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AMOS 23-170: The Invisible World of Manuscripts, 8/25/2023
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
The Invisible World of Manuscripts

  • Added: Aug 15, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
AMOS 19.014: Reading Literature Makes Us More Open-Minded, 1/18/2019
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Reading Literature Makes Us More Open-Minded

  • Added: Nov 12, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
AMOS 18.149: The (Real) Science of Frankenstein, 7/26/2018
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
The (Real) Science of Frankenstein

  • Added: Jun 13, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
GPV33 Book Review - A Curious Mind
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 A Curious Mind by Brian Grazer.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 04:43
GPV35 Book Review - The Belief in Angels
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 The Belief in Angels by J. Dylan Yates.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 02:36
GVP40 Book Review - Musicianship
From: Gerald Jones
Series: GetPublished! Radio Book Review Featurettes
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
Three stories about that elusive quality - musicianship.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 03:13
GPV37 Book Review - The Brass Verdict
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 The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2017
  • Length: 02:30
GPV36 Book Review - Back to Blood
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 Back to Blood by Tom Wolfe.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2017
  • Length: 03:46
GPV32 Book Review - Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
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 Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2017
  • Length: 02:13
GPV30 Book Review - A Spool of Blue Thread
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 A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2017
  • Length: 03:07
Ray Bradbury on Madmen
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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A few years ago Lisa Potts was looking behind her dresser when she saw a cassette tape. She’d forgotten about the tape--a recording of an interview...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Troy Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 26, 2015
  • Length: 05:55
  • Purchases: 5
Ed Harris Reads from John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" -- with Commentary from Richard Rodriguez
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Literary Moments
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Actor Ed Harris reads from John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-Winning epic, "The Grapes of Wrath." Includes commentary from writer Richard Rodriguez.

Bought by KUCB


  • Added: Mar 26, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Poetry Out Loud Champion Olivia Seward Recites "When I Was Fair and Young" by Queen Elizabeth I
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Literary Moments
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Olivia Seward, 2007 Poetry Out Loud Washington State Champion and national finalist, recites "When I Was Fair and Young," by Queen Elizabeth I.

Bought by WKMS


  • Added: Mar 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:29
  • Purchases: 1
Mary Louise Parker Reads from Carson McCullers' "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter"
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Literary Moments
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Actress Mary Louise Parker reads the opening passages of Carson McCullers' moving novel about race, identity, and friendship, "The Heart Is a Lonel...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2008
  • Length: :59
James Earl Jones Reads Shakespeare's Sonnet #55
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Literary Moments
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Actor James Earl Jones reads Shakespeare's Sonnet #55.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUER, New Hampshire Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Mar 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:26
  • Purchases: 5
The Sopranos and Hamlet
From: Paul Levinson
Series: The Sopranos Ending - A Modern Masterpiece?
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"And the rest is silence" is the famous, much-praised last line of Hamlet - it applies to the cut to sudden-black at the end of The Sopranos, doesn...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2007
  • Length: 03:55
The Sopranos, or the Tiger?
From: Paul Levinson
Series: The Sopranos Ending - A Modern Masterpiece?
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first of series of special analysis of The Sopranos' ending ... here, I compare it to the famous ending of Stockton's The Lady or The Tiger...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2007
  • Length: 04:41
Seuss Abuse
From: Susan Johnston
Series: Spoken Word: The Capital Poetry Collective Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Kevin Matthews' short social commentary, a tongue-in-cheek take on Dr. Seuss

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Feb 19, 2006
  • Length: 03:10
  • Purchases: 1
Natural Fluidity
From: Susan Johnston
Series: Spoken Word: The Capital Poetry Collective Series
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Ritallin performs live: A passionate and erotic piece from one of Canada's best spoken word artists

  • Added: Feb 19, 2006
  • Length: :53
Until the Pen Runs out of Ink
From: Susan Johnston
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Kevin Matthews' short social commentary, with a tongue-in-cheek look at spoken word

  • Added: Oct 18, 2005
  • Length: 02:09
1999 Michael Ondaatje - Elimination Dance
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
Caption: PRX default Piece image
ondaatje reads great poem

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
1997 Lorenzo Thomas - The New Age
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
Caption: PRX default Piece image
black arts movement poet reads an anti war poem

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 01:21
  • Purchases: 1
1989 Joanne Kyger - Springtime Adonis Poem
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
Caption: PRX default Piece image
One of the few Beat-era women writers reads her work

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KISU, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 01:52
  • Purchases: 4
1975 Philip Whalen - Statement on Poetry
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Whalen reads poem on consciousness and poetry

Bought by KUNM and WZBC


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 01:26
  • Purchases: 2
SubwayLand
From: WFUV
Series: Subculture Series
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New York Times columnist Randy Kennedy finds his writing muse underground

Bought by KALW and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 24, 2004
  • Length: 04:18
  • Purchases: 2