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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
Acclaimed Irish crime writer Tana French keeps pushing the genre in her latest book The Searcher.
- Added: Mar 19, 2021
- Length: 28:47
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
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...
- Added: Mar 09, 2021
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 2
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A conversation with Kiran Singh Sirah--head of the International Storytelling Center which builds community one story at a time.
- Added: Jun 08, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Jennifer Haigh's novel Heat and Light takes a hard look at fracking in an Appalchian town
- Added: May 03, 2018
- Length: 28:18
Emily St John Mandel's post-apocalyptic novel Station Eleven looks at what endures when civilization ends.
- Added: Mar 23, 2018
- Length: 29:28
Actor Dion has narrated hundreds of audio books and is an aural shape-shifter.
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Mar 02, 2018
- Length: 29:40
- Purchases: 1
Richard Wilbur passed away on October 14, 2017. We remember him with a re-broadcast of our 2009 conversation with him at his home in Cummington, MA...
- Added: Oct 18, 2017
- Length: 58:56
The National Book Award winner talks about author Julia Alvarez, Oscar Wao, and the wonder of reading.
- Added: Oct 12, 2017
- Length: 24:59
From: Out of Bounds
Karen Joy Fowler talks about her compelling and heart breaking novel "We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves."
- Added: Sep 13, 2017
- Length: 28:00
