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Building Bridges Through Children's Literature
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Co-founder of I’m Your Neighbor Books Kirsten Cappy builds bridges through children’s literature

Bought by WMPG, KMUN, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 6
Meet Performance Poet and Educator Amalia Ortiz
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Amalia Ortiz , Credit: Ned Meneses
Performance poet and theater arts director Amalia Ortiz discusses her work at SAY Sí, her own award-wining art, and the intersection between the two.

Bought by RADIOLEX, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KZUM, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 04, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 5
Of Her Kind: Radcliffe’s Messy Experiment in Women’s Liberation
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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In her book, The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s, published by Knopf, Maggie Doherty, tells the story o...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: May 19, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Pulitzer 100: The Wondrous Junot Diaz (half hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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Pulitzer Prize winning author Junot Diaz talks about love, loss, and his New Jersey childhood.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
Pulitzer 100: The Wondrous Junot Diaz (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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-Pulitzer Prize winning author Junot Diaz talks about love, loss, and his New Jersey childhood. -Jon Pineda's memoir "Sleep in Me" chronicles his s...

Bought by KZYX and KEDT


  • Added: Sep 15, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 2
Uptalk on Jeopardy (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Uptalk is that rising, questioning tone some people use when ending a statement. And women aren't the only ones who do it—so finds a study of conte...

Bought by WCNY, WVTF, KEDT, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, WTJU and more


  • Added: Sep 04, 2015
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 7
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
Caption: Charles W. Morgan at Sea
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
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