KQED: The Writers' Block Podcast: Episodes
Robert Gluck reads "Conviction," a short story from Denny Smith about fathers and theft.
J.M. Tyree reads "My Other Family," a story of child abandonment and revenge that takes place in a Wal-Mart.
Miranda Mellis reads a passage from The Revisionist about a civil scientist hired to revise the facts of a crumbling society.
Stewart O'Nan reads a passage from Songs for the Missing, the story of a girl's disappearance and its effect on those left behind.
Vincent Carrella reads a passage from Serpent Box, the story of Pentecostal preachers in Appalachia.
Kate Hahn reads an excerpt from Forgotten Fashion, a tongue-in-cheek history of faux fashion trends.
Margot Kahn reads a passage from Horses that Buck, the story of a Wyoming cowboy and the transformation of his world, the frontier West.
David Francis reads a passage from Stray Dog Summer about a young boy and his relationship with his alcoholic mother.
Carson Mell reads a passage from Saguaro, a first person rock memoir chronicling the life of Bobby Allen Bird.
Carol Cassella reads an excerpt from Oxygen, the story of an anesthesiologist's life.
Joe Meno reads What a Schoolgirl You Are, a short story from Demons in the Spring that addresses the reader as an awkward teenage girl trying out for a cheerleader squad, and is ingeniously structured after a choose-your-own adventure story.
PlayGround presents Julia McNeal and Ken Sonkin in Evelyn Jean Pine's short play, Investing. Jim Kleinmann directs.
Selden Edwards reads a passage from The Little Book, the story of a California rock legend who finds himself in the past — 1897 Vienna.
Junot Diaz reads a passage from The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, the story of an overweight Dominican boy growing up in New Jersey.
Hanif Kureishi reads an excerpt from SOMETHING TO TELL YOU, the story of a middle-aged psychoanalyst with a dark secret.
Amy Tan and Stewart Wallace read a passage from Fate! Luck! Chance! describing the inspiration for the opera adaptation of Tan's best-selling novel, The Bonesetter's Daughter.
Donna George Storey reads "Thirteen Views of Grief," an essay tracing the impact of her father's death from when she was seventeen to the present day.
Andrew Davidson reads an excerpt from the beginning of his first novel, THE GARGOYLE.
Linda Robertson reads an excerpt from Chapter 3 of her memoir, WHAT RHYMES WITH BASTARD, and performs an accordion ditty called ALL MADE UP.
Paul Auster reads the first chapter of his latest novel, MAN IN THE DARK, a story within a story about a writer and the character he has created to end the war inside his head.