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Shelf Discovery: This Is Not a Holiday Romance by Camilla Isley

From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery

On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin spends the holidays with a couple of old rivals in This Is Not a Holiday Romance by Camilla Isley.

Bought by RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida

Allan Pollack— "Composer and Conductor"

From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious

On the bluffs of the Village of Mendocino, overlooking the Pacific Ocean about 155 miles north of San Francisco, California, the sounds of the Mend...

Shelf Discovery: Under the Influence

From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery

On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin goes behind the scenes of the world of influencers—and their hard-working staff—in Under the Influence by N...

Bought by WUTC, KKRN, RADIOLEX, WCNY, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more

Quintet

From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music

Five poems about musical forms.

Fear of Music

From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library

On this episode, we talked about the book "Fear of Music" by David Stubbs, which compares the public acceptance of modern art with acceptance of mo...

Shelf Discovery: This Book Kills by Ravena Guron

From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery

On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin gets caught in the middle of a murder investigation at a prestigious boarding school in This Book Kills by ...

Bought by WUTC, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida

We Simply Must Talk About Modal Verbs

From: KMUW
Series: You're Saying It Wrong

Must, could, should, shall, might, may... We dig into the weird, wiggly, weaselly world of modal verbs.

Bought by KXCV, KECG, KWMR, and KRPS

Shelf Discovery: The Peruvian Express by Tom Phillips

From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery

On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin joins a young detective and his friends on a quest to reunite with their loved ones and find a dangerous ob...

Bought by WUTC, WCNY, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida

Taking Funny Music Seriously

From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library

On this episode, we talked about the new book "Taking Funny Music Seriously" by Lily E Hirsch, which explores a wide range of approaches that artis...

Shelf Discovery: Till Death Do Us Part by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery

On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows a widow’s search for answers about her late husband in Till Death Do Us Part by Laurie Elizabeth Fl...

Bought by WUTC, KKRN, WCNY, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more

Dream Machines: Electronic Music in Britain from Doctor Who to Acid House

From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library

On this episode, we talked about the new book "Dream Machines" by Matthew Collin, which details the history of electronic music in the UK from its ...

Shelf Discovery: Death at Morning House by Maureen Johnson

From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery

On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin travels to a notorious island in the St. Lawrence River with a troubled teen in Death at Morning House by M...

Bought by WUTC, WCNY, RADIOLEX, and RadioStPete Florida

Post-Punk and Philosophy

From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library

On this episode, we talked about the new book "Post-Punk and Philosophy," a collection of essays that's part of a Pop Culture and Philosophy series...

Novelist Bushra Rehman: A Rose Grows in Corona,Queens

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Bushra Rehman, Credit: Andrea Dobrich

Novelist and poet Bushra Rehman celebrates the Pakistani-American community of 1980’s Corona, Queens and the coming of age of a queer Muslim girl a...

Bought by WSLR, RADIOLEX, RadioStPete Florida, KECG, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more

Shelf Discovery: House of Glass by Sarah Pekkanen

From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery

On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin joins a lawyer on a quest to do what’s best for a troubled little girl in House of Glass by Sarah Pekkanen.

Bought by WUTC, WCNY, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida

2024-08-04 James Baldwin and Social Justice

From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk

The prolific writer and Civil Rights-era activist was born August 2, 1924.

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KICI Iowa City, WGBH Radio Boston, KMUN, KICI Iowa City and more

60 Songs that Explain the 90s

From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library

On this episode, we talked about the book "60 Songs that Explain the 90s," which is a companion to music writer Rob Harvilla's well-regarded podcas...

Silly Rules (Or, the Unpredictability of the English Language)

From: KMUW

We look at language rules that are rules sometimes, and rules that don't make sense. Well, they make some sense. Whatever. They're rules, anyway.

Bought by WWNO, KWMR, and KRPS

Shelf Discovery: The Girl in the Basement by Eoin Dempsey

From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery

On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin joins the search for a teenage girl 20 years after her mother’s disappearance in The Girl in the Basement b...

Bought by WUTC, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida

Coltrane on Coltrane

From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library

On this episode, we talked about the book "Coltrane on Coltrane: The John Coltrane Interviews," a handy but very readable reference that collects n...

In Translation (hour)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

In the '80s and '90s, many Puerto Rican poets who lived in the contiguous United States wrote within a fixed mainland vs. island story. For them, t...

Bought by WTJU, WMUU-LP, WMMT, WRGY, Royalton Community Radio and more

In Translation (half)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

In the '80s and '90s, many Puerto Rican poets who lived in the contiguous United States wrote within a fixed mainland vs. island story. For them, t...

Bought by WFHB, Kansas Public Radio, KIYU-FM, KVSC, KHNS and more

In Translation (promo)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo

In the '80s and '90s, many Puerto Rican poets who lived in the contiguous United States wrote within a fixed mainland vs. island story. For them, t...

Bought by KIYU-FM and WNMU-FM

Coltrane: The Story of a Sound

From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library

On this episode, we talked about Ben Ratliff's book "Coltrane: Story of a Sound," one of the most thorough and engaging books for getting into the ...

Shelf Discovery: My Dark Secret by Dawn Hemmings

From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery

On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows an avid crime fiction reader as she plans the perfect murder in My Dark Secret by Dawn Hemmings.

Bought by WCNY, WUTC, RADIOLEX, and RadioStPete Florida

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