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Novelist and Non-Fiction Author Stewart O'Nan: Part One

From: New Letters on the Air

Stewart O'Nan has written over 20 books as varied as the best-selling novel, SNOW ANGELS (now a film) to the non-fiction book co-written with Steph...

Added: Nov 25, 2019
Length: 29:00

Novelist, Poet, & Memoirist Alan Proctor

From: New Letters on the Air

We mark Veteran's Day with two interviews featuring Alan Proctor. His book, THE SWEDEN FILE: MEMOIR OF AN AMERICAN EX-PATRIATE, was named one of th...

Added: Nov 12, 2019
Length: 29:00

Speeches From The 2018 Dayton Literary Peace Prize

From: WYSO

The 2018 Dayton Literary Peace Prize award ceremony was held on October 28, 2018 at the Schuster Center. In this special presentation of selection...

Added: Jan 07, 2019
Length: 52:45

Novelist and Former U.S. Army Captain Matt Gallagher

From: New Letters on the Air

The Iraq War ended in December 2011, a dramatic setting for former U.S. Army Captain Matt Gallagher, who discusses his novel, YOUNGBLOOD, which dra...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

Added: May 25, 2018
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

Poet John Balaban

From: New Letters on the Air

Inspired by the documentary THE VIETNAM WAR, we return to an archive interview with the poet John Balaban, who served as a conscientious objector i...

Bought by WNJR

Added: Oct 04, 2017
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

Shelf Discovery: The Girl in Green by Derek B. Miller

From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery

On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin journeys into the desert with a couple of haunted heroes in Derek B. Miller's The Girl in Green.

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

Added: Jan 17, 2017
Length: 03:00
Purchases: 4

Missouri Poets of the Midwest Poets Series

From: New Letters on the Air

Discover the poetic variety of Missouri in this special program featuring readings from the Midwest Poets Series by three very different Missouri p...

Bought by WNJR and WJCU

Added: Sep 14, 2016
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 2

Kao Kalia Yang -- What is home? A refugee's challenge.

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Kao Kalia Yang's book, The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir is a personal story that speaks to the moment.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WNJR, and WMUU-LP

Added: Jun 29, 2016
Length: 28:29
Purchases: 3

Pulitzer 100: If You Like the Truth (Half Hour)

From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series

Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson on his career as journalist and historian.

Bought by KMUN

Added: Jun 03, 2016
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

Pulitzer 100: If You Like the Truth (Hour)

From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series

Pulitzer Prize winner journalist and historian Rick Atkinson on his work and career. Also: A New York street photographer left behind more than 300...

Bought by KQED

Added: Jun 03, 2016
Length: 53:54
Purchases: 1

Whitman at War

From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon

The best of American poets and the worst of American wars met head-on 150 years ago this summer in Walt Whitman’s Drum-Taps, his reflections on nur...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WABE

Added: Jun 07, 2015
Length: 58:37
Purchases: 5

Reader's Corner featuring author Jan Jarboe Russell

From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra

An untold story from World War II: Author and journalist Jan Jarboe Russell discusses her book, "The Train to Crystal City: FDR’s Secret Prisoner E...

Added: May 29, 2015
Length: 30:01

Recovery

From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human

This week, on State of the Human, people are changing radically in order to recover

Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9

Added: Jun 27, 2014
Length: 58:52
Purchases: 2

From Combat to College (half hour)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

With the end of the War in Iraq, tens of thousands of soldiers have returned home, and many of them are going to college. But the transition to aca...

Bought by WJCT and KCPW Salt Lake City

Added: Jun 28, 2013
Length: 28:59
Purchases: 2

First World War poetry with Dr Kate Macdonald

From: Alison Turner
Series: Armistice Day for Expats in Belgium

Caption: Dr Kate Macdonald, Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of Gent, Belgium

As part of a series marking Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of the First World War, reporter, Alison Turner, talked to Dr Kate Macdonald ...

Added: Nov 01, 2012
Length: 54:00

An Occurance At Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce

From: Roy Trumbull

During the Civil War a southern civilian is to be executed by being hung from a bridge. What happens or doesn't happen next we won't know until the...

Bought by KUT