“I wasn’t very good at baseball,” jokes Stephen Kuusisto, who has been blind since birth, in describing what led him to a love of literature. “Reading,” he tells former speech professor Paul Burkhart, “is a wonderful alternative to all the things you can’t do.” Kuusisto, author of Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening, also talks about learning to reveal oneself in memoir, the difference between hearing and listening, how crows talk to each other, and how he envisions a horse even though he’s never seen one.

Host> Paul Burkhart, Chautauquan and retired professor of Speech, Shippensburg University
Guest> Stephen Kuusisto, author of Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening, a Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle selection for 2007

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