Podcast appearances and mentions of Dustin M Hoffman

Jim Daniels has authored more than thirty collections of poetry, seven collections of fiction, and one collection of essays, and has written four produced screenplays. He has also edited or co-edited six anthologies, most recently RESPECT: The Poetry of Detroit Music. He is a recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and two from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. His books have won four Michigan Notable Books awards, the Brittingham Prize in Poetry, the Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry, the Tillie Olsen Creative Writing Award, the Milton Kessler Award, and three gold medals in the Independent Publisher Book Awards, among others, and his films have won awards in film festivals around the world. His work has been published in The Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize volumes. He has read his poetry on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion, and his poems were frequently featured on Keillor's Writer's Almanac. Poet laureates Billy Collins, Ted Kooser, and Tracy K. Smith all showcased his writing as part of their work to bring poetry to average Americans. During his long career, he has warmed up for singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams at the Three Rivers Arts Festival, read poems at a Jamestown Jammers AA baseball game, had his poem “Factory Love” displayed on a race car, and sent poetry into space as part of the Moon Arts Project. A native of Detroit, he lives in Pittsburgh, where he is the Baker University Professor Emeritus of English at Carnegie Mellon University. He currently teaches in the Alma College low-residency MFA program. Author Jim Daniels spoke at Marshall District Library as part of the 2026 #MiNotableBks author tour and was also honored as the 2025-2026 #MiAuthorAward recipient. Special thanks to MDL for hosting and to the Library of Michigan Foundation for their support of both programs. Visit www.Michigan.gov/NotableBooks and www.Michigan.gov/MiAuthorAwardfor more details on each program.  An Ignorance of Trees: A Memoir in Essays was published in August 2025 by Cornerstone Press and won a Michigan Notable Book Award in 2026.This was his fifth Michigan Notable Book Award: two in poetry, one in fiction, one in nonfiction, and one for editing (RESPECT: The Poetry of Detroit Music.More info on the Michigan Author Award at link above. https://msupress.org/9781611865745/late-invocation-for-magic/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_DanielsWriters mentioned: Andrew Collard, Dustin M. Hoffman, R.S. Deneen

South Carolina author Dustin M. Hoffman spent ten years as a house painter - which might have something to do with his fondness for characters from the working class. We discuss stories from his forthcoming collection Such a Good Man (University of Wisconsin Press), in which the plight of day laborers during the Great Recession is given center stage. We read "Smoke at the End of the World," which was first published in DIAGRAM. https://dustinmhoffman.com/Support the show

Dave O'Leary is a writer and musician living in Seattle. Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar is an Indian American writer, and a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee. Dustin M. Hoffman is the author of the story collections One-Hundred-Knuckled Fist and No Good for Digging. Austin Davis is the author of The World Isn't the SizeContinue reading "O'Leary x Chansarkar x Hoffman x Davis" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dave O’Leary is a writer and musician living in Seattle. Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar is an Indian American writer, and a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee. Dustin M. Hoffman is the author of the story collections One-Hundred-Knuckled Fist and No Good for Digging. Austin Davis is the author of The World Isn’t the SizeContinue reading "O’Leary x Chansarkar x Hoffman x Davis"

On this episode of "Now, Appalachia," Eliot interviews South Carolina short story author Dustin M. Hoffman about his new collection, "No Good for Digging." Dustin painted houses in Michigan for ten years and is now an assistant professor of English at Winthrop University in South Carolina. His short fiction has appeared in many magazines, including Threepenny Review, Black Warrior Review, Puerto del Sol, Midwestern Gothic, and Cimarron Review, and his story “Building Walls” received a Pushcart Prize special mention.

On the latest episode of Now, Appalachia, Eliot interviews South Carolina short story author Dustin M. Hoffman. Dustin painted houses in Michigan for ten years and is now an assistant professor of English at Winthrop University in South Carolina. His short fiction has appeared in many magazines, including Threepenny Review, Black Warrior Review, Puerto del Sol, Midwestern Gothic, and Cimarron Review, and his story “Building Walls” received a Pushcart Prize special mention. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/eliot-parker/support