Episode #13 of Rewrite Radio features a conversation between four seasoned authors who’ve written extensively about their personal lives. Carla Barnhill, Jennifer Grant, Margot Starbuck, and Caryn Rivadeneira discuss how to navigate writing about friends and family, and then living with what you’ve published in a panel at the 2016 Festival of Faith & Writing titled Memoirist’s Lament: Living with What you Publish. A short conversation with Wesley Hill introduces the session. Many thanks to e...
May 26, 2017•1 hr 2 min
Episode #12 of Rewrite Radio features a stirring conversation between two writers who also illustrate books for children. Arree Chung, best known for his book NINJA!, first met Ashley Bryan at a conference almost ten years ago when he was still an aspiring author. Then as now, Ashley Bryan was a living legend in the literary world. At the age of 19 he was drafted out of art school and into a segregated army during World War II. He survived in part by drawing, stowing supplies in his gas mask whe...
May 12, 2017•56 min
Episode #11 of Rewrite Radio features Dani Shapiro interviewed by Catherine Wolff about spirituality and creative practice at the 2016 Festival of Faith & Writing. Dani Shapiro is the author of several books including STILL WRITING: THE PLEASURES AND PERILS OF THE CREATIVE LIFE. Her most recent memoir HOURGLASS: TIME, MEMORY, MARRIAGE was released on April 11 and the Boston Globe says it’s “A gorgeous, poetic stay against loss and confusion. Shapiro has never written anything as raw, dark, o...
Apr 28, 2017•1 hr
Episode 10 of Rewrite Radio features one of the oldest recordings in our Festival archive, Frederick Buechner speaking at our gathering in 1992. Frederick Buechner’s books—fiction, essays, sermons and more—have been translated into 27 languages and he has often been praised for his ability to inspire readers to see the grace in their daily lives. The London Free Press called him “one of our great novelists because he is one of our finest religious writers." He has been a finalist for the Pulitze...
Apr 14, 2017•1 hr 4 min
Episode 9 of Rewrite Radio features a conversation between four writers in the Eastern Orthodox religious tradition about the deep poetry and lasting peace that liturgy offers. Scott Cairns, Angela Doll Carlson, Gaelan Gilbert, and Cameron Alexander Lawrence reflect on Orthodoxy and how it can clear a pathway through the slings and arrows of modern life. Scott Cairns’s poems and essays have appeared many publications including The Paris Review, The Atlantic, and IMAGE Journal. His newest poetry ...
Mar 31, 2017•1 hr
Episode 8 of Rewrite Radio features Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas on Black Lives Matter and the Justice of God at the 2016 Festival of Faith & Writing. The Susan D. Morgan Distinguished Professor of Religion at Goucher College, Rev. Dr. Douglas has served as a priest in the Episcopal Church for over 20 years and is currently the Canon Theologian at the National Cathedral. She writes about racial reconciliation, sexuality and the black church, and womanist theology. Her most recent book is STA...
Mar 17, 2017•1 hr 8 min
Episode 7 of Rewrite Radio features the on-stage conversation between Tobias Wolff and his former student, George Saunders, that took place after Saunders’s keynote at the 2016 Festival of Faith & Writing. As a professor of creative writing, Tobias was a major influence on George when the younger writer did his MFA at Syracuse. George now teaches at Syracuse himself, while Tobias recently retired after finishing his teaching career at Stanford. George has called Tobias an American master, on...
Mar 03, 2017•40 min
Episode 6 of Rewrite Radio features George Saunders in an on-stage conversation with Calvin College English professor Lew Klatt at the 2016 Festival of Faith & Writing. A critically acclaimed author of essays, short stories, and now his first novel, LINCOLN IN THE BARDO, Saunders discusses a wide range of topics including the intimacy of storytelling, how weird narratives work to disrupt moral cul-de-sacs, and creative writing as a form of play.George Saunders is the author of three essay co...
Mar 03, 2017•1 hr 8 min
Episode 4 of Rewrite Radio features John Darnielle’s talk about his creative process at the 2016 Festival of Faith & Writing. Hailed as the best storyteller in rock for his work as the frontman for the band the Mountain Goats, John Darnielle proved his storytelling prowess transcends genre with his debut novel WOLF IN WHITE VAN, a finalist for the National Book Award in 2014. His next book, ETERNAL HARVESTER, is slated to release in February and you can follow him on Twitter at @mountain_goa...
Feb 17, 2017•38 min
Episode 5 of Rewrite Radio features Patricia and Alana Raybon on the power of the pen to bridge a deep divide. They talk about writing UNDIVIDED: A MUSLIM DAUGHTER, HER CHRISTIAN MOTHER, THEIR PATH TO PEACE and the truths, troubles, and triumphs of co-authoring when the collaborators are struggling not just to write a book, but to reconcile their deepest difference. ALANA RAYBON is the co-author of UNDIVIDED: A MUSLIM DAUGHTER, HER CHRISTIAN MOTHER, THEIR PATH TO PEACE, along with her mother, Pa...
Feb 03, 2017•55 min
Episode 3 of Rewrite Radio features Saladin Ahmed’s presentation on Science Fiction and the Muslim American imagination at the 2016 Festival of Faith & Writing. Saladin was born in Detroit and raised in a working-class, Arab American enclave in Dearborn, Michigan. His first novel, THRONE OF THE CRESCENT MOON, was a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Crawford, Gemmell, and British Fantasy Awards, and won the Locus Award for Best First Novel. Saladin's short stories have been translated into a hal...
Jan 20, 2017•49 min
Episode 1 of Rewrite Radio features Dennis Covington’s presentation at the 2016 Festival of Faith & Writing in which he told stories about his time writing from the borders of Syria’s civil war, the stories behind his book REVELATION: A SEARCH FOR FAITH IN A VIOLENT RELIGIOUS WORLD. He also reads a selection from his memoir SALVATION ON SAND MOUNTAIN: SNAKE HANDLING IN SOUTH APPALACHIA, a finalist for the National Book Award.Dennis Covington is the author of six books and his work has appear...
Dec 23, 2016•52 min
Episode 2 of Rewrite Radio features Makoto Fujimura’s talk about Japanese history and literature at the 2016 Festival of Faith & Writing. The novel SILENCE by Shusaku Endo and Makoto’s faith journey are the subject of his own book SILENCE AND BEAUTY: HIDDEN FAITH BORN FROM SUFFERING. And Makoto was a consultant on Martin Scorsese’s film adaptation of SILENCE, opening in theaters this Christmas. You can follow him on Twitter @iamfujimura. To help introduce Makoto’s session is Josh Larsen, the...
Dec 23, 2016•1 hr 19 min
