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From: Francesca Rheannon
We talk with Ruth Ozeki about her wonderful new novel, The Book of Form and Emptiness. It’s a coming-of-age/Hero’s Journey that is heart-wrenching,...
- Added: Oct 25, 2021
- Length: 58:37
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
A conversation with YA and children’s author Kate DiCamillo about reading and writing.
Bought by KZUM, RADIOLEX, and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Oct 05, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
“Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek Tragedy professor at Cambridge ...
- Added: Aug 08, 2021
- Length: 09:59
We talk with journalist Nina Burleigh about Trump’s failure on Covid and what that says about our public health system—and capitalism. Her book is ...
- Added: Jul 16, 2021
- Length: 58:59
Publishing the American Dream with Chase Backer Publisher of Metropolitan Magazine. Maximum Health Radio explores the images, people, and stories t...
- Added: Jun 24, 2021
- Length: 27:00
- Purchases: 2
A Conversation with Kaitlyn Greenidge whose historical novel Libertie explores the possibilities and limitations for 19th century Black women.
- Added: Jun 18, 2021
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 2
Jericho Brown talks about writing his Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection The Tradition
Bought by WMPG
- Added: Jun 14, 2021
- Length: 29:38
- Purchases: 1
In our queer nod to Veterans Day, we bring you writer Lauren Hough, who grew up in the infamous Christian free-love cult The Family. At 18, she joi...
Bought by KWMR
- Added: Jun 08, 2021
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
Poet and playwright Darrel Alejandro Holnes explores immigration and belonging through poetry and theater.
- Added: May 03, 2021
- Length: 28:42
- Purchases: 3
We talk with Julia Fine about her genre-bending novel The Upstairs House. It’s about a new mother’s postpartum depression—and her obsession with th...
- Added: Apr 28, 2021
- Length: 59:00
We talk with Eliot Peper about his Cli-Fi novel, Veil. It’s about what happens when a tech CEO decides to geo-engineer the climate—in secret.
Then...
- Added: Apr 21, 2021
- Length: 59:03
Award-winning writer and two-time NEA Literature Fellow Camille T. Dungy discusses her work as an ecopoet.
Bought by WSLR, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KZUM
- Added: Apr 18, 2021
- Length: 29:17
- Purchases: 3
Thomas Edison and what his light did- understood through an American Sonnet.
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Apr 14, 2021
- Length: :55
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Apr 14, 2021
- Length: :57
- Purchases: 1
We talk with Simon Winchester about his new book Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World.
Then we revisit part of our 2020 int...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 59:00
We talk with novelist Anna North about her acclaimed new novel, Outlawed. It’s about an alternate reality 1890s Hole in the Wall Gang—this one, run...
- Added: Apr 07, 2021
- Length: 59:00
On this week’s On Story we’ll hear from Avengers: Infinity War and End Game writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. The two will discuss th...
- Added: Mar 23, 2021
- Length: 53:58
The education system can change top-down, or bottom-up. Author Suzanne DeMallie wrote “Can You Hear Me Now?” – a book about how parents and teache...
- Added: Mar 19, 2021
- Length: 59:36
Acclaimed Irish crime writer Tana French keeps pushing the genre in her latest book The Searcher.
- Added: Mar 19, 2021
- Length: 28:47
We talk with Dr. Micah Johnson and Dr. Abdul El Sayed about their book, Medicare For All: A Citizen’s Guide.
Then, we remember Norton Juster, the ...
- Added: Mar 18, 2021
- Length: 59:01
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
Author Danielle Evans discusses her recent short-story collection "The Office of Historical Corrections."
Bought by KZUM and Harford Community Radio
- Added: Feb 19, 2021
- Length: 28:51
- Purchases: 2
