Chapter Seventeen - A New Interest in Li...

Coming very soon - the third book in Mary Kate Wiles’ Anne Shirley radio play series: Anne of the Island, by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Featuring the voice talents of Janet Krupin, Julia Cho, Jaime Lyn Beatty, Lauren Lopez, Joanna Sotomura, Whitney Avalon, Sean Persaud, and many more. ... Show More

Hello Anne listeners! I’m here to let you know about another literary project I produced that you can watch for free: Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story, by Shipwrecked Comedy. It’s a modern comedic spin on Washington Irving’s classic tale, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Don’t miss it ... Show More

Coming very soon - the second book in Mary Kate Wiles’ Anne Shirley radio play series: Anne of Avonlea, by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Featuring the voice talents of Whitney Avalon, Sean Persaud, Jaime Lyn Beatty, Sarah Grace Hart, Lauren Lopez, Christopher Higgins, Sinead Persaud, Nic ... Show More

Irish novelist Anne Enright is the author of seven novels, including The Gathering, winner of the Booker Prize in 2007. Her 2012 novel The Forgotten Waltz won the Andre Carnegie Medal for Fiction and her novel The Green Road won The Irish Novel of the Year in 2015, the same year ... Show More

Saeed Jones joins Kevin Young to read “The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart,” by Deborah Digges, and his own poem “A Spell to Banish Grief.” Jones’s work has received the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction, the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, and a Stonewall Book Award. 

<p>Writer, interdisciplinary artist, editor and publisher Anne de Marcken discusses her new book It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over. Winner of the Novel Prize, and thus published simultaneously in the U.S., U.K., and Australia, by New Directions, Fitzcarraldo Editions and Giramo ... Show More

Diane Mehta joins Kevin Young to read “The Lost Art of Letter Writing,” by Eavan Boland, and her own poem “Landscape with Double Bow.” Mehta is the author of the poetry collection “Forest with Castanets” and the forthcoming “Tiny Extravaganzas,” and the recipient of the Peter Hei ... Show More

Igbo and Tamil writer and artist Akwaeke Emezi's mesmerising first novel Freshwater was published to universal acclaim in 2018, and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Their second book was Pet, a novel for young adults that raised difficult and pertinent questions ... Show More

Joy Harjo joins Kevin Young to read “Still-Life with Potatoes, Pearls, Raw Meat, Rhinestones, Lard, and Horse Hooves,” by Sandra Cisneros, and her own poem “Running.” Harjo is the current Poet Laureate of the United States, as well as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets ... Show More

Anne Tyler is a novelist and short story writer. Her 23 novels include the Accidental Tourist, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Breathing Lessons. Anne was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1941, the oldest of four children. Her parents were Quaker ... Show More

Aria Aber joins Kevin Young to read “Half Light,” by Frank Bidart, and her own poem “Dirt and Light.” Aber is a Whiting Award recipient, a current Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and the author of “Hard Damage,” which won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry.