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This Women's Words from KUMD features Holly Harden reading "After Caroling," an excerpt from her cookbook Good Food from Mrs. Sundberg's Kitchen.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Dec 24, 2014
- Length: 03:16
- Purchases: 1
At the close of each year, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This poem was chosen not only for its ...
- Added: Dec 22, 2014
- Length: 05:11
...And Other Essays is the book's title, by author Clifford Thompson who reads a passage here. Observations with wit about life and people, from m...
- Added: Dec 03, 2014
- Length: 01:40
This year marks 25 years since the publication of Geoff Dyer’s first novel, The Colour of Memory. Geoff is a multi-award winning writer who has wri...
- Added: Sep 29, 2014
- Length: 59:36
The new film 'Mood Indigo' is based on a novel by Boris Vian - so who was Vian? One of France's most popular authors of the 20th Century, musician,...
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 14:45
Nepalese/Indian-American author Prahjwal Parajuly is not your usual "trope."
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Jul 28, 2014
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Andrie Morris talks to playwright and Shakespeare expert, Jennie Buckman and Jatinder Verma, Artistic Director of Tara Arts about working with Shak...
- Added: Jul 28, 2014
- Length: 16:14
The Archie comic book character is as American as it gets. But in July of 2014 (Issue No. 36 of "Life With Archie") Archie dies. His death reverber...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jul 21, 2014
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
This week, on State of the Human, people are changing radically in order to recover
Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9
- Added: Jun 27, 2014
- Length: 58:52
- Purchases: 2
- Added: May 01, 2014
- Length: 01:36
In 1999, The Band officially called it quits. In this hour long audio essay, Don McIver looks at the history of The Band to examine the nature of ...
- Added: Apr 29, 2014
- Length: 58:03
India just lost its grand old man of letters. Khushwant Singh was 99 and still writing when he died in Delhi last week.
- Added: Mar 25, 2014
- Length: 04:30
Regularly published in NEW LETTERS magazine, as well as in other journals and newspapers nationwide, Robert Day discusses his two most recent works...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Feb 27, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
When the publishers Penguin and Random House merged, it called itself The world's first truly global book publishing company". Sounds powerful. But...
- Added: Feb 17, 2014
- Length: 04:30
A poet famous for writing about the civil rights movement and for epitomizing black arts movement feminism, Sonia Sanchez passed through Attica’s g...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Jan 27, 2014
- Length: 54:52
- Purchases: 1
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will introduce World Ocean Journal, a new bi-annual e-magazine on ocean culture, issues and ...
- Added: Jan 15, 2014
- Length: 04:55
Imagination is the seed of empathy – a centrally important function – and both the gift and burden of the writer. Here The Gift series producer St...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 04:35
- Purchases: 1
Do we really understand metaphor? How much do we really engage with our world metaphorically? We all have days when a cup is just a cup, a tree is ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 05:59
- Purchases: 1
In an interview with The Gift series producer Stanzi Vaubel, writer Lois Lowry talked about memory. In her novel, The Giver, one person holds the m...
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 06:13
Chicago is home to many organizations that help young people to express themsleves, including Young Chicago Authors, After School Matters, Street-L...
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 03:33
“When I first read Joy Harjo's poetry it was like stepping outside of my own story, my own life which narrates and puts me at the center of every e...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 05:24
- Purchases: 2
When you mention T.S. Eliot and then refer to texts like The Waste Land or his magnum opus The Four Quartets you generally elicit discomfort, anger...
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 31:33
When you mention T.S. Eliot and then refer to texts like The Waste Land or his magnum opus The Four Quartets you generally elicit discomfort, anger...
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 13:22
At the close of each year, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This poem was chosen above all others ...
- Added: Dec 27, 2013
- Length: 05:09
Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...
- Added: Dec 22, 2013
- Length: 02:35
