Tag Archives: literature

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 7:35 — 10.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreGranfalloon, Bloomington’s annual arts and culture festival celebrating the works of author Kurt Vonnegut, returned this year with a focus on the novel “Cat’s Cradle.” WFHB correspondent Harley Babbitt spoke with local artists and organizers participating in the festival, in order to learn more about how the …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:37 — 81.9MB)Subscribe: RSSEn este episodio nos acompaña Marco Lema, quien es originario de Bolivia, y quien tiene una formación académica militar. Sin embargo, nos comparte cómo la vida le llevó por los caminos de la literatura y la poesía.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (75.7MB)Subscribe: RSSCarmen Medina, profesora en la Escuela de Educación de IU, y Maria Clor, estudiante en CLACS, nos hablan sobre la riqueza disponible en la literatura infantil en español, escrita por y sobre latinos, y su importancia en el apoyo de la lectura para lectores jóvenes bilingues. También nos comparten sobre el proyecto …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday’s show is about the life and work of Edward Said, author, literary critic, teacher, musician, public intellectual, and Palestinian American. And all our music today comes from Canadian pianist Glenn Gould, a favorite of Edward Said’s and the subject of several of Said’s essays. Notably, “Glenn …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:01 — 81.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOur opening song is “Stardust,” a song written by Indiana native Hoagy Carmichael and here performed by Dave Brubeck off the live album Jazz at Oberlin recorded in May of 1953. In June of that same year Sylvia Plath would find herself in New York as an …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn 1936, twenty-two-year-old Muriel Rukeyser, who had just won the Yale Younger Poets Award for her first book Theory of Flight, was suddenly (almost accidentally) in Spain as a journalist to cover the Olimpiada Popular, or People’s Olympiad, a protest event against the 1936 Berlin Olympics presided …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:59 — 53.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOn September 7, the Deep Dialogue project opened in the Indiana Memorial Union with a panel discussion about race, history, community and healing in contemporary literature. The project is sponsored by the Writers Guild at Bloomington and Indiana University’s Office of the Vice President for Diversity, Equity, …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 52:17 — 47.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOn September 7, the Deep Dialogue project opened in the Indiana Memorial Union with a panel discussion about race, history, community and healing in contemporary literature. The project is sponsored by the Writers Guild at Bloomington and Indiana University’s Office of the Vice President for Diversity, Equity, …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:00 — 75.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOur show tonight features two well-known Cuban artists: contemporary novelist, Leonardo Padura, whose fictional detective Mario Conde has been introduced to an even wider audience now through the Netflix miniseries Four Seasons in Havana. As it was shot on location it gives viewers a feel for what …