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Want to get your book published? Get in line. Graywolf Press' Fiona McCrae has to sift through thousands of manuscripts to get to the good stuff. K...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Feb 12, 2018
- Length: 04:41
- Purchases: 1
Joanna Klink meditates on personal loss.
- Added: Jan 18, 2018
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Eleni Sikelianos explores the evolution of the human body.
- Added: Jan 17, 2018
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
Heidi Holtan talks with author Alison McGhee about the mother-daughter relationship found in her new book "Never Coming Back".
- Added: Dec 19, 2017
- Length: 14:11
On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin curls up with real-life bedtime stories in Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls 2 by Elena Favilli and Frances...
Bought by WLPR , KKRN, and GCR (Global Community Radio)
- Added: Dec 18, 2017
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 3
Jennifer Foerster imagines encountering her younger self on a walk through the streets of Vienna.
- Added: Dec 11, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Amy King considers how the media represent race and police violence.
- Added: Nov 29, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 5
francine j. harris revisits her childhood home in Detroit and imagines the ways destruction can be an empowering act.
- Added: Nov 29, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 7
We begin National Hispanic Heritage month with the Past American Voice of Judith Ortiz Cofer, who influenced and mentored Latina writers around the...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Sep 20, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
From: Out of Bounds
The award-winning teacher and novelist discusses her latest novel "Innocents and Others"
- Added: Sep 13, 2017
- Length: 27:00
The legendary Lurie talks about her new book "Reading for Fun" and discusses favorite novels and well-know authors she has known.
- Added: Sep 13, 2017
- Length: 29:00
On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin commiserates with a stressed-out mom in the audio edition of Bunmi Laditan's Confessions of a Domestic Fail...
Bought by KKRN, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KRPS
- Added: Aug 28, 2017
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 3
Former celebrity journalist Jeannette Walls discusses her hardscrabble childhood which she depicted in her memoir THE GLASS CASTLE, now an August 2...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, and WFIU
- Added: Aug 18, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
In the voice of her mother, Eileen Tabios reflects on the accomplishments and tragedies of her mother’s children.
- Added: Aug 17, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Krista Tippett is probably best known as the host & creator of the public radio program On Being. But she's also the author of three books that pul...
- Added: Aug 10, 2017
- Length: 07:36
With Another Brooklyn, acclaimed children’s author Jacqueline Woodson creates an adult novel that reads like poetry
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Mar 08, 2017
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
Here's Gerald's audio book review of A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler.
- Added: Mar 05, 2017
- Length: 03:07
With her character Lou Norton, Hall creates one of the few African American female detectives.
Bought by KISA Digital Studios, KPIP-LP, WTJU, WMUU-LP, and WNJR
- Added: Feb 17, 2017
- Length: 27:59
- Purchases: 5
Emily Pérez portrays a person on a train fleeing from a past life.
- Added: Jan 16, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Beatrice Ojakangas is the author of 29 cookbooks and recognized in the James Beard Cookbook Hall of Fame. Her new memoir, "Homemade," is about grow...
- Added: Dec 06, 2016
- Length: 18:13
On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin dines with the girls in Judith Keim's Fat Fridays.
Bought by KKRN, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WMUU-LP
- Added: Nov 22, 2016
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 3
Patricia Spears Jones considers the dynamics of race through the lens of a 1930s Mae West film.
- Added: Nov 21, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Alli Warren mingles tropes of baseball, horticulture, and birdwatching as she celebrates her life.
- Added: Oct 18, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin joins a young woman on the rocky road to recovery in author Colleen Hoover's It Ends with Us.
- Added: Sep 06, 2016
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 3
On this week's Discovery, Kristin follows a single mom through New York City in How to Be a Grown-Up by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus.
- Added: Aug 30, 2016
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 3
