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Skin Deep
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix
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Happy Halloween! Jess talks with UCLA librarian Megan Rosenbloom about the spooky science of uncovering what makes some old books extra rare.

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Oct 31, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
MN Reads: "Blood in the Tracks" by Paul Metsa and Rick Shefchik
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Paul Metsa and Rick Shefchik talk about their new book "Blood in the Tracks"

  • Added: Sep 14, 2023
  • Length: 13:41
MN Reads: "The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself" by David Mura
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author David Mura talks about his new book "The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself"

  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 17:13
Novelist Geraldine Brooks
From: New Letters on the Air
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Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer, Geraldine Brooks talks about her 2015 book, THE SECRET CHORD. This historical novel about the Biblical King...

Bought by WNJR and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
MN Reads: “The Sky Watched” by Linda LeGarde Grover
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Poet Linda LeGarde Grover talks about the book “The Sky Watched”

  • Added: Oct 27, 2022
  • Length: 08:29
Past American Voice of novelist E.L. Doctorow
From: New Letters on the Air
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E.L. Doctorow passed away in July 2015, but left behind twelve novels, three volumes of short fiction, and a stage drama, winning most of the major...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KAAD-LP, WNJR, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jul 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Write Question - Jenny Tinghui Zhang
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Chinese-American writer Jenny Tinghui Zhang discusses her debut novel, "Four Treasures of the Sky."

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


  • Added: Apr 20, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Write Question - Bill Vaughn
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Writer Bill Vaughn discusses his new book, "The Last Heir: The Triumphs and Tragedies of Two Montana Families."

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


  • Added: Apr 06, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
2021 Producer’s Choice Awards – Part 2: The Poetry Show
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Today we feature four poets who help us see our own predicaments – one who shows us we contain multitudes; one whose life and writing was always an...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Kingsley Tufts Award-winning Poet Patricia Smith: Part 2
From: New Letters on the Air
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Patricia Smith, a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts fellow and the 2018 winner of the coveted Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, is now the 2021 Ruth...

Bought by WDCB


  • Added: Feb 28, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Vonnegut on Tralfamadore: Billy Pilgrim and PTSD
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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In today's show we explore the history of recognizing the trauma experienced by soldiers in war - PTSD is only the most recent iteration of this di...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KNCT FM, RADIOLEX, and KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Jan 04, 2022
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 4
Poet, editor, and translator, Wayne Miller
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Wayne Miller
Poet and editor Wayne Miller reads from his book, THE CITY, OUR CITY, a 2012 finalist for the William Carlos Williams Poetry Award. He also discus...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Novelist Marisel Vera talks about writing 19th Century Puerto Rico
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Marisel Vera , Credit: Wes Carrasquillo
Marisel Vera talks about unpacking the history of late 19th century Puerto Rico for her novel “The Taste of Sugar.”

Bought by WMPG, RADIOLEX, and KZUM


  • Added: Oct 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Write Question - Anthony W. Wood
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Historian Anthony W. Wood discusses his new book, "Black Montana Settler Colonialism and the Erosion of the Racial Frontier, 1877-1930."

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


  • Added: Sep 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Conger Beasley Jr.: Past American Voice
From: New Letters on the Air
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR features the Past American Voice of Conger Beasley Jr. whose last book, ON BECOMING APACHE, was published posthumously at th...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Aug 19, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Poet and Musician Ted Olson Discusses Appalachia
From: New Letters on the Air
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Ted Olson, a professor of Appalachian Studies at East Tennessee State University, discusses how his writing has been impacted by the region's histo...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
The Write Question - Michael Punke
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Author Michael Punke discusses his new novel, "Ridgeline," about the Fetterman Massacre of 1866.

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


  • Added: Jun 30, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Captivating Fictions and The Experimenting Animal
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our guest is author Thalia Field and our show is about the way normative stories, whether told as fiction or science or religion or history, work t...

Bought by WCNY, RADIOLEX, and KWMR


  • Added: May 25, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 3
Writing Radicals: Mike Gold, Ann Petry, and Thomas McGrath
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Mike Gold, Ann Petry, and Thomas McGrath
Alan Wald's Literary Left Trilogy investigates aspects of intellectual, literary, and cultural movements and figures associated with left-wing poli...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:03
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
Not Everyone is a Jerk: Rutger Bregman on Humankind
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Life gives us plenty of reasons for cynicism but best-selling author Rutger Bregman (Utopia for Realists) summons a wealth of evidence that humanki...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Feb 24, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Write Question - Gretchen E. Minton
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Author and scholar Gretchen E. Minton discusses her book, "Shakespeare in Montana: Big Sky Country's Love Affair with the World's Most Famous Write...

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


  • Added: Jan 19, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Write Question - Jess Walter
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Writer Jess Walter discusses his new book, "The Cold Millions."

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


  • Added: Dec 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Cheers to All the Years
From: New Letters on the Air
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After 43 years of broadcasting, 2020 budget cuts may bring us to an end. This compilation program features audio from four decades of our archives ...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
The Past American Voice of Ernest Gaines
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GNU_Free_Documentation_License,_version_1.2, Credit: S L O W K I N G
Black History Month continues with a tribute to one of America's best fiction writers, Ernest Gaines (1933-2019.This Past American Voices episode f...

Bought by WDCB


  • Added: Feb 20, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1