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Caption: Tracy K. Smith, Credit: Rachel Eliza Griffiths
This week, the podcast is divided into two parts with one subject—poetry. Part 1 is excerpts from my 2018 interview with poet Melissa Range while p...

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


  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Exploring complexities through short stories: a conversation with author and 2020 NEA Literature Fellow Danielle Evans

Bought by KMUN, WMPG, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KECG and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2024
  • Length: 29:04
  • Purchases: 7
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Beth Milligan talks with fantasy author V.E. Schwab.

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Nov 10, 2023
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Rebekah Taussig, Credit: Micah Jones
Marking Disability Pride month by revisiting my 2020 interview with Rebekah Taussig who discusses her memoir in essays "Sitting Pretty The View fr...

Bought by WSLR, WMPG, KMUN, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Jul 17, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Tiya Miles, Credit: Stephanie Mitchell
2011 MacArthur Fellow, 2021 National Book Award winner, historian, and novelist Tiya Miles discusses how fiction and history meet in her novel.

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KZUM, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jun 20, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Bushra Rehman, Credit:  Andrea Dobrich
Novelist and poet Bushra Rehman celebrates the Pakistani-American community of 1980’s Corona, Queens and the coming of age of a queer Muslim girl a...

Bought by WSLR, RADIOLEX, RadioStPete Florida, KECG, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Mar 14, 2023
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 8
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In this episode, Emily speaks with physician, artist, and author, Shirlene Obuobi about fiction as escapism, and the stories behind her debut novel...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 38:22
Caption: Vanessa Hua, Credit: Andria Lo
Author Vanessa Hua discusses her fiction and her determination to shine a light on the multiplicity of voices within the Chinese-American diaspora

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


  • Added: Aug 26, 2022
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Sarah Smarsh, Credit: Paul Andrews
Sarah Smarsh discusses her book Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth which is 2022-2023 NEA Big Read...

Bought by KZUM, WMPG, WDCB, RADIOLEX, KZUM and more


  • Added: Jul 26, 2022
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 7
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Linda Strader was one of the first women hired on a fire crew with the U.S. Forest Service. A naïve twenty-year-old in the mid-1970s, she discovers...

  • Added: May 31, 2022
  • Length: 14:41
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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
Caption: Andrew Krivak, Credit: Sharona Jacobs
Andrew Krivak Andrew Krivak talks about The Bear a meditative novel about the last of humanity which is a surprisingly uplifting book and also a re...

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


  • Added: Dec 20, 2021
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Tana French, Credit: Jessica Ryan
Acclaimed Irish crime writer Tana French keeps pushing the genre in her latest book The Searcher.

  • Added: Mar 19, 2021
  • Length: 28:47
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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...

Bought by WKMS and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Danielle Evans , Credit:  Beowulf Sheehan
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
Caption: Rebekah Taussig, Credit: Micah Jones
Teacher and advocate Rebekah Taussig recently published her first book-- Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
Caption: Madeline Miller, Credit: Nina Subin
The ever-compelling Greek myths fuel Madeline Miller's imagination. Circe is the second novel she sets among the god and goddesses and she puts the...

Bought by WKMS, Harford Community Radio, WMPG, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 13, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 4
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Author Kiersten White's retelling of the Mary Shelley's classic novel from the point of view of Mrs. Frankenstein.

  • Added: Oct 30, 2018
  • Length: 29:36
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All it takes is a spark. Several years ago, Cate Belleveau agreed to portray Mary Welsh Hemingway in a Beltrami County Historical Society fundrais...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2018
  • Length: 13:34
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How sewing connects generations of women artists and workers -- The lesser known works of James Dickey -- The husband-and-wife team of celebrated a...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2017
  • Length: :30
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How sewing connects generations of women artists and workers -- The lesser known works of James Dickey -- The husband-and-wife team of celebrated a...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRGY, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Dec 08, 2017
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 7
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How sewing connects generations of women artists and workers -- The lesser known work of James Dickey -- The husband-and-wife team of celebrated au...

Bought by WJCT, KRZA, WUGA (part of GPB), KMUN, KKRN and more


  • Added: Dec 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusuf Komunyakaa -- The stories behind John Sargent’s portraits -- How rock became a white genre -- Racial paradoxes in...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Sep 08, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusuf Komunyakaa -- The stories behind John Sargent’s portraits -- How rock became a white genre -- Racial paradoxes in...

Bought by WCNY, WCWP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WCMU Michigan, WRGY and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2017
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 8
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Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Yusuf Komunyakaa -- A new book explores the stories behind Sargent's portraits

Bought by WJCT, KRZA, WCQS, WUGA (part of GPB), WVAS and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9