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MN Reads: "Native Love Jams" by Tashia Hart
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Tashia Hart talks about her new book "Native Love Jams", a nominee for the Minnesota Book Award

  • Added: Mar 28, 2024
  • Length: 09:30
Dawn Powell
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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Dawn Powell wrote novels about people like herself: outsiders who’d come to New York City in the early twentieth century to make a name for themsel...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 22:02
  • Purchases: 1
How many ways can we ‘Spell Heaven’?
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Pacifica Municipal Pier, Credit: Toni Mirosevich
How do we find human connection? Being “in with the out crowd?" Author and poet Toni Mirosevich finds peers on the pier. She reads from her latest ...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Oct 04, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 1
National Writers Series: Megan Miranda and Emily Henry
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Three
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Discussions with authors Megan Miranda ("Such a Quiet Place") and Emily Henry ("People We Meet on Vacation").

Bought by WNMU-FM, Michigan Radio, and WKAR


  • Added: Aug 28, 2021
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 3
The Write Question - Kristin Knight Pace - 435
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Kristin Knight Pace is one of thirty-one women in the world to have completed both the Iditarod and Yukon Quest dogsled races. In this interview, s...

Bought by Prairie Public, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Write Question - Sarah Aswell - 438
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Comedian and humor writer Sarah Aswell discusses her works and stand up. She also reads a selection and shares a live comedy bit.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 12, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Write Question - Kathryn Trueblood - 450
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Kathryn Trueblood discusses her novel, "Take Daily As Needed." She also reads a short excerpt.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 31, 2019
  • Length: 29:26
  • Purchases: 2
The Write Question - Jeremy Smith - 372
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Jeremy Smith discusses his nonfiction novel, "Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien." He also reads a short pass...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 02, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
National Writers Series: Diana Gabaldon
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series
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Diana Gabaldon talks about her "Outlander" series of books with Deb Leonard.

Bought by Michigan Radio and WKAR


  • Added: Dec 09, 2018
  • Length: 54:29
  • Purchases: 2
Afrofuturism: 3 Women you Need to Know
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Afrofuturism is a growing genre-movement that spans literature, art, music, and film. It provides radical alternatives to dominant Western narrativ...

Bought by WMMT, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, KQED, KVNF, WRIR and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Write Question - Henrietta Goodman - 331
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Award-winning poet Henritetta Goodman discusses her collection of 48 linked Italian sonnets, "All That Held Us." She also reads a handful of poems ...

Bought by KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 28, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 3: Always Tomorrow
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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A woman becomes a best-selling novelist by writing 120 books about her first romance.

  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 24:49
Episode 75: The Gatekeeper
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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“I keep saying ‘where’s the body? Kill someone,’” Marilyn Stasio told us. She reads at least 200 crime novels a year to determine which are worthy ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 23:58
  • Purchases: 1
Chekhov’s Three Sisters: Where There’s a Will…
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Olga Knipper and Anton Chekhov
Three Sisters is being performed by the Indiana University Theatre Department at the Wells-Metz Theatre on campus beginning this Friday, October 13...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2017
  • Length: 34:55
Interview w/ Pulitzer-prize winning author ALISON LURIE
From: Out of Bounds
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The legendary Lurie talks about her new book "Reading for Fun" and discusses favorite novels and well-know authors she has known.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
The Write Question - Alexandra Teague - 287
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Alexandra Teague discusses her debut novel, a quirky coming-of-age story. She reads both from the book as well as selected poem from her previous c...

Bought by KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
GPV13 Book Review - Adultery
From: Gerald Jones
Series: GetPublished! Radio Book Review Featurettes
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
Here's Gerald's audio book review of Adultery by Paulo Coelho.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:54
Poet Alice Friman
From: New Letters on the Air
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Alice Friman reads from her most recent of her six poetry collections THE VIEW FROM SATURN, VINCULUM, and THE BOOK OF THE ROTTEN DAUGHTER. She talk...

Bought by WNJR, WMUU-LP, and WNJR


  • Added: Jan 11, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
"Handicapped Plates... for HAHVAAD Yard"
From: Peter Johnson
Series: THE AUTHOR'S CORNER ON PUBLIC RADIO: SEPTEMBER, 2015
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The cosmos dealt author Eileen Cronin a difficult hand but she's risen to the challenges. Here she expressively reads about her amusing encounter w...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
Drunk Mom / Acting and Activism! / Thrillers! / The Fun is in the Surprise! / Darn That Annoying Itch!
From: 2BoomerBabes Radio Hour
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Segment 1: Jowita Bydlowska - drunk mom Segment 2: Tippi Hedren/actress Segment 3: Steve Berry/author poe, lincoln Segment 4: Denise Chaykum/Myst...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2015
  • Length: 54:00
Color So Sparing: Terri Falsani
From: WDSE
Series: Women's Words
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This Women's Words features Terri Falsani of Duluth reading her two poems "Understanding Eve" and "Higher Latitude".

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 03:12
  • Purchases: 1
A Goddess of the Milky Way
From: WDSE
Series: Women's Words
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This Women's Words features Esther Marcella Hoffmann from Mankato, Minnesota reading two poems, "For the Males," and "Mama Gaia."

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 30, 2014
  • Length: 02:21
  • Purchases: 1
Novelist Debra Brenegan
From: New Letters on the Air
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For the holiday weekend, we look back in history at Sara Payson Willis, a novelist, journalist, and feminist who wrote under the pseudonym "Fanny F...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Jul 09, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Man Booker Prize-winning author Anne Enright
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Anne Enright
For Women's History Month with a nod to St.Patty's Day, we revisit Irish author Anne Enright, who discusses her dark but humorous approach to writi...

Bought by XRAY.fm and WJCU


  • Added: Mar 19, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Deborah Sharp's Florida Mysteries on Thirty Four 50
From: Joseph Sr Dobzynski
Series: Thirty-Four50 - Joseph Dobzynski - Florida Series
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Deborah Sharp was a reporter for USA Today for nearly two decades. Given all the stories she wrote about killer sharks, rampaging alligators, and h...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2014
  • Length: 24:10