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Eliot Peper, VEIL & Paul Greenberg, THE CLIMATE DIET
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with Eliot Peper about his Cli-Fi novel, Veil. It’s about what happens when a tech CEO decides to geo-engineer the climate—in secret. Then...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2021
  • Length: 59:03
Meet environmental poet Camille T. Dungy
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Camille Dungy, Credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Award-winning writer and two-time NEA Literature Fellow Camille T. Dungy discusses her work as an ecopoet.

Bought by WSLR, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KZUM


  • Added: Apr 18, 2021
  • Length: 29:17
  • Purchases: 3
Writer’s Voice: Simon Winchester, LAND & Isabella Tree, WILDING
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with Simon Winchester about his new book Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World. Then we revisit part of our 2020 int...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
Writer’s Voice: Anna North OUTLAWED & Emily St. John Mandel, THE GLASS HOTEL
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with novelist Anna North about her acclaimed new novel, Outlawed. It’s about an alternate reality 1890s Hole in the Wall Gang—this one, run...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
A Conversation with Tana French!
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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
Abdul El Sayed & Micah Johnson, MEDICARE FOR ALL: A Citizen’s Guide & Norton Juster Remembered
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with Dr. Micah Johnson and Dr. Abdul El Sayed about their book, Medicare For All: A Citizen’s Guide. Then, we remember Norton Juster, the ...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
Fixing the Stars: Sylvia Plath at the Edge of Sight
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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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
The National Endowment for the Arts presents writer Danielle Evans
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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
This week, the National Endowment for the Arts presents Rebekah Taussig
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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
2031: AVENGERS: A Conversation with Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely, 7/30/2020
From: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
Series: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
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On this week’s On Story we’ll hear from Avengers: Infinity War and End Game writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. The two will discuss t...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
From the National Endowment for the Arts--Art Works
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Poet Adrian Mateka talks about The Big Smoke a collection of 52 poems about Jack Johnson--the first African-American heavyweight world champion.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KMUN, KGNU Community Radio, KZUM, and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 29:27
  • Purchases: 5
From the National Endowment for the Arts--Art Works
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Jesmyn Ward, Credit: Tony Cook
A conversation with two-time National Book Award winner, Jesmyn Ward.

Bought by Harford Community Radio and KMUN


  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 28:53
  • Purchases: 2
Of Her Kind: Radcliffe’s Messy Experiment in Women’s Liberation
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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In her book, The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s, published by Knopf, Maggie Doherty, tells the story o...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: May 19, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
The Poet Laureate of the United States Joy Harjo
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Joy Harjo, Credit: Karen Kuehn
The Poet Laureate of the United States Joy Harjo talks about poetry and music

Bought by Harford Community Radio


  • Added: May 12, 2020
  • Length: 29:09
  • Purchases: 1
Peter Heller, THE RIVER & Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with Peter Heller about his terrific new novel, a thriller set on a river above the Arctic Circle. It’s called The River. Then, we re-air ...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
An Hour With WWII Spymaster Fiction Master Alan Furst
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Today, we talk with spy fiction writer Alan Furst about his latest book, Under Occupation. Then we air excerpts from interviews we did with him abo...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
Author R.O. Kwon's novel The Incendiaries has everyone talking and for good reason
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: R.O. Kwon, Credit: Smeeta Mahanti
Author R.O. Kwon's book The Incendiaries has been named a best book of the year by over forty publications. Not bad for a first book! But it's als...

Bought by KZUM and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 13, 2019
  • Length: 28:53
  • Purchases: 2
Madeline Miller talks about her novel Circe
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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
Musician's Spotlight -Bruce Cockburn 2019 Mspot Part One- 726
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Considered by his native Canada to be nothing less than a national treasure, multiple Juno Award winning songwriter, guitarist and social and spiri...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KMXT, WMUU-LP, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 01, 2019
  • Length: 29:04
  • Purchases: 4
Stories to Tell in the Dark (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Haunted Forest
Bengali stories of ghostly women who wield supernatural powers after death. Plus we're in a new era of horror films like "Get Out" and "It." And: b...

Bought by WCNY, WCMU Michigan, WMUU-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 23, 2019
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 9
Evicted!
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: A sofa and mattresses on the street in front of an apartment building. "Sofa Free, and throw in 2 box springs", Credit: walknboston is licensed under CC by 2.0.
There’s an eviction crisis in the United States, and it’s disproportionately affecting communities of color.

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WTJU, WRGY and more


  • Added: Feb 21, 2019
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 11
Jules Feiffer, THE GHOST SCRIPT, Art Spiegelman, BREAKDOWNS & Amos Oz Remembered
From: Francesca Rheannon
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We talk with the great cartoonist Jules Feiffer about the third graphic novel in his noir trilogy about the Hollywood blacklist of the 1940s and 50...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
Ariel Burger, WITNESS & Ani Tuzman, THE TREMBLE OF LOVE
From: Francesca Rheannon
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Ariel Burger talks about his book WITNESS: Lessons from Elie Wiesels Classroom. And later in the show, we re-air our 2016 interview with Ani Tuzman...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
Actor Jeffrey Wright and his work with veterans.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: We Are Not Done Yet, Credit: HBO
A talk with Jeffrey Wright about his documentary that looks at veterans writing and performing collective poems.

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Dec 11, 2018
  • Length: 30:10
  • Purchases: 1
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