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A Post-apocalyptic Novel During a Pandemic? Yes!: David Arnold's "The Electric Kingdom."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
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What We're Reading producer and Staff Librarian Tammy Bobrowsky talks with writer David Arnold. His new novel is called The Electric Kingdom. It's ...

  • Added: May 13, 2021
  • Length: 13:11
2021-05-07 Climate Stories We Tell Ourselves
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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How do our identities and values shape the way we listen to others’ climate experience? Author Nathaniel Rich and journalist Meera Subramanian cove...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KICI Iowa City, and KOWS


  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 5
210507: Climate Stories We Tell Ourselves, 5/7/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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How do our identities and values shape the way we listen to others’ climate experience? Author Nathaniel Rich and journalist Meera Subramanian cove...

  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 58:57
The Write Question - Raymond Antrobus
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Raymond Antrobus discusses his collection, "The Perseverance," and his experience as a deaf poet.

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


  • Added: May 05, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Meet poet and playwright Darrel Alejandro Holnes
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Credit: Emma Pratte
Poet and playwright Darrel Alejandro Holnes explores immigration and belonging through poetry and theater.

Bought by WORT, WMPG, and KZUM


  • Added: May 03, 2021
  • Length: 28:42
  • Purchases: 3
Julia Fine, THE UPSTAIRS HOUSE & Lisa Scottoline, ETERNAL
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with Julia Fine about her genre-bending novel The Upstairs House. It’s about a new mother’s postpartum depression—and her obsession with th...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
Meet environmental poet Camille T. Dungy
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Camille Dungy, Credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Award-winning writer and two-time NEA Literature Fellow Camille T. Dungy discusses her work as an ecopoet.

Bought by WSLR, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KZUM


  • Added: Apr 18, 2021
  • Length: 29:17
  • Purchases: 3
The Write Question - Hanif Abdurraquib
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Poet and culture critic Hanif Abdurraquib discusses his new book, "A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance."

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


  • Added: Apr 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Writer’s Voice: Simon Winchester, LAND & Isabella Tree, WILDING
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with Simon Winchester about his new book Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World. Then we revisit part of our 2020 int...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser
From: New Letters on the Air
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Ted Kooser describes his journey from insurance executive in Nebraska to being tapped as the first U.S. Poet Laureate from the Great Plains in 200...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Apr 06, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
National Writers Series: Martha Teichner and Dwight Garner
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Three
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Interviews with CBS Sunday Morning correspondent and author Martha Teichner and New York Times book critic Dwight Garner.

Bought by Michigan Radio, WKAR, and WCMU Michigan


  • Added: Mar 29, 2021
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 3
A conversation with poet Sally Wen Mao
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Sally Wen Mao, Credit: Sookoon Ang
Sally Wen Mao’s poetry excavates the burden of spectacle for Asian-Americans.

Bought by KMUN, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KZUM, and KMUN


  • Added: Mar 25, 2021
  • Length: 28:52
  • Purchases: 4
A Conversation with Tana French!
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Tana French, Credit: Jessica Ryan
Acclaimed Irish crime writer Tana French keeps pushing the genre in her latest book The Searcher.

  • Added: Mar 19, 2021
  • Length: 28:47
Fixing the Stars: Sylvia Plath at the Edge of Sight
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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She worked with intense dedication to be heard in a world that has no ears to hear women. But, Plath was a woman who wrote many times of her disdai...

Bought by WKMS and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
The Past American Voice of Playwright August Wilson
From: New Letters on the Air
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For Black History Month, NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR revisits this program with the late August Wilson. FENCES, his Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winnin...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WDCB, and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Sister-writer Duo Maika and Maritza Moulite's Powerful Novel "One of the Good Ones"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
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Sister-writer duo Maika and Maritza Moulite tell us about their new novel "One of the Good Ones." It’s a story about a family grieving the loss of ...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2021
  • Length: 15:04
The National Endowment for the Arts presents writer Danielle Evans
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Danielle Evans , Credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Author Danielle Evans discusses her recent short-story collection "The Office of Historical Corrections."

Bought by KZUM and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 19, 2021
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 2
National Book Award-winning Poet Nikky Finney: Part 1
From: New Letters on the Air
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR continues Black History Month with Nikky Finney whose fifth book is called LOVE CHILD'S HOTBED OF OCCASIONAL POETRY: POEMS A...

Bought by KWMR and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Feb 16, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
This week, the National Endowment for the Arts presents Rebekah Taussig
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Rebekah Taussig, Credit: Micah Jones
Teacher and advocate Rebekah Taussig recently published her first book-- Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
The National Endowment for the Arts presents Art Works
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Tracy K. Smith, Credit: Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Former poet laureate of the United States Tracy K. Smith in wide-ranging conversation about poetry, history, and memory.

Bought by WMPG and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Chris Harding Thornton discusses "Pickard County Atlas"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
Caption: Chris Harding Thornton
Chris Harding Thornton is a college professor in the Midwest. This is her first novel.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2021
  • Length: 13:35
Chekhov Inspired Fiction Writer Catherine Browder
From: New Letters on the Air
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Describing herself as a latecomer to writing, author Catherine Browder discusses her book, NOW WE CAN ALL GO HOME, which pays tribute to Anton Chek...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 04, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Top of Mind - Anti-Racism for Young People, Patenting a Wildflower
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1 and 2 - Acclaimed Book About Race in America “Remixed” for Young People, Topic 3 - Plant Hunter Looking to Patent a Newly-Discovered Wildfl...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and KOWS


  • Added: Dec 28, 2020
  • Length: 51:42
  • Purchases: 2
Father and Son Clash as the Rapture Approaches: MN Writer Lin Enger and American Gospel
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
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What We're Reading producer and Staff Librarian Tammy Bobrowsky talks with Minnesota Writer Lin Enger. His new novel is called American Gospel. It'...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2020
  • Length: 10:13
Welcome Lauren Korn, New Host of 'The Write Question'
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
Caption: The Write Question's new host, Lauren Korn
Sarah Aronson interviews the new host of The Write Question, Lauren Korn.

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


  • Added: Dec 02, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3