Articles Tagged ‘ Fiction ’

Lois Leveen, THE SECRETS OF MARY BOWSER & Eve LaPlante, MARMEE & LOUISA

March 28th, 2013

Lois Leveen talks about her novel, The Secrets of Mary Bowser. It’s based on the remarkable true story of Mary Bowser, a freed slave who became a Union spy right inside the Confederate White House. And Eve LaPlante talks about her terrific new book, MARMEE AND LOUISA. It’s about the powerful relationship between Louisa May Alcott and her mother.

Sojourner Truth: Her Story & Meaning

December 19th, 2012

In the second episode in The River Runs Through Us, WV examines the life of Sojourner Truth and what she means to us. We talk with Jacqueline Sheehan about her novel about Sojourner Truth, THE COMET’S TALE; with historian Nell Irvin Painter, author of SOJOURNER TRUTH, A Life, A Symbol; and with Rachel Kuhn and Priscilla Kane Hellweg of the Enchanted Circle Theater about their musical play, SOJOURNER’S TRUTH: I Will Shake Every Place I Go To.

Ursula K. Le Guin, THE UNREAL AND THE REAL & Archer Mayor, PARADISE CITY

November 16th, 2012

Science fiction master Ursula K. Le Guin talks about her two-volume short story retrospective, just out from Small Beer Press: THE UNREAL AND THE REAL. And murder mystery writer Archer Mayor talks about writing police procedurals and his latest in the Joe Gunther series, PARADISE CITY.

Karen Thompson Walker, AGE OF MIRACLES & Kij Johnson, AT THE MOUTH OF THE RIVER OF BEES

September 26th, 2012

Speculative Fiction By Women: Karen Thompson Walker talks about her acclaimed debut novel, AGE OF MIRACLES and Kij Johnson discusses her new short story collection AT THE MOUTH OF THE RIVER OF BEES.

Linda McCullough Moore, THIS ROAD WILL TAKE US CLOSER TO THE MOON & Marisa Silver, ALONE WITH YOU

August 22nd, 2012

Linda McCullough Moore talks about her short story collection, THIS ROAD WILL TAKE US CLOSER TO THE MOON & we air a 2010 interview with Marisa Silver about her short story collection, ALONE WITH YOU.

Andrew Nagorski, HITLERLAND & Jonathan Rabb, THE SECOND SON

July 17th, 2012

Andrew Nagorsky talks about his book, HITLERLAND, a first-ever account of the American eyewitnesses to Hitler’s rise to power. And novelist Jonathan Rabb discusses his latest in the Chief Inspector Nikolai Hoffner series, THE SECOND SON. It’s about a Berlin detective in the midst of the Spanish Civil War.

Sadie Jones, THE UNINVITED GUESTS & Sabina Murray, TALES OF THE NEW WORLD

May 23rd, 2012

Sadie Jones talks about her Edwardian comedy, THE UNINVITED GUESTS. And Sabina Murray discusses her collection of historical short stories about explorers, exploiters and adventurers, TALES OF THE NEW WORLD.

Fiction from Thrity Umrigar & Michael David Lukas & OWS Poetry

February 1st, 2012

Michael David Lukas talks about his novel, THE ORACLE OF STAMBOUL. It’s the story of a young girl of astonishing talents who changes the course of the Ottoman Empire. And Thrity Umrigar tells us about her new novel, THE WORLD WE FOUND. Four college friends from Bombay India reconnect decades later when one of them falls gravely ill — and find their lives profoundly changed.

Novelists Russell Banks and Valerie Martin & biologist Michael Wojtech

October 6th, 2011

Russell Banks talks his acclaimed new novel, LOST MEMORY OF SKIN; Michael Wojtech tells how to identify trees BARK and novelist Valerie Martin weighs in on writing fiction.

Peter Filkins, translator of H.G. Adler: Panorama & The Journey

February 2nd, 2011

Translator Peter Filkins talks about H.G. Adler’s PANORAMA. Set in the vanished world of pre-war Bohemia, it follows the young Joseph from childhood in Prague to adulthood in the concentration camps. Also, Filkins talks about Adler’s THE JOURNEY. And we preview next week’s show.

New Fiction from Scott Spencer & Dori Ostermiller

November 16th, 2010

Best-selling author Scott Spencer on MAN IN THE WOODS and Dori Ostermiller on her quasi-autobiographical debut novel, OUTSIDE THE ORDINARY WORLD.

Encore Episode: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi & Honor Moore

November 13th, 2010

An encore episode with Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie about her story collection THE THING AROUND YOUR NECK. And poet Honor Moore reads from and tells us about POEMS FROM THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT.

James Howard Kunstler & John Michael Greer: The Long Descent In Fact and Fiction

October 28th, 2010

Futurist James Howard Kunstler talks about THE WITCH OF HEBRON, his latest novel about a postindustrial, post collapse, America. And John Michael Greer talks about the long descent. His book is THE ECOTECHNIC FUTURE.

James Lee Burke: Murder and Redemption on the Bayou

August 2nd, 2010

Mystery writer James Lee Burke talks about his latest novel in the Dave Robicheaux series, THE GLASS RAINBOW. And poet Doug Anderson reads two poems.

Marisa Silver: Fiction Short and Long

July 7th, 2010

Writers Voice spends the hour with fiction writer Marisa Silver, talking about the craft of writing, her new collection of short stories ALONE WITH YOU and her 2008 novel, GOD OF WAR.

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