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Novelist Anthony Grooms
From: New Letters on the Air
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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
Novelist and Non-Fiction Author Stewart O'Nan: Part Two
From: New Letters on the Air
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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
10 Minutes with Rudolfo Anaya
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: Rudolfo Anaya
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
Kansas Poets Laureate: Part 1
From: New Letters on the Air
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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
Frankenfest! Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
From: KQAL
Series: Don't Cha Know
Caption: Jim Armstrong, Andrea Wood, Anne-Marie Dunbar
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
Episode Five: "Our Cheated Hearts"
From: Troy Public Radio
Series: Carried Home: Alabama Authors and The Pulitzer Prize
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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
Episode Four: "The Race Beat"
From: Troy Public Radio
Series: Carried Home: Alabama Authors and The Pulitzer Prize
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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
Episode Two: "The Small Town through the Literary Lens"
From: Troy Public Radio
Series: Carried Home: Alabama Authors and The Pulitzer Prize
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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
Translating Dante
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Retellings
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Poet Mary Jo Bang explores the process of translating Dante Alighieri's Inferno, and professor Jessica Rosenfeld explains the origins of literature.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 20:23
The Wright Brothers with Special Guest David McCullough
From: Alan Duncan
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What can America learn for today from the Wright brothers? Don’t miss this fascinating interview with David McCullough on The Public Square®.

  • Added: Jul 09, 2015
  • Length: 57:26
Neil Gaiman: A Reading and Interview
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Writers on a New England Stage
Caption: Neil Gaiman waits backstage, Credit: David J. Murray, Clear Eyed Photo
Multimedia sensation reads from the new edition of "American Gods," and talks Twitter, Dr. Who, and the power of librarians with host Virginia Pres...

Bought by KSRQ, Connecticut Public (WNPR), and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 29, 2011
  • Length: 49:27
  • Purchases: 3
Aldo Leopold and the Emerging Land Ethic (59:00 / 54:00 - Free Program)
From: Jack Loeffler
Caption: Aldo Leopold, Credit: Aldo Leopold Foundation
A celebration of the life Aldo Leopold, the man who wrote “A Sand County Almanac” in 1949, and introduced Ethics as the fundamental concept that sh...

Bought by KZYX, WRGY, KUPR low power FM, WMUU-LP, KCMJ Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 15
Author Molly Gloss and the Heroines of the American West
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Stage and Studio
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This show profiles novelist Molly Gloss, whose books have shed light on untold stories of women in the American West.

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Nov 23, 2010
  • Length: 27:52
  • Purchases: 1
Poet Robert Pinsky takes on another poet, King David of the Bible - and of the Psalms - in his "Life of David."
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky tackles King David of the Bible - the shepherd, poet, warrior and adulterer - in his "Life of David."

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 06, 2009
  • Length: 28:26
  • Purchases: 1
Virgil's Georgics: ThoughtCast interviews the poet and translator David Ferry
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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Virgil's Georgics: an interview with poet David Ferry, who recently translated Virgil's second great poem, The Georgics. We're joined by Virgil sch...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Sep 06, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1