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Over 14,000 patrons have signed up for their first library card since Jay-Z's exhibit came to Central Library in mid-July. We talk to Brooklynites ...
- Added: Sep 29, 2023
- Length: 07:49
In search of inefficiency in an overly efficient digital world, Jakob Lewis entered the ‘typosphere,’ an online community of typewriter enthusiasts...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Aug 17, 2022
- Length: 27:43
- Purchases: 1
Sandip reflects on how literature festivals have mutated during the COVID pandemic.
- Added: Jan 24, 2022
- Length: 06:00
A postcard from Montevideo, Uruguay
Bought by KTNA
- Added: Dec 12, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
Winner of San Francisco's 2015 LitQuake essay contest. Published in Word Riot (with audio) December 2015.
- Added: Nov 26, 2018
- Length: 03:18
A group of children worry about their Hispanic grandmother after the death of her only sibling, Uncle Lolo. Written by Michael Fidel Marquez, Narr...
- Added: Jul 11, 2017
- Length: 25:31
The Wailin’ Jennys are Nicky Mehta, Ruth Moody and Heather Masse – three distinct voices that together make an achingly perfect vocal sound. Starti...
- Added: Feb 15, 2016
- Length: 59:31
- Purchases: 12
An unusual and irreverent comic strip about a misfit cat served as inspiration to 20th century poet e e cummings.
- Added: Feb 08, 2016
- Length: :58
Children's author Maurice Sendak was a big collector of Disney paraphenalia
- Added: Feb 08, 2016
- Length: :59
One of Allen Ginsberg's first publishers was taken to court for a book that an undercover police officer deemed "not fit for children to read."
- Added: Feb 03, 2016
- Length: :59
American poet Frank O'Hara got into trouble with his overbearing mother.
- Added: Feb 03, 2016
- Length: :58
Hunter S. Thompson had his first run-in with federal agents as a young boy during the Louisville summer of 1946
- Added: Feb 03, 2016
- Length: 01:00
Arlo returns to Big Top to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the event that inspired his seminal song, ‘Alice’s Restaurant Massacree’. We’re pleas...
Bought by KRCB 104.9, KMXT, WPCA-LP, KALH, KPIP-LP and more
- Added: Dec 22, 2015
- Length: 59:20
- Purchases: 12
Sandip Roy gets virtually stranded in Bangladesh at the Dhaka Lit. Fest.
- Added: Nov 23, 2015
- Length: 06:00
Forget words for a moment; look at the spaces between the words.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 23, 2015
- Length: 10:21
- Purchases: 1
Terrance Simien (born September 3, 1965 in Mallet, Louisiana) is an American zydeco musician, vocalist and songwriter. He and his band won the Gra...
- Added: Apr 14, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 8
Tune in this week as host Michael Perry welcomes the world-chart-topping boys and girl ~ Gaelic Storm ~ to the Big Top stage!
- Added: Apr 09, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 9
You'd think you could trust dictionaries, but it turns out, they are riddled with LIES.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 26, 2015
- Length: 15:26
- Purchases: 1
Tent Show Radio is pleased to welcome back to the Big Top stage Bayfield’s very own blues, folk, rock musician Corey Carlson and his Big City Band....
- Added: Mar 12, 2015
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 8
Gypsy jazz from Berlin, Germany along with Big Top Chautauqua's very own Blue Canvas Orchestra.
- Added: Feb 13, 2015
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 8
“I think our music promotes the bridging of all tribes,” Nahko says. “The lyrics and the stories and our energy as a group break down people’s wall...
- Added: Jan 28, 2015
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 10
McLean recorded his first album, Tapestry, in 1969 in Berkeley, California, during the student riots. After being rejected 72 times by labels, the ...
- Added: Jan 13, 2015
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 11
With strong roots in the Midwest, former Appleton, WI native via Babbitt, MN ~ now hailing from Nashville, TN ~ we are pleased to welcome songwrite...
Bought by KALH, KMSU, KSRQ, Wisconsin Public Radio, WPCA-LP and more
- Added: Jan 06, 2015
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 8
Having collaborated with one another for two decades, Rusted Root, has honed the perfect combination of musical intuition, freedom and virtuosity, ...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KALH, KMSU, WDSE, KSRQ and more
- Added: Dec 30, 2014
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 8
New First Night ~ the official kick-off of the Big Top tent season featuring host Michael Perry and Big Top Chautauqua's Blue Canvas Orchestra and ...
- Added: Dec 30, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 8