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Vicente Gutierrez, the publisher and editor of Highway: Making it Work

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Here's how a writer created the music magazine he wanted to read.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KPIP-LP, WNJR, KPVL, and WABE

Added: Aug 14, 2015
Length: 28:29
Purchases: 5

Novelist Rebecca Makkai: Writing, Art, and Families

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Author Rebecca Makkai, Credit: Philippe Matsas

From beautifully-crafted short fiction to page-turning gothic novels, Rebecca Makkai puts art at the heart of her work.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNJR, WABE, KPIP-LP, and KPVL

Added: Jul 21, 2015
Length: 28:29
Purchases: 5

Author and MacArthur Fellow Edwidge Danticat talks about her memoir

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Edwidge Danticat, Credit: Jonathan Demme

In this conversation, Edwidge explores the writing of her powerful memoir, Brother, I’m Dying.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR

Added: Jun 09, 2015
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 3

Poet Dan Vera translates the immigrant experience

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

In his recent book, Speaking Wiri Wiri, poet Dan Vera brings light and often laughter to the immigrant experience.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR

Added: May 05, 2015
Length: 28:29
Purchases: 3

Poet Taylor Mali:poetry on stage and page

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Four-time National Poetry Slam champion Taylor Mali connects stage and page.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR

Added: Apr 14, 2015
Length: 28:29
Purchases: 3

First Novel to TV Series: Author Jason Mott and “The Returned"

From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk

Jason’s first novel was inspired by a dream in which his late mother visited him. He goes on to describe his day job while he was writing the book ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio

Added: Feb 19, 2015
Length: 09:55
Purchases: 2

Dinaw Mengestu talks about his latest book, All Our Names

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Dinaw Mengestu, Credit: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

In All Our Names Dinaw Mengestu explores unlikely love in the midst of conflict.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WNJR

Added: Jan 09, 2015
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 2

Nathaniel Philbrick winner of the 2000 National Book Award for his history In the Heart of the Sea talks about the glories of Moby-Dick

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

In his slim, lucid and compulsively readable book Why Read Moby-Dick, Nathaniel Philbrick makes an enthusiastic case for taking a look at Melville...

Bought by Prairie Public, KPIP-LP, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, and WNJR

Added: Nov 21, 2014
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 4

Author Max Brooks has put zombies on the global map!

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

The World War Z author Max Brooks isn't kidding when it comes to zombies.

Bought by WABE, KPIP-LP, and WNJR

Added: Oct 30, 2014
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 3

2011 National Book Award Winner Jesmyn Ward finds the past is often present in rural Mississippi.

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

In her memoir Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward attempts to understand the links in the untimely deaths of her brother and four friends.

Bought by WABE, KPIP-LP, and WNJR

Added: Oct 23, 2014
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 3

A Conversation with author Elizabeth McCracken

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Elizabeth McCracken, Credit: Edward Carey

Elizabeth McCracken gives us her take on the differences in writing novels, short stories, and tweets.

Bought by KPIP-LP

Added: Aug 15, 2014
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 1

Author Kent Haruf, Narrator of Holt County, Colorado

From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk

A National Book Award finalist, Kent writes about the residents of a small town in fictional Holt County on the plains of eastern Colorado. His new...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio

Added: May 16, 2013
Length: 09:59
Purchases: 1

Independent Book Stores Speak Up for the Written Word - on ThoughtCast!

From: Jenny Attiyeh

Caption: Kate Rosenberger@Dog Eared Books, Credit: Jenny Attiyeh

Be it a curmudgeonly Galwegian on the West coast of Ireland, an erudite scholar in Dublin or a literary motorcyclist 'flower child' of San Francisc...

Bought by KUT

Added: Dec 20, 2012
Length: 56:24
Purchases: 1

THE LAST STATION -- Writer/director Michael Hoffman talks with Andrea Chase about his film.

From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes

THE LAST STATION -- Writer/director Michael Hoffman talks with Andrea Chase about using Chekhov to get to Tolstoy, why love is as wondrous and infu...

Added: Jan 07, 2010
Length: 16:04

Director Lee Daniels on his film PRECIOUS

From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes

Director Lee Daniels talks to Andrea Chase about making the film, PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE

Added: Nov 01, 2009
Length: 11:35

Poet Robert Pinsky takes on another poet, King David of the Bible - and of the Psalms - in his "Life of David."

From: Jenny Attiyeh

Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky tackles King David of the Bible - the shepherd, poet, warrior and adulterer - in his "Life of David."

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

Added: Sep 06, 2009
Length: 28:26
Purchases: 1

Virgil's Georgics: ThoughtCast interviews the poet and translator David Ferry

From: Jenny Attiyeh

Virgil's Georgics: an interview with poet David Ferry, who recently translated Virgil's second great poem, The Georgics. We're joined by Virgil sch...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston