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In the second half of our conversation with former California Poet Laureate Al Young, he shares more from his book SOMETHING ABOUT THE BLUES: AN UN...
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Think about the many stories you’ve heard or read over the years. Some of those stories may have had a major impact on your life, or maybe even the...
- Added: Jan 04, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Pulitzer prize-winning author Jane Smiley joined us as part of the 2017 Montana Book Festival. In this interview, she discusses her career includin...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KWMR
- Added: Dec 29, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Heidi Holtan talks with author Alison McGhee about the mother-daughter relationship found in her new book "Never Coming Back".
- Added: Dec 19, 2017
- Length: 14:11
Jennifer Foerster imagines encountering her younger self on a walk through the streets of Vienna.
- Added: Dec 11, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Mark Sundeen discusses his book, The Unsettlers: In Search of the Good Life in Today's America. He also reads a short passage from the book.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Dec 11, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Amy King considers how the media represent race and police violence.
- Added: Nov 29, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 5
Urayoán Noel considers the pleasures of coffee and how those pleasures may differ between the English and Spanish languages.
- Added: Nov 29, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 7
francine j. harris revisits her childhood home in Detroit and imagines the ways destruction can be an empowering act.
- Added: Nov 29, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 7
The author of #1 bestseller The Martian is back with Artemis, a superbly-researched, rollicking adventure in the first city on the Moon. You might ...
Bought by WTJU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more
- Added: Nov 08, 2017
- Length: 28:50
- Purchases: 7
Novelist Padma Viswanathan, a 2017 recipient of the Porter Fund Literary Prize, and poet Geoffrey Brock, discuss how they balance their writing car...
- Added: Nov 01, 2017
- Length: 29:00
Heidi Holtan talks with Minnesota author, William Kent Krueger about "Sulfur Springs", his latest book in the Cork O'Connor series.
- Added: Oct 31, 2017
- Length: 11:07
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
The National Book Award winner talks about author Julia Alvarez, Oscar Wao, and the wonder of reading.
- Added: Oct 12, 2017
- Length: 24:59
National Hispanic Heritage Month continues with a look at Puerto Rico’s culture and stories through the eyes of the late Judith Ortiz Cofer. In the...
Bought by New England Public Media
- Added: Oct 12, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Inspired by the documentary THE VIETNAM WAR, we return to an archive interview with the poet John Balaban, who served as a conscientious objector i...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Oct 04, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
We hear about listener-readers' favorite books from the summer, and we learn about a community member's book collection on our new feature, Show Me...
- Added: Oct 02, 2017
- Length: 07:59
Keith McCafferty talks about Ernest Hemingway, elk antler elixir, and what it takes to write a novel. He also reads from his book.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Sep 29, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Heidi Holtan and John Bauer talk to Dale Mulfinger about his latest book "The Family Cabin" on the Morning Show.
- Added: Sep 25, 2017
- Length: 19:37
We begin National Hispanic Heritage month with the Past American Voice of Judith Ortiz Cofer, who influenced and mentored Latina writers around the...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Sep 20, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
HOUR ONE: "Rethinking Reviewing" - Social media allows readers to bypass gatekeepers and publish their own opinions. So if everyone's a critic, doe...
- Added: Sep 15, 2017
- Length: 01:58:58
Award-winning poet Elizabeth Alexander talks movingly about her memoir
"The Light of the World" about her husband's sudden death at age 50.
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 29:00
From: Out of Bounds
The award-winning teacher and novelist discusses her latest novel "Innocents and Others"
- Added: Sep 13, 2017
- Length: 27:00
From: Out of Bounds
Karen Joy Fowler talks about her compelling and heart breaking novel "We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves."
- Added: Sep 13, 2017
- Length: 28:00
Tod Goldberg is the New York Times bestselling author of over a dozen books and lives in California.
See more of Tod at http://todgoldberg.com.
- Added: Sep 12, 2017
- Length: 16:09
