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laura moriarty
Laura Moriarty's third novel, While I'm Falling, is out in paperback this week. It follows her previous
novels, The Rest of Her Life and The Center of
Everything. Though
the characters in all three books are very different, all explore complex
issues of mothers and daughters, the importance of family, and the
consequences of inattentiveness. Moriarty, who grew up in a military family
and has lived in numerous places around the world, talks about her love of
the open terrain and people of Kansas, the place she's adopted as home for
her and her characters.
The winner of the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Gary
Snyder discusses the changing worlds of poetics and the environment.
Although his Zen-inspired poetry conveys themes existing in the natural
world, Snyder talks about why he would not describe himself as a "nature
writer." He also recalls his early career as a young poet in San Francisco
in the mid-1950s, and a particularly momentous reading at the Six Gallery
with Allen Ginsberg. He reads from his most recent new collection of poetry,
Danger on Peaks, published in 2005.
Co-founder with Allen Ginsberg of the Jack Kerouac
School of Disembodied Poetics, Anne Waldman discusses her connection with
the Beat Generation, the Naropa Institute (now University), and the
development of her creative work over the past 35 years. She reads from her
2009 collection Manatee/Humanity and also talks about her current
collaboration with her musician son, Ambrose Bye, with an excerpt from their
2009 compact disc, Matching Half.
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ABOUT
NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR:
New Letters on the Air, hosted by
Angela Elam, is the half-hour radio companion to the literary quarterly magazine New Letters. P. Past guests include U.S. Poet Laureates Ted Kooser, Rita Dove, Billy Collins; Pulitzer Prize winning playwrights August Wilson, Suzan-Lori Parks, Tony Kushner and novelists Jim Harrison, Jane Smiley, Richard Russo. The program, which also features emerging writers of poetry, fiction, drama and creative non-fiction, is produced by the University of Missouri-Kansas City and distributed via Public Radio's Content Depot.
Angela Elam, >Host of New Letters on the Air
THE STORY OF NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR:
New Letterson the Air celebrates its 30th year as one of the nation's leading audio-literature collectors and broadcasters.
David and Judy Ray began New Letterson the Air in 1977 as the radio companion to the distinguished literary quarterly New Letters. Rebekah Presson Mosby worked as a producer and then host from 1982 until 1995. Now, producer/host Angela Elam continues the tradition with New Letters editor Robert Stewart and other members of the New Letters staff. New Letters on the Air is not only a weekly program broadcast over many public radio stations, but is also one of the largest and best collections of recordings of contemporary authors, both from the United States and around the world.
Many of these important writers—Allen Ginsberg, Jane Kenyon, Howard Nemerov, Michael Dorris, James Dickey, John Gardner, Gwendolyn Brooks—have now passed from the literary scene. Many are Nobel laureates, winners of Pulitzer Prizes or National Book Awards. Most programs from our extensive archives are offered for sale on audiocassette or CD.
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