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This week on Word Patriots@Webtalkradio, my guest is the noted poet and naturalist Diane Ackerman, the author of over two-dozen books of poetry and non-fiction. Many know her as the author of the best-selling A Natural History of the Senses. She hosted a five-hour PBS television series inspired by that work. Her poetry, which has […] The post Word Patriots – Diane Ackerman’s One Hundred Names For Love appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

This week on Word Patriots@Webtalkradio, Ed Desautels returns for one of our periodic shows devoted to past masters, heroic word patriots who overcame great obstacles, who wrote in new and innovative ways, or who defied convention by visiting formerly taboo topics and thereby opened new fields of exploration for literature. This week he and I […] The post Word Patriots – Desautels on Big Bad Bill Burroughs appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

This week on Word Patriots@Webtalkradio.net, my recording technician Donnie “Turk” Schnars continues to discuss my work with previous guests—this time my two most recently published works of fiction “Symphonie Fantastique” (2009) and “Baldr and Beatrice” (2011). First we hear Dave Kress on “Symphonie Fantastique.” Dave is a professor of fiction writing, contemporary literature, and literary […] The post Word Patriots – Turk Turns the Tables: The fiction and nonfiction of Mark Seinfelt (part two) appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

This week on Word Patriots@Webtalkradio.net, my recording technician Donnie “Turk” Schnars ousts me from my interviewer’s chair to discuss my first two books “Final Drafts: suicides of world-famous authors” and “Henry Boulanger of Mushannon Town: A Novel of the American Revolution” with two of my previous guests, novelist and memoirist Elisabeth Lanser Rose, author of […] The post Word Patriots – Turk Turns the Tables: The fiction and nonfiction of Mark Seinfelt (part one) appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

This week’s guest Robert C.S. Downs has published six novels, one collection of short stories, and written one television film. His novel “Going Gently,” published by Bobbs-Merrill in this country and Faber and Faber in Great Britain, was produced for television by the BBC. It starred Norman Wisdom and Judi Dench. The production won five […] The post Word Patriots – A Chat with Robert C.S. Downs appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

This week’s guest Christina Milletti is the author of the 2006 short story collection “The Religious & Other Fictions” published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. Her stories have appeared in the Chicago Review, Harcourt’s Best New American Voices, Pennsylvania English, and the Alaska Quarterly Review. There are many Christina Millettis. She is an author, mother, […] The post Word Patriots – The many Christina Millettis appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

This week’s guest Dimitri Anastasopoulos is the author of the 2001 novel “A Larger Sense of Harvey” published by Mammoth Books, which concerns a team of linguistic scholars, their friendships and hatreds, and the tensions which sabotaged their “langoo-adj” research project, a groundbreaking attempt to break down Indo European language barriers. He is currently at […] The post Word Patriots – Dimitri Anastasopoulos and his ongoing “langoo-adj” project appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

Bruce Trinkley is the composer of incidental music, songs and choruses for over twenty theatre and dance productions. He has also written extensively for choral ensembles. A poet and instructor of English, Jason Charnesky has written the lyrics and librettos for many works by Trinkley, including a trilogy of one-act comic operas: EVE’S ODDS, GOLDEN […] The post Word Patriots – Lyrical Theatre: An Interview with Composer Bruce Trinkley and Librettist Jason Charnesky appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

This week we have a real change of pace episode. On April 30, my recording technician Turk and I attended the second annual “Meet the Authors of Indiana County, Pennsylvania, and Beyond” book expo at Windgate Vineyards and Winery in Smicksburg, Pa. This unique event was hosted by the award-winning winery’s owners Cay and Dan […] The post Word Patriots – Windgate Vineyards and Winery/ the second annual “Meet the Authors of Indiana County, Pennsylvania, and Beyond” appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

In the second part of my interview with my father Dr. Frederick William Seinfelt, the author of the 1975 book George Moore: Ireland’s Unconventional Realist and two companion essays: Wagnerian Elements in the Writings of George Moore and Thomas Mann and some American and British Writers, we continue our discussion on Richard Wagner and his […] The post Word Patriots – Fathers and Sons: Wagner, Moore, Mann (part two) appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

Today’s show—part one of a two-part interview—will be the first of a series of periodic shows devoted to past masters, heroic word patriots who overcame great obstacles, who wrote in new and innovative ways, or who defied convention by visiting formerly taboo topics and thereby opened new fields of exploration for literature. I am very […] The post Word Patriots – Fathers and Sons: Wagner, Moore, Mann (part one) appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

Some of world literature’s greatest writers are iconoclasts and rule breakers who subvert the reader’s expectations on every page so that he or she feels lost in the funhouse. Dave Kress is a contemporary outlaw writer and in this show we will be discussing his three works of fiction “Counting Zero,” “Martians,” and “Hush.” As […] The post Word Patriots – Delightful Subversion/ Dave Kress appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

World literature is filled with iconic animal characters. We encounter animal characters in the first works we read as children and in the books we read in our youth and in our teen years, but some of our most sophisticated and most demanding authors, including the great modernists, make animals the subject of their work, […] The post Word Patriots – Iconic Animal Characters with Elisabeth Rose appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

Our show is for all those who love the written word, be they writers or simply readers. Your host is both an avid reader and the author of four books, who studied under arguably the two finest practitioners of literary fiction in North America and two of our greatest living prose stylists in English, Paul […] The post Word Patriots – How I fell under the spell of the written word/ A conversation with Edward Desautels appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.