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Shelf Discovery: The Accidental Apprentice by Vikas Swarup
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin travels to India for an unusual job interview in Vikas Swarup's The Accidental Apprentice.

Bought by KKRN and WDCB


  • Added: Aug 11, 2015
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
THE END OF THE TOUR -- Jason Segel and James Ponsoldt Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Jason Segel & James Ponsoldt, San Francisco, CA 5/2/15, Credit: Andrea Chase
Jason Segel and James Ponsoldt talk misconceptions, epiphanies of genius, and the musician’s ear.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2015
  • Length: 16:12
The Beat: Ryan Kutter - "American Toad"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Ryan Kutter lives near Grey Eagle, Minnesota where he gardens and makes wooden furniture and writes. An english major, he graduated from St John's ...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 01:29
Shelf Discovery: Notorious by Allison Brennan
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin listens in as a reporter investigates the past in the audio version of Allison Brennan's Notorious.

Bought by KKRN, WDCB, and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 04, 2015
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Not From Here
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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When Allan Johnson asked his dying father where he wanted his ashes scattered, his father replied, it didn’t matter. So began the journey. A journe...

Bought by KPVL and KCBX


  • Added: Jul 31, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Beat: Jeanne Lutz - "Man Pen Nina's Cafe"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Jeanne Lutz grew up on a dairy farm in southern Minnesota and lives in St Paul now. She loves to write poetry because its something she can do anyw...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2015
  • Length: 01:12
Hunter S. Thompson on Outlaws and Hell's Angels
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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"I keep my mouth shut now. I’ve turned into a professional coward.” - Hunter S. Thompson, as told to Studs Terkel in 1967.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jul 29, 2015
  • Length: 17:15
  • Purchases: 1
Shelf Discovery: The Coincidence of Coconut Cake by Amy E. Reichert
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin cooks up some romance with author Amy E. Reichert's The Coincidence of Coconut Cake.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KKRN, and WDCB


  • Added: Jul 27, 2015
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Beat: Aaron Wenger - "Running Scared"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Aaron Wenger is a retired educator. He is an engineer that became an educator. He is KAXE's staff physicist, and a poet. A daily reminder that, in ...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2015
  • Length: :54
Marlais Brand on her book of fables from the North Shore
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Marlais Olmstead Brand, a Lakeville writer and wilderness educator, has written a new book, "The Hungry Coast: Fables from the North Shore of Minn...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 22, 2015
  • Length: 21:33
  • Purchases: 1
Novelist Rebecca Makkai: Writing, Art, and Families
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Author Rebecca Makkai, Credit: Philippe Matsas
From beautifully-crafted short fiction to page-turning gothic novels, Rebecca Makkai puts art at the heart of her work.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNJR, WABE, KPIP-LP, and KPVL


  • Added: Jul 21, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 5
Shelf Discovery: The Blow Off by Mickey J. Corrigan
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin turns to desperate measures with Mickey J. Corrigan's The Blow Off.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, WDCB, and KKRN


  • Added: Jul 21, 2015
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: Wings in the Dark by Michael Murphy
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin gets caught up in the historical whodunit of Michael Murphy's Wings in the Dark.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KKRN, and WDCB


  • Added: Jul 14, 2015
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Christopher Irvin discusses "Burn Cards"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Christopher Irvin is the author of Federales and Burn Cards, as well as short stories featured in several publications, including Thuglit, Beat to ...

  • Added: Jul 13, 2015
  • Length: 14:54
Shelf Discovery: Love May Fail by Matthew Quick
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin goes on a quest to save a troubled teacher with Matthew Quick's Love May Fail.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KKRN, and WDCB


  • Added: Jul 07, 2015
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: The Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin travels to a village in transition with the audio version of Ishmael Beah's The Radiance of Tomorrow.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, WDCB, and KKRN


  • Added: Jun 30, 2015
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Under The Algerian Sun: Camus and Daoud
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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It’s the rare writer who can pick up where Albert Camus — master of midcentury philosophy and fiction — left off in the modern classic, The Outside...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KMUN


  • Added: Jun 26, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
Shelf Discovery: Fixed in Blood by T. E. Woods
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin takes another case with Mort Grant and The Fixer in Fixed in Blood by T. E. Woods.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KKRN, and WDCB


  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Who Gets the Credit for the Modern World? David McCullough & "The Wright Brothers"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Orville and Wilbur, DIY scientists, were bicycle mechanics at the turn of the 20th century in Dayton, Ohio before they changed our world. David Mc...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 17, 2015
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 1
Shelf Discovery: The Wrong Man by Kate White
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin explores vacation romance gone wrong with Kate White's The Wrong Man.

Bought by Harford Community Radio and KKRN


  • Added: Jun 16, 2015
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Poetry about Waltzes
From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music
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Poems about waltzing, literally and figuratively.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2015
  • Length: 57:52
Teaming Up: Two Short Comedies by Kim Merrill and Lanford Wilson
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Marsha Mason
Marsha Mason (4 time Academy Award nominee) and Steven Boyer (Tony nominee for HAND TO GOD and regular on TV's "Trial and Error") star in TASHA WA...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), WHRV, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and KUNM


  • Added: Jun 11, 2015
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Beat: Sharon Chmielarz - "Ascent"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Sharon Chmielarz has been published in literary magazines nationwide. Chmielarz has published travel memoirs and three children's picture books. An...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2015
  • Length: 01:27
The Beat: Larry Gavin "Northern Pike"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Larry Gavin teaches English at Faribault High School. He's had three collections of poetry published by Red Dragonfly Press and he's a nationally ...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2015
  • Length: 02:35

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