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10-Minute Writer's Workshop #46-Ian Rankin
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
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Ian Rankin is best known for two characters: Inspector John Rebus, the protagonist of now 21 mystery novels, and the city of Edinburgh, whose dark ...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2017
  • Length: 10:30
10-Minute Writer's Workshop #47-Jonathan Safran Foer
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
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Author, outspoken vegetarian, social media abstainer and writing teacher Jonathan Safran Foer is author of three novels: Everything Is Illuminated,...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2017
  • Length: 08:09
10-Minute Writer's Workshop #48 - Roxane Gay
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
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This episode, we speak to Roxane Gay, author, essayist, teacher, and all around-superwoman. The author of New York Times bestsellers Bad Feminist a...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2017
  • Length: 07:49
#49 Michael Cunningham
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: 10-Minute Writer's Workshop
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Michael Cunningham is best known as the author of The Hours, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in fiction, which imagines a fateful day in the life of V...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2017
  • Length: 11:04
Joyce Sutphen: Poet
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Wordish
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Minnesota Poet Laureate Joyce Sutphen recites her poem "Carrying Water".

  • Added: Aug 09, 2017
  • Length: 02:14
With Ears to Hear: Voices Against the Heroic
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Chernobyl--Liquidators
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
Giving Account: Thoreau at 200
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Thoreau's grave in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery , Credit: Doug Storm
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
The National Endowment for the Arts in conversation with author T. Geronimo Johnson
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: T. Geronimo Johnson, Credit: Elizabeth R. Cowan
Johnson's novel Welcome to Braggsville puts four kids from Berkeley in Georgia to protest a Civil War reenactment with a pretend lynching. What co...

Bought by KWMR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 14, 2017
  • Length: 26:31
  • Purchases: 2
Cents & Sensibility (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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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
Cents & Sensibility (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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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
Cents & Sensibility (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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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
Pride & Profit (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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We usually don’t think of the free market as a very… sentimental place. But a new book suggests that Adam Smith’s classical economics aren’t so hea...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Jun 09, 2017
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 1
BFFs, Girlfriends, and Besties (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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How women's friendships sustained the British Empire - Getting aggressive in the job market in the digital age - How memoirs tackle motherhood and ...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jun 02, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
BFFs, Girlfriends, and Besties (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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How women's friendships sustained the British Empire - Getting aggressive in the job market in the digital age - How memoirs tackle motherhood and ...

Bought by WCNY, WCWP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Jun 02, 2017
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 8
Dissecting Male Supremacy: Kate Millett's Sexual Politics
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Kate Millett’s 1970 book, Sexual Politics, is a classic text of Second Wave Feminism, finding sexism and subjection inherent in the institutions of...

  • Added: May 30, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
The National Endowment for the Arts speaks with Cory Doctorow
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Cory Doctorow, Credit: Joi Ito
The award-winning novelist, blogger, and advocate talks about science fiction and technology.

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 11, 2017
  • Length: 26:59
  • Purchases: 2
It Has Happened Here: The Handmaid’s Tale
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Margaret Atwood’s response to those who might object to the assertion that the dystopian catastrophe of The Handmaid’s Tale cannot happen here. “Wa...

  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 57:38
The National Endowment for the Arts speaks with poet Kim Roberts
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Kim Roberts
Kim Roberts brings a poet’s eye to The Scientific Method

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates poetry with Thomas Dooley
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Thomas Dooley
Thomas Dooley's collection of poetry Trespass shines a light in dark places.

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Get Rhythm (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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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
Get Rhythm (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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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
Get Rhythm (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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A conversation with poet Tim Seibels - Finding America's lost musical treasures

Bought by WJCT, WSGE, WVAS, WCQS, KKRN and more


  • Added: Apr 03, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 8
Jon Meacham / Doris Kearns Goodwin
From: Colleen Nelson
Series: Overheard with Evan Smith
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On this episode of Overheard, two Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historians. First Doris Kearns Goodwin on Teddy Roosevelt followed by Jon Me...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Feb 21, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Authro Rachel Howzell Hall brings a new detective into crime fiction.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Rachel Howzell Hall
With her character Lou Norton, Hall creates one of the few African American female detectives.

Bought by KISA Digital Studios, KPIP-LP, WTJU, WMUU-LP, and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 17, 2017
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 5
Area Voices: Michael Meuers & The Road to Ponemah: The Teaching of Larry Stillday
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
Caption: Book Cover
Michael Meuers has worked in public relations for the Red Lake Band of Ojibwe for 20+ years. His friendship with native elder Larry Stillday taugh...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2017
  • Length: 10:03