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Novelist Peng Shepherd talks about her new book The Cartographers
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Peng Shepherd, Credit: Rachel Crittenden
Peng Shepherd discusses her speculative mystery The Cartographers, her fascination with maps, her love of speculative fiction, and the challenges o...

Bought by KZUM, KUT, RADIOLEX, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KZUM and more


  • Added: Oct 24, 2023
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 7
Behind the Scenes with Actors Sylvia Kwan and Jacob Yeh
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Actors Sylvia Kwan and Jacob Yeh discuss their many roles in Lauren Yee's play "The King of the Yees."

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and KZUM


  • Added: Oct 17, 2023
  • Length: 28:07
  • Purchases: 4
Nicole Chung Discusses Her Memoir "A Living Remedy"
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Nicole Chung, Credit: Carletta Girma
Nicole Chung writes of family and loss with a focus on broader societal failures.

Bought by KMUN, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KZUM


  • Added: Jun 06, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 5
Jason Rhee: Making a Documentary about "the Korean Magic Johnson of NCAA women's basketball."
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Jason Rhee, Credit: Mike Jue
In his documentary in process, EJ Lee: All-American filmmaker Jason Rhee tells the story of EJ Lee a Korean immigrant in Louisiana who was a pheno...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMUN, WSLR, KZUM, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: May 16, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 6
Revisiting Author and Author and 2021 National Humanities Medalist Amy Tan
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Amy Tan, Credit: Julian Johnson
In time for Mother's Day: Author and 2021 National Humanities Medalist Amy Tan discusses “The Joy Luck Club,” her writing with its themes of family...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KZUM


  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 28:26
  • Purchases: 4
Episode 137: The Honor and Weight of Being a Role Model, 4/23/2023
From: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Series: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
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It's always exhausting not being yourself

  • Added: Apr 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
Who Runs the World? (Hour no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Zhuang quilted bedcover
Tensions over Taiwan are making U.S.-China relations even more fraught. We discuss what the two nuclear powers want to do with the small island tha...

Bought by KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KWIT, RadioFreePalmer, Royalton Community Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 23, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 6
Who Runs the World (Half Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Zhuang quilted bedcover
Tensions over Taiwan are making U.S.-China relations even more fraught. We discuss what the two nuclear powers want to do with the small island tha...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WJCU, WFHB, KMUN, Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM and more


  • Added: Sep 23, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Who Runs the World Promo
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
Caption: Zhuang quilted bedcover
Tensions over Taiwan are making U.S.-China relations even more fraught. We discuss what the two nuclear powers want to do with the small island tha...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KWIT, Troy Public Radio, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Sep 23, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
Revisiting A Conversation with Author Vanessa Hua
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Vanessa Hua, Credit: Andria Lo
Author Vanessa Hua discusses her fiction and her determination to shine a light on the multiplicity of voices within the Chinese-American diaspora

Bought by RADIOLEX, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KZUM, Spokane Public Radio, and KMUN


  • Added: Aug 26, 2022
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 5
Leading an arts center into the future
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Sonja Kostich and Stella Abrera, Credit: Quinn Wharton
Sonja Kostich and Stella Abrera—both Asian Americans, former dancers, and co-leaders of Kaatsbaan Cultural Park—talk about the organization and its...

Bought by WMPG, RADIOLEX, KZUM, WDCB, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: May 31, 2022
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 6
Daniel K. Isaac from "Billions" to Broadway
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Daniel K. Isaac, Credit: Emil Cohen
You may know Daniel K. Isaac as Ben Kim from the television series “Billions,” but he’s also a committed and talented actor in theater and an accom...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KZUM, RADIOLEX, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:57
  • Purchases: 4
Celebrate AAPI Month with Roy and PJ Hirabayashi and guitarist Led Kaapana
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Led Kaapana, Credit: Marsha Forsythe, Cover Look Photo Corps
To kick off our celebration of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we are revisiting two interviews with cultural...

Bought by WDCB, KECG, WRGY, KUT, WMPG and more


  • Added: May 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Seeking Harmony for Global Asian Immigrants
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Iris Chen
On this PEACE TALKS RADIO episode, correspondent Sen Zhan explores three perspectives on the nature of intercultural conflict in transcultural Asia...

Bought by KUHF, KRVS, New England Public Media, WHRV, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Apr 26, 2022
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 14
Seeking Harmony for Global Asian Immigrants
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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On this PEACE TALKS RADIO episode, correspondent Sen Zhan explores three perspectives on the nature of intercultural conflict in transcultural Asia...

Bought by KVSC, KSKA, KMUN, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KUNM


  • Added: Apr 26, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Write Question - Jennifer Huang
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Taiwanese-American poet Jennifer Huang discusses her debut collection, "Return Flight."

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


  • Added: Feb 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Let's revisit National Book Award winner Charles Yu
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Charles Yu, Credit: Tina Chiou
In this rebroadcast, Charles Yu talks about his award-winning novel Interior Chinatown and the implications of Asian-American representation in pop...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, Harford Community Radio, WMPG, and KZUM


  • Added: Jan 03, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 5
Novelist and Poet Gerald Vizenor
From: New Letters on the Air
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We honor Native American Heritage Month with U.S. veteran and writer, Gerald Vizenor. Raised on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota, Vizenor a...

Bought by KVNF, WNMU-FM, RadioFreePalmer, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WNJR


  • Added: Nov 17, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Meet Snehal Desai-- the artistic director of East West Players
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Snehal Desai, Credit: Courtesy of East West Players
Snehal Desai talks about producing new Asian-American, socially-conscious theater at East West Players

Bought by KZUM, RADIOLEX, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 19, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
Meet Heartbeat Opera and Its Artistic Director Ethan Heard
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Ethan Heard, Credit: Stanley Bohorek
Ethan Heard and Heartbeat Opera re-visions opera for the 21st Century.

Bought by KZUM, RADIOLEX, and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: May 23, 2021
  • Length: 28:55
  • 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
The National Endowment for the Arts presents Art Works
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Visual Artist and Disability Rights Advocate Gordon Sasaki talks about the art of visibility.

Bought by Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 07, 2020
  • Length: 27:29
  • Purchases: 1
Author R.O. Kwon's novel The Incendiaries has everyone talking and for good reason
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: R.O. Kwon, Credit: Smeeta Mahanti
Author R.O. Kwon's book The Incendiaries has been named a best book of the year by over forty publications. Not bad for a first book! But it's als...

Bought by KZUM and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 13, 2019
  • Length: 28:53
  • Purchases: 2
Novelist Vaddey Ratner writes her story of Cambodia
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Vaddey Ratner, Credit: Christina Sherk
Vaddey Ratner's novel, In the Shadow of the Banyan honors her lost family

Bought by WNJR, WMUU-LP, and WRIR


  • Added: Nov 22, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Michael Berry and the art of translation
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Yu Hua and Michael Berry Beijing August 2010 , Credit: courtesy of Michael Berry
Michael Berry reflects on the art of translating Yu Hua’s influential novel and new Big Read title To Live into English

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KPIP-LP, WRIR, WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 23, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 5