Jack Livings's guest appearances

Jack Livings

The Greenlight Bookstore Podcast

Behind the Mic with AudioFile Magazine

Mark Bittman

Hilton Als

Marlon James

Marie Arnold

Kiley Reid

Rachel Kushner

Carmen Maria Machado

Ann Patchett

Colson Whitehead

Jacqueline Woodson

Emily St

John Mandel

Elizabeth Gilbert

Saeed Jones

Seth Godin

OwlTail

Rebecca Lowman

Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Alan Minskoff discuss how this audiobook absorbs the listener from its prologue to its end. Narrator Rebecca Lowman presents the many complex characters with just the right pace and carefully acts the various voices. Lowman particularly illuminates the character of Hazel Saltwater, an introspective, damaged seer whose life is indelibly marked by events that take place on the night of February 6 during the Blizzard of ‘78. Jack Livings’s novel has mystery, mayhem, and sci-fi, flashing forward and back as it revels in the lost world of late 1970s Manhattan. Read the full review of the audiobook on AudioFile’s website. Published by Brilliance Audio. Find more audiobook recommendations at audiofilemagazine.comAmerican educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States, Booker T. Washington is remembered today. Hear his 1908 Atlanta Exposition Address in the Naxos AudioBooks production, Voices of Black America, now on Spotify. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Alan Minskoff discuss how this audiobook absorbs the listener from its prologue to its end. Narrator Rebecca Lowman presents the many complex characters with just the right pace and carefully acts the various voices. Lowman particularly illuminates the character of Hazel Saltwater, an introspective, damaged seer whose life is indelibly marked by events that take place on the night of February 6 during the Blizzard of ‘78. Jack Livings’s novel has mystery, mayhem, and sci-fi, flashing forward and back as it revels in the lost world of late 1970s Manhattan. Read the full review of the audiobook <a href="https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read/192895/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">on AudioFile’s website</a>. Published by Brilliance Audio. Find more audiobook recommendations at <a href="http://audiofilemagazine.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">audiofilemagazine.com</a>American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States, Booker T. Washington is remembered today. Hear his 1908 Atlanta Exposition Address in the <a href="https://naxosaudiobooks.com/voices-of-black-america-compilation/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Naxos AudioBooks production</a>, Voices of Black America, now on Spotify. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

THE BLIZZARD PARTY by Jack Livings, read by Rebecca Lowman

Brigid Hughes

Brigid Hughes (A Public Space, The Paris Review) speaks to Jack Livings about his debut collection of stories, The Dog, as well as the agonies and ecstasies of obsessive research and Tobias Wolff. Also – reviews of Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy and The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross. Find all the titles discussed in this episode at Greenlightbookstore.com/radio6 

Brigid Hughes (A Public Space, The Paris Review) speaks to Jack Livings about his debut collection of stories, The Dog, as well as the agonies and ecstasies of obsessive research and Tobias Wolff. Also – reviews of Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy and The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross. Find all the titles discussed in this episode at <a href="http://www.greenlightbookstore.com/radio6" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Greenlightbookstore.com/radio6 </a>

Episode 6: Jack Livings + Brigid Hughes (August 21, 2014)