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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
A stirring collection of patriotic music performed throughout U.S.
history by African Americans, sometimes in the face of public
hostility. Also, s...
- Added: Jun 21, 2014
- Length: 53:55
- Purchases: 4
The author discusses the latest Big Read pick, The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears, his novel about an Ethiopian exile in a gentrifying Washingt...
- Added: May 29, 2014
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 2
Yoko Ono is best known for her marriage to John Lennon and was vilified by the press in the 1960s for her perceived role in the breakup of the Beat...
Bought by WJCT, KVNF, WLIW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WMNF
- Added: May 09, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
Yoko Ono is best known for her marriage to John Lennon and was vilified by the press in the 1960s for her perceived role in the breakup of the Beat...
- Added: May 09, 2014
- Length: 53:57
- Purchases: 2
An interview with MMA fighter and poet Carlo Matos, plus work from issue 7.1
- Added: May 08, 2014
- Length: 17:17
This episode we highlight contributors to issue 7.5 including an interview with National Book Award Finalist, poet Matt Rasmussen.
- Added: May 07, 2014
- Length: 16:47
Poet, Writer and Spoken-Word Performer David Mura uses his considerable talents as a poet, novelist, memoirist and performer to explore what it me...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Apr 16, 2014
- Length: 27:29
- Purchases: 1
