News stories tagged with "readers"

(02/01/12) Our guest is Jaimy Gordon. Her fourth novel, Lord of Misrule, won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2011. Her other work includes the novels Shamp of the City-Solo, She Drove Without Stopping, and Bogeywoman. Pedro Ponce and Ellen Rocco host.

Thursday, February 2, Gordon will give a reading at 7:30 pm in Sykes Common Room on the St. Lawrence University campus in Canton NY, as part of the SLU Writers Series. This event is free and open to the public.

(12/01/11) Our annual holiday and winter reading list call-in. Hosted by Ellen Rocco and John Ernst. The show solicits listeners suggestions for great books--new and classic--for gift-giving or deep winter reading.

(11/30/11) Our guest, Kevin Young, is one a new generation of poets who find inspiration in the bittersweet history of Black America. Among his many books of poetry: Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels, Dear Darkness and For the Confederate Dead. Dale Hobson and Jackie Sauter host, along with guest Sarah Barber.

Kevin Young appears as part of the St. Lawrence University Writers Series. He will give a reading on the St. Lawrence University campus in Canton, NY, Thursday, December 1 at 8 pm in the Sykes Common Room.

(10/05/11) Our guest is Ellen Akins, author of the short story collection World Like a Knife, and the novels Home Movie, Little Woman, Public Life and Hometown Brew. Ellen Rocco and Peter Bailey co-host.

Ellen Akins will give a public reading Thursday, October 6, at 8 pm at the Sykes Common Room at St. Lawrence University in Canton, as part of the University's annual writers series.

(09/06/11) Our guest is Andre Dubus III, author of The Cage Keeper and Other Stories, and the novels Bluesman, House of Sand and Fog and The Garden of Last Days. Ellen Rocco and Pedro Ponce host. The author will give a public reading Thursday, September 15, 8 pm at the Sykes Common Room at St. Lawrence University in Canton.

(07/05/11) In our annual Summer Reading Call-in staff, guests and listeners share the best beach reads and whatever else is on the summer reading bookshelf. Hosts Ellen Rocco and Chris Robinson are joined by book maven John Ernst and avid reader Sarah Harris.

(06/07/11) Our guest is Dr. Curt Stager of the Paul Smith's College faculty, co-host of NCPR's Natural Selections, and author of Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth. Drawing upon the latest works of a handful of climate visionaries, the book explores the possibilities for next hundred millennia of life on Earth. Ellen Rocco and Chris Robinson host.

(04/27/11) Our guest, Peter Selgin, is the 2010-11 SLU Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing. His 2007 collection, Drowning Lessons, won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Fiction. Longer fiction includes the novel Life Goes to the Movies. Ellen Rocco and Chris Robinson host.

(04/06/11) Our guest is Brock Clarke, whose most recent novels are this year's Exley, and from 2007, the highly-acclaimed An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England. Ellen Rocco and Chris Robinson host. Clarke appears as part of the St. Lawrence University Writers Series and will give a reading Thursday at 8 pm in the Sykes Common Room on the university campus in Canton.

(02/03/11) Our guest is Gish Jen, whose 1997 novel Mona in the Promised Land catapulted her to the top tier of contemporary American fiction. More recent work has included the story collection Who's Irish? and the novel, Typical American. Her latest book, World and Town, was published in October. Ellen Rocco and Chris Robinson host.