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Pulitzer 100: Natasha Trethewey on Native Guard (half hour)

From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series

A conversation with former U.S. poet laureate, Pulitzer Prize-winning Natasha Trethewey.

Added: Jan 13, 2017
Length: 28:58

How We Talk About Our Dying: Susan Gubar On Living with Cancer

From: WFHB
Series: Interchange

On page 148 of Gubar’s latest book, Reading & Writing Cancer: How Words Heal, published this May by W. W. Norton, she writes: “It seems unlikely th...

Bought by KZYX

Added: Aug 02, 2016
Length: 58:47
Purchases: 1

What Lies Between Us

From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata

Every immigrant has a coming to the America memory. Nayomi Munaweera came to America when she was 12. It was the mid eighties. And Duran Duran.....

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Added: Jul 12, 2016
Length: 06:00
Purchases: 2

Eliding History: Jill Lepore On Telling Stories

From: WFHB
Series: Interchange

Jill Lepore joins us to talk about three books: The Story of America; The Secret History of Wonder Woman; and Joe Gould's Teeth.

Added: Mar 29, 2016
Length: 01:03:04

Alfonsina and the Sea

From: WFHB
Series: Interchange

Considered one of the greatest Argentinian poets of the first half of the 20th century, Alfonsina Storni, along with Frida Kahlo and Virginia Woolf...

Added: Mar 15, 2016
Length: 59:42

Sheer Good Fortune: Celebrating Toni Morrison

From: With Good Reason

Renowned writers, singers, and poets, including Maya Angelou and Nikki Giovanni, paid tribute to Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison with an extravaganza ...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WNSB, KISA Digital Studios, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWIT and more

Added: Jan 27, 2016
Length: 53:57
Purchases: 7

Sheer Good Fortune: Celebrating Toni Morrison

From: With Good Reason

Renowned writers, singers, and poets, including Maya Angelou and Nikki Giovanni, paid tribute to Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison with an extravaganza ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KAAD-LP, WRIR, KUAF Public Radio and more

Added: Jan 21, 2016
Length: 53:52
Purchases: 9

Author Julianna Baggott--4 kids and 20 books--she explains how she does it.

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Julianna Baggott , Credit: Laura Ciociola

Harriet Wolf’s Seventh Book of Wonders took Julianna Baggott 18 years to write. Julianna discusses how writing 14 other novels in a variety of genr...

Bought by WMUU-LP and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.

Added: Jan 08, 2016
Length: 28:29
Purchases: 2

Marching the Alcotts: "We Really Lived Most of It"

From: WFHB
Series: Interchange

Our guest is Pulitzer Prize winning biographer John Matteson whose The Annotated Little Women was published last month. Alcott’s often autobiograph...

Bought by KPIP-LP

Added: Dec 22, 2015
Length: 58:31
Purchases: 1

BFFs, Girlfriends, and Besties (Hour)

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

As the British Empire expanded, the fabric of society depended upon women’s friendships. One letter from a “BFF” back home could save a colonist fr...

Bought by WCNY, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KEDT, WTJU and more

Added: Oct 30, 2015
Length: 53:56
Purchases: 6

Uptalk on Jeopardy (Hour Long Version)

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

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

Wild Blessings (Hour Version)

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

This Poetry Month, we honor the late African American poet Lucille Clifton, who was widely acclaimed for her powerful explorations of race, womanho...

Bought by WCNY, KOWS, WTJU, KUNV, KKRN and more

Added: Apr 14, 2015
Length: 53:56
Purchases: 6

Tayari Jones: Writing the Story

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Tayari Jones, Credit: Courtesy of Algonquin Press

Novelist Tayari Jones is one writer who loves writng.

Bought by WABE and WNJR

Added: Mar 06, 2015
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 2

Joyce Carol Oates and “The Sacrifice”

From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk

Never one to shy away from controversial topics, Joyce’s latest novel is based on the true story of Tawana Brawley of upstate New York who made hea...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio

Added: Mar 04, 2015
Length: 09:58
Purchases: 1

Truth and Fiction (Half Hour Version)

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

A new online archive of Grimm’s fairy tales reveals the evolution of these iconic stories, whose earlier versions were often violent and sexually s...

Bought by WJCT, WABE, KRDP, WYAP, KENW and more

Added: Feb 27, 2015
Length: 28:59
Purchases: 6

Truth and Fiction (Hour Long Version)

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

A new online archive of Grimm’s fairy tales reveals the evolution of these iconic stories, whose earlier versions were often violent and sexually s...

Bought by WCNY, KKRN, KREV-LP, WTJU, and KUNV

Added: Feb 27, 2015
Length: 53:55
Purchases: 5

Story of an African childhood: Author Robyn Scott

From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk

The author of “Twenty Chickens for a Saddle” is a social entrepreneur who works in southern Africa. But back when she was 7 she moved from England ...

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

Added: Feb 08, 2015
Length: 08:50
Purchases: 2

Women's History Month: The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

From: Francesca Rheannon

Katharine Weber discusses her historical novel TRIANGLE, about the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.

Added: Jan 29, 2015
Length: 27:20

Women's History Month: Poems Of The Women's Movement

From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice

Feminist poet Honor Moore talks about the anthology she edited, Poems From The Women’s Movement.

Bought by WABE

Added: Jan 29, 2015
Length: 19:37
Purchases: 1

Women's History Month: Louisa May Alcott & her Marmee

From: Francesca Rheannon

Historian and writer Eve LaPlante talks about her book, MARMEE AND LOUISA. It’s about the powerful relationship between Louisa May Alcott and her m...

Added: Jan 29, 2015
Length: 28:57

Women's History: Louisa May Alcott & American Bloomsbury

From: Francesca Rheannon

Susan Cheever talks about her acclaimed 2010 biography, LOUISA MAY ALCOTT and about her 2007 book, AMERICAN BLOOMSBURY, Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Wa...

Added: Jan 29, 2015
Length: 59:07

Boy, Snow, Bird

From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts

Novelist Helen Oyeyemi reads from her dreamy, fairy-tale-inspired novel and reflects on themes of beauty and race.

Bought by KPIP-LP and PRX Remix

Added: Aug 18, 2014
Length: 07:21
Purchases: 2

Linda Stasi on Conversations With Allan Wolper

From: Conversations with Allan Wolper
Series: Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG

Linda Stasi is a Sunday New York Daily News columnist who specializes in skewering celebrities and politicians. Stasi has won a prestigious Mystery...

Added: Feb 22, 2014
Length: 30:06

Bestselling Novelist Cassandra King

From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South

Caption: Cassandra King, Credit: Tanner Latham

Bestselling novelist Cassandra King talks about her new book Moonrise as well as her writing relationship with her husband, famous author Pat Conro...

Bought by Troy Public Radio and Georgia Public Broadcasting