Tune in today to hear Miles Harvey read from The Registry of Forgotten Objects: Stories (Mad Creek Books 2024). We talk about linking stories, Michigan moments, MFA programs, a sense of loss, listening to old stories, and transformative times. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2025-01-22-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio *taped January 16, 2025 *thanks to Sheryl Johnston *thanks to Jason Adam Voss for engineering and […]
Catherine Lacey reads from Certain American States: Stories (Picador 2018) in a special Fundraiser 2020 episode of Living Writers. We talk about websites, irresolution, humor, dogs, and her novel Pew out in May 2020. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2020-02-19-170001-EST.mp3 Download Audio WCBN Fundraiser 2020: visit www.wcbn.org to pledge on-line
Jac Jemc reads from False Bingo (FSG Originals 2019). We talk about tactical elements of the writing life. We also talk about being playful, about finding and building community, and about a frog.
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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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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Aimee Bender joins Living Writers via phone from California and reads part of her short story “Tiger Mending” from The Color Master (Vintage & Anchor Books 2013). We talk about creativity + limitation, exhilaration, Virginia Woolf + a room of one’s own, and consequences. In the last quarter of the episode, T reads the prologue
Steve Hughes reads from Stiff (Wayne State University Press 2018). We talk about short stories, launch points, Detroit, first person, community and zines. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2018-11-21-1700-EST.mp3 Download Audio Link to writer’s website
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
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
Lydia Davis reads from The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis (2010) and Can’t and Won’t (Picador 2014). We’ll talk about The Beatles, dreams, translation, and cows. http://beanball.wcbn.org/rss/Living_Writers/wcbn-living_writers-2018-03-21-1700-EDT.mp3 Download Audio
