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Alexander McCall Smith's "From a Far and Lovely Country" #24 in No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency Series
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Host Diana Korte speaks with ⁠Alexander McCall Smith⁠, the author of more than 100 books sold around the world in 40 languages. This includes the N...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2023
  • Length: 10:53
A conversation with Iranian-American novelist Marjan Kamali
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Novelist Marjan Kamali talks about her recent novel The Stationery Shop-- a story that begins in 1953 in Iran and spans 60 years. We talk about Per...

Bought by RADIOLEX, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 28:24
  • Purchases: 3
National Writers Series: Anthony Doerr
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Three
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Lysley Tenorio talks with author Anthony Doerr.

Bought by WNMU-FM, Michigan Radio, and WKAR


  • Added: Nov 11, 2021
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 3
Publishing the American Dream with Chase Backer Publisher of Metropolitan Magazine.
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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Publishing the American Dream with Chase Backer Publisher of Metropolitan Magazine. Maximum Health Radio explores the images, people, and stories t...

Bought by WCNY and WYAP


  • Added: Jun 24, 2021
  • Length: 27:00
  • Purchases: 2
Five Days in Spain: Muriel Rukeyser and the Revolutionary Muse
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Barcelona - July 1936, Credit: Muriel Rukeyser, permission of William L. Rukeyser
Rowena Kennedy-Epstein describes Savage Coast as a young woman’s political and sexual awakening imbued with the anarchist spirit of the moment; it’...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 13, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Just a Spoonful of America: Prescribing American Studies to Fight Fascism
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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The idea that art, literature and music in particular, might work as a sort of “Marshall Plan of the Mind” is our topic tonight. At the end of Worl...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2018
  • Length: 59:02
Pulitzer 100: The Wondrous Junot Diaz (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Pulitzer Prize winning author Junot Diaz talks about love, loss, and his New Jersey childhood. -Jon Pineda's memoir "Sleep in Me" chronicles his s...

Bought by WCNY, KRDP, WMUU-LP, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WTJU


  • Added: Sep 09, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 5
Pulitzer 100: Shifting the Spotlight (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel has tackled traditionally taboo subjects. Vogel has also distinguished herself as an exceptional tea...

Bought by WCNY, KEDT, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 13, 2016
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 6
Nation of Nations (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Tom Gjelton NPR Correspondent and author of "A Nation of Nations" speaks about the changing demographics of America. -A Cuban exile feels at home ...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KEDT and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
Vicente Gutierrez, the publisher and editor of Highway: Making it Work
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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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
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
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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
Author Diana Gabaldon: The When & Why's of the World of the "Outlander"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Based on a time-traveling English nurse in the 20th century who is married to an 18th century Scotsman, Diana’s eight books in The Outlander series...

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


  • Added: May 01, 2015
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 2
Mushi, Ticks, and Walking Sticks
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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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
A Conversation with Dinaw Mengestu
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Dinaw Mengestu, Credit: Michael Lionstar
The author discusses the latest Big Read pick, The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears, his novel about an Ethiopian exile in a gentrifying Washingt...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WABE


  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
First Draft with Isabel Allende
From: mitzi rapkin
Series: First Draft
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First Draft highlights the voices of writers as they discuss their work, their craft and the literary arts. This week's show features an interview...

  • Added: May 03, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
A Conversation with poet, theater artist and activist Shailja Patel
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Shailja Patel, Credit: D. Ross Cameron
With a trunk full of her mother’s saris, Kenyan author and performer Shaija Patel reclaims a lost history.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Apr 11, 2014
  • Length: 29:28
  • Purchases: 1
Gaelic language with Michael McNamara, Orla Kearns, and Louise Gibbons
From: WDSE
Series: Ojibwe Stories: Gaganoonididaa
Caption: Louise Gibbons, Orla Kearns, and Michael McNamara.
Host Erik Redix, an assistant professor of American Indian Studies at UMD, talks with Michael McNamara, Orla Kearns, and Louise Gibbons about the c...

Bought by Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, WMUU-LP, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KSRQ, and KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle


  • Added: Apr 20, 2013
  • Length: 29:24
  • Purchases: 5
Goodnight Moon!
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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First published in 1947, Goodnight Moon has become one of the most popular books for young children. Yet the book’s author, Margaret Wise Brown, al...

Bought by WJCT, XRAY.fm, WFHB, and KVLU


  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 4
Get Behind Me, Now Stay There - Episode 02
From: Get Behind Me , Now Stay There
Series: Get Behind Me, Now Stay There
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring Artists David Phillips and Amara Kopakova.

  • Added: Feb 21, 2013
  • Length: 27:55
Fresh Talk: Rashid Novaire
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
Caption: Rashid Novaire
In Amsterdam, Cathy Byrd meets Dutch novelist Rashid Novaire, of Moroccan and Dutch descent. The writer's heritage is embedded in his imagination.

  • Added: Jan 21, 2013
  • Length: 16:15
Fresh Talk: Sarah Lewis
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
Caption: Sarah Lewis, Credit: Frank Stewart
In this episode, Cathy Byrd meets Sarah Lewis, a scholar, writer and curator. Sarah talks about the artists she selected for the 12.2 International...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Aug 28, 2012
  • Length: 14:18
  • Purchases: 1
From the Volga to the Mississippi and Back
From: With Good Reason
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In the second half of the nineteenth century, American and Russian traveled to each other's countries and wrote about their experiences and observa...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Nov 21, 2011
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Award-winning novel "Netherland" with Joseph O'Neill
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Joseph O'Neill
NETHERLAND, the 2009 novel by Joseph O'Neill, won the PEN/Faulkner award. He discusses the arduous process of writing the book, which is set in hi...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 29:00
Azar Nafisi interview
From: Holly Kernan
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interview with Iranian author of "Reading Lolita in Tehran"

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 18, 2003
  • Length: 21:18
  • Purchases: 1