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“Write On! Radio” June 11th 2019

On this episode of Write On! Radio, Liz talks with Peter Bognanni about his latest work This Book Is Not Yet Rated. This Book Is Not Yet Rated is about growing up, letting go, and realizing love hides in plain view–in the places that shape us, the people who raise us, the first loves who leave us, and the lives that fade in and fade out all around us. Peter Bognanni is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His debut novel, The House of Tomorrow, won the LA Times award for first fiction and the ALA Alex Award and has been adapted into a feature film. He teaches creative writing at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Also, Lynette speaks with Mary Sharratt about her novel Ecstasy. Part cautionary tale and part triumph of the feminist spirit, Ecstasy reveals the true life Alma Mahler: composer, author, daughter, sister, mother, wife, lover, and muse. Mary’s articles and essays have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, Publisher’s Weekly, Minnesota Magazine, and Historical Novels Review. When she isn’t writing, she’s usually riding her spirited Welsh mare through the Lancashire countryside.

Write On! Radio 5/14/2019

On this Tuesday for Write On! Radio, Liz talks with Paul Norlen about his translation of the book The Hunting Game by Helen Tursten. Paul Norlen has published over 30 books in translation, mainly from Swedish but also from Norwegian and Danish. The authors he has translated range from Selma Lagerlöf, the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, to a number of contemporary crime fiction writers including Håkan Nesser and Mari Jungstedt. He grew up in the Midwest, but now lives with his family in Seattle. Also, Dan interviews Joost de Vries about his latest novel The Republic. With a playful mix of literary and pop culture references, this novel immerses us in the world of the global intelligentsia, where the truth counts for less than what is said about it. Since 2007, de Vries has been an editor and literary critic at De Groene Amsterdammer In 2013 he was awarded the Charlotte Köhler Stipendium, and his second novel, The Republic, won the Golden Book-Owl prize in 2014.

Write On! Radio 4/29/2019 * Paige Riehl & David Sloan Wilson *

Tonight on Write On! Radio, Amy talks with Paige Riehl about her debut poetry collection Suspension. Suspension is that rare book of poetry, as much a narrative as a collection of individually successful lyrics.Paige Riehl has published poems in Crab Orchard Review, Water-Stone Review, Portland Review, Meridian, and elsewhere. She is the Poetry Editor for Midway Journal and an English department faculty member at Anoka-Ramsey Community College. Also, Josh talks with David Sloan Wilson about his latest book This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution. In a series of engaging and insightful examples,Wilson shows how an evolutionary worldview provides a practical tool kit for understanding not only genetic evolution but also the fast-paced changes that are having an impact on our world and ourselves.

Write On! Radio 4/22/2019 Aaron Shulman & Linda Rover

Tonight on Write On! Radio, Liz talks with Aaron Shulman, a collaborative writer and editorial coach who works with visionary scientists and thinkers to bring their research to a wide readership. He has published pieces about Spanish culture and social movements, and other work in such magazines as The American Scholar, The New Republic, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. Also, Anna talks with Linda Grover about the release of her new novel In the Night of Memory. In the Night of Memory creates a nuanced, moving, often humorous picture of two Ojibwe girls becoming women in lessons learned from the long, sharply etched shadow of Native American history. Linda Grover is a professor of American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth and a member of the Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe. Remember, you can also give your support to keep community radio alive at KFAI DOT ORG by clicking on “Donate”.

Write On Radio: Feb. 19 Episode

On Tuesday February 19th, Josh talks with Jenny Rogneby about the release of her latest book in the Leona Lindberg series Any Means Necessary. In the highly anticipated sequel to Leona: The Die Is Cast, a corrupt detective deals with the emotional fallout of her actions while investigating a terrorist attack in the heart of Stockholm. Jenny grew up in northern Sweden, studied criminology at Stockholm University, and became an investigator in the Stockholm City Police Department. Her work inspired her to start writing and she formed the character of Leona, a criminal investigator with a dark past whose actions challenge social norms. Anna speaks with Joanna Hathaway about her book Dark of the West. A pilot raised in revolution. A princess raised in a palace. A world on the brink of war. Dark of the West is a “…novel of court intrigue and action-packed military adventure,”and a breathtaking YA fantasy debut–first in the Glass Alliance series. Hathaway was born in Montréal and is an avid storyteller who was inspired to write after reading her great-grandfather’s memoirs of the First World War.

Write On Radio – February 12th

On Tuesday February 12th, Anna will be talking with Lauren Groff about her most recent short-story collection Florida. In her vigorous and moving new work, Lauren Groff brings her electric storytelling and intelligence to a world in which storms, snakes, and sinkholes lurk at the edge of everyday life, but the greater threats and mysteries are of a human, emotional, and psychological nature. Lauren Groff is the New York Times bestselling author of three novels, The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, and Fates and Furies, and the short story collection Delicate Edible Birds. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Kirkus Prize, and the LA Times Book Prize Josh talks with Cal Newport to talk about his latest book Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World. the bestselling author of Deep Work introduces a philosophy for technology drawing on a diverse array of real-life examples, from Amish farmers to harried parents to Silicon Valley programmers. Newport identifies the common practices of digital minimalists and the ideas that underpin them. He shows how digital minimalists are rethinking their relationship to social media, rediscovering the pleasures of the offline world, and reconnecting with their inner selves through regular periods of solitude

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