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Dr. Gregory Schmidt from Winona State University's History Department recently gave a talk on the Boatmen of the early 1800's at the Minnesota Mari...
- Added: Dec 07, 2011
- Length: 39:36
- Purchases: 2
Today on Art Beat we examine the author. MN author Eric Dregni is here to talk about his new book "Vikings in the Attic: In search of Nordic Americ...
- Added: Dec 07, 2011
- Length: 32:34
- Purchases: 3
When it was first published in 1890, Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" appeared as a much changed version of the original text. Now, for ...
- Added: Oct 24, 2011
- Length: 28:59
Listeners will find Nature Dreaming: Rediscovering California’s Landscapes with David Mas Masumoto both entertaining and enlightening. Two one hour...
- Added: Sep 02, 2011
- Length: 01:50:16
- Purchases: 2
Actor Ed Harris reads from one of his favorite novels, John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath---an epic story about the Great Depression told through...
- Added: Aug 16, 2011
- Length: 28:44
- Purchases: 5
Author Grif Stockley on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in front of a live a...
- Added: Jul 05, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Multimedia sensation reads from the new edition of "American Gods," and talks Twitter, Dr. Who, and the power of librarians with host Virginia Pres...
Bought by KSRQ, Connecticut Public (WNPR), and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Jun 29, 2011
- Length: 49:27
- Purchases: 3
James Rollins is a writer and veterinarian and lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
- Added: Jun 26, 2011
- Length: 24:29
The mother of one of our greatest American writers. Long thought to be illiterate ... revealed by her letters to have a distinctive writing voice t...
- Added: May 17, 2011
- Length: 03:00
As the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War is upon us, we have an interview conducted by Arts & Cultural Heritage Reporter Jeff Carmack wit...
- Added: Apr 20, 2011
- Length: 26:30
A celebration of the life Aldo Leopold, the man who wrote “A Sand County Almanac” in 1949, and introduced Ethics as the fundamental concept that sh...
Bought by KZYX, WRGY, KUPR low power FM, WMUU-LP, KCMJ Community Radio and more
- Added: Feb 07, 2011
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 15
During this program, Janet Fox talks about and reads from FAITHFUL, her debut novel for teens and young adult readers. She also talks about the con...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Dec 27, 2010
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Dmae Roberts features an in-depth and lively interview with Northwest Writer Ivan Doig.
- Added: Dec 02, 2010
- Length: 28:02
Election day is closing in, and Jill Lepore has a hip historian's take on the question: What Would the Founding Fathers Do? Jill Lepore says there'...
- Added: Oct 28, 2010
- Length: 58:59
Maddi Frick's conversation with Gail Carriger.
- Added: Aug 12, 2010
- Length: 19:19
A conversation about the Bible's universality and relevance in pop culture, with the author who aims to give "people what they don't get in church ...
Bought by WFIU
- Added: Jun 09, 2010
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Local author Dwane Schwartz and his latest called "Calumet," a mystery set in Calumet that involves the Klan.
- Added: Apr 26, 2010
- Length: 08:42
Historical novel writer Sarah Dunant talks about she applies her background writing thrillers to write more literary books. The author of the best...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 29:00
On a trip to see his brother, Walt Whitman was so struck by the violence of the Civil War that he stayed to help heal wounded soldiers. He hoped hi...
Bought by KVNF, WHFR, WRKF, RadioFreePalmer, KVSC and more
- Added: Jul 13, 2009
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 13
Why you've never heard of the Wright Brothers' sister, Katharine.
- Added: Apr 14, 2009
- Length: 29:00
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What's the Word? Two half-hour programs celebrating Black History Month
Series: What's the Word? Two half-hour programs celebrating Black History Month
How did slaves resist their oppression? Three works explore what it means to resist and to survive.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KICI Iowa City, KUOW, KVNF, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more
- Added: Jan 07, 2009
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 24
The groundbreaking discovery of an unknown master painter and perhaps one of the greatest women in art.
- Added: Dec 17, 2008
- Length: 29:31
"Vietnam Visits Uncle Bill" is a story in which a Vietnam veteran confronts his past through a dialogue with the ghost of the My Lai massacre.
Bought by The PRX Podcast
- Added: May 11, 2008
- Length: 19:31
- Purchases: 1
Very personal conversation with author Diane ACKERMAN about The Zoo Keeper's Wife, now a major film.
- Added: Jan 16, 2008
- Length: 29:30
Susan Sontag and her last novel, "In America." Norman Mailer and his book, "Time of Our Time.
- Added: Jan 10, 2008
- Length: 54:30
