Carmela Ciuraru reads from her marvelous book Nom de Plume: A (Secret) History of Pseudonyms. Exploring the fascinating stories of more than a dozen authorial impostors across several centuries and cultures, Carmela Ciuraru plumbs the creative...
In this Eleventh Hour, Karen Bender addresses a strategy that she found helpful while writing her first novel—finding a short excerpt within it and polishing it to send out. She discusses the differences between a story and a novel, what to look...
Lee Sandlin reads from Storm Kings, a tale of supercell tornadoes and the quirky, pioneering, weather-obsessed scientists whose discoveries created the science of modern meteorology. "If the vast majority of climate scientists are right, the...
Swedish critic and fiction writer Steve Sem-Sandberg reads his essay, 'In Another Part of the City.' In this piece, the author pursues the identity of the post-modern city, and how society can locate meaning and morality within. Finnish fiction...
Mike Finn begins the discussion, but the sound is so bad that you can't hear what he is saying and then part way through H. S. Shivaprakash's talk the sound comes in more clearly. Shivaprakash discusses shape-changing, different forms of theater,...
The tape begins with Christopher Merrill in the process of introducing the Russian poet Ilya Kaminsky. Kaminsky reads selected poems from his work Dancing in Odessa. The poems read include 'American Tourist,' 'Dancing in Odessa,' 'Musica Humana,'...
Tim Johnston reads from his highly praised new young adult novel Never So Green. Little league competition, terrible family secrets, and two adolescent outcasts finding solace in one another.
Author Larry Brown reads from his latest novel The Rabbit Factory. Brown weaves together a motley array of characters into a story in which the main theme is the botched choices and missed chances that keep people apart, and the strange and sudden...
World music critic Bob Tarte reads from his new book Enslaved by Ducks. Tarte steps away from his music columns to write a funny, loving memoir about life at the center of a maelstrom of ducks, rabbits, cats and other non-humans. Bob Tarte's witty...
Includes notes of telephone conversations in Henry A. Wallace's office while he was Secretary of Commerce. Notes of occasional earlier telephone conversations while Wallace was in government service, 1933-1945, were not kept separate and may be...