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This week, Kathy and Ross quiz Fletcher on a list of words that may or may not have been coined by Shakespeare. You might be surprised by which one...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
Some of us like to be rule breakers, but here are a few rules of the English language we can’t help but follow. And we probably don’t even know the...
Bought by KRPS
- Added: Feb 08, 2024
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
Author and Illustrator Chris Monroe talks about her new book "Sasquatch and Squirrel"
- Added: Aug 17, 2023
- Length: 08:30
'Hidden in Plain Sight: The San Francisco Poet's Street-Corner Oasis’ (2017) documents the underground (yet overground) poetry happening ’The Corne...
- Added: Aug 14, 2023
- Length: 09:06
Both Lemony Snicket (the pen name of Daniel Handler) and Kate DiCamillo are authors of children's literature whose work has multigenerational appea...
- Added: Dec 09, 2021
- Length: 29:00
In the first half of this conversation with writer Keegan Jennings Goodman reads an excerpt of his most recent book. Edited by Alex Kime.
- Added: May 16, 2018
- Length: 22:19
Oh how fair these days flick'ring in lustrous bounty of poetry, st'ry, and song. Cometh hith'r and lift up thine ears of rapturous wond'r as thund'...
- Added: May 02, 2017
- Length: 01:47:33
Mystics, Scientists, Astronomists, Harlequins, Writers, and Artists -- Pop!
Explore the modern masters of pop-up books: Matthew Reinhart, Robert S...
- Added: Aug 17, 2016
- Length: 10:10
Lester Blackiston was the pirate of Shockoe Bottom. He was a minor Beat poet, a questionable inventor, a man who avoided work at all costs. He had ...
- Added: Jul 27, 2016
- Length: 23:27
Father and daughter poets Willis and Aliki Barnstone share their work, talk about how they influence each other, and read from poems old and new.
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Jul 22, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Tammy Bobrowsky talks with New York Times bestselling author Ryan North about his fun spin on Shakespeare in his new book “Romeo and/or Juliet: a c...
- Added: Jun 20, 2016
- Length: 09:49
- Added: Jun 18, 2016
- Length: 53:16
- Purchases: 1
Melody loves words, but she can't speak or write or even walk across a room. Until a new computer opens up her life. Students from St. Lucy School ...
- Added: Feb 23, 2016
- Length: 19:48
Book Club for Kids goes to LA for a discussion of Roald Dahl's first book for kids "James and the Giant Peach." Public radio legend Cash Peters is ...
- Added: Feb 17, 2016
- Length: 21:34
Kite fighting on the National Mall - it's all part of the Cherry Blossom Festival. It's also at the center of Natalie Dias Lorenzi's novel "Flying ...
- Added: Feb 16, 2016
- Length: 18:27
Congressman Brad Ashford reads from Rainbow Rowell's unlikely romance "Eleanor & Park". Kids from the Book Worm Girls book club discuss the book.
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 21:03
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
A few years ago Lisa Potts was looking behind her dresser when she saw a cassette tape. She’d forgotten about the tape--a recording of an interview...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Troy Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 26, 2015
- Length: 05:55
- Purchases: 5
We hope you've never been in a store like this one! Chuckle with author Amanda Filipacchi, who writes with deceptive ease and here reads from her w...
- Added: Feb 19, 2015
- Length: 01:40
All programs produced during spring semester, 2014.
- Added: Dec 23, 2014
- Length: 02:35:12
Ever wondered what the *tattoos* covering that woman's arm mean? Author Isaac Fitzgerald reads from his new book, Pen & Ink: Tattoos and The Storie...
- Added: Nov 17, 2014
- Length: 01:40
Mark Christensen is a published author, and a long time educator. He is Professor of English at Bemidji State University where is particular intere...
- Added: Aug 13, 2014
- Length: 01:41
Larry Shug is the author of six books of poems. He's been a Minnesota book award finalist, a Midwest book award finalist and he was awarded a McKni...
- Added: Jul 17, 2014
- Length: 01:39
From: WBEZ
Freaks and nerds unite! Freakonomics' Stephen Dubner teaches Tricia and Greta how to think like a freak. Plus a portrait of astronaut Sally Ride on...
- Added: Jun 24, 2014
- Length: 26:59
- Purchases: 3
Author DANIEL HANDLER and artist LISA BROWN, comedian JAY FLEWELLING, music from THE DOUBLECLICKS.
Bought by Rhythm & News Service and KSRQ
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
