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Welcome to the Jazz Age. This lyrical portrait of The Great Gatsby features readings by actor Sam Waterston and commentary by Robert Redford, among...

Bought by Prairie Public, KMUN, KPIP-LP, KQED, KRZA and more


  • Added: Aug 16, 2011
  • Length: 29:13
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Neil Gaiman waits backstage, Credit: David J. Murray, Clear Eyed Photo
Multimedia sensation reads from the new edition of "American Gods," and talks Twitter, Dr. Who, and the power of librarians with host Virginia Pres...

Bought by KSRQ, Connecticut Public (WNPR), and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 29, 2011
  • Length: 49:27
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Author Ann Patchett
An hour long reading and interview with Ann Patchett recorded in front of a live audience at the Portsmouth Music Hall in June, 2011.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 29, 2011
  • Length: 53:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Hallie Ephron is a journalist and fiction writer living in New England.

  • Added: Apr 02, 2011
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Author Elizabeth Gilbert
"Eat, Pray, Love" author Elizabeth Gilbert reads from her latest memoir, "Committed." In an interview with Virginia Prescott, she reveals what it i...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 14, 2011
  • Length: 53:24
  • Purchases: 1
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The author of seventeen novels, Parker lives in Southern California.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2011
  • Length: 30:12
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Megan Abbott is an Edgar Award winning novelist."Bury Me Deep" is her fourth book.

  • Added: Dec 02, 2010
  • Length: 28:55
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Interview with author and TV personality Anthony Bourdain on the state of American food and being a celebrity chef.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KICI Iowa City, and WLPR


  • Added: Jul 06, 2010
  • Length: 28:43
  • Purchases: 3
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Patty Feld, Director of the Edge Center for the Arts in Bigfork, on the Theater B production of The Year of Magical Thinking.

  • Added: Apr 08, 2010
  • Length: 11:03
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Charles Ardai is a writer, publisher, and entrepreneur.

  • Added: Dec 09, 2009
  • Length: 28:32
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Victor Gischler is a writer living in Baton Rouge.

  • Added: Nov 24, 2009
  • Length: 30:15
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A novelist and widely published journalist, Todd Goldberg is also Administrative Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Writing for th...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2009
  • Length: 30:34
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Norman Green has been, at various times, a truck driver, a construction worker, a project engineer, a factory rep, and a plant engineer, but never,...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2009
  • Length: 28:58
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Bill Fitzhugh writes satiric crime novels, the occasional comic mystery, and a weekly show for the Deep Tracks channel of XM Satellite Radio.

  • Added: Sep 23, 2009
  • Length: 28:59
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James Siegel is a thriller novelist and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of BBDO New York.

  • Added: Sep 23, 2009
  • Length: 01:00:25
Caption: ZZ Packer, Credit: Marion Ettlinger
Contemporary short stories, performed by two prize-winning young women writers. ZZ Packer has "Brownies," about violence that brews when white girl...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2009
  • Length: 56:17
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Clutter: it pursues us, fills our drawers, hides our keys.

  • Added: Nov 13, 2008
  • Length: 03:18
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Halloween is not just kids and candy. It is about masks and identity, horror as well as grown-up fun.

Bought by WNJR, KXOT Public Radio, and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Oct 13, 2008
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 3
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This is the group piece (4 poets) performed in-studio by Northside College Prep High School, which was a team finalist in the 2008 Louder Than a Bo...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2008
  • Length: 03:08
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Travel. Adventure. Romance. Inexplicable narratives from the man in the window seat.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 03, 2008
  • Length: 07:28
  • Purchases: 1
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New Yorkers are passionate about their libraries for all kinds of reasons

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 16, 2007
  • Length: 04:06
  • Purchases: 1
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Stephen Poleskie in conversation about his life as an artist and writer

  • Added: Aug 17, 2007
  • Length: 27:30
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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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A creative reading from the children's classic, read by Jessica Stevens.

Bought by WGDR


  • Added: Mar 02, 2007
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
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A creative reading from the children's classic, read by Jessica Stevens.

Bought by WGDR


  • Added: Mar 02, 2007
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 1