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The Chills at Will PodcastEpisode 322 with Peter Orner, Author of The Gossip Columnist's Daughter and Maestro of the Offbeat, the Original, the Creative, and the ResonantNotes and Links to Peter Orner’s Work
Peter Orner is the author of eight books, most recently the novel, The Gossip Columnist’s Daughter, named one of the best books of 2025 by the New Yorker and the Chicago Tribune, as well as the essay collections, Still No Word from You, a finalist for the PEN Award for the Art of the Essay, and Am I Alone Here?, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. His story collection Maggie Brown and Others was a New York Times Notable Book. Other...
2026-02-111h 06
The Lonely VoiceThe Lonely Voice: 'Berries' and 'At Night' by Varlam Shalamov Kolyma Stories by Varlam Shalamov(NYRB )On this episode, Peter Orner joined us in person in the TPR studios in San Antonio. On this episode Yvette Benavides and Peter Orner discuss stories by the Russian writer, Varlam Shalamov.He was a journalist and a writer. In 1936, he was arrested for counterrevolutionary activities and sent to the Soviet Gulag. After surviving 15 years in prison campus, he was released and would go on to write short fictional stories that reflect the years he spent in the Gulag.The New York Review of Books (NYRB) published...
2026-02-0146 min
The 7am NovelistPeter Orner: Saying Something SlowlyToday, I’m excited to have acclaimed writer Peter Orner with us, author most recently of The Gossip Columnist’s Daughter. We’ll be talking about how he struggled with the structure and timeline of the book. It took him fourteen years. He explains that he was trying to say something slowly. We discuss exactly what that means and how to do it in a time when very little seems slow and it’s difficult to have the patience we need to let a story grow on the page.Watch a recording here. This audio/video version is avail...
2026-01-2042 min
The Ben Joravsky ShowPeter Orner--The Gossip Columnist’s DaughterA new year’s arrived, but Ben would rather talk about an old one—1963. So onto the show comes Peter Orner to discuss The Gossip Columnist’s Daughter, his latest novel. It tells the story of the death of Cookie Kupcinet, daughter of Kup, a legendary Sun-Times gossip columnist and TV host. Was it suicide or murder? What role, if any, did Sidney Korshak play? But it’s also a tale about the complicity of “honorable” men in the corruption of Chicago. Great book. Listen to the show and run out to read it.See Privacy Policy at https://a...
2026-01-011h 01The Lonely VoiceThe Lonely Voice: 'Fun with a Stranger' by Richard Yates Richard Yates Yvette Benavides and Peter Orner discuss “Fun with a Stranger” by Richard Yates.As with a previous episode, the focus again is a school story — with a teacher and her third grade class. In the previous episode, William Maxwell’s “Love” helped us see the ways a protagonist learned a lesson about love through his fifth grade teacher, Miss Vera Brown. He learned about love — that it blooms in beautiful and unforgettable ways. Miss Brown was pretty, gentle, and compassionate. The protagonist feels a kind of love from her — and for her.This time, we...
2025-12-0736 minThe Lonely VoiceThe Lonely Voice: ‘Love’ by William Maxwell William MaxwellWhat do you expect from a short story with such a title as “Love”?It’s not about familial or romantic love. It isn’t about a friendship either.This is a story about a teacher. Sure, the narrator seems to have been infatuated with the teacher—a young woman named Miss Vera Brown—when he was in the fifth grade.His nostalgic recollection of her classroom imbues here with a kind of saintliness. She was angelic in his telling.And then something happens and the boy must learn a difficult...
2025-11-1642 minThe Lonely VoiceThe Lonely Voice: 'The Rain' and 'Elegy of Fortinbras' by Zbigniew Herbert Zbigniew Herbert On this episode, Peter Orner and Yvette Benavides welcome the poet Nicholas Regiacorte to the Lonely Voice clubhouse to discuss two poems by Zbigniew Herbert— “The Rain” and “Elegy of Fortinbras.”Grace Paley famously compared poetry to short fiction.She once wrote that, "A short story is closer to the poem than to the novel (I've said that a million times) and when it's very, very short... should be read like a poem. That is slowly."The reverse can be true, and a poem can be read like a story.So it st...
2025-10-271h 03
First Draft: A Dialogue on WritingPeter Orner (Pete for the 5-Peat)Peter Orner is the author of seven acclaimed books including Maggie Brown & Others, Love and Shame and Love, Esther Stories, finalist for the Pen/ Hemingway Award, and Am I Alone Here?, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Best American Stories, and been awarded four Pushcart Prizes. A former Guggenheim fellow and recipient of the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Orner is chair of the English and Creative Writing Department at Dartmouth College. He lives with his family in Vermont, where he’s also a vo...
2025-10-2051 minThe Lonely VoiceThe Lonely Voice: 'The Death of Elsa Baskoleit' and 'Parting' by Heinrich Böll Heinrich BöllOn this episode, Peter Orner and Yvette Benavides discuss “The Death of Elsa Baskoleit” by Heinrich Böll. And stay tuned for a bonus discussion about another Heinrich Böll story, “Parting.”On "The Lonely Voice" podcast, where we celebrate the short story, we were bound to get around to Heinrich Böll. What took us so long? He was a master of the 20th century short story–and he was prolific.He was German and chronicled World War II, the bleakest of postwar years, but also the rebirth and prosperity of the country ov...
2025-10-1943 min
Beyond The ZeroPeter Orner - THE GOSSIP COLUMNIST'S DAUGHTERhttps://www.peterorner.comBUY THE BOOK HERE :https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/peter-orner/the-gossip-columnists-daughter/9780316224659/?lens=little-brown
2025-10-1249 min
CaropopPeter OrnerI’ve been a Peter Orner fan for a long time, appreciating how—whether he’s writing short stories, novels or essays—he makes every word count. Stories and chapters are short, sentences lean, zero fat. His justly acclaimed new novel, The Gossip Columnist’s Daughter, springs from the apparent 1963 murder of Karyn “Cookie” Kupcinet, the real-life daughter of Chicago Sun-Times columnist and TV personality Irv “Kup” Kupcinet and his wife, Essie. The narrator is an author whose grandparents had been close to the Kupicinets, as Orner’s grandparents were. The Chicago Tribune’s Christopher Borelli calls The Gossip Columnist’s Daughter “...
2025-10-0353 min
Galesburg's Morning NewsKnox College event: Unraveling the Mystery of Karyn Kupcinet’s Untimely DeathToday on WGIL’s Galesburg's Morning News, Nicholas Regiacorte, Director of the Program in Creative Writing and Professor of English at Knox College, previewed an upcoming literary event featuring acclaimed writer Peter Orner, who will read from his new novel The Gossip Columnist’s Daughter on Friday, Oct. 3 at 4 p.m. at Seymour Library. The novel delves into the unsolved 1963 death of actress Karyn Kupcinet, daughter of Chicago talk-show host Irving Kupcinet, a story Regiacorte believes will resonate widely, especially in the Midwest due to its Chicago ties. Orner, a National Book Critics’ Circle Award finalist with a law degree from N...
2025-09-2915 min
Book PublicBook Public: 'The Gossip Columnist's Daughter' by Peter OrnerThis one is for all the lonely voices out there. We’ve got a podcast crossover on this episode. Peter Orner from The Lonely Voice podcast joins Yvette Benavides on Book Public to discuss his already critically acclaimed novel, The Gossip Columnist’s Daughter. A little noir, a little true crime, some family drama, friendship—and other kinds of love stories. Peter Orner has been called "the most daring and original narrative voice in contemporary American fiction.”
2025-08-2340 min
Una pregunta, literal¿Qué libros han hecho felices a los invitados de esta temporada?En el último capítulo de esta semana antes de la pausa veraniega, Helena Farré Vallejo nos propone un repaso por los libros que han hecho felices a los invitados de esta 4. temporada en la Radiografía del lector.Porque, como decía Borges, la lectura debe ser una de las formas de la felicidad.¡Empezamos!*Libros felices:Paula Melchor: Se acabó el pastel, de Nora EphronJavier Fernández: Juan Belmonte, matador de toros, de Chaves NogalesMario Colleoni: El Hobbit, de JRR TolkienLet...
2025-07-3027 minThe Lonely VoiceThe Lonely Voice: 'Nine Months Since Forever' & 'The Giver of Nicknames' by Rémy NgamijeOn this episode of The Lonely Voice, super special guest, Rémy Ngamije, joins in to discuss his story, “Nine Months Since Forever” found in his collection Only Stars Know the Meaning of Space: A Literary Mixtape. We also share a short bonus conversation about another story, “The Giver of Nicknames.”Rémy Ngamije is an award-winning Rwandan-born Namibian author.He's also the author of the award-winning The Eternal Audience of One and the book we’ll talk about today.Only Stars Know the Meaning of Space is his collection of award-winning fiction. The subtitle...
2025-07-251h 08The Lonely VoiceThe Lonely Voice: 'The Origin of Sadness' & 'Real Losses, Imaginary Gains' by Wright MorrisOn this episode we’re talking about Wright Morris. We’ll focus on two of his stories from his Collected Stories: 1948-1986, published in 1986.We’ll start off with “The Origin of Sadness”—and then stay tuned for a short bonus conversation about “Real Losses, Imaginary Gains.”My own fascination with Wright Morris started probably 30 years after this story collection was published. He was prolific and published novels, memoirs, stories, and even photography and had a long career in writing that started in the late 1940s.But it was, I believe, 2016 when I first read an es...
2025-07-191h 09The Lonely VoiceThe Lonely Voice: 'Clara' by Roberto Bolaño Roberto BolañoPeter Orner is in Chile for the Cátedra Abierta en Homenaje a Roberto Bolaño con Peter Orner—a lecture honoring Roberto Bolaño sponsored by the Universidad Diego Portales.So though we didn’t want to impose on Peter while he was away, it also seemed a good time to pay tribute to Roberto Bolaño in one more way—here on "The Lonely Voice with Peter Orner."Bolaño was born in Chile—and though he lived in Mexico with his family for a time and then in Spain, he is generall...
2025-05-3037 minThe Lonely VoiceThe Lonely Voice: 'Oh, Joseph, I'm So Tired' by Richard Yates Richard Yates “Oh, Joseph, I’m So Tired” is considered to be one of the best stories by Richard Yates, a writer who perhaps didn’t enjoy a lot of accolades when he was alive and publishing his work.One of the reasons this podcast even exists is precisely because of authors like Richard Yates. Maybe most people would say, “never heard of him” about Yates and his novels and stories.That’s the kind of response that’s become practically a cue for us on this podcast to get going on talking about a largely...
2025-05-0939 min
Beyond The ZeroEnd of Year Special Part 1Full show notes available here https://beyondthezeropodcast.substack.com/p/show-notes-end-of-year-special?sd=pfTravis MeyerBest of the Year Satantango Laszlo K Manifold Destiny - Rick from Only Fans Darconville’s Cat - no comment :) Jerusalem - Alan Moore Under the Volcano Unidentified man at left of photo - Jeff Bursey Richard Braugitan - The Abortion The Luminous Novel - Levrero Lost Empress - Sergio De La PavaNext year Franzen - Crossroads Louis Armand - The Combinations The Pale King 7 Dreams Anatomy of Melancholy Solenoid Theroux Ala...
2025-04-201h 55The Lonely VoiceThe Lonely Voice: ‘Gold Coast’ by James Alan McPherson( Harper Perennial)Peter Orner and Yvette Benavides welcome the inimitable ZZ Packer—to discuss the sublime story by James Alan McPherson, “Gold Coast.”ZZ Packer and Peter Orner were both students of James Alan McPherson during their time at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.ZZ Packer has written about the profound influence that James Alan McPherson has had on her.She considers him one of the smartest and wisest people she’s ever known and has said that “he cared so much, and so deeply,” and that he was “just so intent on fin...
2025-03-2847 minThe Lonely VoiceThe Lonely Voice: ‘Bartleby, the Scrivener’ by Herman Melville Herman Melville On this episode of The Lonely Voice podcast, hosts Yvette Benavides and Peter Orner welcome back guest Ricardo Siri—the internationally renowned cartoonist who is known professionally as Liniers.In a past episode of The Lonely Voice, they discussed "Funes the Memorious" and "The South" by Jorge Luis Borges. They join forces again this time to tackle—and celebrate—the beloved and enigmatic story, “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street” by Herman Melville. Peter Orner and Ricardo Siri (Liniers)(Peter Orner / TPR)"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Stree...
2025-03-1452 minThe Lonely VoiceThe Lonely Voice: 'Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story' by Russell Banks Russell Banks (Pixabay)We’ve got a special Valentine’s Day episode for all the lovers and lonely voices out there. We’re talking about “Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story” by Russell Banks.Does everyone love a love story? How about the type of love story that might not be all hearts and flowers?People are complicated. Love can be, too, then.“Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story” is an unusual story in many ways. It is a “type”—a very peculiar kind of love story. It’s strange and even kind of difficult...
2025-02-1342 minThe Lonely VoiceThe Lonely Voice: 'First Day of Winter' and 'Time and Again' by Breece D'J PancakeBreece D’J Pancake’s story collection was first published in 1983. His death by suicide happened in 1979 after he experienced a spate of grievous losses in his life.Much has been written about Breece D’J Pancake—the middle initials in his unusual name, his feeling like an outsider in university, for example. Some readers don’t consider his life and work without also considering his death.But in life, he experienced a little bit of success, living to see his stories published in such reputable publications as The Atlantic Monthly. His stories were set in...
2025-01-1742 minThe Lonely VoiceThe Lonely Voice: 'New Year's Eve' by Mavis GallantNew Year’s Eve. What is it about New Year’s Eve that makes it—for some of us—a little hard to take? It’s a day weighed down by resolutions to make, promises to keep. It’s a day that carries the expectation of what the next year will bring to us. And within that weight and pressure are the wishes for prosperous times ahead. Luck. Love. All good things. If only it were that easy.In Mavis Gallant’s story “New Year’s Eve” we see that the idea of this last da...
2024-12-3141 min
Arts & LettersStill No Word from YouWhat makes a good reader? What are the actual notes in the margin worth remembering? What perspective does life on the margins bring? Will Peter Orner have answers for us?
2024-12-1629 min
My Blog » kuni6Read or Download EPub Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives (Voice of Witness) by Peter Orner on IphoneLink To Download : https://ceo.gogolibraryebook.com/?book=1786632276 To Read or Download Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives (Voice of Witness) by Peter Orner Available versions: EPUB, PDF, MOBI, DOC, Kindle, Audiobook, etc. Reading Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives (Voice of Witness) Download Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives (Voice of Witness) PDF/EBooks Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented […]
2024-10-0400 minThe Lonely VoiceThe Lonely Voice: 'Stolen Pleasures' by Gina BerriaultIf you’ve listened to this podcast before, you know that we love short stories and that we hold the stories of Gina Berriault in such high regard; they sort of set the standard.“Stolen Pleasures” is a story about two sisters. Fleur is seven years older than Delia.We meet them in childhood, but the story jumps to their adult lives and back again.One sister survived being hit by a car. She has a lazy eye and grows up in a home without a piano— without many things that both sisters want.
2024-08-1647 minThe Lonely VoiceThe Lonely Voice: 'The Judgment' by Franz KafkaFirst published in 1913, “The Judgment” is a story by Franz Kafka. Among critics, it’s considered something of a breakthrough story—and one Kafka himself was proud of, having written it in the span of one day.The “judgment” of the title is a pronouncement made by the father of the main character, Georg Bendemann.It’s likely that “The Judgment” is one of the most analyzed of Kafa’s stories. It’s often described as being chaotic and full of paradoxes.The story is divided into two main sections. The first one makes the reader privy...
2024-08-021h 04
A Lovely WallpaperJames Joyce's "On the Beach at Fontana" with Peter OrnerIn this episode, Abby Walthausen interviews Peter Orner, fiction writer and professor of English and Creative writing at Dartmouth College, for a special Bloomsday episode. For memory, they offer up James Joyce's "On the Beach at Fontana," a poem from a tiny chapbook called Pomes Penyeach, which offers a window into Joyce's family life in Trieste during the period when he was writing his masterpiece Ulysses.Recitation begins at 35:20On the Beach at FontanaWind whines and whines the shingle,The crazy pierstakes groan;A senile sea numbers each singleSlimesilvered stone.
2024-06-1643 min
Oír con los OjosVivir para leer y leer para vivirUna gran conversación de la mano de Iara López y sus canciones. Con Don Quijote y Emma Bovary, con Barthes, Saer, Borges, Zambra y Peter Orner. Una pregunta que vuelve: ¿por qué leemos? O, mejor, ¿qué es leer?
2024-06-081h 16
The Paris ReviewFoley’s Pond“We were thirteen and conspiratorial and what was said is now out of reach.” Jim Fletcher reads Peter Orner’s “Foley’s Pond” (issue no. 202, Fall 2012), a quietly devastating short story about the effects of a tragic accident on a boy and his community.
This episode was produced by John DeLore and Helena de Groot, and was mixed and sound-designed by John DeLore. Our theme song this season is “Shadow,” composed and performed by Ernst Reijseger.
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2024-02-2108 min
Cátedras Paralelas68 ¿Hay alguien ahí? + Sigo sin saber de tiSesión N°68: invité a María José Navia para cerrar el año en Cátedras Paralelas y conversar sobre los dos mejores libros que leí este 2023: los ensayos del escritor estadounidense Peter Orner en "¿Hay alguien ahí?" y "Sigo sin saber de ti", ambos traducidos al español y publicados por la estupenda Chai Editora. Los libros de Orner condensan el material de su propia vida y lo mezclan con extractos de cientos de cuentos, novelas y poemas de escritores que van desde clásicos hasta autores y autoras más desconocidos, dando como resultado un fascinante híbrido entre...
2023-12-191h 25
Cuatro ojosCap 10 - Temporada 2: Peter OrnerUn escritor lúcido y original, autor de dos volúmenes de memorias y ensayos traducidos al español: "¿Hay alguien ahí?" y "Sigo sin saber de ti".See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2023-11-1723 min
Encuentros Fundación TelefónicaVivir para leer y leer para vivir. Encuentro con Peter OrnerDe la mano de Chai Editora y con motivo de la publicación de su nueva novela Sigo sin saber de ti (2023, finalista del PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay), una continuidad en contenido y estilo con ¿Hay alguien ahí? (2023, finalista del National Book Critics Circle Award), recibimos en nuestro auditorio al escritor estadounidense Peter Orner, un autor que reivindica el amor por la literatura y la lectura como una parte fundamental de la vida. Acompañado de la también escritora Inés Martín Rodrigo hablarán de cómo los libros impactan en las personas y...
2023-11-021h 04
En la misma páginaLibros sobre libros y entrevista con Sergio Rojas¿Qué libros influyeron en la formación de los escritores? ¿Qué escrituras les deslumbran? ¿Cuáles son esas formas que desean imitar? ¿Qué libros merecen relecturas? ¿En qué clave deciden leer ciertas obras ?Son las reflexiones que se plantea el mediador de lectura, Caro Mouat, quien nos invita en este capítulo a hacer un recorrido por esas lecturas que nos proponen seguir soñando con libros e ir descubriendo nuevos autores y autoras. En ese sentido, nos recomienda cinco libros que hablan sobre libros: “Biblioteca Bizarra” de Eduardo Halfon, “Mecánica de la Escritura” de...
2023-10-2446 min
Four Books a FortnightEP40: Bookstore Day recap, Emily Henry, and getting eaten by a sperm whaleIndependent Bookstore Day is over, and we have thoughts. It was great, but it could have been better (this leads to a long conversation on why we need new art, if we do, and a discussion of Hannah's new favorite book "Chain-Gang All-Stars," which is better than "The Hunger Games," for lots of reasons). Then we talk about Hannah's coming-of-age-novel panel from the Newburyport Literary Festival (sex! Going through trials!), before moving into the books we've read: "Whalefall," by Daniel Kraus (out in August, not as good as the Mario movie); Peter Orner's "Still No Word from You" (headliner...
2023-05-0457 min
#AmWritingThe Anxious Writer: Turning fears into superpowers. Episode 357Actually, there is no action without anxiety. We all feel it, and we’re all driven by it—and almost no one is completely at peace with it. Morra Aarons-Mele, author of The Anxious Achiever and Hiding in the Bathroom: How to Get Out There (When You’d Rather Stay Home), has been working for years to normalize those feelings and the spectrum on which they appear to bring mental health struggles out into the open and encourage people to rethink the relationship between their mental health and their success. We talk about harnessing every degree of anxiety and finding ways t...
2023-04-1439 min
#AmWritingThe Anxious Writer: Turning fears into superpowers. Episode 357Actually, there is no action without anxiety. We all feel it, and we’re all driven by it—and almost no one is completely at peace with it. Morra Aarons-Mele, author of The Anxious Achiever and Hiding in the Bathroom: How to Get Out There (When You’d Rather Stay Home), has been working for years to normalize those feelings and the spectrum on which they appear to bring mental health struggles out into the open and encourage people to rethink the relationship between their mental health and their success. We talk about harnessing every degree of anxiety and findin...
2023-04-1439 min
Exegesis: A JLJ Podcast35 - Peter Orner; Still No Word From You; Notes in the Margin
A conversation between JLJ EiC, Aaron Berkowitz, and author, Peter Orner, on his newest book, "Still No Word From You; Notes in the Margin."
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2023-02-1529 minBook PublicThe Lonely Voice: ‘With Reference to an Incident at a Bridge’ by William MaxwellPeter Orner and Yvette Benavides discuss ‘With Reference to an Incident at a Bridge’ by William Maxwell.
2023-02-0332 min
La amiga eres túPara qué sirve leerEn el primer episodio del año de La amiga eres tú compartimos algunas cosas de las que nos hemos percatado: hemos vuelto a 2011, se acabó la visibilización de la literatura hecha por mujeres. Nos preguntamos para qué sirve leer (tanto). Hablamos de Peter Orner, de Hanif Kureishi, de Begoña Huertas y nos comprometemos a hacer un monográfico sobre un autor.
Y anunciamos una nueva sección: el parte librológico, que sustituirá al horóscopo. Otro anuncio: haremos huelga de mainstream.
2023-02-031h 07First Draft: A Dialogue on WritingPeter OrnerChicago-born Peter Orner is the author of two novels: The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo and Love and Shame and Love, and three story collections Esther Stories, Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge, and Maggie Brown & Others. Peter’s essay collection/ memoir, Am I Alone Here? Notes on Reading to Live and Living to Read was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His new collection is called Am I Alone Here? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2022-12-2652 min
einfach schreiben - die AutorenschuleFlash Fiction: Das Herz jeder GeschichteWarum Fokus das Wichtigste ist – und wie man ihn erreicht. Was jede Geschichte braucht. Und Tipps, wie man Flash Fiction schreibt.Das Wichtigste aus der Folge zum Nachlesen:Ich beziehe mich auf das Buch "Story" von Robert McKeeWerkzeug der Woche: Story Values.Hausaufgabe der Woche: Schreibe eine Flash Fiction mit höchstens 1.000 Wörter, in der eine Figur an ihrem Schlüsselbund einen Schlüssel findet, den sie nicht kennt.Fundstücke der Woche: Diverse Flash FictionsSammlung des New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/books/flash-f...
2022-12-1844 min
Beyond The ZeroPeter Orner - STILL NO WORD FROM YOUPeter Orner
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@Peter_orner
Still No Word From You is available from
https://books.catapult.co/books/still-no-word-from-you/
Gateway books
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
Invisible Man - Ellison
Ulysses - Joyce
Current reads - Javier Cercas - Anatomy of a Moment
Lydia Davis - (translation) Madame Bovary
Isaac B Singer - Stories
Desert Island Books
Edna O’Brian
Ja...
2022-11-2439 min
Moments with MarianneStill No Word From You with Peter OrnerCan your life story be defined by books? Tune in for an inspiring discussion with Peter Orner on his new #book Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin.Peter Orner is the author of the novels The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo, Love and Shame and Love and the story collections. His previous collection of essays, Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. A three-time recipient of the Pushcart Prize, Orner’s work has appeared in The Best American...
2022-11-2031 min
"Conversations LIVE!" with Cyrus WebbAuthor Peter Orner talks #StillNoWordFromYou on #ConversationsLIVEHost Cyrus Webb welcomes author Peter Orner to #ConversationsLIVE to discuss the book STILL NO WORD FROM YOU.
2022-11-0816 minBook PublicThe Lonely Voice: 'Ivy Day in the Committee Room' by James JoycePeter Orner and Yvette Benavides discuss "Ivy Day in the Committee Room" by James Joyce
2022-11-0723 min
Daily Dodge Exclusive AudioAuthor Interview: Peter OrnerStill No Word From You; Notes in the Margin, the latest book from Peter Orner imaginatively weaves together a collection of essay's that connects seemingly irrelevant stories that make up the greater part of life.
2022-11-0313 minBook PublicThe Lonely Voice: 'Blue in Chicago' by Bette HowlandPeter Orner discusses the short story "Blue in Chicago" by Bette Howland.
2022-10-2836 min
Beyond The ZeroSara Lippmann - LECHSara Lippmann
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@saralippmann
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http://www.tortoisebooks.com
Gateway books
Maurice Sendak - In The Night Kitchen
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble - William Steig
Tell Me a Mitzi - Lore Segal
Bernard Malamud - Jewbird (short story
Goodbye Columbus - Philip Roth
Salinger - short stories
Jayne Anne Philips - The Black Tickets
A.M. Holmes -
Richard Yates
Grace Payley
2022-10-2753 minBook Public‘Still No Word from You’: Peter Orner’s memoir-in-essays is an homage to books and the reading lifePeter Orner’s new memoir-in-essays is an ode to other books. He helps us see the ways they contain the stories of our lives, too, and understand that reading is essential.
2022-10-1145 min
Talk LouisianaTuesday, October 11th: Holden Hoggatt, Foster Campbell, Peter OrnerRepublican congressional candidate Holden Hoggatt talks his candidacy, his campaign and comments on his opponents. Louisiana Public Service Commissioner and member of the Democratic Party Foster Campbell comments on the upcoming midterm election and its candidates. American writer Peter Orner speaks on his recent book, "Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin".
2022-10-1144 min
KUCI: Get the Funk OutPeter Orner author of STILL NO WORD FROM YOU talks about his new release with KUCI host Janeane BernsteinA new collection of pieces on literature and life by the author of Am I Alone Here?, a finalist for the NBCC Award for Criticism. Stationed in the South Pacific during World War II, Seymour Orner wrote a letter every day to his wife, Lorraine. She seldom responded, leading him to plead in 1945, “Another day and still no word from you.” Seventy years later, Peter Orner writes in response to his grandfather’s plea: “Maybe we read because we seek that word from someone, from anyone.”
From the acclaimed fiction writer about whom Dwight Garner of The New York Times wrote, “Yo...
2022-10-1022 minBook PublicThe Lonely Voice: 'Am I Alone Here?' by Peter OrnerBook Public Episode 100 with Peter Orner and The Lonely Voice
2022-06-0913 minFirst Draft: A Dialogue on WritingFirst Draft - Peter Orner (Returns!)Peter Orner's fiction and non-fiction has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic Monthly, Granta, The Paris Review, The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, The Southern Review, Ploughshares and many other publications. Stories have been anthologized in Best American Stories and twice received a Pushcart Prize. Peter has been awarded the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy in Rome, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a two-year Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship. His fiction titles include Maggie Brown and Others, Esther Stores, Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge, Love and Shame and Love, and The...
2021-10-0453 min
Selected ShortsPersonal PoliticsGuest host Baron Vaughn presents three works where the personal and the political collide. In “Parent Night at Confidence Academy,” by Kiley Reid, a teacher lets parents know what she really sees in their kids. The reader is Juliana Canfield. Two kingdoms have created ideal societies, as long as you don’t mind a little restraint, in this playful fable by "Berlin Alexanderplatz" author Alfred Doblin, read by Kate Burton. And local politics gets ugly (even the dog is involved) in Peter Orner’s “Shouting Wenkie,” performed by Liev Schreiber.
2021-08-2558 min
Download Best Full Audiobooks in Fiction, LGBTQ+The Eternal Audience of One by Rémy NgamijePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/490379to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Eternal Audience of One
Author: Rémy Ngamije
Narrator: Michael Boatman
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 13 hours 21 minutes
Release date: August 10, 2021
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Genres: LGBTQ+
Publisher's Summary:
“Meet the future of African literature” (Mukoma Wa Ngugi, author of Nairobi Heat) with this “gorgeous, wildly funny, and, above all, profoundly moving and humane” (Peter Orner, author of Am I Alone Here) coming-of-age tale following a young man who is forced to flee his homeland of Rwanda and make sense of his reality. Nobody ever makes it to the st...
2021-08-101h 21Access Top-Rated Full Audiobooks in Fiction, HistoricalThe Eternal Audience of One by Rémy NgamijePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/490379to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Eternal Audience of One
Author: Rémy Ngamije
Narrator: Michael Boatman
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 13 hours 21 minutes
Release date: August 10, 2021
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Historical
Publisher's Summary:
“Meet the future of African literature” (Mukoma Wa Ngugi, author of Nairobi Heat) with this “gorgeous, wildly funny, and, above all, profoundly moving and humane” (Peter Orner, author of Am I Alone Here) coming-of-age tale following a young man who is forced to flee his homeland of Rwanda and make sense of his reality. Nobody ever makes it to the st...
2021-08-101h 21
The Bookshop PodcastJonathan Sanchez, Blue Bicycle Books, and Katie Crouch, AuthorSend us a textHello Vermont and South Carolina!Katie Crouch is the New York Times–bestselling author of Girls in Trucks, Men and Dogs, and Abroad. She has also written essays for The New York Times, Glamour, The London Guardian, Slate, Salon, and Tin House. A former resident of Namibia and San Francisco, Katie now lives in Vermont with her family and teaches creative writing at Dartmouth College.Blue Bicycle Books is located in Charleston, South Carolina. Founded in 1995 as Boomer’s Books by Lee and Jim...
2021-06-2854 minBook PublicThe Lonely Voice: 'The Children Stay' By Alice MunroPeter Orner and Yvette Benavides discuss "The Children Stay" by Alice Munro.
2021-06-2352 minBook PublicThe Lonely Voice: 'The Betrothed' By Anton ChekhovPeter Orner and Yvette Benavides discuss “The Betrothed” by Anton Chekhov.
2021-04-281h 00
Lectura ComplementariaE2: ¿Quiénes están ahí?En este capítulo hablamos del paso del escritor al lector y cómo, según la experiencia, se vive ello.
Libros sobre lecturas. Cómo armar un libro sobre lecturas, cómo no armar un libro de lecturas, cómo se une un título tras otro, cómo se cruza la literatura con la vida, qué es primero, qué es después, ¿existe un orden?
Libros:
¿Hay alguien ahí?, Peter Orner (CHAI).
Contramarcha, María Moreno (Alquimia).
No leer, Alejandro Zambra (Anagrama).
2021-04-151h 02Book PublicThe Lonely Voice: 'Irish Revel' by Edna O'BrienThis week on "The Lonely Voice" from Book Public, Peter Orner and Yvette Benavides welcome special guest, author Thomas O'Malley, to discuss "Irish Revel" by Edna O'Brien.
2021-03-101h 08
Big Sur RadioNovedades Chile: marzo 2021🚨 Las novedades de marzo ya están llegando a librerías chilenas 🚀☄️🔥 y con ellas les dejamos un nuevo programa de novedades.
🎙 Diego (@diego.alfarop) y Rocío (@rbabarzu) charlan sobre:
✨ Cómo vino la mano de Miguel Grinberg x @gourmetmusicalediciones
✨ Por qué escuchamos a David Bowie de Juan Rapacioli x @gourmetmusicalediciones
✨ Bruce Lee. Un artista de la vida de Bruce Lee x @koan.libros
✨ El arte de ser libre de Epicteto x @koan.libros
✨ Predecir lo impredecible de Susan Hough x @grano.de.sal
✨ Conciencia del tiempo de Marcia Bjornerud x @grano.de.sal
✨ Examen extr...
2021-03-0434 minBook PublicThe Lonely Voice: 'The Love Object' by Edna O’BrienThe Lonely Voice with Peter Orner discusses Edna O’Brien's short story “The Love Object.” O’Brien is an award-winning Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet and writer of short stories.
2021-01-2754 minBook PublicThe Lonely Voice: 'The Doll' by Edna O’BrienBook Public host Yvette Benavides and Peter Orner discuss "The Doll" by Edna O'Brien.
2021-01-1342 minBook PublicThe Lonely Voice: 'Strand' By Peter OrnerTexas Public Radio's Book Public host Yvette Benavides and Peter Orner discuss the joy of reading.
2020-12-3009 minBook PublicThe Lonely Voice: 'Remember' By Juan Rulfo“The Lonely Voice with Peter Orner” from Book Public on Texas Public Radio with Host Yvette Benavides discusses “Remember” by Juan Rulfo with writer Peter Orner and guest Alberto Reyes Morgan.
2020-12-1659 minBook PublicThe Lonely Voice: 'Luvina' By Juan RulfoTPR Book Public “The Lonely Voice with Peter Orner” with host Yvette Benavides, with a special guest, Alberto Reyes Morgan, discussing Juan Rulfo's story Luvina” from the collection "El Llano en Llamas."
2020-12-0955 minBook PublicThe Lonely Voice: 'It’s Because We’re So Poor' By Juan RulfoA discussion of the short story "It's Because We're So Poor" by Juan Rulfo with Yvette Benavides and Peter Orner.
2020-11-2543 minBook PublicThe Lonely Voice: "The Overcoat" by Gina Berriault“The Lonely Voice” #1 features acclaimed author Peter Orner and Yvette Benavides discussing The Overcoat by Gina Berriault ,
2020-10-0742 minBook Public'Maggie Brown & Others': Peter Orner On the Power Of The Short StoryThis week on "Book Public," the mid-pandemic release of the paperback edition of "Maggie Brown & Others" by Peter Orner.
2020-09-2533 min
Troubadours and Raconteurs with E.W. Conundrum Demure - Conversation, Essays, Poetry & Music.Episode 380 Featuring Peter Orner - Acclaimed Writer and ProfessorEpisode 380 also includes an E.W. Essay titled "The Caves." We share a brand new Uncle Cesare Essay written by our Associate Producer Dr. Michael Pavese titled "Squirrel Tale." We have an E.W. poem called "Isabella."Our music this go round is provided by these wonderful artists: Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grapelli, Tri Los Chapas, Harry Nilsson, Bob Dylan, the Beach Boys, Nina Simone, Branford Marsalis and Terrence Blanchard.Commercial Free, Small Batch Radio Crafted In the Endless Mountains of Pennsylvania... Heard All Over The World.Tell Your Friends and Neighbors...
2020-08-0559 min
Download High-Quality Full Audiobooks in Fiction, DramaMaggie Brown & Others: Stories by Peter OrnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/415130 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Maggie Brown & Others: Stories Author: Peter Orner Narrator: Peter Orner, Brittany Pressley, Ari Fliakos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 58 minutes Release date: July 28, 2020 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In this powerful and virtuosic collection of interlocking stories, each one 'a marvel of concision and compassion' (Washington Post), Peter Orner, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and 'master of his form' (New York Times), takes the short story to new heights. Through forty-four compressed gems, Peter Orner, a writer who 'doesn't simply bring his characters to life, he gives th...
2020-07-2810 min
BookwormPeter Orner: Maggie Brown & Others
Characters with DNA, blood and soul populate forty three stories and a novella by Peter Orner: Maggie Brown & Others.
2019-08-2229 min
First Draft: A Dialogue on WritingFirst Draft - Peter OrnerPeter Orner is the author of Am I Alone Here? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2017-01-1035 min
2017-01-0931 min
The New School at Commonweal2016.12.14: Peter Orner - Not Alone Tonight at LeastPeter Orner
Not Alone Tonight at Least
~Co-presented by the Bolinas Library, The New School at Commonweal, and Point Reyes Books~
Join us for a reading and conversation with TNS Host Steve Heilig and writer Peter Orner. Peter teaches at the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers as well as at San Francisco State University, where he is currently chair of the Creative Writing Department. He is a member of the Bolinas Volunteer Fire Department.
Peter Orner
Chicago-born Peter Orner has lived in the San Francisco Bay area for sixteen years. He is the author of two novels (The Second...
2016-12-131h 31
The Literary LifeEpisode 32 - Peter OrnerAn introduction to author Peter Orner and a reading from his new book AM I ALONE HERE?: NOTES ON LIVING TO READ AND READING TO LIVE, published by Catapult.
2016-12-0606 minBookwormPeter Orner: Am I Alone Here?When novelist Peter Orner's father died, he found himself unable to write. At the same time, his marriage fell apart. He consoled himself by reading and started to write responses to the literature that gave him comfort.
2016-12-0130 min
All the Books!New Releases and More for October 25, 2016This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Am I Alone Here, On Living, Bruja, and more books.This show has been sponsored by FabFitFun and ThirdLove.Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book.Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website.Books discuss...
2016-10-2539 min
All the Books!Fall 2016 Preview Show, Aug. 30, 2016This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss I’m Judging You, The Mothers, Children of the New World, and more books.This episode was sponsored by Spontaneous by Aaron Harmer and The Call by by Peadar O’Guilin.Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book.Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.For a complete list of books discussed in...
2016-08-3038 min
Litquake's Lit CastLitquake's Lit Cast Episode 52 - DrivelLaunch event for DRIVEL, Litquake's first book, edited by Julia Scott. Great authors share their earliest, worst writings! Hear excerpts from this hilarious collection read aloud by everyone from Peter Orner to Andrew Sean Greer. Co-presented by the SF Writers' Grotto, and recorded live at Z Space during Litquake 2014. More book details at litquake.org/drivel.
2015-02-2446 min
Otherppl with Brad ListiEpisode 342 — Alexis CoeAlexis Coe is the guest. She is the author of Alice + Freda Forever, available now from Pulp/Zest Books.
Peter Orner says
"Alexis Coe rescues a buried but extraordinarily telling episode from the 1890's that resonates in all sorts of ways with today. That in itself would be an accomplishment. But this is a book that is truly riveting, a narrative that gallops. Lizzy Borden eat your heart out. Here's a real crime of passion. Or was it? 'And so Alice carried the razor around every day in her dress pocket, just in case Freda came to town…' I d...
2015-01-211h 25
First DraftFirst Draft - Peter OrnerChicago born Peter Orner’s fiction and non-fiction has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic Monthly, Granta, The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, The Southern Review, The Forward, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Ploughshares. Stories have been anthologized in Best American Stories and twice won a Pushcart Prize. Orner was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (2006), as well as the two-year Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship (2007-2008). A film version of one of Orner’s stories, “The Raft” with a screenplay by Orner and the film’s director, Rob Jones, is currently in production and stars Ed Asner. His works include Last Car Over the...
2014-10-2029 min
JD Careers Out ThereJDCOT 47: Law Degree Careers - Being A Writer"I really want to be a writer," said countless lawyers. Sound like you? Wanting to write on the side or hope to leave law to be a full-time writer? Come hear from critically acclaimed writer Peter Orner, JD, on what it's like to be a writer.
2014-09-1305 min
After WaterAfter Water: An interview with author Peter OrnerIn his story "The Last Cribkeeper," Peter Orner introduces us to Harry Osgood--the last man to work on Chicago's water cribs. Harry spends his days walking along the shores of Lake Michigan, peering out at the water that has shaped the city's identity and his own.
Author Peter Orner sat down with WBEZ's Shannon Heffernan to talk about his lifelong obsession with those tiny houses off Chicago's shores and his homesickness for the blue of Lake Michigan.
(Flickr/Steve Rhodes)
2014-07-2908 min
After WaterAfter Water Fiction: The Last CribkeeperWhat happens 100 years from now when, if climate change has brought us to a point where water has become one of our scarcest resources, and more precious than oil or gold? We've asked fiction writers to imagine the Great Lakes region a century or more on, and help us paint an audio portrait of that world.
In "The Last Cribkeeper" by Peter Orner, we meet Harry Osgood as he walks along the shores of Lake Michigan. For years, he served as the guard for one of the water intake cribs miles from Chicago's shores. Now an old man, Harry looks...
2014-07-2908 minBookwormPeter Orner: Last Car over the Sagamore BridgePeter Orner says his poignantly distilled, often tiny short stories are attempts to "create silence on the page."
2013-08-2229 min
Writers (Video)Peter Orner - Story Hour in the LibraryPeter Orner's fiction and non-fiction has appeared in many publications and received numerous awards. He is the editor of two non-fiction books and is a long time permanent faculty member at San Francisco State. He reads before an audience at UC Berkeley. Series: "Story Hour in the Library" [Humanities] [Show ID: 24371]
2013-01-2850 minWriters (Audio)Peter Orner - Story Hour in the LibraryPeter Orner's fiction and non-fiction has appeared in many publications and received numerous awards. He is the editor of two non-fiction books and is a long time permanent faculty member at San Francisco State. He reads before an audience at UC Berkeley. Series: "Story Hour in the Library" [Humanities] [Show ID: 24371]
2013-01-2850 min
Story Hour in the Library (Video)Peter Orner - Story Hour in the LibraryPeter Orner's fiction and non-fiction has appeared in many publications and received numerous awards. He is the editor of two non-fiction books and is a long time permanent faculty member at San Francisco State. He reads before an audience at UC Berkeley. Series: "Story Hour in the Library" [Humanities] [Show ID: 24371]
2013-01-2850 minStory Hour in the Library (Audio)Peter Orner - Story Hour in the LibraryPeter Orner's fiction and non-fiction has appeared in many publications and received numerous awards. He is the editor of two non-fiction books and is a long time permanent faculty member at San Francisco State. He reads before an audience at UC Berkeley. Series: "Story Hour in the Library" [Humanities] [Show ID: 24371]
2013-01-2850 min
Notebook on Cities and CultureS2E14: Next Year, Jerusalem with Peter OrnerColin Marshall sits down in San Francisco's Bernal Heights with Peter Orner, author of the novels Love and Shame and Love and The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo and the short story collection Esther Stories as well as co-editor of the nonfiction collections Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives and Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives. They discuss the heightened Americanness of Chicago and what it has offered his literary sensibility; our tendency as Americans, for good and ill, to chase stuff, whether in the city or the suburbs; his fascination with how life simply goes on amid grand (and possib...
2012-10-201h 03
Rick Kleffel:Narrative Species–The Agony Column1196: A 2011 Interview with Peter Orner"...the humor of hard things is what gets us through it."
2011-12-1507 minKQED: The Writers' BlockPeter Orner: Love and Shame and LovePeter Orner reads a passage from LOVE AND SHAME AND LOVE, his latest novel that illuminates the countless ways that love both makes us whole and completely unravels us.
2011-12-0700 minKQED: The Writers' BlockPeter Orner: Love and Shame and LovePeter Orner reads a passage from LOVE AND SHAME AND LOVE, his latest novel that illuminates the countless ways that love both makes us whole and completely unravels us.
2011-12-0700 min
Fiction For Driving Across AmericaHerb and Rosalie Swanson at the Cocoanut GroveListen to Peter Orner reading his short story "Herb and Rosalie Swanson at the Cocoanut Grove," originally published in BOMB 103, the first installment in BOMB Magazine's literary podcast series.
2010-04-0300 minKQED: The Writers' BlockPeter Orner: Pampkin's LamentPeter Orner reads "Pampkin's Lament," his Pushcart Prize-winning story about a man, running for governor of Illinois, who is about to lose more than the election.
2008-03-1900 minKQED: The Writers' BlockPeter Orner: Pampkin's LamentPeter Orner reads "Pampkin's Lament," his Pushcart Prize-winning story about a man, running for governor of Illinois, who is about to lose more than the election.
2008-03-1900 min