Rewrite Radio

Episode 10 of Rewrite Radio features one of the oldest recordings in our Festival archive, Frederick Buechner speaking at our gathering in 1992. Frederick Buechner’s books—fiction, essays, sermons and more—have been translated into 27 languages and he has often been praised for his ability to inspire readers to see the grace in their daily lives. The London Free Press called him “one of our great...

Episode 9 of Rewrite Radio features a conversation between four writers in the Eastern Orthodox religious tradition about the deep poetry and lasting peace that liturgy offers. Scott Cairns, Angela Doll Carlson, Gaelan Gilbert, and Cameron Alexander Lawrence reflect on Orthodoxy and how it can clear a pathway through the slings and arrows of modern life. Scott Cairns’s poems and essays have appear...

Episode 8 of Rewrite Radio features Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas on Black Lives Matter and the Justice of God at the 2016 Festival of Faith & Writing. The Susan D. Morgan Distinguished Professor of Religion at Goucher College, Rev. Dr. Douglas has served as a priest in the Episcopal Church for over 20 years and is currently the Canon Theologian at the National Cathedral. She writes about racia...

Episode 7 of Rewrite Radio features the on-stage conversation between Tobias Wolff and his former student, George Saunders, that took place after Saunders’s keynote at the 2016 Festival of Faith & Writing. As a professor of creative writing, Tobias was a major influence on George when the younger writer did his MFA at Syracuse. George now teaches at Syracuse himself, while Tobias recently reti...

Episode 6 of Rewrite Radio features George Saunders in an on-stage conversation with Calvin College English professor Lew Klatt at the 2016 Festival of Faith & Writing. A critically acclaimed author of essays, short stories, and now his first novel, LINCOLN IN THE BARDO, Saunders discusses a wide range of topics including the intimacy of storytelling, how weird narratives work to disrupt moral...

Episode 4 of Rewrite Radio features John Darnielle’s talk about his creative process at the 2016 Festival of Faith & Writing. Hailed as the best storyteller in rock for his work as the frontman for the band the Mountain Goats, John Darnielle proved his storytelling prowess transcends genre with his debut novel WOLF IN WHITE VAN, a finalist for the National Book Award in 2014. His next book, ET...

Episode 5 of Rewrite Radio features Patricia and Alana Raybon on the power of the pen to bridge a deep divide. They talk about writing UNDIVIDED: A MUSLIM DAUGHTER, HER CHRISTIAN MOTHER, THEIR PATH TO PEACE and the truths, troubles, and triumphs of co-authoring when the collaborators are struggling not just to write a book, but to reconcile their deepest difference. ALANA RAYBON is the co-author o...

Episode 3 of Rewrite Radio features Saladin Ahmed’s presentation on Science Fiction and the Muslim American imagination at the 2016 Festival of Faith & Writing. Saladin was born in Detroit and raised in a working-class, Arab American enclave in Dearborn, Michigan. His first novel, THRONE OF THE CRESCENT MOON, was a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Crawford, Gemmell, and British Fantasy Awards, a...

Episode 1 of Rewrite Radio features Dennis Covington’s presentation at the 2016 Festival of Faith & Writing in which he told stories about his time writing from the borders of Syria’s civil war, the stories behind his book REVELATION: A SEARCH FOR FAITH IN A VIOLENT RELIGIOUS WORLD. He also reads a selection from his memoir SALVATION ON SAND MOUNTAIN: SNAKE HANDLING IN SOUTH APPALACHIA, a fina...

Episode 2 of Rewrite Radio features Makoto Fujimura’s talk about Japanese history and literature at the 2016 Festival of Faith & Writing. The novel SILENCE by Shusaku Endo and Makoto’s faith journey are the subject of his own book SILENCE AND BEAUTY: HIDDEN FAITH BORN FROM SUFFERING. And Makoto was a consultant on Martin Scorsese’s film adaptation of SILENCE, opening in theaters this Christmas...