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We continue our series on State Poets Laureate with the most recent California State Poet Laureate, Dana Gioia. In this archive interview, the Cali...
- Added: Aug 28, 2019
- Length: 29:00
From: Generation Justice Admin
Susan Kuklin is an author of more than thirty books for children and young adults, well known for her photo essays for young children and her oral ...
- Added: Aug 12, 2019
- Length: 21:08
National Writers Series co-founder Doug Stanton talks with authors Elizabeth Berg, Elizabeth Letts, and Lynne Olson.
Bought by WKAR
- Added: Jun 14, 2019
- Length: 54:31
- Purchases: 1
NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR begins National Poetry Month with Edward Hirsch, a poet and "MacArthur genius" who was the editor of THE BEST AMERICAN POETR...
- Added: Apr 10, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Bob Kustra interviews Rick Bass about his book "The Traveling Feast: On the Road and at the Table with My Heroes"
- Added: Mar 04, 2019
- Length: 30:01
Guggenheim Fellow Charles Harper Webb reads from his collection of essays, A MILLION MFAS ARE NOT ENOUGH and shares poetry from his earlier books, ...
- Added: Jan 02, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Ariel Burger talks about his book WITNESS: Lessons from Elie Wiesels Classroom. And later in the show, we re-air our 2016 interview with Ani Tuzman...
- Added: Dec 13, 2018
- Length: 59:00
A talk with Jeffrey Wright about his documentary that looks at veterans writing and performing collective poems.
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Dec 11, 2018
- Length: 30:10
- Purchases: 1
Gavin VanHorn is the author of The Way of the Coyote: Shared Journeys in the Urban Wilds.
- Added: Nov 12, 2018
- Length: 29:00
Author Kiersten White's retelling of the Mary Shelley's classic novel from the point of view of Mrs. Frankenstein.
- Added: Oct 30, 2018
- Length: 29:36
Author and journalist Gwen Florio discusses her literary novel, Silent Hearts. She also reads a short passage.
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Aug 14, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
A conversation with Kiran Singh Sirah--head of the International Storytelling Center which builds community one story at a time.
- Added: Jun 08, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Interview with Richard Powers on his new book "The Overstory."
- Added: May 21, 2018
- Length: 11:20
Jennifer Haigh's novel Heat and Light takes a hard look at fracking in an Appalchian town
- Added: May 03, 2018
- Length: 28:18
Bart Ehrman asks how did a religion that began with a small group of illiterate day laborers become the dominant religion of the Roman Empire in ju...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KPIP-LP, and WETS
- Added: Mar 31, 2018
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 3
Emily St John Mandel's post-apocalyptic novel Station Eleven looks at what endures when civilization ends.
- Added: Mar 23, 2018
- Length: 29:28
Actor Dion has narrated hundreds of audio books and is an aural shape-shifter.
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Mar 02, 2018
- Length: 29:40
- Purchases: 1
Black History Month concludes with the Past American Voice of essayist and fiction writer James Alan McPherson (1943-2016). In this archive recordi...
- Added: Feb 28, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
In the second half of our conversation with former California Poet Laureate Al Young, he shares more from his book SOMETHING ABOUT THE BLUES: AN UN...
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Think about the many stories you’ve heard or read over the years. Some of those stories may have had a major impact on your life, or maybe even the...
- Added: Jan 04, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Mark Sundeen discusses his book, The Unsettlers: In Search of the Good Life in Today's America. He also reads a short passage from the book.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Dec 11, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Richard Wilbur passed away on October 14, 2017. We remember him with a re-broadcast of our 2009 conversation with him at his home in Cummington, MA...
- Added: Oct 18, 2017
- Length: 58:56
The National Book Award winner talks about author Julia Alvarez, Oscar Wao, and the wonder of reading.
- Added: Oct 12, 2017
- Length: 24:59
Inspired by the documentary THE VIETNAM WAR, we return to an archive interview with the poet John Balaban, who served as a conscientious objector i...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Oct 04, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Award-winning poet Elizabeth Alexander talks movingly about her memoir
"The Light of the World" about her husband's sudden death at age 50.
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 29:00
