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Cultural Critic Rashod Ollison on music and memories

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

In his memoir Soul Serenade, Rashod Ollison describes how music was a lifeline during a difficult upbringing.

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

Added: Feb 16, 2016
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 3

The Charm's Wound Up: Macbeth

From: WFHB
Series: Interchange

When the hurly burly’s done, fair is foul and foul is fair, by the pricking of my thumbs something wicked this way comes, screw your courage to the...

Added: Feb 02, 2016
Length: 01:01:00

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

Zora Neale Hurston and the Blues

From: WFHB
Series: Interchange

WFHB Blue Monday DJ and Blues guitarist Jason Fickel discusses Zora Neale Hurston with IU professor M. Cooper Harriss. The two look at the work of ...

Bought by WJAB

Added: Nov 24, 2015
Length: 58:51
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

Meet the new Poet Laureate of the United States, Juan Felipe Herrera

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Juan Felipe Herrera Unity Poem Fiesta. , Credit: Courtesy University of California-Riverside

The new poet laureate of the United States and two-time National Endowment for the Arts fellow calls for everyone’s heart to speak out.

Bought by KPIP-LP, KFCF FM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WLPR , KPVL and more

Added: Sep 21, 2015
Length: 28:29
Purchases: 7

Ideas Books: Gavin Francis, Adventures in Human Being

From: Craig Barfoot
Series: Ideas Books

An in-depth conversation with author Gavin Francis about his book, the human body and his life as a doctor. A beautiful conversation about celebrat...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]

Added: Sep 11, 2015
Length: 24:05
Purchases: 1

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

Poet and Playwright Claudia Rankine has us board the bus for the Bronx

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Claudia Rankine discusses her play The Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KPVL, WNJR, and KPIP-LP

Added: Aug 14, 2015
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 4

Vicente Gutierrez, the publisher and editor of Highway: Making it Work

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Here's how a writer created the music magazine he wanted to read.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KPIP-LP, WNJR, KPVL, and WABE

Added: Aug 14, 2015
Length: 28:29
Purchases: 5

Novelist Rebecca Makkai: Writing, Art, and Families

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Author Rebecca Makkai, Credit: Philippe Matsas

From beautifully-crafted short fiction to page-turning gothic novels, Rebecca Makkai puts art at the heart of her work.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNJR, WABE, KPIP-LP, and KPVL

Added: Jul 21, 2015
Length: 28:29
Purchases: 5

Author and MacArthur Fellow Edwidge Danticat talks about her memoir

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Edwidge Danticat, Credit: Jonathan Demme

In this conversation, Edwidge explores the writing of her powerful memoir, Brother, I’m Dying.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR

Added: Jun 09, 2015
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 3

Under Magnolia (Hour Long Version)

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

When Frances Mayes moved to Tuscany, Italy she left behind her family and roots in Fitzgerald, Georgia. In her new memoir Under Magnolia, the renow...

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, WFAE, WABE, KKRN and more

Added: May 29, 2015
Length: 53:55
Purchases: 6

Under Magnolia

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

When Frances Mayes moved to Tuscany, Italy she left behind her family and roots in Fitzgerald, Georgia. In her new memoir Under Magnolia, the renow...

Bought by WJCT, WKCC, WABE, KVSC, KENW and more

Added: May 29, 2015
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 6

Imagining Yoko Ono (Hour Long Version)

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

Yoko Ono is best known for her marriage to John Lennon and for her perceived role in the breakup of the Beatles. But she was an accomplished and in...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WCNY, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WABE, WTJU and more

Added: May 08, 2015
Length: 53:59
Purchases: 6

Imagining Yoko Ono (Half Hour Version)

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

Yoko Ono is best known for her marriage to John Lennon and for her perceived role in the breakup of the Beatles. But she was an accomplished and in...

Bought by WJCT, WKCC, KVSC, KENW, and WLIW

Added: May 08, 2015
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 5

Poet Dan Vera translates the immigrant experience

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

In his recent book, Speaking Wiri Wiri, poet Dan Vera brings light and often laughter to the immigrant experience.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR

Added: May 05, 2015
Length: 28:29
Purchases: 3

#1208- Rama, Sita, and Me: Nina Paley

From: Sandburg Media
Series: Things Not Seen: Conversations about Culture and Faith [Standard Clock]

We're revisiting our 2012 interview with cartoonist, filmmaker, and copyright activist Nina Paley, creator of the feature-length animated film, Sit...

Added: Apr 22, 2015
Length: 59:00

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

Poet Taylor Mali:poetry on stage and page

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Four-time National Poetry Slam champion Taylor Mali connects stage and page.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR

Added: Apr 14, 2015
Length: 28:29
Purchases: 3

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