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Welcome to the multimedia section of our website. Here you will be able to listen to and view what we hope will grow into a large library of recorded readings and presentations by our faculty and associates of this Department.
To view or listen to the following files, you will need the appropriate software for viewing multimedia files (.mp3, .mpeg, .mov, etc.). While some version of this software is part of the standard installation on most computers, if you do not currently have this
software, there is a wide variety available for download. Some examples include Apple's Quicktime, Window's Media Player, and Real Audio.
To attend readings in person, please visit our readings section and/or events calendar for complete schedules.
AUDIO | Video
The Marwil Lecture/Reading | The Living Writers Show | Readings
The Sarah Marwil Lamstein Children's Literature Lecture/Reading
The Sarah Marwil Lamstein Children's Literature Lecture/Reading is made possible through an endowment in honor of Sarah Marwil Lamstein by her husband Joel Lamstein to the University of Michigan Department of English Language and Literature. This is an annual event presented by the Department of English.
Daniel Handler
April 2008
The second annual Sarah Marwil Lamstein Childeren's Literature Lecture featured Daniel Handler. Daniel Handler is the author of the novels The Basic Eight, Watch Your Mouth and Adverbs, and serves as the legal, literary and social representative of Lemony Snicket, whose sequence of books for children, known collectively as A Series Of Unfortunate Events, have allegedly sold more than 56 million copies in 39 languages and are indirectly responsible for at least one major motion picture. For reasons unknown even to himself, he works intermittently in film, journalism and music, including a collaboration with composer Nathaniel Stookey on a piece commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony entitled The Composer Is Dead. The adjunct accordionist for the pop group The Magnetic Fields, Mr. Handler lives in San Francisco with his wife, the illustrator Lisa Brown, and a relatively small child. For more information on the Lemony Snicket series of books, please visit the author's website: http://www.lemonysnicket.com/
This lecture is available in the following formats:
MPEG video (52 mins., 145 MB)
MP3 CD quality audio (52 mins., 128 kbps, 47.3 MB)
MP3 FM quality audio (52 mins., 64 kbps, 23.6 MB)
Christopher Paul Curtis
March 2007
The inaugural lecture featured Christopher Paul Curtis. Winner of both the Newbery Award and the Coretta Scott King Medal, Curtis is the bestselling author of five books including Bud, Not Buddy and The Watsons Go To Birmingham—1963. Curtis is a University of Michigan alumnus and Hopwood Award winner. For more information on this author, you can visit the author's website.
The Role of the Griot: An African American Story Teller
The entire lecture is available for download:
Lecture (MP3 12 MB)
Author Question/Answer (MP3 3MB)
Also available is a short video sample of the lecture:
"Not So Different Afterall" (MOV 3.2MB)
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The Living Writers Show
The Living Writers Show archives are now available for 24/7 streaming from the WCBN website and as podcasts on iTunes.
Both options can be accessed at: http://www.wcbn.org/livingwriters/
And for podcasts, you can also search "Living Writers" on iTunes and subscribe directly.
The Living Writers Show airs every Wednesday from 4:30-5:15 p.m. (EST) on WCBN-FM, 88.3. The show may also be streamed during show-time at www.wcbn.org. For a look at what is included in the archives, click here. For a sample, check out the recording below:
Neil Bartlett on The Living Writers Show with Ashley David, WCBN-FM (http://www.wcbn.org/). Broadcast and recorded on September 28, 2005.
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MP3 (6.7 MB) |
Part 1 |
MP3 (3.4 MB) |
| Part 2 |
MP3 (6.9 MB) |
Part 2 |
MP3 (3.5 MB) |
| Part 3 |
MP3 (5.9 MB) |
Part 3 |
MP3 (3 MB) |
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Full |
MP3 (10.7 MB) |
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Readings
Dargie Anderson ('05 Hopwood Winner and MFA Poetry grad)
MP3 Lord Plant My Feet On Higher Ground
MP3 Leaning On the Everlasting Arms
Jaswinder Bolina ('03 Hopwood Winner and MFA Poetry grad)
MP3 Mood Ring
Anne Carson (Professor)
MP3 Ode To The Sublime By Monica Vitti
MP3 Outwardly His Life Ran Smoothly
MP3 Guillermo’s Sigh Symphony
Laurence Goldstein (Professor)
MP3 Who Am I?
MP3 Firmament on High
Lorna Goodison (Professor)
MP3 Ode to the Watchman
MP3 Your Ice Art, Michigan
MP3 The Wandering Jew and the Arab Merchant on the Island of Allspice
Linda Gregerson (Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor)
MP3 The Day-Breaking If Not the Full Sun Shining on the Progresse of the Gospel in New England Alan Jacobstein (Poet, and Triple-alumnus, '69, '73 MD, '86 MPH)
MP3 Pre-Med
MP3 Safari, Rift Valley
MP3 Coming of Age
Laura Kasischke (Asst. Professor)
MP3 Protracted Absence
MP3 The Second Week of May
Deanne Lundin ('97 MFA Poetry grad)
MP3 Orange Bang
MP3 The Ginseng Hunter Thinks About Oranges in October
Thylias Moss (Professor)
MP3 The Rapture of Dry Ice Burning Off Skin as th
e Moment of the Soul’s Apotheosis
Jamie O'Neill Reading
Jamie O'Neill, Irish writer and author of AT SWIM, TWO BOYS (2002), reads from his novel at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo on November 15, 2005. O'Neill was in the middle of a week-long residency in Ann Arbor, sponsored by the Lesbian-Gay-Queer Research Initiative at U-M's Institute for Research on Women and Gender, by the English Dept's Zell Visiting Writers Series, and by a grant from the Arcus Foundation.
MP3 (20MB) Videdo version also available below (144MB).
Macklin Smith (Professor)
MP3 Independence
MP3 Koans? No, Queries
Keith Taylor (Lecturer II and Undergraduate Creative Writing Director)
MP3 An Introduction to Modern Greek in South Bend, Indiana, 1967
MP3 Days of 1971, 1972
MP3 Detroit Dancing. 1948
Richard Tillinghast (Emeritus Professor)
MP3 We Kept Missing Each Other
MP3 The World Is
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Audio | Video
Jamie O'Neill Reading
Jamie O'Neill, Irish writer and author of AT SWIM, TWO BOYS (2002), reads from his novel at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo on November 15, 2005. O'Neill was in the middle of a week-long residency in Ann Arbor, sponsored by the Lesbian-Gay-Queer Research Initiative at U-M's Institute for Research on Women and Gender, by the English Dept's Zell Visiting Writers Series, and by a grant from the Arcus Foundation.
MPEG 4 (144MB) Audio only version also available above (20MB).
Christopher Paul Curtis
March 2007
The inaugural lecture of the Sarah Marwil Lamstein Children's Literature Lecture/Reading featured Christopher Paul Curtis. Winner of both the Newbery Award and the Coretta Scott King Medal, Curtis is the bestselling author of five books including Bud, Not Buddy and The Watsons Go To Birmingham—1963. Curtis is a University of Michigan alumnus and Hopwood Award winner. For more information on this author, you can visit the author's website.
The Role of the Griot: An African American Story Teller
Only a short video sample of the lecture is avaible for download:
"Not So Different Afterall" (MOV 3.2MB)
*The entire lecture is also available for download as an audio file above.
Daniel Handler
April 2008
The second annual Sarah Marwil Lamstein Childeren's Literature Lecture featured Daniel Handler. Daniel Handler is the author of the novels The Basic Eight, Watch Your Mouth and Adverbs, and serves as the legal, literary and social representative of Lemony Snicket, whose sequence of books for children, known collectively as A Series Of Unfortunate Events, have allegedly sold more than 56 million copies in 39 languages and are indirectly responsible for at least one major motion picture. For reasons unknown even to himself, he works intermittently in film, journalism and music, including a collaboration with composer Nathaniel Stookey on a piece commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony entitled The Composer Is Dead. The adjunct accordionist for the pop group The Magnetic Fields, Mr. Handler lives in San Francisco with his wife, the illustrator Lisa Brown, and a relatively small child. For more information on the Lemony Snicket series of books, please visit the author's website: http://www.lemonysnicket.com/
MPEG video (52 mins., 145 MB)
* This lecture is also available for download as an audio file above.
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Graduate Program
This year's lecture featured Daniel Handler. Daniel Handler is the author of the novels The Basic Eight, Watch Your Mouth and Adverbs, and serves as the legal, literary and social representative of Lemony Snicket, whose sequence of books for children, known collectively as A Series Of Unfortunate Events, have allegedly sold more than 56 million copies in 39 languages and are indirectly responsible for at least one major motion picture. For reasons unknown even to himself, he works intermittently in film, journalism and music, including a collaboration with composer Nathaniel Stookey on a piece commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony entitled The Composer Is Dead. The adjunct accordionist for the pop group The Magnetic Fields, Mr. Handler lives in San Francisco with his wife, the illustrator Lisa Brown, and a relatively small child.
