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On this episode, we talked about the new book "Living Space" by Michael E. Veal, which is a thorough and creative examination of John Coltrane's fr...
- Added: May 05, 2024
- Length: 28:27
On this episode, we talked about the book "The Past is Always Present," which documents Orthodox chant practices among the monasteries of Mount Ath...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Mar 09, 2024
- Length: 27:24
- Purchases: 1
On this episode, we talked about the new book by Rachel Beckles Willson, called "The Oud: An Illustrated History." This book might be the first in-...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Dec 23, 2023
- Length: 27:42
- Purchases: 1
Despite being one of the most frequently banned authors, Toni Morrison’s work has inspired countless others to tell stories outside the mainstream....
- Added: Nov 30, 2023
- Length: 23:18
On this episode, we talked about a new book that serves as a companion to the Bach cello suites. Cellist Steven Isserlis has created a great book t...
- Added: Oct 02, 2023
- Length: 27:09
In the middle of the 20th century, a ten square block area in North Gowanus was home to the largest Mohawk settlement outside of Canada. We hear ab...
- Added: Sep 30, 2021
- Length: 28:17
Books on conveyor belts, book vacuums and books in the mail. This episode of “Borrowed” will take you behind the scenes to see how books travel aro...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 16:48
- Purchases: 1
In this episode, we share an interview with Mahogany Browne and Brooklyn poet laureate Tina Chang, plus a story about the classic novel A Tree Grow...
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 31:58
In this episode, we tell the story of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood through the lives of three women who set down roots there in diffe...
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 26:22
- Purchases: 1
The world's largest bus station, and a bus driver who wanted to be God.
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Mar 27, 2016
- Length: 54:12
- Purchases: 1
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
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
Alfred Bundy and Kevin Jenkins in conversation about this book.
- Added: Nov 06, 2015
- Length: 18:57
'Step-', as in stepparents or stepchildren, originated in grief. Family structures have evolved, but are stepmothers now so tainted by fairytale as...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 12, 2015
- Length: 38:16
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Apr 23, 2015
- Length: 10:21
- Purchases: 1
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
