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Happy Halloween! Jess talks with UCLA librarian Megan Rosenbloom about the spooky science of uncovering what makes some old books extra rare.
Bought by WORT
- Added: Oct 31, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
What new books should thoughtful people read this summer?
- Added: Aug 16, 2023
- Length: 53:59
NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR features the Past American Voice of Conger Beasley Jr. whose last book, ON BECOMING APACHE, was published posthumously at th...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)
- Added: Aug 19, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Anthony Grooms, author of the novel BOMBINGHAM, reads from his recent novel, THE VAIN CONVERSATION, based on a 1946 lynching of two black couples i...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)
- Added: Jan 21, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Stewart O'Nan, the author of 20 plus books including EMILY, ALONE and LAST NIGHT AT THE LOBSTER, reads from his later novel, CITY OF SECRETS, and d...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)
- Added: Jan 14, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Highlights from a 2002 writer's forum in Jemez Springs, New Mexico that featured beloved New Mexico author Rudolfo Anaya.
FROM ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Jun 30, 2020
- Length: 10:00
- Purchases: 1
After 43 years of broadcasting, 2020 budget cuts may bring us to an end. This compilation program features audio from four decades of our archives ...
- Added: Jun 30, 2020
- Length: 29:00
This program series has 76 shows each of 5 minutes in length. Four great authors of the Renaissance are explored. This program, through the spoken ...
- Added: May 13, 2020
- Length: 05:01
WMRA and James Madison University present The John Grisham Writers Hour with special guest Jon Meacham.
- Added: Dec 03, 2019
- Length: 53:58
Stewart O'Nan has written over 20 books as varied as the best-selling novel, SNOW ANGELS (now a film) to the non-fiction book co-written with Steph...
- Added: Nov 25, 2019
- Length: 29:00
We mark Veteran's Day with two interviews featuring Alan Proctor. His book, THE SWEDEN FILE: MEMOIR OF AN AMERICAN EX-PATRIATE, was named one of th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Our celebration of State Poets Laureate continues with a look back at previous holders of the title in Kansas. Part one of this public reading feat...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Sep 04, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
During the Nazi regime, many German artists, scientists, and other intellectuals found refuge in Southern California. The authors Lion Feuchtwanger...
- Added: Aug 07, 2019
- Length: 34:48
In this presentation at the Kansas City Public Library, Scottish-born writer Margot Livesey talks about her evolution as a reader and writer, and s...
- Added: May 08, 2019
- Length: 29:00
We kick off National Preservation Week and continue our celebration of National Poetry Month by pulling from our audio archives to look back on the...
- Added: Apr 24, 2019
- Length: 29:00
While at the Woodneath Library Center, novelist Larry Watson reads from his tenth book, AS GOOD AS GONE, now out in paperback. He reveals how cowbo...
- Added: Aug 15, 2018
- Length: 29:00
Host Marcos Nájera introduces us to the Zeta podcast series. Who is Oscar Zeta Acosta? If you know, you are way ahead of Nájera who admits the US p...
- Added: Jun 08, 2018
- Length: 13:29
Meryl Streep narrates an hour-long documentary special about how the Women’s Movement changed poetry, and how women poets changed the culture.
Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, WGTE Public Media, WNMU-FM, KBIA, High Plains Public Radio and more
- Added: Mar 16, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 73
From: New Letters on the Air
For Black History Month, we present THE 19th U.S. Poet Laureate (2012-14) and former Mississippi Poet Laureate (2012-16), Natasha Trethewey, who wo...
- Added: Feb 08, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
2018 marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. On this episode of Don't Cha Know we discuss the importance of ...
- Added: Jan 26, 2018
- Length: 26:23
Poetry and the pain of experience are the subjects of this episode titled "Our Cheated Hearts." Author Winston Groom incorporated his experiences i...
- Added: Apr 27, 2017
- Length: 25:00
Take note: On this episode we're following the "Race Beat." We talk with Hank Klibanoff who's book "The Race Beat" tells the story of journalists c...
- Added: Apr 27, 2017
- Length: 25:00
A conversation with biologist and naturalist E.O. Wilson on what winning a second Pulitzer Prize meant for him and his Harvard colleagues. A look ...
- Added: Apr 27, 2017
- Length: 24:59
In this episode we're looking at the small town through the literary lens. Hear how Shirley Ann Grau author of "Keepers of the House" hung up on th...
- Added: Apr 25, 2017
- Length: 24:59
Another hour of Dylan's most literate work, hosted by Paul Ingles, to further mark his winning the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Bought by KAAD-LP, KMSU, KMUW, WRGY, Radio Catskill and more
- Added: Oct 28, 2016
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 9
