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We’re reading a famous story called “The Student.” It’s a late winter, early spring night in the 1890s, Easter weekend. A student is coming home f...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and KWMR
- Added: Mar 27, 2014
- Length: 20:08
- Purchases: 2
Chekhov wrote “Gusev” on shipboard, returning from his stark study mission to the prison island of Sakhalin in 1890. He was 30 years old, ten years...
- Added: Mar 27, 2014
- Length: 52:19
The story this time is called “Dreams.” It’s a dense 7-page fantasy of the good life in the far wilds of Eastern Siberia. It’s a dream of freedom t...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Mar 27, 2014
- Length: 41:36
- Purchases: 1
We finish National Novel Writing Month with the Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Richard Ford, who sees fiction as a vehicle to provide renewal and ...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Nov 27, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Thomas Fox Averill's novel RODE was named the 2012 Outstanding Western Novel by the National Cowboy Museum, Based on the American song "Tennessee ...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Sep 11, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Minnesota author Peter Geye's newest book is called "The Lighthouse Road." Around the turn of the last century Thea Eide left Norway for America, s...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KSRQ, and KVSC
- Added: Aug 05, 2013
- Length: 18:40
- Purchases: 3
Poet, essayist, and teacher, Alison Hawthorne Deming compares the northeast and southwest landscapes and their different impacts on her writing pro...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 29:02
Luis Alberto Urrea discusses his latest book "Queen of America," and his alternating relationship to prose and poetry. He also talks about his expe...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 14:31
Bobby speaks with Dina Rae, a loving wife and mother who resides in the Chicago suburbs and writes novels of fiction about what we both agree to be...
- Added: Jan 03, 2013
- Length: 39:48
William Kent Kreuger lives in St. Paul and is the author of 10 previous novels in the "Cork O'Conner" series including New York Times best sellers ...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 16:08
- Purchases: 1
Anne Tyler has a new book out! "The Beginner's Goodbye." Here Julia Child presents passages from an earlier Anne Tyler favorite, "Dinner at the Hom...
- Added: Apr 13, 2012
- Length: 24:58
During the Civil War a southern civilian is to be executed by being hung from a bridge. What happens or doesn't happen next we won't know until the...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Mar 06, 2012
- Length: 25:32
- Purchases: 1
A radio drama adaptation of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," set in modern-day “Verona, California,” with live sound effects and some of the fines...
- Added: Nov 02, 2011
- Length: 53:58
- Purchases: 8
- Added: Oct 01, 2011
- Length: 15:29
Patrick DeWitt is a novelist who lives in Oregon.
- Added: Jun 15, 2011
- Length: 27:37
When David Foster Wallace died, he left behind drafts of a novel called The Pale King.
- Added: Apr 13, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Michell Latiolis reveals how the death of her husband impacted the stories in her new collection Widow.
- Added: Apr 07, 2011
- Length: 29:00
A former newspaperman, Wallace Stroby lives in New Jersey.
- Added: Mar 24, 2011
- Length: 26:32
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
Megan Abbott is an Edgar Award winning novelist."Bury Me Deep" is her fourth book.
- Added: Dec 02, 2010
- Length: 28:55
Julia Child introduces the Irish writer, Edna O'Brien, who gives a magnificent performance of VIOLETS, a story about fixing lunch for an important ...
- Added: Sep 21, 2010
- Length: 26:52
During this program, Craig Johnson talks about JUNKYARD DOGS, the sixth book in his Walt Longmire mystery series. He also reads a few pages and tel...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Aug 16, 2010
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
James Lee Burke's eagerly awaited new novel find Detective Dave Robicheaux back in New Iberia, Louisiana, and embroiled in the most harrowing and d...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Jul 30, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
During this program, Mark Spragg talks about and reads from his third novel, BONEFIRE.
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: May 04, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Candy Matson YUkon 2-8209 - "The Japanese Sandman" by Jack French
- Added: Jan 29, 2010
- Length: 46:29
