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Katharine Weber discusses her historical novel TRIANGLE, about the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.
- Added: Jan 29, 2015
- Length: 27:20
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
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
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
In All Our Names Dinaw Mengestu explores unlikely love in the midst of conflict.
- Added: Jan 09, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 2
January 2015 marks the 150th anniversary of the first publication of Tolstoy’s War and Peace. A new book offers Tolstoyan wisdom for troubled times...
Bought by WCNY, KPVL, CHSR-FM 97.9, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WFHB and more
- Added: Dec 12, 2014
- Length: 53:56
- Purchases: 8
January 2015 marks the 150th anniversary of the first publication of Tolstoy’s War and Peace. A new book offers Tolstoyan wisdom for troubled times...
- Added: Dec 12, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 4
In his slim, lucid and compulsively readable book Why Read Moby-Dick, Nathaniel Philbrick makes an enthusiastic case for taking a look at Melville...
Bought by Prairie Public, KPIP-LP, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, and WNJR
- Added: Nov 21, 2014
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 4
The World War Z author Max Brooks isn't kidding when it comes to zombies.
- Added: Oct 30, 2014
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
In her memoir Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward attempts to understand the links in the untimely deaths of her brother and four friends.
- Added: Oct 23, 2014
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
Reza Aslan on Zealot and academia; Maxwell Grant on Lev Grossman's Magicians series.
- Added: Oct 13, 2014
- Length: 44:08
- Added: Oct 07, 2014
- Length: 33:35
- Purchases: 1
Chris Stedman on faith and atheism; Katy Scrogin on Roland Barthes' Mourning Diary.
- Added: Oct 07, 2014
- Length: 39:14
Beth Katz on Project Interfaith; Katy Scrogin on Sherman Alexie's Blasphemy.
- Added: Oct 07, 2014
- Length: 36:25
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf on misconceptions about Islam; Katy Scrogin on The Man Who Quit Money.
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 38:24
Lillian Daniel on the problems of being spiritual but not religious; Katy Scrogin on The Still Point of the Turning World.
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 32:00
Lillian Daniel on spirituality vs. religiosity; Katy Scrogin on A History of Religion in 5 1/2 Objects: Bringing the Spiritual to Its Senses.
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 31:18
S. Brent Plate on experience, materiality, and physical objects. Excerpt from TV documentary, Divided Families: Responding with Faith.
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 39:21
Reza Aslan on Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth; Katy Scrogin on Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 46:35
The DC Youth Slam Team is an award-winning internationally acclaimed poetry group. Listen to their poems and find out how it all comes together wit...
Bought by KPIP-LP, KGNU Community Radio, and WNJR
- Added: Aug 21, 2014
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 3
Elizabeth McCracken gives us her take on the differences in writing novels, short stories, and tweets.
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Aug 15, 2014
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 1
Why do books so often turn to music? Richard Powers, author of a new, music-filled novel Orfeo, speaks to the strength of songs and symphonies, inc...
Bought by KICI Iowa City, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 12:57
- Purchases: 3
Julie Otsuka’s first novel When the Emperor Was Divine explores her family’s history in the Japanese-American internment camps during World War II.
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Jul 11, 2014
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 1
In Japan, insects (or "mushi") are pets, medicine, and even vehicles for spirits. Plus: A robot that kills ticks. And: A poem about the insect know...
Bought by WJCT, WDBM, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WLIW, WMNF and more
- Added: Jul 11, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 6
Nancy Schoenberger chronicles the tempestuous romance of Liz & Dick in her book Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of...
- Added: Jul 03, 2014
- Length: 53:58
- Purchases: 4
