Hi, Mountaineers,

Mark Brazaitis, fiction, poet, and nonfiction extraordinaire will now add radio star to his long list of credentials. He will appear on The Diane Rehm Show at 11 am tomorrow, Tuesday, December 11, to discuss his new collection of short stories The Incurables. Mark will be in excellent company. The show, once called “the gold standard of civic, civil discourse,” has had such illustrious guests as Bill Clinton, Desmond Tutu, Julie Andrews, and Toni Morrison. The Diane Rehm Show reaches more than 2.2 million listeners and, according to their press release, “is produced at WAMU 88.5 in Washington, D.C., and distributed by National Public Radio, NPR Worldwide, and SIRIUS satellite radio.”

Mark says, “I’m thrilled to talk about my book, and about how the themes of my book connect to the work I’ve been doing at WVU—my teaching, my work with the Appalachian Prison Book Project, and my talks at the Health Sciences Center on the importance of listening to and understanding patients.”

Follow the link to find out more about Mark’s upcoming appearance.