These are the archives from two hour special finale of “The Literally Literal” featuring long-format interviews with writer Andre Dubus III, poet and memoirist Honor Moore, WSUM General Manager Dave Black, and the great American Romantic macabre writer Edgar Allan Poe back from the dead. There individual interviews are all available below:

Andre Dubus III is the son of Andre Dubus, and a fantastic writer in his own right with a National Magazine Award and Pushcart Prize for his short fiction, and a novel The House of Sand and Fog which was an Oprah Book Club selection, a National Book Award Finalist, and movie starring Ben Kingsley. His most recent book is The Garden of Last Days, and it concerns some events around 9/11. (click on the blue box to listen)

Honor Moore is an acclaimed poet and writer of nonfiction. Her collections of poems are Red Shoes (2005), Darling (2001), and Memoir (1988), and she is the author of a biography, The White Blackbird, A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter (1996), which was a New York Times Notable Book. She edited Amy Lowell: Selected Poems for the Library of America (2004) and co-edited The Stray Dog Cabaret, a collection of translations of the Russian Modernist poets by Paul Schmidt (2006). [from Honormoore.com] On the show she talks about her memoir The Bishop’s Daughter a NYT Editor’s Choice and a National Book Critics Circle “Good Read.” (click on the blue icon to listen)

The third interview is with WSUM General Manager Dave Black discussing the origins of WSUM and the future of the station and radio in Madison.

Finally, we have our interview with Edgar Allan Poe back from the dead, the first blue box is the new interview, and the second is the first interview from the show’s pilot in November 2004.

(click on the blue icon to listen)  This is an archived interview from June 11th, 2008 with New York Times business writer and pharmaceutical industry expert Melody Petersen.  She tells us about how marketing has made science take a back seat in the pharmaceutical industry when discussing her new book Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs.

(click on this icon) For an interview with John Brandon the author of the novel Arkansas, which was recently released by McSweeney’s. 

(click on the blue icon to listen)  This is an interview from June 4th, 2008 with writer and N+1 editor Keith Gessen.  We discuss a wide range of topics including  his new novel  All the Sad Young Literary Men, The Simpsons, ass cleavage, the founding of N+1, and George Saunders.

Keith Gessen is the editor-in-chief of N+1 a twice year literary and culture magazine based in New York.  He is also the author of the novel All the Sad Young Literary Men and the translator of the 2005 book Voices from Chernobyl.

(click on blue icon to listen)  This is an archived interview from May 28th, 2008 with novelist Andrew Sean Greer.  We discuss his youthful attempts at writing, his research on the early 1950s, and his new book A Story of A Marriage.

Andrew Sean Greer is the bestselling author of The Story of a Marriage, which The New York Times has called an “inspired, lyrical novel,” and The Confessions of Max Tivoli, which was named a best book of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune while garnering many other coast-to-coast honors. His first novel, The Path of Minor Planets, and his story collection, How It Was for Me, were also published to wide acclaim. His stories have appeared in Esquire, The Paris Review, The New Yorker, and other national publications, and have been anthologized most recently in The Book of Other People and Best American Nonrequired Reading. He is the recipient of the Northern California Book Award, the California Book Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Public Library. (from AndrewGreer.com)

This is the Live from Oakhill 2008 Broadcast.  The program is structured as “open mic” given by the members of the Oakhill Correctional Facility Creative Writing Class.

The readers and writers performing are all members of a creative writing class that meets every Wednesday, and is run by UW Grad Students Marianne Erhardt, Emma Snyder, and Jessica Nordell.  The class is supported by the UW Madison Center for the Humanities’ Humanities Exposed Program (HEX) and the UW Madison Department of English.  This broadcast will feature the members of this writing class reading their poetry and spoken word pieces, as well as singing some original songs. 

(click on the blue icon for the interview) This is an archived interview from May 14th, 2008 with Aleksandar Hemon the Chicago Based Bosnian-American author who just recently published the book The Lazarus Project. We talk about soccer, arts in Bosnia, photography, what drew him to the story of Lazarus Averbuch, and why there is no such thing as bad food–it is all delicious.

Aleksandar Hemon came to America in 1992, and when the Bosnian War broke out he claimed asylum, and settled in Chicago. Knowing little more than tourist English within three years he became an ESL tutor, and within four years he was being published in The New Yorker. He has written three books The Question of Bruno, Nowhere Man, and The Lazarus Project. He is a recipient of a 2004 Macarthur “Genius” Grant, a professor at Northwestern, and a columnist for the Sarajevo-based magazine Dani.

(click on the blue box to listen) This an archived interview from May 7th, 2008 with with writer and psychologist Daniel Tomasulo. We discuss his first published non-academic work Confessions of a Former Child: A Therapist’s Memoir. We learn how he used to control a large portion of NY and NJ’s streelights as well as why someone with a PHD in Child Development felt they had a problem when they became a child developer.

Daniel J. Tomasulo, is a psychologist, psychodrama trainer, writer on faculty at New Jersey City University, and MFA. He has gained international recognition for development of IBT, the Interactive-Behavioral Model of group psychotherapy for people with intellectual and psychiatric disabilities. He is a consulting editor for The Journal of Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama, and Sociometry, and recipient of their Innovator’s Award for development of the IBT Model.

(click on the blue icon for) The archived interview from May 6th, 2008 with former contributing editor to Rolling Stone, Alec Foege, as he discusses Right of The Dial: The Rise and Fall of Clearchannel.

Alec Foege is a former contributing editor to Rolling Stone and the author of two previous book Confusion is Next: The Sonic Youth Story and The Empire God Built: Inside Pat Robertson’s Media Machine. His writing has appeared almost everywhere from The New York Times, People, Variety, and Vogue to Adweek and Mediaweek.

(click on the blue button for) An archived interview from April 23rd, 2008 with publicist and essayist Sloane Crosley.  We discuss her best selling collection of essays I Was Told There’d Be Cake, and why she has a plastic pony collection.

 Sloane Crosley’s essays have appeared in various publications, including Playboy, Salon, the New York Times, and the Village Voice, where she was a frequent contributor. She also wrote the cover story for the worst-selling issue of Maxim in that magazine’s history. She lives in New York City.

These are archived interview from April 16th, 2008.  The first is with David Shields where we discuss his Middle School political aspirations, Hunter S. Thompson, his formerly bad back, why Oscar winners live for a long time, and his newest book The Thing About Life is One Day You’ll Be Dead.  The second is brief interview with Kris Radish of Manitowoc, where we discuss her latest book, Searching for Paradise in Parker, PA and the Girl Scouts.

David Shields is the author of eight previous books, including Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Remote: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity, winner of the PEN/Revson Award; and Dead Languages: A Novel, winner of the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. He has received a Guggenheim fellowship, two NEA fellowships, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, a Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation grant, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. He lives with his wife and daughter in Seattle, where he is a professor in the English department at the University of Washington. His work has been translated into French, Dutch, Norwegian, Japanese, Turkish, Korean, Portuguese, and Farsi.

Kris Radish, is a journalist and fiction writer who grew up in Wisconsin and lives in Manitowoc.  She is a Pulitzer-nominated journalist, who up until recently was writing two weekly syndicated columns.  She has written five books of fiction including  Annie Freeman’s Fabulous Traveling Funeral, and The Elegant Gathering of the White Snows.