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National Writers Series co-founder Doug Stanton talks with authors Elizabeth Berg, Elizabeth Letts, and Lynne Olson.
Bought by WKAR
- Added: Jun 14, 2019
- Length: 54:31
- Purchases: 1
With Walt Whitman's 200th birthday on May 31st, we're revisiting the time just before the Civil War with Justin Martin's book, REBEL SOULS: WALT WH...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: May 31, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
A novel about the Dakota Sioux people and their lifestyle prior to the arrival of the settlers.
- Added: May 22, 2019
- Length: 12:06:02
In this presentation at the Kansas City Public Library, Scottish-born writer Margot Livesey talks about her evolution as a reader and writer, and s...
- Added: May 08, 2019
- Length: 29:00
We kick off National Preservation Week and continue our celebration of National Poetry Month by pulling from our audio archives to look back on the...
- Added: Apr 24, 2019
- Length: 29:00
NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR begins National Poetry Month with Edward Hirsch, a poet and "MacArthur genius" who was the editor of THE BEST AMERICAN POETR...
- Added: Apr 10, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
A poet with Cook County Connections was recently selected by The New York Times as having published one of the ten best poetry books of 2018.
Mic...
- Added: Mar 23, 2019
- Length: 15:19
“The stories of the Bongas, all of them, are so compelling and they’re so intertwined with early Minnesota history…at nearly every treaty that was ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2019
- Length: 12:59
- Added: Jan 26, 2019
- Length: 54:30
- Purchases: 1
From: Francesca Rheannon
We talk with the great cartoonist Jules Feiffer about the third graphic novel in his noir trilogy about the Hollywood blacklist of the 1940s and 50...
- Added: Jan 03, 2019
- Length: 59:01
"The truth behind the legend from the voices of the Lakota.
The 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn, or "Custer's last stand," as it is also known, ...
- Added: Dec 26, 2018
- Length: 06:40:27
Wildlife biologist and author, Jim Williams, discusses his book, "Path of the Puma: The Remarkable Resilience of the Mountain Lion." He also reads ...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KRZA
- Added: Dec 19, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Ariel Burger talks about his book WITNESS: Lessons from Elie Wiesels Classroom. And later in the show, we re-air our 2016 interview with Ani Tuzman...
- Added: Dec 13, 2018
- Length: 59:00
Diana Gabaldon talks about her "Outlander" series of books with Deb Leonard.
Bought by Michigan Radio and WKAR
- Added: Dec 09, 2018
- Length: 54:29
- Purchases: 2
Journalist Ben Montgomery talks history and unconventional pedestrianism in his book, "The Man Who Walked Backward: An American Dreamer's Search fo...
Bought by KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Nov 15, 2018
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 3
Producer Jim Gallagher talks with author Martha Greene Phillips. Martha compiled her father’s journals and old black and white photos from over 10...
Bought by WORT and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Oct 03, 2018
- Length: 12:56
- Purchases: 2
In today’s extended installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with pioneering en...
- Added: Jul 17, 2018
- Length: 41:49
Bart Ehrman asks how did a religion that began with a small group of illiterate day laborers become the dominant religion of the Roman Empire in ju...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KPIP-LP, and WETS
- Added: Mar 31, 2018
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 3
"The Inconvenient Indian" from the U of MN Press is an unconventional, subversive account of Indian-White relations in North America since initial ...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Feb 19, 2018
- Length: 26:15
- Purchases: 1
From: New Letters on the Air
For Black History Month, we present THE 19th U.S. Poet Laureate (2012-14) and former Mississippi Poet Laureate (2012-16), Natasha Trethewey, who wo...
- Added: Feb 08, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
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
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
On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin meets a group of unsung war heroes in author Liza Mundy's Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Wome...
Bought by KKRN
- Added: Oct 30, 2017
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Oct 20, 2017
- Length: 01:12
- Purchases: 1
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
