Terry Hill, "Memoirs from a Prison Cell"
Terry Hill has hand-sold 6,000 books outside stores and stadiums in Washington State. Terry's story shows the reader what it's like to be given away t...
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Word Carver appeals to writers and readers, discussing craft, plot, memoir, essays, and poetry with authors and creative writing professionals. Show host Cynthia Rosi with additional reporting by Amy Dalrymple. Music credit: Rise and Shine (2015) by Seastock on Jamendo.com.
Tonya Daniels, "Love Brought Me Back"
This episode is devoted to a little-known Columbus author, Tonya Lynette Daniels, who was brutally murdered in February 2019. In researching Tonya's d...
Imbolo Mbue, Tonya L Daniels
Word Carver co-host Herbert Ndecki II interviews Oprah Book Club writer Imbolo Mbue about her novel Behold the Dreamer. Both Ndeki and Mbue are from C...
Kourouma review, and new poems
In Word Carver 40, Cynthia Rosi and co-host Herbert Ndeki II explore poetry. Ndeki reviews Ahmadou Kourouma's "Allah is not obliged to be fair about a...
Translation, French to English, of Aimé Césaire
Herbert Ndeki II, a Cameroon native and American emigre, reads poems from Aimé Césaire's work Cahier D'Un Retour and analyses the translation choices....
How to Cook Your Husband, and The Company
Herbert Ndeki reviews "How to Cook Your Husband the African Way" by Calixte Beyala, and Cynthia Rosi reads the short story "The Company" which arrived...
African authors and an Indian architect
Herbert Ndeki, a native-French speaker from Cameroon, reviews authors from the African canon. Hemu Venkataraman speaks about her work as an artist, au...
Thank Your Lucky Stars, Sherrie Flick
Flash fiction that coils back a spring and then packs a punch -- Sherrie was into flash before it had a name. We dropped into Grammercy Books to pick ...
Word Carver, working lunch
Amy and Cynthia analyze poems they love and gossip about the writing life.
Lee Martin | The Mutual UFO Network
Master writer Lee Martin takes us behind the scenes in his new short-story volume The Mutual UFO Network, a book that took 16 years to craft. Martin i...