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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
This week on World Ocean Radio we have a special reading of "Christmas at Sea", an evocative poem by Robert Louis Stevenson written in 1883. Steven...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Dec 24, 2019
- Length: 03:23
- Purchases: 1
Sandip Roy remembers on of India’s most beloved writers.
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Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Nov 11, 2019
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Amitav Ghosh’s newest novel Gun Island is a story about both two of his great themes - migration and climate.
- Added: Sep 10, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Online search engines are basically universal, so questions at the library reference desk are changing. We follow the story of one question, “I wan...
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- Added: Jul 24, 2019
- Length: 20:01
- Purchases: 1
Immigration is a pressing topic in our political landscape right now, with concerns about ICE raids and immigration bans. In this episode, we liste...
- Added: Jul 24, 2019
- Length: 21:11
“A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.” So goes the quote from librarian Jo Godwin. From Dr. Seuss to kosher books to ...
- Added: Jul 24, 2019
- Length: 24:17
Sandip Roy speaks with author and Afghan born American, vegan beefcake and most lovable teddy bear, Nemat Sadat.
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- Added: Jul 16, 2019
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
The 85 year old Ruskin Bond is a bit of an accidental Indian, but he is also one of the most loved Indian writers. Sandip Roy met him at the Tata S...
- Added: Jun 18, 2019
- Length: 06:00
The Kolkata Book Fair is one of the largest in the world. But it also has space for the smallest of publishers.
- Added: Feb 11, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Poetry inspired by music and musicians.
- Added: Jan 25, 2019
- Length: 58:15
Sandip Roy remembers his boyhood fascination with Hergé's famous comic, Tintin
- Added: Jan 22, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Three-time Georgia Author of the Year for poetry and editor of THE GEORGIA REVIEW, Stephen Corey reads from his book STARTLED AT THE BIG SOUND: ESS...
- Added: Jan 09, 2019
- Length: 29:00
'Tis the season for our end-of-year episode. Each year at the holidays, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads At The Fishhouses, a poem by Eliza...
- Added: Dec 26, 2018
- Length: 04:34
Winner of San Francisco's 2015 LitQuake essay contest. Published in Word Riot (with audio) December 2015.
- Added: Nov 26, 2018
- Length: 03:18
I'm not about to declare continental living a danger to one's health, but I'm starting to wonder. What is it about small, isolated places surrounde...
- Added: Sep 16, 2018
- Length: 13:08
The national news media is mesmerized by a president who runs the White House like a reality show. Jen Rice takes a look at the weird relationship ...
- Added: Aug 24, 2018
- Length: 57:42
Poet Linda Back McKay shares her poem "Howl" on this weeks segment of Wordish.
- Added: Jul 09, 2018
- Length: 02:10
Poet Steve Juenemann shares his poem "Big White Feather" on this weeks segment of Wordish.
- Added: May 14, 2018
- Length: 01:35
Poet Emilio Degrazia shares his poem "Why He Didn't Pray" on this weeks segment of Wordish.
- Added: Apr 02, 2018
- Length: 02:20
Stay Human takes a closer look at being undecided, not here and not there but in-between.
- Added: Mar 27, 2018
- Length: 59:32
On this segment of Wordish Jennifer Derrick shares her essay "Dressing Room".
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 02:01
Poet Serenity Schoonover shares her poem "Simple, Sacred".
- Added: Feb 26, 2018
- Length: 02:50
