Friday, January 23, 2009

Marianne Apostolides on this Tuesday, January 27 at 2pm

Tune in this Tuesday, January 27 from 2-3pm as Jennifer LoveGrove hosts and interviews writer Marianne Apostolides.


They'll discuss her forthcoming debut novel Swim, Marianne will read excerpts, and they'll play some tunes.


Swim entwines the present with those past actions and consequences that have brought Kat to the Greek mountain village where her father was born. She swims laps while her fourteen-year-old daughter reclines on a chaise lounge, poolside, reading a book. Without ever leaving the pool we enter discrete scenes with Kat’s parents, daughter, husband and lover. On entering each point in this history, Kat reveals an undertow of sound, rhythm and words in their rippling meanings. Each new lap moves Kat closer to her impending decision: whether she will leave her husband. But the deeper tension within this innovative novel derives from the writing itself – its vital urgency that extends the possibilities of narrative beyond the fixed and into the fluid.


Marianne Apostolides is a writer and critic whose first book was published by W.W. Norton and translated into Spanish and Swedish. Her current writing explores the ‘contact zone’ between genres – poetry vs. prose, fiction vs. non-fiction, creative vs. critical; it has appeared in The Walrus, Room, and Bookninja.com Magazine among other publications. She lives in Toronto with her two children.


Tuesday, January 27 at 2pm

88.1FM

ckln.fm (click on "listen live")

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Interview with Michael Kramer

Here are downloads of the last "In Other Words" broadcast of 2008, which included an interview with Michael Kramer and excerpts of Librivox poetry podcasts.

In Other Words - December 30 2008

Interview with Michael Kramer (excerpted)

The 2008 TED talk given by Dave Eggers is available at:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/dave_eggers_makes_his_ted_prize_wish_once_upon_a_school.html

Librivox downloads and information can be found at:
http://librivox.org/

Happy New Year!

Diana Kiesners