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Shelf Discovery: Confessions of a Domestic Failure by Bunmi Laditan
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin commiserates with a stressed-out mom in the audio edition of Bunmi Laditan's Confessions of a Domestic Fail...

Bought by KKRN, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KRPS


  • Added: Aug 28, 2017
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
"The Glass Castle" author Jeannette Walls
From: New Letters on the Air
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Former celebrity journalist Jeannette Walls discusses her hardscrabble childhood which she depicted in her memoir THE GLASS CASTLE, now an August 2...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, and WFIU


  • Added: Aug 18, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
PN 17-10 “Mom Betty Addresses the Nature of Proportion” by Eileen R. Tabios
From: The Poetry Foundation
Series: PoetryNow
Caption: Eileen Tabios, poet
In the voice of her mother, Eileen Tabios reflects on the accomplishments and tragedies of her mother’s children.

Bought by KALW, KHSU, and KENW


  • Added: Aug 17, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
Author Jacqueline Woodson interview on Art Works--the weekly podcast from the National Endowment for the Arts
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Caption: Jacqueline Woodson, Credit: Juna F. Nagle
With Another Brooklyn, acclaimed children’s author Jacqueline Woodson creates an adult novel that reads like poetry

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 08, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
PN 16-31 "Dworzec - on a line from Szymborska" by Emily Perez
From: The Poetry Foundation
Series: PoetryNow
Caption: Emily Perez, poet, Credit: Melissa Leslie
Emily Pérez portrays a person on a train fleeing from a past life.

Bought by KALW and KENW


  • Added: Jan 16, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
Shelf Discovery: Fat Fridays by Judith Keim
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin dines with the girls in Judith Keim's Fat Fridays.

Bought by KKRN, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Nov 22, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
PN 16-23 "Beulah Peel Me a Grape" by Patricia Spears Jones
From: The Poetry Foundation
Series: PoetryNow
Caption: Patricia Spears Jones, poet, Credit: Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Patricia Spears Jones considers the dynamics of race through the lens of a 1930s Mae West film.

Bought by KHSU, KALW, and KENW


  • Added: Nov 21, 2016
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
PN 16-18 "Breadwinning for Birds" by Alli Warren
From: The Poetry Foundation
Series: PoetryNow
Caption: Alli Warren, poet, Credit: Andrew Kenower
Alli Warren mingles tropes of baseball, horticulture, and birdwatching as she celebrates her life.

Bought by KSKA, KALW, KENW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 18, 2016
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
Shelf Discovery: It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin joins a young woman on the rocky road to recovery in author Colleen Hoover's It Ends with Us.

Bought by KKRN, WMUU-LP, and WLPR


  • Added: Sep 06, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: How to Be a Grown-Up by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week's Discovery, Kristin follows a single mom through New York City in How to Be a Grown-Up by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus.

Bought by KKRN, WTIP, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 30, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Past American Voice of Poet C.D. Wright
From: New Letters on the Air
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We remember a Past American Voice--Arkansas native and former Rhode Island Poet Laureate, C.D. Wright who died suddenly in early 2016. She authored...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: May 05, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Eliding History: Jill Lepore On Telling Stories
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Jill Lepore joins us to talk about three books: The Story of America; The Secret History of Wonder Woman; and Joe Gould's Teeth.

  • Added: Mar 29, 2016
  • Length: 01:03:04
Shelf Discovery: Opening Belle by Maureen Sherry
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin heads to Wall Street for Maureen Sherry's Opening Belle.

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Feb 16, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Poet and Professor Ellen Bryant Voigt
From: New Letters on the Air
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A 2015 MacArthur "Genius" Fellow Ellen Bryant Voigt talks with fellow poet and professor, Michelle Boisseau, about her collection HEADWATERS. Voigt...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Jan 21, 2016
  • Length: 30:30
  • Purchases: 1
Author Julianna Baggott--4 kids and 20 books--she explains how she does it.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Julianna Baggott , Credit: Laura Ciociola
Harriet Wolf’s Seventh Book of Wonders took Julianna Baggott 18 years to write. Julianna discusses how writing 14 other novels in a variety of genr...

Bought by WMUU-LP and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jan 08, 2016
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
Art Beat Presents: " Shawn McGuire "
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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On this episode of Art Beat we visit Winona native Shawn McGuire, an author of young adult fiction that blends different settings with a touch of m...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: 21:54
BFFs, Girlfriends, and Besties (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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As the British Empire expanded, the fabric of society depended upon women’s friendships. One letter from a “BFF” back home could save a colonist fr...

Bought by WCNY, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KEDT, WTJU and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2015
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 6
Uptalk on Jeopardy (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Uptalk is that rising, questioning tone some people use when ending a statement. And women aren't the only ones who do it—so finds a study of conte...

Bought by WCNY, WVTF, KEDT, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, WTJU and more


  • Added: Sep 04, 2015
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 7
Shelf Discovery: Gummi Bears Should Not Be Organic by Stefanie Wilder-Taylor
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin commiserates with another tired mama in Stefanie Wilder-Taylor's Gummi Bears Should Not Be Organic.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, Harford Community Radio, and KKRN


  • Added: Jun 02, 2015
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Wild Blessings (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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This Poetry Month: We celebrate the late African American poet Lucille Clifton, who was widely acclaimed for her powerful explorations of race, wo...

Bought by WJCT, WKCC, KVMR, KENW, WLIW and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
Carolyn Kizer: Past American Voice
From: New Letters on the Air
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Women's History Month continues with a tribute to the late Carolyn Kizer, the influential poet who died in October 2014. An unmistakable feminist, ...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Mar 25, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mothering Decisions
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Some critics of popular culture say there aren’t enough accurate portrayals of abortion decisions. But one scholar says, in some recent mother-daug...

Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 27, 2015
  • Length: 03:42
  • Purchases: 3
Truth and Fiction (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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A new online archive of Grimm’s fairy tales reveals the evolution of these iconic stories, whose earlier versions were often violent and sexually s...

Bought by WJCT, WABE, KRDP, WYAP, KENW and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 6
Truth and Fiction (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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A new online archive of Grimm’s fairy tales reveals the evolution of these iconic stories, whose earlier versions were often violent and sexually s...

Bought by WCNY, KKRN, KREV-LP, WTJU, and KUNV


  • Added: Feb 27, 2015
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 5
Furious Flowers: Rita Dove and Sonia Sanchez (Special)
From: With Good Reason
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Conversations with celebrated American poets Rita Dove and Sonia Sanchez.

Bought by KUPR low power FM, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KQED, WVAS, WESM 91.3 FM and more


  • Added: Jan 07, 2015
  • Length: 52:58
  • Purchases: 10