Writer's Voice Archives
Writer’s Voice has been on the air since 2004, broadcasting more than 250 shows during that time. Most of our audio archives are on this site, and we’re always adding more of our earlier shows. Plus, we’ve got a growing collection of content exclusive to the Web site, such as author readings and extended interviews.
Also, there’s a complete list of every guest we’ve had on Writer’s Voice since 2004, with links to the audio archives for each of those shows.
- 2006: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2007: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2008: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2009: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2010: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
August 2010
- Alan Furst: Fiction, Suspense and the Moral Imperative
- How To Find Fulfillment: Bruce Frankel and Susan Whitbourne
- The War Over Climate: Eric Pooley & Eli Kintisch
- Harvey Sachs: Beethoven And His Heroic Era
- James Lee Burke: Murder and Redemption on the Bayou
July 2010
- Philip Schultz, The Poet & His Dyslexia
- The Social Change of Climate Change
- The Secret Arms Trade Between Israel & Apartheid South Africa
- Marisa Silver: Fiction Short and Long
June 2010
- War & Women in Afghanistan
- Web Extra: David Shenk Reads from THE GENIUS IN ALL OF US
- David Shenk on Genius & Genetics and David Chura on Kids in Lockup
- Amanda Little & Anna Lappé on Kicking the Dirty Fuels Habit
- Tales of Secrecy & Obsession
- Roy Morris Jr. on The Making of Mark Twain & Diane Wilson On Pollution in The Gulf
May 2010
- Hampton Sides On the Trail of An Assassin
- Web Extra: Nancy Rappaport on lessening the impact of divorce and custody decisions on children
- Memoirs of Suicide
- Isabel Allende's ISLAND BENEATH THE SEA
- Sadie Jones and Fernanda Eberstadt: Testing the Limits of Courage
- Web Extra: Poet Jon Anderson reads Richard Wilbur's "Hand Dance"
- Web Extra: David Bollier on Brand Name Bullies
April 2010
- The Digital Commons
- Earth Day 2010
- Coal Wars In The Mines and The Streets
- Archived Show: A Psychologist’s Search for the Meanings of Madness
March 2010
- Navigating our Dysfunctional Health Care System
- Is Life Any Better for Women in Afghanistan?
- Memoirs of Ireland
- Web Extra: Poet Marianne Boruch
- Is Marijuana Safer Than Alcohol?
- Web Extra: Mark Lamster
- Masters of Art, Science and Deception
February 2010
- Web Extra: Kim John Payne
- Raising Decent, Secure, and Happy Kids
- Money, Rights and the Value of Nothing
- Web Extra: Dom Sagolla
- Web Extra: Chris Brogan
- Changing The World With Social Media?
- Our Last Chance To Save Humanity
January 2010
- Web Extra: Howard Zinn archive interview
- Web Extra: Robert Parker archive interview
- Wars of Islamic Succession and Partners in Health in Haiti
- Searching for Whitopia
- Can only the super rich save us?
- The Biggest Stories You Never Read in 2009
December 2009
- Best of 2009 and A New Look At Ayn Rand
- Best of 2009
- The Book As Art
- Theater for the People and Recipes for Hard Times and Cooking Healthy
- Adapting to, Controlling and Solving The Climate Crisis
November 2009
- Saved by the Kindness of Strangers
- Web Extra: James Douglass on Lee Harvey Oswald
- Why JFK died and why it matters
- The Will To Resist
- Diaries of Disaster
- What Do We Learn About History From Novels?
- Web Extra: A Dramatic Reading By Enchanted Circle Theater
October 2009
- It's Getting Spooky Out! The Halloween Show
- Dying for the Story and Living Better on Less
- Are You Ready For Fire, Brimstone, Love And Writer's Block?
- What’s An Economy For, Anyway?
- Web Extra: Chris Hedges On Threats and Hope
- Empires of Illusion, Empires of Torture
September 2009
- Meth Epidemic In America's Heartland and Thoreau's Bad Day
- Migraines and Madness: The Upsides and Downsides
- Women Writing Powerfully About Women’s Lives
- Looking at New York City, Before and After 9/11
August 2009
- LIFE, INC. and Washington Sex Scandals, too
- Human Spaces and Liveable Cities
- SO SEXY SO SOON, Jean Kilbourne & HOLD LOVE STRONG, Matthew Aaron Goodman
- Richard Wilbur: Great American Poet
- Food Security and Insecurity
July 2009
- Les Leopold and Barney Frank: Wall Street and THE LOOTING OF AMERICA
- THE BROTHER GARDENERS and OUT OF SIGHT
- Curious Garden & Arecelis Girmay
- Jacqueline Sheehan
- Stephan Faris, FORECAST & Leonard Nimoy
June 2009
- Welsh Poet Gwyneth Lewis and Marshall Jon Fisher’s A TERRIBLE SPLENDOR
- Freedom and Democracy
- Poet Paul Muldoon and drama Voices in Conflict
- Birdsong by the Seasons and more
May 2009
- Sustainable Gardening
- Web Extra: Jeff Sharet Extended Interview
- Gail Hornstein, AGNES' JACKET
- College Rip-Off
- Pandemic Flu, Thrity Umrigar, and Jeff Sharlet
April 2009
- Natalie Goldberg and Ann Armbrecht
- Amy Seidl and Nikki Giovanni
- David Grann's Lost City of Z and David Cay Johnston's "Fiscal Therapy"
- Balancing the Brain
- CONSUMING KIDS and GAVIOTAS
March 2009
- Snark and Civility
- St. Patrick's Day with Alphie McCourt, and more.
- Molly Haskell, Frankly My Dear and more
- Surviving the Long Emergency
February 2009
- Verghese, CUTTING FOR STONE and Weil, Healthy Aging
- LONELINESS AS A WAY OF LIFE and MINDFULLY GREEN
- Slow Money/Fast Money...and Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast
- David S. Reynolds, WAKING GIANT and Wally Swist, MOUNT TOBY POEMS
January 2009
- Family Secrets: Ben Binstock and Hallie Ephron
- Swerling's CITY OF GOD and Michelson's AS GOOD AS ANYBODY
- Tyler Boudreau, PACKING INFERNO
- Best of 2008
December 2008
- THE JAZZ IDIOM and THE AMERICAN WAY OF WAR
- Paul Roberts THE END OF FOOD, MP Barker’s A DIFFICULT BOY and poet Annie Boutelle
- Paul Fisher's HOUSE OF WITS and Shakespeare Fans in the Inner City
- H.G. Adler's THE JOURNEY, Eating Tips for the Holidays, and a Thanksgiving story
November 2008
- Food for Health
- Joan Wickersham, THE SUICIDE INDEX and Jennet Conant, THE IRREGULARS
- Peter Manseau, SONGS FOR THE BUTCHER'S DAUGHTER and E.H. Winthrop, DECEMBER
- Alan Kronzek, SORCERER'S COMPANION and Studs Terkel Remembered
October 2008
- Terry Tempest Williams, MOSAIC
- Web Extra: Williams reads from Finding Beauty in a Broken World
- Comix as Art and Politics: Art Spiegelman and Greg Palast
- DISPATCHES FROM THE RELIGIOUS LEFT
- Ron Suskind, THE WAY OF THE WORLD and ELIZABETH WINTHROP, COUNTING ON GRACE
- Web Extra: Elizabeth Winthrop's Discovery of Addie Card
September 2008
- David Cay Johnston, FREE LUNCH
- T.J. English, HAVANA NOCTURNE and Marisa Silver, GOD OF WAR
- Toxic Cosmetics
- Toxic Legacies
August 2008
- David Lovelace, SCATTERSHOT and Maggie Jackson, DISTRACTED
- The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
- New Fiction from Paul Auster and Jennifer Haigh; Michael Klare on Russia-Georgia War
- John Kessel, BAUM PLAN FOR FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE
- Climate Change, Past, Present and Future
July 2008
- The Brain-Bridging Science and Spirituality
- Wind Energy Island, Milk-N-Honey, and Families of the Vine
- Melody Petersen
- New Fiction from Margot Livesy and Ellen Cooney
June 2008
- Margot Livesey, HOUSE ON FORTUNE STREET
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, THE BEAUTIFUL STRUGGLE
- Poet Frannie Lindsey, LAMB
- Anthony Lewis on the First Amendment
May 2008
- Louise Erdrich's THE PLAGUE OF DOVES and more...
- THE HAKAWATI and SO WRONG FOR SO LONG
- OLIVE KITTREDGE and THE END OF THE JEWS
- Web Extra: Elizabeth Strout reads from OLIVE KITTREDGE
- Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet. Bush's Law.
April 2008
- Nicholson Baker's HUMAN SMOKE and more...
- Poetry From the Grassroots
- Connie Hale of the Nieman Center
- AGE OF AMERICAN UNREASON and AGAINST THE MACHINE
- Philip Fradkin and Rutherford Platt
March 2008
- Poetry Speaks Expanded and Beyond Genocide
- Greg Palast on Spitzer and the Bank Bailout; also, Field Report on Narrative Journalism
- The Open-Focus Brain and Surviving Depression
- Eric Weitz's WEIMAR GERMANY
- Life With Asperger's
February 2008
- Web Extra: John Elder Robison talks about life with Asperger's
- Black History Month Special
- Kevin Patterson and John Hanson Mitchell
- Novelist Geraldine Brooks and Poet Laureate Al Young
- Book Excerpt: Normon Solomon, MADE LOVE, GOT WAR
- Russell Banks and Tahmima Anam
January 2008
- How Everyday Products Make Us Sick
- Web Extra: Devra Davis on Aspartame and Ritalin
- EVERY PAST THING and AMERICAN BLOOMSBURY
- EVERY PAST THING, by Pamela Thompson
- Norman Solomon and Valerie Martin
- DEEP WATER and DAM NATION
December 2007
- Secret Life of Houdini. And New Year's in Provence
- Frances Moore Lappe on GETTING A GRIP and more...
- Les Leopold and Richard Michelson
- George Monbiot on HEAT: How to Stop the Planet from Burning
- Dennis Lehane, CORONADO and Julia Glass, THE WHOLE WORLD OVER
November 2007
- Xiaoulu Guo, CONCISE ENGLISH DICTIONARY FOR LOVERS and more...
- Dahr Jamail, BEYOND THE GREEN ZONE
- Jewish Book Fair Authors
- Writer's Voice Listener Web Quiz
- Alan Weisman & Katharine Weber
October 2007
- Leonard Nimoy's THE FULL BODY PROJECT
- Francisco Goldman and Lynn Thompson
- Dr. Bruce Levine and George Monbiot
- The Annual WMUA Fund Drive: Great Books as Premiums!
- Wrestling With Angels, Clayton
September 2007
- How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future
- Should Water Be a Private or Public Resource?
- Focus on Global Warming
- Junot Diaz, BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO and Laraine Herring on writing
- Paul Hawken, BLESSED UNREST
August 2007
- TAJ MAHAL and some final Indian Tales
- ETHICAL MARKETS and more INDIAN TALES
- IAMBICS OF NEWFOUNDLAND and more INDIAN TALES
July 2007
- LIQUID JADE: The Story of Tea From East to West.
- The Most Famous Man In America
- AMERICAN FURIES and YURTS
- Medical Alternatives
June 2007
- Jacqueline Sheehan and Sophie Freud
- Special on Human Trafficking
- Patricia Klindienst, THE EARTH KNOWS MY NAME
- Steve Hendricks, THE UNQUIET GRAVE and Performance Artist D'Lo
May 2007
- Leslie Cerier and Jim Armenti
- Rasberry Almond Smoothie from GOING WILD IN THE KITCHEN
- Teff Pancakes Recipe from GOING WILD IN THE KITCHEN
- Bill McKibben and David Gessner
- David Sirota, HOSTILE TAKEOVER and Michelle Goldberg, KINGDOM COMING
- John Nichols, GENIUS OF IMPEACHMENT and Bill MacLeish
- LIGHT WITHIN THE LIGHT, Jeanne Braham and Barry Moser
April 2007
- SPOKEN WORD REVOLUTION; also, Anita Shreve
- Eesha Williams and Sefi Atta
- Jeremy Scahill and Giuliana Sgrena
- Ian Buruma and Andy Stern
- Writers on A Sense of Place, Part Two
March 2007
- Writers on A Sense of Place, Part One
- Eric Klinenberg, FIGHTING FOR AIR
- American Bloomsbury and the Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences
- St. Patrick's Day/Spring Special
- Michael Downing, SPRING FORWARD
- Marge Piercy, SEX WARS
February 2007
- Dr. David Elkind and memoirist Patty Dann
- KABUL IN WINTER; FINE PRINT OF SELF-PUBLISHING
- Web Extra: John Dickerson on The White House Press
- John Dickerson; Linda Cardillo
- The Knitting Circle, Media Reform
January 2007
- Mary Cowhey & Enchanted Circle Theater
- Simon Winchester and Dylan Schaffer
- Richard Ford and Scott Ritter
- Part Two: Scott Ritter
- Podcast of NEA Chairman Dana Gioia
- Eve Ensler: Insecure At Last
- Peter Barnes: Capitalism 3.0
December 2006
- Studs Terkel and more
- Richard Michelson & Maxine Kumin
- Rob Walch, TRICKS OF THE PODCASTING MASTERS
- Peter Bowerman, THE WELL-FED SELF PUBLISHER
- Rob Walch web exclusive
- Writer's Voice Host Wins Prestigious Journalism Award
November 2006
October 2006
- Call for Independent Exit Polling
- The Vote Count Protection Project
- Writer's Voice: October 6, 2006
- Web Extra: 9-11 Press for Truth video
- Tips and Links on Writing Memoir
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