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When disaster strikes, will we descend into dystopia — or cooperate?
We talk with Cory Doctorow about his new work of speculative fiction, Walkaw...
- Added: Aug 17, 2017
- Length: 59:02
Krista Tippett is probably best known as the host & creator of the public radio program On Being. But she's also the author of three books that pul...
- Added: Aug 10, 2017
- Length: 07:36
Ian Rankin is best known for two characters: Inspector John Rebus, the protagonist of now 21 mystery novels, and the city of Edinburgh, whose dark ...
- Added: Aug 10, 2017
- Length: 10:30
Author, outspoken vegetarian, social media abstainer and writing teacher Jonathan Safran Foer is author of three novels: Everything Is Illuminated,...
- Added: Aug 10, 2017
- Length: 08:09
Michael Cunningham is best known as the author of The Hours, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in fiction, which imagines a fateful day in the life of V...
- Added: Aug 10, 2017
- Length: 11:04
Johnson's novel Welcome to Braggsville puts four kids from Berkeley in Georgia to protest a Civil War reenactment with a pretend lynching. What co...
- Added: Jul 14, 2017
- Length: 26:31
- Purchases: 2
The award-winning novelist, blogger, and advocate talks about science fiction and technology.
- Added: May 11, 2017
- Length: 26:59
- Purchases: 2
Kim Roberts brings a poet’s eye to The Scientific Method
Bought by WNJR
- Added: May 04, 2017
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
Thomas Dooley's collection of poetry Trespass shines a light in dark places.
- Added: Apr 27, 2017
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
In her memoir Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward attempts to understand the links in the untimely deaths of her brother and four friends
Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WNJR, Public Radio for All, WMUU-LP, and 91.7 WHUS Storrs
- Added: Jan 03, 2017
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 5
Ani Tuzman talks about her novel based on the life of the 18th century Jewish mystic, the Baal Shem Tov. Its called The Tremble of Love. Then, we r...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Dec 23, 2016
- Length: 01:38:32
- Purchases: 1
In a slim, lucid and compulsively readable book, Nathaniel Philbrick makes an enthusiastic case for taking a look at Melville’s classic Moby-Dick.
- Added: Nov 30, 2016
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 2
Vaddey Ratner's novel, In the Shadow of the Banyan honors her lost family
- Added: Nov 22, 2016
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 3
Kelly Link combines the ordinary and the magical—with flair.
- Added: Oct 28, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Mystery Writer Laura Lippman talks about the terrifying brilliance of Edgar Allan Poe.
Bought by WLPR , WNJR, Radio Catskill, and WMUU-LP
- Added: Oct 28, 2016
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 4
Pulitzer Prize winning author Junot Diaz talks about love, loss, and his New Jersey childhood.
- Added: Sep 15, 2016
- Length: 28:59
-Pulitzer Prize winning author Junot Diaz talks about love, loss, and his New Jersey childhood. -Jon Pineda's memoir "Sleep in Me" chronicles his s...
- Added: Sep 15, 2016
- Length: 53:57
- Purchases: 2
Michael Berry reflects on the art of translating Yu Hua’s influential novel and new Big Read title To Live into English
Bought by Harford Community Radio, KPIP-LP, WRIR, WNJR, and WMUU-LP
- Added: Aug 23, 2016
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 5
In this episode, married co-authors Kevin Flynn & Rebecca Lavoie. Together, they have written four true crime books, most recently Dark Heart: A Tr...
- Added: Aug 08, 2016
- Length: 08:13
Justin Cronin's book, The City of Mirrors marks the end of the Passage trilogy--and what a ride it was!
- Added: Jul 12, 2016
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 2
Kao Kalia Yang's book, The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir is a personal story that speaks to the moment.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WNJR, and WMUU-LP
- Added: Jun 29, 2016
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Jun 03, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Pulitzer Prize winner journalist and historian Rick Atkinson on his work and career. Also: A New York street photographer left behind more than 300...
Bought by KQED
- Added: Jun 03, 2016
- Length: 53:54
- Purchases: 1
Audiences will be treated to King Lear the way it sounded in 1606 at its first performance at the Court of Saint James. Director and IU associate p...
- Added: May 05, 2016
- Length: 23:27
Interview with author Will Atkinson about his book, Class. The topic of class is not only amongst the oldest and most controversial of all concepts...
- Added: Apr 16, 2016
- Length: 29:59
