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James Lee Burke discusses "Wayfaring Stranger"
- Added: Jul 27, 2014
- Length: 21:55
On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin takes a step back in time to learn about the life and death of a president with Bill O'Reilly's Kennedy's L...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Jul 15, 2014
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 1
For the holiday weekend, we look back in history at Sara Payson Willis, a novelist, journalist, and feminist who wrote under the pseudonym "Fanny F...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Jul 09, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In 2009 Shaun Usher began a blog to showcase correspondence that he felt deserved a wider audience. The blog quickly became popular and widely shar...
- Added: Jun 20, 2014
- Length: 13:31
Scott Phillips is a novelist living in Missouri.
- Added: Jun 18, 2014
- Length: 20:56
Murder, mystery, and poetry come together in medieval scholar Bruce Holsinger’s new novel set in Chaucer’s London.
Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WMNF, WLIW and more
- Added: May 30, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 6
Our “Reading Chekhov” series culminates in a full hour on the Russian physician who spun the small happenings of old Russia into some of the most p...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: May 30, 2014
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 1
Professor Lynne Tatlock shares her insights into the art of translation and reveals the many lives of Jane Eyre in Germany.
- Added: May 08, 2014
- Length: 11:40
Michael Fedo has just written a new book, "Zenith City," a collection of essays about his growing up in Duluth. WTIP's Ann Possis spoke with him re...
- Added: Apr 29, 2014
- Length: 18:28
From: Laine Kaplan-Levenson
Sarah Vowell talks to reporter Brian Friedman and producer Laine Kaplan-Levenson about Louis Armstrong, voiceover work, Andrew Jackson, New Orleans...
- Added: Apr 15, 2014
- Length: 11:01
On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin examines the Easter story with the audio version of Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard's Killing Jesus.
- Added: Apr 15, 2014
- Length: 03:00
Making sense of the most talked about book of all time.
Bought by WJCT, WFHB, WTJU, WLIW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more
- Added: Apr 11, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 6
Making sense of the most talked about book of all time.
- Added: Apr 11, 2014
- Length: 53:51
- Purchases: 2
We're revisiting the birthplace of the American mind. Five houses on three streets within a period of five years in Concord, Massachusetts launche...
- Added: Mar 28, 2014
- Length: 58:34
- Purchases: 3
During the 1910s and 1920s, the question of whether one was “highbrow” or “lowbrow” became a concern in the minds of modernist Americans. Brooks He...
- Added: Feb 12, 2014
- Length: 53:54
- Purchases: 2
During the 1910s and 1920s, the question of whether one was “highbrow” or “lowbrow” became a concern in the minds of modernist Americans. Brooks He...
Bought by WJCT, WFHB, WLIW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WMNF
- Added: Feb 12, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 5
Backstage with the director of Gatz, a play that takes as its text F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic of and about the Jazz Age. [36:04]
Bought by Harford Community Radio and KPIP-LP
- Added: Feb 11, 2014
- Length: 36:05
- Purchases: 2
You've heard of Robin Hood, King Arthur, and even Beowulf. But Bevis of Hampton?
- Added: Oct 28, 2013
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
You've heard of Robin Hood, King Arthur, and even Beowulf. But Bevis of Hampton?
Bought by WCNY, KWMR, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KPIP-LP
- Added: Oct 28, 2013
- Length: 53:50
- Purchases: 4
Prolific poet and winner of a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship Award, Anne Waldman is younger than the Beat Generation, but she did know many of its pro...
- Added: Oct 25, 2013
- Length: 29:00
From: Teosson Wells
Rediscover The Catcher in the Rye and see if, somewhere swimming just below the surface, your inner Holden Caulfield is still alive and kicking. If...
- Added: Oct 18, 2013
- Length: 06:04
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Kristen Egan walks us through a creepy utopian novel from 1915, and explains why environmentalism and eugenics went hand in hand in the early 20th ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Radio Newark, PRX Remix, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Oct 07, 2013
- Length: 06:50
- Purchases: 4
On this episode of, Art Beat - we visit with an individual who penned a book about Minnesota politics during the span of 1968 through 1978. The boo...
- Added: Aug 16, 2013
- Length: 27:42
- Purchases: 2
A Confederacy of Dunces, by New Orleans-born John Kennedy Toole, is one of the great stories of American literature. A new biography of Toole tells...
- Added: May 10, 2013
- Length: 53:54
- Purchases: 4
In this episode we discuss how Jack's conquest of the giant relates to 19th century English colonialism with the help of scholar Brian Szumsky. We ...
- Added: Mar 29, 2013
- Length: 22:35
