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Join us for a celebration of Bob Dylan's Birthday with Bob Fass, Big Joe Turner, Al Kooper, Les Crane, The Band, Richard Ashcroft, John Hammond, Em...
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: May 24, 2021
- Length: 01:58:06
- Purchases: 1
By getting personal and a little surreal The New Silence by Brian Price uses humor, heightened language, and edgy jazz to take on the thorny questi...
- Added: Apr 19, 2020
- Length: 27:13
- Purchases: 2
An intimate conversation with poet Alice Notley at her home in Paris. Produced by award-winning producer Marjorie Van Halteren.
- Added: Apr 11, 2020
- Length: 34:02
In an era of fake news and alternative facts, what is the role of literature that blurs the line between fiction and non-fiction? Novelist Lynne Ti...
- Added: Apr 20, 2017
- Length: 30:55
Millennial-with-attitude and recent journalism graduate Cheyenne Cockrell challenges Gerald with a dozen questions from wannabes who wake up wantin...
- Added: Aug 25, 2016
- Length: 54:53
Native American author, Sherman Alexie, joins Katy Sewall and Steve Scher live on stage to talk about urban animal encounters. The result is a hila...
- Added: Aug 09, 2015
- Length: 01:41:12
In 2009 Shaun Usher began a blog to showcase correspondence that he felt deserved a wider audience. The blog quickly became popular and widely shar...
- Added: Jun 20, 2014
- Length: 13:31
Creative author, illustrator and filmmaker William Joyce is an Academy Award Winner, Emmy Award Winner and his illustrations have appeared on numer...
- Added: Jun 20, 2014
- Length: 16:44
100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. An early activist profiled.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Apr 24, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
Set in the luxurious homes and clubs of New York, Hobe Sound, Dark Harbor, the Hamptons and Europe, Mike Offit’s debut novel is a story about comin...
- Added: Mar 05, 2014
- Length: 22:34
Over the past 13 years, Louder than a Bomb, Chicago’s youth poetry competition, has grown from humble roots in the basement of a Division Street th...
Bought by WJSU, KMXT, and NPR Illinois
- Added: Apr 25, 2013
- Length: 59:03
- Purchases: 3
Bill Caldwell is a nurse, a therapist, and a poet. Much of what he knows about poetry is related to classes at The Loft at the Minnesota Center for...
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 03:08
Poet Athena Kildeagard, a University of Minnesota - Morris lecturer, looks deeply and metaphorically at a Blue Herring's stop in the poem "On Juggl...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 02:40
- Purchases: 1
This is the story of an exceptional 14-year-old boy with Asperger’s syndrome. He hates the color blue, keeps a very detailed notebook, needs flash...
- Added: Nov 13, 2012
- Length: 14:42
The New York Times estimates that nearly forty percent of museum and gallery art is forged. Keep that in mind as you read the new book by B.A. Sha...
- Added: Nov 08, 2012
- Length: 20:24
Whatever your spiritual path, chances are that the primary tenets of your faith include universal love, acceptance and compassion. Yet three thousa...
- Added: Jun 26, 2012
- Length: 28:55
Can we ever atone for the sins of the past? Or does each generation of women invent itself anew?
In THE POSSIBILITY OF YOU, bestselling author Pam...
- Added: May 09, 2012
- Length: 13:39
In the feline follow-up to Enslaved by Ducks, bird-loving author Bob Tarte tells the story of surviving a household run by six fiercely independent...
- Added: May 01, 2012
- Length: 12:56
Dmae Roberts produced a special half-hour radio memorial on the 10th anniversary of her mom’s death. Remembrance: On Time And Distance is part memo...
Bought by KVSC, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Prairie Public, KVSC, and WBEZ
- Added: Apr 30, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 5
A dramatic musical based on "The Diary of Anne Frank," with music by Michael Cohen and libretto by Enid Futterman. Perfect for scheduling in April ...
- Added: Apr 22, 2012
- Length: 58:01
- Purchases: 2
Meg Rosoff, a Printz Award-winning author, returns to the young adult marketplace with "There is No Dog," a provocative and imaginative novel starr...
- Added: Feb 08, 2012
- Length: 21:06
Julia Child wanted to be a novelist, or to write for The New Yorker. "They weren't interested in me, for some reason." So she just kept reading. An...
- Added: Dec 06, 2011
- Length: 49:35
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Willa Cather, John Steinbeck, and Julia Child: All loved to eat. Here's a Cather story about a priest who loved his food more t...
Bought by KZYX, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KZYX, WXXI Rochester, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more
- Added: Jun 25, 2011
- Length: 55:08
- Purchases: 6
Part of "Whose Words These Are," our look at poetry in our time: first Christopher Lydon in conversation with novelist Nicholson Baker, whose novel...
Bought by KALW, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WEOS and more
- Added: Apr 04, 2011
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 6
Happy Valentine's from Julia Child! This one-hour special was started years ago but never aired till now. She presents two love stories that have t...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WYAP, KAAD-LP, 'The Sea' and more
- Added: Jan 26, 2011
- Length: 54:51
- Purchases: 28
