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Host Diana Korte speaks with ⁠Alexander McCall Smith⁠, the author of more than 100 books sold around the world in 40 languages. This includes the N...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2023
  • Length: 10:53
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Andy Truscott speaks with Don Foster, a 2019 Delaware Division of the Arts Individual Artist Fellow in the field of fiction literature.

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 21:57
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Andy Truscott speaks with Dr. JoAnn Balingit and Dr. Traci Currie, the teaching artists and coaches of 2023's Poetry Out Loud Recitation Contest in...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2022
  • Length: 22:28
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The Revolutionary Reader, Leading and Creating Change with Rohi’s Readery Founder Pranoo Kumar. A social justice driven children’s bookstore and ...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2022
  • Length: 27:17
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Publishing the American Dream with Chase Backer Publisher of Metropolitan Magazine. Maximum Health Radio explores the images, people, and stories t...

Bought by WCNY and WYAP


  • Added: Jun 24, 2021
  • Length: 27:00
  • Purchases: 2
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An interview with Sandra Niemi, author of "Glamour Ghoul: The Passions and Pain of the Real Vampira, Maila Nurmi." Niemi is Nurmi's niece and she ...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2021
  • Length: 29:08
Caption: The Preface of the Venus Table of the Dresden Codex - an ancient Mayan book containing astronomical data.
From Alexander the Great's "pillow book" (The Iliad) to the Mayan Popul Vuh; from Gilgamesh to Harry Potter by way of Goethe and the notion of “wor...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
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Mary Shelley’s novel of 1818, Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus, seems to me to clang like a hammer blow against a bell that tolls our self-i...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Dec 19, 2016
  • Length: 01:00:01
  • Purchases: 1
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In Don’s third book it’s 1917 and the three Jewett brothers—Cane, Cob and Chimney—set off from their rural southern home for a life of crime. The ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Aug 02, 2016
  • Length: 09:53
  • Purchases: 1
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What may seem surprising as you listen is the way in which Thoreau’s understanding of death and life can inform our own considerations of what it m...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jun 07, 2016
  • Length: 59:14
  • Purchases: 1
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Jill Lepore joins us to talk about three books: The Story of America; The Secret History of Wonder Woman; and Joe Gould's Teeth.

  • Added: Mar 29, 2016
  • Length: 01:03:04
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This southern noir tale is the intimate story of 18-year-old Jacob McNeely whose daddy controls the crystal meth business in a small town in rural ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 20, 2016
  • Length: 09:37
  • Purchases: 2
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Featuring novelist Eric Shonkwiler and work from Quiddity issue 7.2. While Eric has lived and worked in every contiguous US Time zone, the Ohio na...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 18:05
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Finding Place in the Placelessness: Justin Hamm and Christina Olson talk with assistant editor John McCarthy about their experiences as editors for...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2014
  • Length: 15:53
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Linda Stasi is a Sunday New York Daily News columnist who specializes in skewering celebrities and politicians. Stasi has won a prestigious Mystery...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2014
  • Length: 30:06
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The selection of stories on this anthology comes mostly from the book of the same title, now in its fourth printing, and as popular today as when i...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2013
  • Length: 27:30
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Michael Hattam, a PhD student in early American history at Yale University. He never graduated high school and only received a GED when he was 17....

  • Added: Aug 12, 2013
  • Length: 14:45
Caption: Lana Straub and Don Piper
Interview with Don Piper on the trials, tribulations and joys of being a bestselling author

  • Added: Aug 06, 2013
  • Length: 22:26
Caption: Lovejoy Brook Farm, Credit: Jenny Attiyeh
From Thoreau's rural journal to the science of the mind to 36 arguments for the existence of God to classical music to the future of farming (whew!...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Feb 11, 2010
  • Length: 57:30
  • Purchases: 1