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Karen Babine, an English professor who grew up in northern Minnesota, is just out with a book of essays exploring the meaning of place and identity...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 17:28
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Vicki Hendricks is a Florida writer and the author five noirs, MIAMI PURITY, IGUANA LOVE, VOLUNTARY MADNESS, SKY BLUES, CRUEL POETRY, and a collect...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2015
  • Length: 13:20
Caption: Leroy Moore
You’ve heard of Hip-Hop, but what about Krip-Hop? That’s the name for the international movement of disabled artists, poets, musicians, and MCs. On...

Bought by WRIR and KVSC


  • Added: Jan 25, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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As I considered making a show to serve as a kind of year in review, I first thought to choose my favorite program from each month of the year, 12 s...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2014
  • Length: 57:06
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Midnight In Mexico is Alfred Corchado’s reflections on his reporting from mexico for various US based newspapers, including a step by step retellin...

Bought by WART FM, WKAR, KMUN, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: American Sanctuaries
NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR celebrates libraries with this audio anthology of poets, novelists, and memoirists who talk about how they found inspiration...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Oct 13, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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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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Today on Art Beat we visit with a Minnesota Children’s literature writer who is also considered a reader, teacher, thinker, and advocate. This indi...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 16, 2013
  • Length: 20:40
  • Purchases: 2
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On this episode of Art Beat, we visit with Minnesota author and Winona native, Kevin Fenton. Kevin penned the book "Merit Badges" which he describe...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KVSC, and KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 07, 2012
  • Length: 32:55
  • Purchases: 3
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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2012
  • Length: 01:48:40
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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.

  • Added: May 25, 2012
  • Length: 01:52:21
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During this program, Barry Lopez talks about the roles and responsibilities of storytellers, and offers some advice to readers.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 24, 2012
  • Length: 30:02
  • Purchases: 1
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During the program David Mogen talks about two categories of Montanans, farmers and ranchers, the evolution of the word "honyocker" and how the sto...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 04, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
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During this program Karl Marlantes, a highly decorated Marine Lieutenant, talks about why he wrote 'Matterhorn' and why it took nearly 35 years to ...

Bought by KREV-LP and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 26, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
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During this program Rick Bass talks about the challenges of writing fiction about real, living people. He also reads from his novel 'Nashville Chro...

Bought by KREV-LP and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 16, 2011
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
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During this program Jenny Shank talks about her new (and first) book, THE RINGER, a novel about baseball, racial tension, and two families trying t...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 18, 2011
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
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New Yorker correspondent Peter Hessler reports from the road in China on the human side of miracle growth and epic migration. Then, we meet poet Ch...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 10, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
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We talk with Maureen Gibbon about her compelling new novel, "Thief."

  • Added: Jul 15, 2010
  • Length: 24:28
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Realgoodwords is a one-hour weekly radio program for readers, writers and those who appreciate the written word.

  • Added: Jun 24, 2010
  • Length: 09:03
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Stephanie Kaza links buddhism and sustainability in her new book, MINDFULLY GREEN: A Personal and Spiritual Guide to Whole Earth Thinking. Sea Cha...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2009
  • Length: 29:03
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Very personal conversation with author Diane ACKERMAN about The Zoo Keeper's Wife, now a major film.

  • Added: Jan 16, 2008
  • Length: 29:30
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Feminist Icon and award-winning writer MARGE PIERCY in conversation about her life and work

  • Added: Aug 17, 2007
  • Length: 27:30
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Conversation with award-winning poet ALICE FULTON

  • Added: Apr 12, 2007
  • Length: 29:30
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Actors, storytellers and poets express their hope for peace with the spoken word.

Bought by WVTF, WXXI Rochester, KNCT FM, KWMR, Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 05, 2007
  • Length: 57:46
  • Purchases: 20