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On this episode of the Polley Music Library show, we talked about "Beautiful Dreamer," the first biography of guitarist and composer Bill Frisell, ...
- Added: Jul 01, 2023
- Length: 28:30
The worst U.S. mass murder of homosexuals in the 20th century was by a gruesome fire in a New Orleans French Quarter nightclub. Yet, the Upstairs L...
- Added: Jun 27, 2023
- Length: 19:45
On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we talked about "The Mandorla Letters," the new book by flautist and composer Nicole Mitchell Gan...
- Added: Jun 24, 2023
- Length: 27:30
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is a beloved author now but when she started writing about her South Asian community in America in the 90s not everyone ...
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- Added: Jun 13, 2023
- Length: 06:00
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There are no visitor facilities. Roads are mostly washed-out jeep tracks. There is no water. And there's no way out, unless you come back the way y...
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- Added: Jun 03, 2023
- Length: 28:00
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On this episode, we discussed the new book "Dance-Punk," part of a new series of "Genre" books from 33 1/3. We discussed the history of dance-punk ...
- Added: May 20, 2023
- Length: 28:29
If you think limericks just means Edward Lear, think again. The Limeric Lovers Publishers of Kolkata are devoted fans of limericks in Bengali, a lo...
- Added: Feb 28, 2023
- Length: 06:00
San Francisco's Andrew Sean Greer was in Kolkata recently to talk about Less is Lost, his sequel to his Pulitzer-winning novel Less. Sandip Roy sen...
- Added: Feb 21, 2023
- Length: 06:00
Kolkata is famous for its love of books. And its love for sweets. And Sandip Roy just went to Jugal's Literature Festival - the first ever literat...
- Added: Feb 14, 2023
- Length: 06:00
Literary festivals have returned to the ground in full form for the first time since the pandemic. Sandip Roy sends an audio postcard from a litfes...
- Added: Jan 30, 2023
- Length: 06:00
In search of inefficiency in an overly efficient digital world, Jakob Lewis entered the ‘typosphere,’ an online community of typewriter enthusiasts...
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- Added: Aug 17, 2022
- Length: 27:43
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Written by Mark Fleischman, with Denise Chatman and Mimi Fleischman
Chapter Two: The Raid on Studio 54
Studio 54 first opened in April 1977 and b...
- Added: Aug 05, 2022
- Length: 27:38
Studio 54 first opened
in April 1977 and became the most famous
nightclub of all time. Its quick ascent was confounding because creators
Steve R...
- Added: Aug 02, 2022
- Length: 18:45
This week we discover what really happened to the Bondurant boys with Franklin Co country, singer-songwriter and amateur historian, Colby Helms of ...
- Added: Jul 26, 2022
- Length: 59:00
I lost time to a steady rhythmic swing and clicking of cars traveling over rails. Passing scenery like a thief with no passion for roots, just a tr...
- Added: Jul 23, 2022
- Length: 07:49
Book bans and challenges have been on the rise in the past few years. When BPL launched a free eCard to give out-of-state teens access to our eBook...
- Added: Jun 13, 2022
- Length: 25:25
HOUR ONE: 'As Read By The Author' - One of the most fun things we get to do is bring the soundscape of a novel to life — cue the monsters, the stor...
- Added: Jun 03, 2022
- Length: 01:59:01
This Spring, the Paris Book Fair was finally back in person! But even amidst this Parisian fairytale, reality reared its ugly head.
- Added: May 24, 2022
- Length: 06:00
For the last two years the Kolkata Literary Meet has been a Zoom affair, but this year the audience is back and reminds Sandip just how important t...
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- Added: Apr 19, 2022
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- Added: Apr 11, 2022
- Length: 02:00
At the Kolkata Book Fair Sandip wonders if anyone comes to the book fair anymore for actual books, and then 4 handwritten poems proved that they do.
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- Added: Apr 04, 2022
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Emily speaks with Emily Maloney about her new collection of essays, Cost of Living, which explores the American healthcare system and what it’s lik...
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- Added: Mar 08, 2022
- Length: 33:59
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While the Russian army fills the news hour, Sandip remembers his childhood exposure to the folk tales of Ukraine.
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- Added: Mar 07, 2022
- Length: 06:00
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Sandip reflects on how literature festivals have mutated during the COVID pandemic.
- Added: Jan 24, 2022
- Length: 06:00
Our annual gift to World Ocean Radio listeners. In this episode, host Peter Neill reads "At the Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop, a poem from 1955 t...
- Added: Dec 27, 2021
- Length: 04:40