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We talk with graphic artist Joe Lee about his stunningly illustrated book, Forgiveness: The Story of Eva Kor, Survivor of The Auschwitz Twin Experi...
- Added: Nov 04, 2021
- Length: 58:57
Marisel Vera talks about unpacking the history of late 19th century Puerto Rico for her novel “The Taste of Sugar.”
- Added: Oct 12, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Shakespeare on the brain! We talk with Nuyorican playwright Migdalia Cruz about her adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth for modern audiences.
Then...
- Added: Oct 09, 2021
- Length: 58:36
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...
- Added: Mar 09, 2021
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 2
We talk with Peter Heller about his terrific new novel, a thriller set on a river above the Arctic Circle. It’s called The River.
Then, we re-air ...
- Added: Mar 19, 2020
- Length: 58:58
Today, we talk with spy fiction writer Alan Furst about his latest book, Under Occupation. Then we air excerpts from interviews we did with him abo...
- Added: Jan 10, 2020
- Length: 59:01
Ariel Burger talks about his book WITNESS: Lessons from Elie Wiesels Classroom. And later in the show, we re-air our 2016 interview with Ani Tuzman...
- Added: Dec 13, 2018
- Length: 59:00
Richard Wilbur passed away on October 14, 2017. We remember him with a re-broadcast of our 2009 conversation with him at his home in Cummington, MA...
- Added: Oct 18, 2017
- Length: 58:56
Ani Tuzman talks about her novel based on the life of the 18th century Jewish mystic, the Baal Shem Tov. Its called The Tremble of Love. Then, we r...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Dec 23, 2016
- Length: 01:38:32
- Purchases: 1
Vaddey Ratner's novel, In the Shadow of the Banyan honors her lost family
- Added: Nov 22, 2016
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 3
Jill Lepore joins us to talk about three books: The Story of America; The Secret History of Wonder Woman; and Joe Gould's Teeth.
- Added: Mar 29, 2016
- Length: 01:03:04
As the British Empire expanded, the fabric of society depended upon women’s friendships. One letter from a “BFF” back home could save a colonist fr...
Bought by WCNY, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KEDT, WTJU and more
- Added: Oct 30, 2015
- Length: 53:56
- Purchases: 6
The new poet laureate of the United States and two-time National Endowment for the Arts fellow calls for everyone’s heart to speak out.
Bought by KPIP-LP, KFCF FM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WLPR , KPVL and more
- Added: Sep 21, 2015
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 7
Yoko Ono is best known for her marriage to John Lennon and for her perceived role in the breakup of the Beatles. But she was an accomplished and in...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WCNY, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WABE, WTJU and more
- Added: May 08, 2015
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 6
Yoko Ono is best known for her marriage to John Lennon and for her perceived role in the breakup of the Beatles. But she was an accomplished and in...
- Added: May 08, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
A new online archive of Grimm’s fairy tales reveals the evolution of these iconic stories, whose earlier versions were often violent and sexually s...
- Added: Feb 27, 2015
- Length: 53:55
- Purchases: 5
Katharine Weber discusses her historical novel TRIANGLE, about the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.
- Added: Jan 29, 2015
- Length: 27:20
Feminist poet Honor Moore talks about the anthology she edited, Poems From The Women’s Movement.
Bought by WABE
- Added: Jan 29, 2015
- Length: 19:37
- Purchases: 1
Historian and writer Eve LaPlante talks about her book, MARMEE AND LOUISA. It’s about the powerful relationship between Louisa May Alcott and her m...
- Added: Jan 29, 2015
- Length: 28:57
Susan Cheever talks about her acclaimed 2010 biography, LOUISA MAY ALCOTT and about her 2007 book, AMERICAN BLOOMSBURY, Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Wa...
- Added: Jan 29, 2015
- Length: 59:07
January 2015 marks the 150th anniversary of the first publication of Tolstoy’s War and Peace. A new book offers Tolstoyan wisdom for troubled times...
- Added: Dec 12, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 4
In his slim, lucid and compulsively readable book Why Read Moby-Dick, Nathaniel Philbrick makes an enthusiastic case for taking a look at Melville...
Bought by Prairie Public, KPIP-LP, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, and WNJR
- Added: Nov 21, 2014
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 4
Lillian Daniel on the problems of being spiritual but not religious; Katy Scrogin on The Still Point of the Turning World.
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 32:00
Lillian Daniel on spirituality vs. religiosity; Katy Scrogin on A History of Religion in 5 1/2 Objects: Bringing the Spiritual to Its Senses.
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 31:18
S. Brent Plate on experience, materiality, and physical objects. Excerpt from TV documentary, Divided Families: Responding with Faith.
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 39:21
