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Our topic this week is creativity behind bars. We showcase poetry from prisoners working with the Indiana Prisoners' Writing Project, a piece by Sh...
- Added: Jan 16, 2017
- Length: 28:19
Best known for her books about the joys of life in Italy, Frances Mayes has published a new memoir. But this time, she takes her readers back to he...
Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KKRN
- Added: May 29, 2015
- Length: 03:43
- Purchases: 3
Off the coast of Virginia, in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, lies a shrinking island called Tangier. Here, an unlikely adventurer docked his sai...
Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, WTJU, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 30, 2015
- Length: 03:51
- Purchases: 4
John Steinbeck, the author of such classics as “the Grapes of Wrath” and “Of Mice and Men” was born to a middle class family in a beautiful, turret...
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 07:27
Next year marks the 150th anniversary of Leo Tolstoy’s great Russian tome, War and Peace. While the novel’s great length scares many readers away, ...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Dec 12, 2014
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 1
A newly updated piece on NaNoWriMo. November is National Novel Writing Month, sometimes known as NaNoWriMo. In a studio loft on the Chicago's North...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 05:12
- Purchases: 2
With Halloween on the way, it’s scary movie season. That means isolated cabins, psychopathic hillbillies, and evil in the woods. One scholar believ...
- Added: Oct 17, 2014
- Length: 02:45
- Purchases: 3
Every ten years, the Furious Flower Poetry Conference is held at James Madison University. This year, the event was dedicated to renowned poet Rita...
Bought by KENW and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Oct 10, 2014
- Length: 02:55
- Purchases: 2
John Grisham is one of the best known authors in America, with his books selling over 275 million copies. Allison Quantz tells the story of an aspi...
- Added: Mar 21, 2014
- Length: 02:41
- Purchases: 2
China is everywhere in American news, but we seem to hear the same stories over and over. A new book set in Shanghai seeks to tell a less familiar ...
- Added: Aug 05, 2013
- Length: 02:32
The U.S. State Department has estimated that 1 million children each year are exploited by the global sex industry. Through a new novel, one author...
Bought by KENW and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 2
Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs—all names you might recognize as poets of the Beat Generation. But a friend and inspiration to ...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 02:27
In 1993, Toni Morrison became only the second American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Joanne Gabbin, executive director of the Furiou...
- Added: Oct 26, 2012
- Length: 02:39
When naming the most important stories of the 20th century, gossip writer Liz Smith rattled off the assassination of JFK, the Lindbergh kidnapping,...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Sep 24, 2012
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 1
Charles Dickens turns 200 this year, and two new films based on his books are in the works. But one scholar says there’s more to Dickens than his m...
- Added: May 31, 2012
- Length: 02:27
The Kentucky poet who coined the term “Affrilachian” has a new collection of poetry. Allison Quantz reports he takes on historical and current racism.
Bought by KENW and West Virginia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Apr 09, 2012
- Length: 02:27
- Purchases: 2
If you take a bus ride this holiday season, it's probably just to get where you need to go. But when Kath Weston travels on buses, it's usually pa...
- Added: Dec 03, 2008
- Length: 03:45