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Author Danielle Evans: Dealing with History through Fiction
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Exploring complexities through short stories: a conversation with author and 2020 NEA Literature Fellow Danielle Evans

Bought by KMUN, WMPG, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KECG and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2024
  • Length: 29:04
  • Purchases: 7
Shelf Discovery: One of the Good Guys by Araminta Hall
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin joins the search for two missing young woman in Araminta Hall’s One of the Good Guys.

Bought by WUTC, WCNY, RADIOLEX, WRMU, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jan 22, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
2024-01-07 Simone de Beauvoir
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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The life and thought of the French feminist philosopher (born January 9, 1908).

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KSKQ, KICI Iowa City, KSKQ, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jan 08, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
2402: Simone de Beauvoir, 1/9/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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The French feminist philosopher was born January 9, 1908.

  • Added: Dec 31, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
S08 Ep06: Words and Music, Part 5, 10/7/2023
From: WCNY
Series: Feminine Fusion
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This week we pair women's music with women's poetry. It's a chance to sit back and enjoy the artistry, without a lot of description or background....

  • Added: Oct 06, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
Shelf Discovery: And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliot
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows a young Indigenous mother as she tries to settle into a new life in And Then She Fell by Alicia Ell...

Bought by WRMU, RADIOLEX, WCNY, GCR (Global Community Radio), WUTC and more


  • Added: Sep 25, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 6
Author and Disability Advocate Rebekah Taussig Discusses Her Memoir "Sitting Pretty."
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Rebekah Taussig, Credit: Micah Jones
Marking Disability Pride month by revisiting my 2020 interview with Rebekah Taussig who discusses her memoir in essays "Sitting Pretty The View fr...

Bought by WSLR, WMPG, KMUN, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Jul 17, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
Shelf Discovery: The Better Half by Alli Frank and Asha Youmans
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows a middle-aged woman as life takes her through some unexpected twists in The Better Half by Alli Fra...

Bought by RADIOLEX, WRMU, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jul 03, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
2021 National Book Award Winner Tiya Miles Turns Her Hand to Fiction
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Tiya Miles, Credit: Stephanie Mitchell
2011 MacArthur Fellow, 2021 National Book Award winner, historian, and novelist Tiya Miles discusses how fiction and history meet in her novel.

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KZUM, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jun 20, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Shelf Discovery: The Women Who Built Hollywood by Susan Goldman Rubin
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin travels back to the early days of movies to meet 12 influential women in The Women Who Built Hollywood by S...

Bought by WUTC, RADIOLEX, WRMU, GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: May 29, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
Novelist Whitney Terrell
From: New Letters on the Air
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Novelist Whitney Terrell talks about his third novel, THE GOOD LIEUTENANT. Terrell was embedded with the military in Iraq, writing non-fiction for ...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: May 29, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 136: Michael Lewis on What Makes Some People Irreplaceable , 4/16/2023
From: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Series: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
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What makes someone impossible to forget?

  • Added: Apr 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:08
Novelist Bushra Rehman: A Rose Grows in Corona,Queens
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Bushra Rehman, Credit: Andrea Dobrich
Novelist and poet Bushra Rehman celebrates the Pakistani-American community of 1980’s Corona, Queens and the coming of age of a queer Muslim girl a...

Bought by WSLR, RADIOLEX, RadioStPete Florida, KECG, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Mar 14, 2023
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 8
Shelf Discovery: Weyward by Emilia Hart
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows generations of women as they find strength and peace and power in a country cottage in Weyward by E...

Bought by RADIOLEX, WRMU, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Mar 06, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Life Without Boundaries (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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19th and 20th century poet, Alice Meynell–a.k.a. “the penciling mama”--described motherhood as “life without boundaries.”

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, KCHW and more


  • Added: Mar 03, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 6
Life Without Boundaries (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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19th and 20th century poet, Alice Meynell–a.k.a. “the penciling mama”--described motherhood as “life without boundaries.”

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KMUN, WRMU, WFHB, KVSC and more


  • Added: Mar 03, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 10
Life Without Boundaries (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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19th and 20th century poet, Alice Meynell–a.k.a. “the penciling mama”--described motherhood as “life without boundaries.”

Bought by WLPR , WTJU, KXCV, KEDT, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Mar 03, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
Life Without Boundaries (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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19th and 20th century poet, Alice Meynell–a.k.a. “the penciling mama”--described motherhood as “life without boundaries.”

Bought by KXCV and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Mar 03, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Patti Frye Meredith
From: WNCW
Series: Appalachian Vibes
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Patti Frye Meredith is a Southern fiction, Galax, VA born and raised novelist, currently residing in Chapel Hill, NC. She discusses her latest nove...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
MN Reads: “Break Point” by Sheri Brenden
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Sheri Brenden talks about her new book “Break Point”

  • Added: Jan 12, 2023
  • Length: 13:30
The Past American Voice of Poet Michelle Boisseau
From: New Letters on the Air
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Poet Michelle Boisseau died November 15, 2017 from cancer at age 62. In this interview conducted earlier this year at the Kansas City Public Libra...

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Novelist Geraldine Brooks
From: New Letters on the Air
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Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer, Geraldine Brooks talks about her 2015 book, THE SECRET CHORD. This historical novel about the Biblical King...

Bought by WNJR and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Revisiting A Conversation with Author Vanessa Hua
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Vanessa Hua, Credit: Andria Lo
Author Vanessa Hua discusses her fiction and her determination to shine a light on the multiplicity of voices within the Chinese-American diaspora

Bought by RADIOLEX, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KZUM, Spokane Public Radio, and KMUN


  • Added: Aug 26, 2022
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 5
Sarah Smarsh Explores Class in Rural America
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Sarah Smarsh, Credit: Paul Andrews
Sarah Smarsh discusses her book Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth which is 2022-2023 NEA Big Read...

Bought by KZUM, WMPG, WDCB, RADIOLEX, KZUM and more


  • Added: Jul 26, 2022
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 7
2022 Summer Reading Recs (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Summer is officially here and with it comes our annual With Good Reason summer reading list.

Bought by WHFR, Kansas Public Radio, KMUN, WFHB, WJCU and more


  • Added: Jul 14, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9