Richard Washer, resident playwright at The Rose Theatre Company discusses his new play, Dubliners in Exile after actors perform a scene. In the play, James Joyce wakes up disoriented from a deep sleep to a timeless world at once strange and yet familiar where he knows something important needs to get done quickly, but he can’t remember what it is. As he searches for clues, an ever-changing procession of circumstances and characters distract and confuse him. Will he remember in time?

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Richard Washer - Fall for the Book Podcast

Jesse DeLong and Beth Gilstrap infuse every word of their poetry and prose with atmospheric tension, using nature to explore what it means to be human. DeLong’s poetry collection The Amateur Scientists Notebook uses scientific tables, field guides and more to draw the natural world together with philosophy, memory, and family. Gilstrap’s Deadheading and Other Stories intertwines her Southern Gothic narratives with nature — whether the characters are eating it or healing through it.

Jesse DeLong & Beth Gilstrap - Fall for the Book Podcast

Mason Creative Writing presents 12 diverse writers each year in its Visiting Writers Series where they are joined by a host to talk about craft, content, and the art of creative writing. In this episode, fiction faculty member Helon Habila talks with Tope Folarin, author of A Particular Kind of Black Man.

Tope Folarin and Helon Habila - Creative Writing Program

Heather Young discusses her novel, The Distant Dead, set in the high desert hills. Called “electrifying, ambitious, and crushingly beautiful,” by Kirkus Reviews, Young’s novel is a taught literary thriller which tackles the opioid epidemic, poverty, and deeply buried secrets.

Heather Young - Fall for the Book Podcast

Two writers examine pressing issues of identity, legacy, and historical memory in their work. Poet Sandra Beasley writes through the lens of Washington D.C. and Virginia’s history to examine race, politics, disability advocacy and more in her collection Made to Explode: Poems. Chris Stuck’s debut short story collection Give My Love to the Savages tackles the taboo with grit, humor, and gripping language that propels readers through his work.

Sandra Beasley & Chris Stuck - Fall for the Book Podcast

On our second episode of Globally Lit, a podcast of international literature and translation, we will celebrate April's National Poetry month by welcoming the great Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish, who will discuss his latest collection of poems Exhausted on the Cross. Then, Najwan's translator, Kareem James Abu-Zeid, will be in conversation with writer and translator Vivek Narayanan. And finally, Gwen Hunter and Scott Abel of Solid State Books in Washington, DC, give two great recommendations of recently translated literature to check out. Please purchase all the books discussed today through Solid State Books at https://bookshop.org/shop/solidstate. To learn more about us, please visit the Cheuse Center at cheusecenter.gmu.edu and Books Across Borders at booksacrossborders.com. You can learn more about our translators and writers today by visiting najwandarwish.com and kareemjamesabuzeid.com.

Globally Lit - Episode 2

Ride the rails and guard the infamous Sing Sing prison with Ted Conover, author of six books, most recently Immersion: A Writer’s Guide to Going Deep. Conover sits down with Tim Denevi in this edition of the Creative Writing Program's Visiting Writers series. Find out more at https://creativewriting.gmu.edu/

Ted Conover and Tim Denevi - Creative Writing Program

Celebrate Children's Book Week with Megan Wagner Lloyd, author of Allergic, and Paper Mice, and Nadine Poper, author of Porcupette and Moppet talk the art and craft of writing kids' books, and the little known facts of the children's book publishing world!

Megan Wagner Lloyd & Nadine Poper - Fall for the Book Podcast

Tania James, author of The Tusk That Did The Damage sits down with Karen Russell, author of Sleep Donation and Swamplandia! to discuss writing toward ambiguity, crazy stories, and more in this edition of the Creative Writing Program's Visiting Writers series.

Tania James and Karen Russell - Creative Writing Program

Arthur Sze sat down with Kara Oakleaf and Suzy Rigdon to discuss revisiting fifty years' worth of poetry in his latest collection, The Glass Constellation, finding freedom within structure, and the importance of poetry in daily life.

Arthur Sze - Fall for the Book Podcast

On our inaugural episode of Globally Lit, a podcast of international literature and translation, we first welcome Moroccan author Abdellah Taia to discuss his novel A Country for Dying. Next, the novel’s translator, Emma Ramadan, is in conversation with wonderful French language translator Laura Marris. And finally, Aliza Cohen reviews A Beautiful Darkness, a new graphic novel translated from French to English. Please purchase all the books discussed today through Riff Raff Books at riffraffpvd.com and visit the Cheuse Center at cheusecenter.gmu.edu and Books Across Borders at booksacrossborders.com. You can learn more about our translators today by visiting emmaramadan.com and lauramarris.com

Globally Lit - Episode 1

Ayşe Papatya Bucak sat down with Kara Oakleaf and Suzy Rigdon to discuss mythology, re-imagining the past, and re-imagining the form of her short stories in her newest collection, The Trojan War Museum.

Ayşe Papatya Bucak - Fall for the Book Podcast

Poet and memoirist Reginald Dwayne Betts spoke from the road with Kara Oakleaf and Suzy Rigdon about his poetry collection Felons, "gateway literature," and his ambitious Million Book Project, which will put 500 books in prisons around the country.

Reginald Dwayne Betts - Fall for the Book Podcast

Karen Russell, award-winning author of Swamplandia!, Vampires in the Lemon Grove, Orange World, Sleep Donation, and more sits down with Fall for the Book's Kara Oakleaf and Suzy Rigdon to talk magic, ghosts, and writing to uncertainty.

Karen Russell - Fall for the Book Podcast

Navigate the Puzzle of Polynesia with Sea People author Christina Thompson. She sits down with Kara Oakleaf to uncover the mysteries of this ten million square miles of ocean and the people who navigated it.

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