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Co-founder of I’m Your Neighbor Books Kirsten Cappy builds bridges through children’s literature

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


  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 5
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Exploring complexities through short stories: a conversation with author and 2020 NEA Literature Fellow Danielle Evans

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


  • Added: Mar 04, 2024
  • Length: 29:04
  • Purchases: 5
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Mat Johnson takes a satirical look at race and identity.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNJR, and KVSC


  • Added: Feb 27, 2024
  • Length: 29:56
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Huascar Medina, Credit: Courtesy of the artist
We're celebrating poetry in this week's podcast. The first Latino and non-academic Poet Laureate of Kansas (and National Council on the Arts member...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZUM, Spokane Public Radio, and KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.


  • Added: Jan 02, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Brittany Cavallaro talks with author Nita Prose.

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Dec 19, 2023
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Musician and Author Warren Zanes is Paul Ingles' guest for the hour to talk about his book DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE: The Making of Bruce Springsteen...

Bought by North State Public Radio, KUPR low power FM, KSJE, and KUHF


  • Added: Nov 29, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: David LaMotte
This time on PEACE TALKS RADIO, correspondent Priyanka Shankar talks to songwriter, speaker and author David LaMotte to hear his views on peace, wa...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Nov 21, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Cynthia Leitich Smith, Credit: Christopher T Assaf
YA and children’s author and curator Cynthia Leitich Smith (Muscogee) discusses the joys and responsibilities of writing and curating authentic Nat...

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


  • Added: Nov 10, 2023
  • Length: 28:23
  • Purchases: 6
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Beth Milligan talks with fantasy author V.E. Schwab.

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Nov 10, 2023
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Isabel Cañas , Credit: Kilian Blum
Author Isabel Cañas discusses her novels and the space created by gothic fiction’s trope for exploring issues of social hierarchy, race and gender.

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


  • Added: Oct 29, 2023
  • Length: 28:40
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Peng Shepherd, Credit: Rachel Crittenden
Peng Shepherd discusses her speculative mystery The Cartographers, her fascination with maps, her love of speculative fiction, and the challenges o...

Bought by KZUM, KUT, RADIOLEX, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KZUM and more


  • Added: Oct 24, 2023
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 7
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Erin Anderson Whiting talks with author Ann Patchett.

Bought by Michigan Radio, WNMU-FM, and WKAR


  • Added: Oct 07, 2023
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 3
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Singer songwriter Jeffrey Foucault returns to Musician's Spotlight to visit with host John Floridis and discuss his most recent release "Deadstock....

Bought by WMUU-LP and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 08, 2023
  • Length: 58:32
  • Purchases: 2
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Eric Hines talks with thriller writer Ruth Ware.

Bought by WNMU-FM, Michigan Radio, and WKAR


  • Added: Aug 03, 2023
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 3
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
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
Caption: Nicole Chung, Credit: Carletta Girma
Nicole Chung writes of family and loss with a focus on broader societal failures.

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


  • Added: Jun 06, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Amy Tan, Credit: Julian Johnson
In time for Mother's Day: Author and 2021 National Humanities Medalist Amy Tan discusses “The Joy Luck Club,” her writing with its themes of family...

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


  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 28:26
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Meg Medina, Credit: Scott Elmquist
Author and Library of Congress’s 2023-24 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Meg Medina wants to spark joy in young readers as they f...

Bought by WSLR and KZUM


  • Added: May 01, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Camille T Dungy, Credit:  Beowulf Sheehan
Ecopoet and two-time NEA Literature Fellow Camille T Dungy discusses how history and race complicates nature writing

Bought by WSLR, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KZUM, WDCB, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Apr 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 5
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
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We speak with Chetna Maroo about her debut novel, Western Lane. It’s a beautifully written coming of age story about a young girl and her British I...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2023
  • Length: 58:53
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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
Caption: Renee Watson, Credit: NAACPO
What goes into writing for young adults? In this 2019 interview, prize-winning author and educator Renée Watson shares a few ideas!

  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 29:02
Caption: Kelli Jo Ford, Credit: Val Ford Hancock
Kelli Jo Ford (Cherokee) discusses her novel Crooked Hallelujah which gives us the stories of four generations of Cherokee women and the love, supp...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WMPG, RADIOLEX, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and KZUM


  • Added: Nov 21, 2022
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 5