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Insightful and whimsical poetry about summer vacations .

  • Added: Jun 11, 2023
  • Length: 59:21
Caption: (Photo by Larry D. Moore CC BY-SA 3.0)
The late novelist, retired Princeton professor, and mountain climber, Russell Banks is the author of the 2021 novel, FOREGONE. In this classic 201...

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Jan 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In today's Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack dives into the Mississippi River and all its mayhem wi...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:27
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We are back in Joshua Tree with tales of desert creatures, snowy mountains, and the secret journals of Jack Kerouac newly published as Desolation P...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 04, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Outer space probably isn’t in your travel plans this summer. But it could be soon.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KCHW, and KHEN-LP


  • Added: Jul 21, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Outer space probably isn’t in your travel plans this summer. But it could be soon.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, Kansas Public Radio, WJCU, WFHB, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 21, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Outer space probably isn’t in your travel plans this summer. But it could be soon.

Bought by KEDT, KXCV, WMUU-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 21, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
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Outer space probably isn’t in your travel plans this summer. But it could be soon.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KXCV, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jul 21, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
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Alex Kotlowitz is a writer, author, and movie and radio producer. He joined The Roadhouse to talk with Brian about a number of topics, from his ne...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2019
  • Length: 15:57
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Bob Kustra interviews Rick Bass about his book "The Traveling Feast: On the Road and at the Table with My Heroes"

  • Added: Mar 04, 2019
  • Length: 30:01
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Author Mary Ellen Ashcroft joined Julie on The Roadhouse to talk about her latest book.

  • Added: Feb 21, 2019
  • Length: 16:48
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Gail Francis is an author and outdoor enthusiast based in Duluth. Her book, "Bliss(ters): How I Walked From Mexico to Canada One Summer," chronicl...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2018
  • Length: 20:40
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Pax Bill tells the driver his story

  • Added: Jun 22, 2017
  • Length: 04:53
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Host Bob Kustra talks with Jonathan Evison about his novel.

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Mar 11, 2017
  • Length: 30:32
  • Purchases: 1
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Writer Dean Klinkenberg talks about his journeys along the Mississippi River

  • Added: Aug 19, 2016
  • Length: 08:56
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Off the coast of Virginia, in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, lies a shrinking island called Tangier. Here, an unlikely adventurer docked his sai...

Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, WTJU, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 30, 2015
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Megan Gebhart on MIW, Credit: Allegra Bandy
Making It Work Season 1-Episode 8 with Megan Gebhart, author of 52 Cups

  • Added: Nov 18, 2014
  • Length: 24:26
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This is a remembrance of Peter Matthiessen. He invited us to his house in Sagaponack, to hear a story. He gave his characters' accents, fun for him...

Bought by KZYX and KMXT


  • Added: Apr 15, 2014
  • Length: 28:33
  • Purchases: 2
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Boundary Waters lover Barry Johnson has put together a book of essays about his favorite place, the "BWCA Reader." Several dozen stories from diffe...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 24, 2013
  • Length: 14:13
  • Purchases: 1
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Ruth Ozeki talks about her acclaimed new novel, A Tale For The Time Being. It’s about a Japanese-American teenager, an American-Japanese writer, an...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2013
  • Length: 59:02
Caption: Taylor Tower at CKUT studios in Montreal, Canada
Edward Packard, the man behind the Choose Your Own Adventure books, talks about how he came up with the concept and what role adventure has played ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 02, 2013
  • Length: 12:56
  • Purchases: 1
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Homer's Odyssey re-imagined through my neighbors' experiences on the wine-dark sea.

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


  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
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In the second half of the nineteenth century, American and Russian traveled to each other's countries and wrote about their experiences and observa...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Nov 21, 2011
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
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During the Cold War of the 20th century, Russians and Americans saw each other as rivals. But as Kelley Libby reports, that rivalry was cultivated ...

Bought by KENW and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 21, 2011
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Lisa Brandom, Rich Adams, and Lynn Ramage Shafer share about the transition to new perceptions: of God, of familiar places, and of humiliation. Sou...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2011
  • Length: 29:00