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Author Justin Cronin brings his Passage trilogy to a close
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Justin Cronin's book, The City of Mirrors marks the end of the Passage trilogy--and what a ride it was!

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 12, 2016
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
Kao Kalia Yang -- What is home? A refugee's challenge.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Kao Kalia Yang
Kao Kalia Yang's book, The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir is a personal story that speaks to the moment.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jun 29, 2016
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 3
Pulitzer 100 Encounters at the Heart of the World (half)
From: With Good Reason
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-In her Pulitzer Prize-winning book Encounters at the Heart of the World, historian Elizabeth Fenn recounts the story of the Plains Mandan tribe as...

Bought by WLIW


  • Added: Jun 10, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Monsters in the Classroom (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Why Gothic literature is more popular than ever with young kids. -How creating 'monsters' in the classroom can help young students learn and grow....

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


  • Added: May 20, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 6
Monsters in the Classroom (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-How creating 'monsters' in the classroom can be a valuable teaching tool. -How can teachers address bad behavior in the classroom before it occurs...

Bought by WJCT, KFAI Minneapolis, KKRN, WLIW, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: May 20, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
  • 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
Pulitzer 100: Shifting the Spotlight (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Paula Vogel has tackled traditionally taboo subjects. In a different role, Vogel has also distinguished herself a...

Bought by WJCT, KMUD, WFHB, KRDP, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: May 13, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 8
Shakespeare's World and Ours
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: MIchael Witmore, Credit: Folger Shakespeare Library
Michael Witmore, Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, talks about the reasons Shakespeare still resonates with us.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 04, 2016
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 3
Ideas Books - Sean B Carroll: The Serengeti Rules
From: Craig Barfoot
Series: Ideas Books
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Biologist Sean B Carroll talks to Craig Barfoot about his latest book, The Serengeti Rules. We find out how wolves can change the physical shape of...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: May 03, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 1
Ideas Books: Ernest Naylor, Moonstruck, How Lunar Cycles Affect Life
From: Craig Barfoot
Series: Ideas Books
Caption: Ideas Books: Ernest Naylor, Moonstruck
Interview with biologist Ernest Naylor about his book, Moonstruck. Throughout history, the influence of the full Moon on humans and animals has fea...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Apr 16, 2016
  • Length: 27:16
  • Purchases: 1
Ideas Books: Will Atkinson, Class
From: Craig Barfoot
Series: Ideas Books
Caption: Ideas Books: Will Atkinson
Interview with author Will Atkinson about his book, Class. The topic of class is not only amongst the oldest and most controversial of all concepts...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2016
  • Length: 29:59
Poet Jan Beatty gives voice to the working class
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Jan Beatty
Jan Beatty's poetry is unsentimental and clear-eyed about blue-collar work and the people who do it.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Apr 15, 2016
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 3
Where Game of Thrones Begins (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-The medieval roots of "Game of Thrones" -Shakespeare and the Muslim characters in his play. -The question of "highbrow" vs. "lowbrow" in art and l...

Bought by WCNY, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Apr 07, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 9
Where Game of Thrones Begins (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-The medieval roots of "Game of Thrones" -Shakespeare and the Muslim characters in this plays. And more….

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, WABE, WYAP, KVSC and more


  • Added: Apr 07, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 10
Irish Novelist Belinda McKeon
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Belinda McKeon , Credit: Will Chancellor
Novelist Belinda McKeon: Writing 21st century Ireland

Bought by KBRP Community Radio, WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 17, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Pulitzer 100: If You Like the Truth (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Pulitzer Prize winner journalist and historian Rick Atkinson on his work and career. -New York street photographer left behind more than 300,000 i...

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


  • Added: Mar 11, 2016
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 8
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
Nation of Nations (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-With immigration rising, the U.S. will no longer have a white, Anglo ethnic profiles. -A Cuban exile in America discovers the Andy Griffith show.

Bought by WJCT, KWMR, WFHB, KVSC, KRZA and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Meet The Twin Poets Laureate of Delaware!
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Nnamdi Chukwuocha and Albert Mills
Poets and social workers, Nnamdi Chukwuocha and Albert Mills' primary audience have been Wilmington’s under served children.

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


  • Added: Feb 19, 2016
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 3
Cultural Critic Rashod Ollison on music and memories
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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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
Sheer Good Fortune (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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An interview with, and tribute to, Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison. Also: The Civil Rights Movement and television. Plus: the singer Odetta.

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


  • Added: Feb 12, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 7
The Charm's Wound Up: Macbeth
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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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
Marching the Alcotts: "We Really Lived Most of It"
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our guest is Pulitzer Prize winning biographer John Matteson whose The Annotated Little Women was published last month. Alcott’s often autobiograph...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Dec 22, 2015
  • Length: 58:31
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Joyce Sutphen - "Grammar Lessons"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Here's another of the poems we have in our library now, written and read by Joyce Sutphen, Minnesota's Poet Laureate.

  • Added: Oct 29, 2015
  • Length: 01:24