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On this episode, we talked about the book "The Musician as Philosopher," which explores several important musicians who worked in the New York City...
- Added: Apr 23, 2024
- Length: 28:13
Burnout from work is something a lot of us are thinking about right now. It's been on the minds of librarians, too. We talk to a group of library w...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Mar 01, 2021
- Length: 25:09
- Purchases: 1
“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
The Point Reyes Light, a weekly newspaper in West Marin, is known for a lot of things. It won a Pulitzer Prize, it’s done muckraking reporting on a...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 05, 2015
- Length: 05:17
- Purchases: 1
Marjorie Sturm talks victimhood, context, and seeing what we want to see.
- Added: Mar 14, 2015
- Length: 21:31
With Halloween on the way, it’s scary movie season. That means isolated cabins, psychopathic hillbillies, and evil in the woods. One scholar believ...
- Added: Oct 17, 2014
- Length: 02:45
- Purchases: 3
The Provincetown Public Library, a tiny library at the end of Cape Cod, has become the first public library in the country to create its own digita...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: May 25, 2014
- Length: 04:20
- Purchases: 2
Pratibha Parmar discusses making the recent documentary about an iconic American writer, Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth, which can be seen on the Am...
- Added: Feb 20, 2014
- Length: 27:59
- Purchases: 3
A look at that DIY mainstay, known as the zine, through the lens of a long-running publication called Factsheet Five.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 02, 2013
- Length: 07:18
- Purchases: 1
When naming the most important stories of the 20th century, gossip writer Liz Smith rattled off the assassination of JFK, the Lindbergh kidnapping,...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Sep 24, 2012
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 1
- Added: May 25, 2012
- Length: 07:30
- Purchases: 2
We all know a bad translation when we see one… or do we? I spoke with Jay Rubin, translator for the best-selling author Haruki Murakami, among othe...
- Added: May 11, 2012
- Length: 11:35
A conversation with the author of a new book about the literary history of Brooklyn.
- Added: Nov 11, 2011
- Length: 08:00
- Added: Feb 15, 2008
- Length: 05:25
an award-winning author of 5 novels tells what it takes to write one
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Dec 12, 2006
- Length: 03:07
- Purchases: 1
Episode 1 features poet laureates Mark Strand, Gwendolyn Brooks and Ted Kooser discussing the art and craft of writing poetry and reading some of t...
Bought by WETS, WCPN, WFHB, North Country Public Radio, Kansas Public Radio and more
- Added: Mar 02, 2006
- Length: 01:04:02
- Purchases: 13
The story of how a poet inspired a painter to draw a picture about a poem that had, in turn, been inspired by a piece of the painter's work.
Bought by KUCB, Connecticut Public (WNPR), WHQR, and WZBC
- Added: Mar 27, 2005
- Length: 05:20
- Purchases: 4
