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Anne-Marie Oomen talks with writer Geraldine Brooks.
Bought by WKAR and Michigan Radio
- Added: Aug 03, 2023
- Length: 54:30
- Purchases: 2
This week we discover what really happened to the Bondurant boys with Franklin Co country, singer-songwriter and amateur historian, Colby Helms of ...
- Added: Jul 26, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Lysley Tenorio talks with author Anthony Doerr.
Bought by WNMU-FM, Michigan Radio, and WKAR
- Added: Nov 11, 2021
- Length: 54:30
- Purchases: 3
We talk with graphic artist Joe Lee about his stunningly illustrated book, Forgiveness: The Story of Eva Kor, Survivor of The Auschwitz Twin Experi...
- Added: Nov 04, 2021
- Length: 58:57
Marisel Vera talks about unpacking the history of late 19th century Puerto Rico for her novel “The Taste of Sugar.”
- Added: Oct 12, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
From: Francesca Rheannon
This week: two novels exploring love, trauma and the legacies of war. Both are based on true stories from World War II.
First, Jai Chakrabarti tel...
- Added: Oct 09, 2021
- Length: 59:00
Shakespeare on the brain! We talk with Nuyorican playwright Migdalia Cruz about her adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth for modern audiences.
Then...
- Added: Oct 09, 2021
- Length: 58:36
She worked with intense dedication to be heard in a world that has no ears to hear women. But, Plath was a woman who wrote many times of her disdai...
- Added: Mar 09, 2021
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 2
We talk with Peter Heller about his terrific new novel, a thriller set on a river above the Arctic Circle. It’s called The River.
Then, we re-air ...
- Added: Mar 19, 2020
- Length: 58:58
Today, we talk with spy fiction writer Alan Furst about his latest book, Under Occupation. Then we air excerpts from interviews we did with him abo...
- Added: Jan 10, 2020
- Length: 59:01
In her biography, Henry David Thoreau: A Life, Laura Walls shows us a man deeply engaged with friends, relatives and neighbors, a man thoroughly of...
- Added: Jul 30, 2019
- Length: 58:55
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
In Storied States, we examine the shift in how humans lived, moving from hunter-gatherers to sedentary farmers. And contrary to official narrative ...
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 58:03
From Alexander the Great's "pillow book" (The Iliad) to the Mayan Popul Vuh; from Gilgamesh to Harry Potter by way of Goethe and the notion of “wor...
- Added: Jan 03, 2018
- Length: 59:01
Pulitzer Prize-winner Elizabeth Fenn, author of Encounters at the Heart of the World, tells the story of the Plains Mandan tribe as they rose to a...
Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WCWP, WTJU, WMUU-LP and more
- Added: Nov 24, 2017
- Length: 53:53
- Purchases: 9
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
A new documentary sheds light on the ugly history of lynching - The work of author Ernest Gaines - Reflections from Charlottesville residents on th...
- Added: Sep 29, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 9
Cynthia Wolfe joins us to discuss her “Platinum” ranked audio program “Nuclear Nightingales” which consists of readings from the oral history Voice...
- Added: Aug 04, 2017
- Length: 57:43
On this occasion of the birth of Thoreau we are forced to confront the vexed nature of our reception of his genius. So many of us hate Thoreau, whi...
- Added: Jul 18, 2017
- Length: 58:05
How free-market capitalism influenced modern romance - Using vampires to teach irrational economics - The trials and tribulations of reading James ...
Bought by WNMU-FM
- Added: Jun 09, 2017
- Length: :29
- Purchases: 1
How free-market capitalism influenced modern romance - Using vampires to teach irrational economics - The trials and tribulations of reading James ...
Bought by WCNY, KWMR, WXDU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WCWP and more
- Added: Jun 09, 2017
- Length: 53:55
- Purchases: 12
How free-market capitalism influenced modern romance - Using vampires to study irrational economics
Bought by WJCT, WUGA (part of GPB), KRDP, WCQS, KMUN and more
- Added: Jun 09, 2017
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 8
A conversation with poet Tim Seibels - Finding America's lost musical treasures - The life and afterlife of jazz legend Bix Beiderbecke - The might...
- Added: Apr 03, 2017
- Length: :30
A conversation with poet Tim Seibels - Finding America's lost musical treasures - The life and afterlife of jazz legend Bix Beiderbecke - The might...
Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KEDT, WTJU, WLIW and more
- Added: Apr 03, 2017
- Length: 53:58
- Purchases: 11
A conversation with poet Tim Seibels - Finding America's lost musical treasures
- Added: Apr 03, 2017
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 8
