KQED-FM: KQED: The Writers' Block Podcast: Episodes
Eric Erlandson, founding member of the band Hole, reads a passage from LETTERS TO KURT, an anguished, angry, and tender meditation on the octane and ether of rock and roll.
Alison Bechdel, author of the wildly successful FUN HOME, reads a passage from her latest graphic memoir, ARE YOU MY MOTHER? An enhanced version of this podcast is available at kqed.org/writersblock. It's pretty cool. Check it out. Seriously.
Miranda Mellis reads a passage from NONE OF THIS IS REAL, her collection that imagines a not-too-alternate reality of philosophical children, reincarnating chimeras, mutant matriarchies, and kind seers adapting to affliction.
Doug Mack reads a passage from EUROPE ON 5 WRONG TURNS A DAY, about being mistaken for a Diane Keaton groupie on a trip to Paris.
Moshe Kasher reads a passage from KASHER IN THE RYE, the true tale of a white boy from Oakland who became a drug addict, criminal, mental patient, and then turned 16.
Ramona Ausubel reads a passage from NO ONE IS HERE EXCEPT ALL OF US, about a Romanian village that tries to save itself from the horrors of World War II through the sheer force of imagination.
Martha Grover reads "Swedish Massage," a story from her new collection, ONE MORE FOR THE PEOPLE.
Matt Ruff reads a passage from THE MIRAGE, a mind-bending novel in which an alternate history of 9/11 and its aftermath uncovers startling truths about America and the Middle East.
Ellen Ullman reads a passage from her latest novel, BY BLOOD, about a disgraced professor who becomes enraptured by the troubles of his psychologist neighbor's patient.
Trinie Dalton reads "Escape Mushroom Style," a story from her latest collection, BABY GEISHA.
Krys Lee reads a passage from DRIFTING HOUSE about a South Korean woman who goes to America in search of her daughter whom she believes has been kidnapped.
Martha Grover reads "Fifteen Things I'm Not Putting on My OkCupid Profile," a story from her new collection, ONE MORE FOR THE PEOPLE.
Nathan Englander reads a passage from his latest story collection, WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT ANNE FRANK.
Blake Nelson reads a passage from DREAM SCHOOL, the sequel to his beloved 1994 novel GIRL.
Ryan Boudinot reads a passage from BLUEPRINTS OF THE AFTERLIFE about the aftermath of a sentient glacier wiping out most of North America.
Leigh Stein reads a passage from her debut novel, THE FALLBACK PLAN, about what happens when you graduate college without a fallback plan.
Ellis Avery reads a passage from THE LAST NUDE, her new novel about an artist and her most famous muse in Paris between the world wars.
Tea Obreht, one of The New Yorker's best American writers under forty, reads a passage from her debut novel, THE TIGER'S WIFE.
Joshua Mohr reads a passage from DAMASCUS, his latest novel about a man whose birthmark unfortunately resembles a Hitler mustache.
Ismet Prcic reads a passage from SHARDS, his debut novel about a young Bosnian who flees his war-torn homeland.