PRX - Pieces for Tone: Informational

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

28 results


Feminist Poets: Past American Voices
From: New Letters on the Air
Piece image
For Women's History Month, we feature a special program about four important feminist poets who led the the next generations into the 21st century....

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WNMU-FM, KBIA, WNMU-FM, WDCB and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 19
Native American Poet Deborah Miranda
From: New Letters on the Air
Piece image
Native American poet Deborah Miranda, author of the 2020 collection ALTER OF BROKEN THINGS, reads from her multi-genre book, BAD INDIANS: A TRIBAL...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and WNJR


  • Added: Jan 07, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Write Question - Anne Helen Petersen Part 2
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
Piece image
Writer Anne Helen Petersen discusses her new book, "Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation." This is part two of a two-part conv...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 18, 2020
  • Length: 28:44
  • Purchases: 2
The Write Question - Anne Helen Petersen Part 1
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
Piece image
Writer Anne Helen Petersen discusses her new book, "Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation." This is part one of a two-part conv...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 11, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
129: Candace Bushnell, Is There Still Sex in the City? Live On Stage
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Piece image
Candace Bushnell gave us a reason to sit on our couch every week to soak in the stories of the women--and men--of the 90s television culture-chang...

Bought by WCNY, KWIT, Louisville Public Media, KWIT, WNIN and more


  • Added: Oct 17, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
121: Author Jennifer Weiner Writes a Radical "Beach Read"
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Jennifer Weiner
The times, they are a’changin’. This week on Inflection Point, Lauren Schiller talks to author Jennifer Weiner, about her newest bestselling book “...

Bought by KKRN, Louisville Public Media, KWIT, WNIN, KSJD and more


  • Added: Jul 02, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
The Write Question - Henrietta Goodman - 331
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
Piece image
Award-winning poet Henritetta Goodman discusses her collection of 48 linked Italian sonnets, "All That Held Us." She also reads a handful of poems ...

Bought by KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 28, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
93: How to age without apology - Nina Collins, author of "What Would Virginia Woolf Do?"
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Nina Collins
What's so monumental about turning 40 for women and why do we need our own Facebook group? Turns out--pretty much everything. Nina Collins has crea...

Bought by KCSB-FM, KSJD, KWIT, KUT, KNVC Carson City Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 17, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
Kate White, New York Times Bestselling Author
From: The Hangar Studios
Series: Sandi Klein's Conversations with Creative Women
Piece image
We cover a lot of territory in our conversation with Kate White. She's the New York Times bestselling author of 11 works of fiction - six of whic...

Bought by WCNY and WRIR


  • Added: Apr 08, 2017
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
How We Talk About Our Dying: Susan Gubar On Living with Cancer
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Piece image
On page 148 of Gubar’s latest book, Reading & Writing Cancer: How Words Heal, published this May by W. W. Norton, she writes: “It seems unlikely th...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Aug 02, 2016
  • Length: 58:47
  • Purchases: 1
BFFs, Girlfriends, and Besties (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Piece image
As the British Empire expanded, the fabric of society depended upon women’s friendships. One letter from a “BFF” back home could save a colonist fr...

Bought by WCNY, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KEDT, WTJU and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2015
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 6
The Write Question - Margaret Grundstein - 243
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
Piece image
Margaret Grundstein talks about and reads from her memoir NAKED IN THE WOODS: My Unexpected Years In A Hippie Commune. She also comments on why fem...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KGLT, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KCMJ Community Radio, KSJD and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 7
Novel Explores the Meaning of Home
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
Piece image
Megan Kruse talks about and reads from her debut novel, Call Me Home

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KSJD, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 27, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
The Write Question - Molly Caro May - 228
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
Piece image
Molly Caro May talks about and reads from 'The Map of Enough' -- a memoir about her search for home.

Bought by KGLT, Spokane Public Radio, KSJD, Yellowstone Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 02, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
The Write Question - Adrianne Harun - 233
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
Piece image
Adrianne Harun explains why she chose the color white to represent evil in her novel 'A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain.' And she talks abou...

Bought by KWMR, KGLT, KSJD, Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 29, 2014
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 10
Jaipur Lit. Fest.
From: KALW
Caption: Nayomi Muneewara
Sandip Roy meets Oakland, CA author Nayomi Muneewara at one of the world's greatest literature festivals. Her new book is "Island of a Thousand Mir...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
The Write Question - Christine Byl - 283
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
Piece image
During this program, Christine Byl talks about her memoir, Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods, which describes her experiences working on trail c...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KSJD, WCWP and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Midwives and Murder
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
Piece image
Radio Curious visits with historian Sam Thomas, author of “The Midwife's Tale” a mystery series based on the real life of Bridget Hodgson, a lady a...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
Episode 31: Van Wallach - Bobby Pickles' Podcast
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast
Caption: Bobby Pickles (left); Van Wallach (right)
Bobby speaks, from the steps of the NYC Public Library, with Van Wallach, author of "A Kosher Dating Odyssey: One Former Texas Baptist's Quest for ...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2013
  • Length: 50:02
An Interview with Susanna Sonnenberg
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
Piece image
During this program Chérie Newman talks with Susanna Sonnenberg about her second memoir, 'She Matters: A Life in Friendships.' Sonnenberg also read...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KSJD, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
Mardell Hogan Plainfeather, co-author of The Woman Who Loved Mankind: Lillian Bullshows Hogan
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
Piece image
During this program, Mardell Hogan Plainfeather talks about and reads from 'The Woman Who Loved Mankind: Lillian Bullshows Hogan,' as told to and w...

Bought by KSJD, Yellowstone Public Radio, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 18, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Interview with Dorianne Laux. Sunday, January 1, 2012.
From: Words On A Wire
Series: Words On A Wire (Best Of)
Caption: Dorianne Laux
Dorianne Laux discusses the deconstruction of the alphabet as part of her creative process. "What the Body can Say," is read as the poem of the we...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 29:05
Culturology: Caroline Fraser, editor of "Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Little House Books" talks to Heidi Holtan
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Caroline Fraser
Originally published from 1932 to 1943, Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books are classics of children's literature, beloved by millions. Now T...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 04, 2013
  • Length: 14:51
  • Purchases: 2
Culturology: "Mayor of the Universe" - Author Lorna Landvik talks with Heidi Holtan
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "Mayor of the Universe" by Lorna Landvik
Lorna Landvik is the author of eight previous novels including the best selling "Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons, "Oh My Stars," and "The View Fro...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KVSC


  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 20:20
  • Purchases: 2
Valerie Hedquist talks about Fra Dana
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
Piece image
In the 1890s, Fra Dana dreamed of becoming a famous painter. But then she fell in love with a cowboy from northern Wyoming and her life got complic...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 18, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1