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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
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
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
In this conversation, Edwidge explores the writing of her powerful memoir, Brother, I’m Dying.
- Added: Jun 09, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
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...
- Added: May 29, 2015
- Length: 53:55
- Purchases: 6
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
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
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
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...
- Added: Mar 25, 2013
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 4
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
