Literature

On the third week of December, Anna Caritj reads an excerpt from her own story, “Sweet Alice."

On the second week of December, Anna Caritj shares a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins titled, “The Windhover."

On the first week of December, Anna Caritj shares an excerpt from James Joyce's “The Dead."

On the last week of November, Stephanie Reents shares an excerpt from her own novel, “We Loved to Run.”

On the third week of November, Stephanie Reents shares an excerpt from Ann Joslin Williams novel, “Down from Cascom Mountain."

On the second week of November, Stephanie Reents shares an excerpt from “Blue Hours,” a novel by Daphne Kalotay.

It’s the first week of November and Stephanie Reents joins the show this month to share work on the theme of color. Today, she reads an excerpt from Laurie Frankel’s novel, “One Two Three."

On the fourth week of October, Natalie Disney shares an excerpt from her novel, "The Fourth Coast."

Bob Kustra interviews Abdulrazak Gurnah, Nobel Prize winner and author of the novel, Afterlives. The book is a multi-generational saga of displacement, love and loss, set against the brutal colonization of east Africa.Note: This is an encore edition of Reader's Corner. The episode originally aired in February 2023.

An interview with Colum McCann about his latest novel, Twist. A book of rupture and relationships in the digital age, the story dives into the hidden world at the bottom of the ocean.