019 from McSweeney’s. We talk about memory and memoir, The Jeffersons, MASH, and growing up in rural America.
Cristina Henríquez
Summer host Amanda Uhle talks with Cristina Henríquez, author of The Book of Unknown Americans (Vintage 2014). Her other work includes The World in Half and the short story collection Come Together, Fall Apart. We talk about writing from multiple points of view, immigration policy, meeting one’s readers in person, and supporting youth writers in the 826 network
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Ocean Vuong
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
Gina Brandolino
Gina Brandolino reads from her latest essay The Monster Inside: Frankenstein’s Legacy (2018).We talk about horror, the devil, films, monsters, and things you can’t unsee. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2019-01-16-1700-EST.mp3″ Download Audio
