Artpod: An interview with Bonnie Jo Campbell

This week's Artpod features an interview from the "Michigan on the Page." It's a web-only series from Michigan Radio, where authors from around the state are interviewed about their own books, about Michigan books in general, and about what it means to be a Michigan writer.

On today's podcast, we turn the mic over to Brian Short, the series' curator, and author Bonnie Jo Campbell.

Campbell's most recent book is the novel Once Upon a River, which has gotten rave reviews. Her previous book, American Salvage, was a finalist for the National Book Award.

You can read a transcript of the interview here.

And here's a list of what was in Bonnie Jo's box o' books:

• How to Fly by Rachael Perry
• Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open by Diane Seuss
• Autopsy of an Engine by Lolita Hernandez
• The Nick Adams Stories by Ernest Hemingway
• Within the Lighted City by Lisa Lenzo
• The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
• Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon
• Road to Wellville by T.C. Boyle
• Freshwater Boys by Adam Schuitema
• The Legend of Sleeping Bear by Kathy-Jo Wargin
• Eden Springs by Laura Kasischke
• Laughing Whitefish by Robert Traver
• Stitches by David Small
• Of Woods and Other Things by Emma Pticher
• Michigan's Eastern Massasauga--An Historic Distribution by Tom Beauvais
• "Brown Dog" by Jim Harrison
• "Wanting Only to be Heard" by Jack Driscoll
• "The Lost Tiki Palaces of Detroit" by Michael Zadoorian

And, while we're at it, here's a list of the other writers featured in "Michigan on the Page":

• Steve Amick, author
• Christopher T Leland, poet
• Jeremiah Chamberlin, author
• Marc Sheehan, poet
• Patricia Clark, poet