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Tammy Bobrowsky reviews The Girl With All the Gifts, Let's Go Fishing!, and we hear listen-reader reviews of Dear Mr. You, and Being Mortal.
- Added: Feb 08, 2016
- Length: 05:44
Heidi Holtan speaks with William Kent Krueger about his 2013 novel, Ordinary Grace, the Cork O'Connor series, and the journey of writing. His next ...
- Added: Jan 19, 2016
- Length: 11:49
Tammy Bobrowsky talks about The Witches: Salem, 1692; Reclaiming Conversation: The power of talk in a digital age; Church of Marvels; The Martian; ...
- Added: Oct 22, 2015
- Length: 06:15
Banned Books Week! Tammy Bobrowsky discusses banned and challenged books: Harry Potter, The Fault in Our Stars, Little Brother, And Tango Makes Thr...
- Added: Oct 02, 2015
- Length: 04:36
Jason Segel and James Ponsoldt talk misconceptions, epiphanies of genius, and the musician’s ear.
- Added: Aug 08, 2015
- Length: 16:12
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
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
“Passages: Treasures of the Bible,” currently is in Springfield, Mo, the fifth stop on a national tour. Learn more about the traveling exhibit here...
- Added: Sep 30, 2014
- Length: 08:16
Why do books so often turn to music? Richard Powers, author of a new, music-filled novel Orfeo, speaks to the strength of songs and symphonies, inc...
Bought by KICI Iowa City, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 12:57
- Purchases: 3
Nicholas Wrathall talks starting at the end, putting his money where his mouth is, and why Gore Vidal could not be ignored.
- Added: May 23, 2014
- Length: 19:56
John Krokidas talks taking small liberties, exploding into the new, and the tender side of David Cross.
- Added: Oct 31, 2013
- Length: 16:44
Filmmaker Stephen Silha talks serendipity, flow charts, and why the motto “adventure not predicament” are words to live by
- Added: Oct 01, 2013
- Length: 13:54
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
Director James Ponsoldt talks dignity, Geiger counters of honesty, and where to get a great piece of pie.
- Added: Aug 04, 2013
- Length: 13:54
Amy Acker and Alexis Denisof talk having no fear, short shooting schedules, and staircase soliloquies.
- Added: Jun 05, 2013
- Length: 09:03
Walter Salles talks searching for freedom, finding the story behind the book, and bicycling with Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
- Added: Mar 24, 2013
- Length: 14:56
Matthew Quick talks living an examined life, being rejected over 70 times, and what it was like to get the phone call that changed his life.
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 14:26
Retired educator, Lorie Yourd, shares her insightful, reflective poem "After Hearing About the Rain."
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 02:08
Kristy Guevera-Flanagan talks the terrors of truth, the progressive nature of soap operas, and why it took a woman writer to get Wonder Woman out o...
- Added: Nov 29, 2012
- Length: 21:10
Ang Lee talks faith, storytelling, and being pushed to the edge.
- Added: Nov 20, 2012
- Length: 10:18
Joe Wright talks dancing through class distinctions, the seduction of ego, and the magic of the intangible.
- Added: Nov 18, 2012
- Length: 12:04
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
Stephen Chbosky talks being reborn, taking notes, and the mysteries of the grilled sticky.
- Added: Sep 30, 2012
- Length: 13:16
FINDING JOE -- Filmmaker Pat Solomon on bliss, fear, and why Joseph Campbell will always be relevant.
- Added: Oct 14, 2011
- Length: 13:51
