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African-American author LaShonda Katrice Barnett, interviewed recently on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday (2/8/15), reads here from her heralded new n...
- Added: Feb 19, 2015
- Length: 01:40
We give thanks for transformative writers in this episode entitled UNDERSTANDING OTHERS, a show that features excerpts from six programs that highl...
- Added: Dec 04, 2014
- Length: 29:00
Featuring writers from the 2014 Pygmalion Literary Fest LitCrawl, recorded live at The Esquire Lounge in Chapaign, IL. Readers in this episode incl...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 20:07
In the comic classic, MERE MORTALS by David Ives, a construction worker reveals he is secretly, actually the Lindbergh baby. Turns out his pals hav...
Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), Connecticut Public (WNPR), KUNM, KZYX, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more
- Added: Oct 08, 2014
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 9
William Jackson Harper is a lascivious bee swarming a young woman’s Upper West Side apartment. Two vultures have a bone to pick with Saint Francis....
Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), New Hampshire Public Radio, Oregon Public Broadcasting, KZYX, and KUNM
- Added: Sep 04, 2014
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 5
An interview with MMA fighter and poet Carlo Matos, plus work from issue 7.1
- Added: May 08, 2014
- Length: 17:17
This episode we highlight contributors to issue 7.5 including an interview with National Book Award Finalist, poet Matt Rasmussen.
- Added: May 07, 2014
- Length: 16:47
This is a remembrance of Peter Matthiessen. He invited us to his house in Sagaponack, to hear a story. He gave his characters' accents, fun for him...
- Added: Apr 15, 2014
- Length: 28:33
- Purchases: 2
We’re reading and gabbing about a story called “The Teacher of Literature,” published in 1894; Chekhov was 34 years old. It’s a story about a young...
- Added: Apr 11, 2014
- Length: 01:21:57
A spread of new books about food: from evil sugar to wonderful wine.
- Added: Apr 04, 2014
- Length: 54:10
Richard Powers is indulging us in a runaway riff on music, in a little room in the Boston Athenaeum, on the top of Beacon Hill, overlooking the Old...
Bought by WABE
- Added: Apr 03, 2014
- Length: 47:52
- Purchases: 1
We’re reading a famous story called “The Student.” It’s a late winter, early spring night in the 1890s, Easter weekend. A student is coming home f...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and KWMR
- Added: Mar 27, 2014
- Length: 20:08
- Purchases: 2
Chekhov wrote “Gusev” on shipboard, returning from his stark study mission to the prison island of Sakhalin in 1890. He was 30 years old, ten years...
- Added: Mar 27, 2014
- Length: 52:19
The story this time is called “Dreams.” It’s a dense 7-page fantasy of the good life in the far wilds of Eastern Siberia. It’s a dream of freedom t...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Mar 27, 2014
- Length: 41:36
- Purchases: 1
We finish National Novel Writing Month with the Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Richard Ford, who sees fiction as a vehicle to provide renewal and ...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Nov 27, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Thomas Fox Averill's novel RODE was named the 2012 Outstanding Western Novel by the National Cowboy Museum, Based on the American song "Tennessee ...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Sep 11, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Minnesota author Peter Geye's newest book is called "The Lighthouse Road." Around the turn of the last century Thea Eide left Norway for America, s...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KSRQ, and KVSC
- Added: Aug 05, 2013
- Length: 18:40
- Purchases: 3
Poet, essayist, and teacher, Alison Hawthorne Deming compares the northeast and southwest landscapes and their different impacts on her writing pro...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 29:02
Luis Alberto Urrea discusses his latest book "Queen of America," and his alternating relationship to prose and poetry. He also talks about his expe...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 14:31
Bobby speaks with Dina Rae, a loving wife and mother who resides in the Chicago suburbs and writes novels of fiction about what we both agree to be...
- Added: Jan 03, 2013
- Length: 39:48
William Kent Kreuger lives in St. Paul and is the author of 10 previous novels in the "Cork O'Conner" series including New York Times best sellers ...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 16:08
- Purchases: 1
Anne Tyler has a new book out! "The Beginner's Goodbye." Here Julia Child presents passages from an earlier Anne Tyler favorite, "Dinner at the Hom...
- Added: Apr 13, 2012
- Length: 24:58
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
- Added: Mar 06, 2012
- Length: 25:32
- Purchases: 1
A radio drama adaptation of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," set in modern-day “Verona, California,” with live sound effects and some of the fines...
- Added: Nov 02, 2011
- Length: 53:58
- Purchases: 8
- Added: Oct 01, 2011
- Length: 15:29
