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HOUR ONE: "Luminous: What Can Psychedelics Teach Us About Dying?" - Could psychedelics change the way we approach death and dying? We'll explore th...
- Added: Feb 16, 2024
- Length: 01:59:00
Have you ever wished there was a different way to read – or hear - the news? For generations, through wars and political upheaval, poets have been ...
Bought by WRKF, Boise State Public Radio, KUOW, WKSU, and KECG
- Added: Jan 18, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
HOUR ONE: "Against Capitalism" - Congress has passed a Republican resolution "denouncing socialism." But what does that even mean? This hour, a soc...
- Added: Nov 03, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "Reframing The Portrait" - Have you ever stood in front of a portrait at a museum and wondered what was that person thinking? Portraits h...
- Added: Sep 22, 2023
- Length: 01:59:01
HOUR ONE: "Avian Obsessions" - It’s summer and the birds are singing. Building nests, eating worms. Watching them makes a lot of people happy – but...
- Added: Jun 16, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "The Hidden Geometry Of Everything" - The human brain is naturally mathematical. But there's one particular kind of math that's the secre...
- Added: Jan 06, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "Writing Truth And Lies" - It's a long walk from the truth to the whole truth. A biographer, a poet, a memoirist and a filmmaker describe...
- Added: Sep 23, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "Telling A Life" - How do you tell the story of your life? Songwriter Patti Smith says try writing "about nothing." HOUR TWO: "The Powe...
- Added: Sep 09, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "You're Not OK. That's OK." - One of our producers created a yard sign. It reads: "You're not OK. That's OK." 300 signs later, it's causi...
- Added: Jun 17, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00
We revisit a major race debate within the Romance Writers of America that began in 2019 and talk about why questions of race in art and in institut...
Bought by WXDU, RadioFreePalmer, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Jun 02, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Josh Weiss is a novelist who lives in Philadelphia.
- Added: Jun 01, 2022
- Length: 26:48
HOUR ONE: "The Hidden Geometry Of Everything" - The human brain is naturally mathematical. But there's one particular kind of math that's the secre...
- Added: May 27, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "How To Be An Ethical Traveler" - Uttakleiv, Norway, population 13, is inundated by 250,000 tourists every year. This hour, how can we tr...
- Added: May 13, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "Writing As A Political Act" - In peaceful times, and in moments of violence, writers have used their art as protest, remembrance, and so...
- Added: May 06, 2022
- Length: 01:59:01
HOUR ONE: "Poetry In A Troubled Time" - Why do people turn to poetry during troubled times? Poetry is often the one language we need. Join us for a...
- Added: Apr 22, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00
Today we feature four poets who help us see our own predicaments – one who shows us we contain multitudes; one whose life and writing was always an...
- Added: Apr 05, 2022
- Length: 59:00
HOUR ONE: "The Resilient Brain" - In 1848, an explosion drove an iron rod through the skull of a railroad foreman. Find out how it changed science ...
- Added: Jun 11, 2021
- Length: 01:59:00
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
HOUR ONE: "Books We Can't Forget" - Is there a book that changed your life? Celebrated authors share their favorite reads to launch our new podcast...
- Added: Sep 11, 2020
- Length: 01:58:58
HOUR ONE: "The Power Of Pleasure And Joy" - Joy, pleasure and delight feel good. But are they also politically powerful? HOUR TWO: "Difficult Sum...
- Added: Jul 10, 2020
- Length: 01:58:59
A pandemic is no place to be a bystander, says Muslim American activist Linda Sarsour. In this episode, Laura interviews Sarsour about her recently...
Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Apr 29, 2020
- Length: 26:46
- Purchases: 2
HOUR ONE: "Writing Truth And Lies" - How close to reality were the "Little House" books? Does it matter? This hour, we'll talk morality in memoirs....
- Added: Apr 10, 2020
- Length: 01:58:58
Interview with author Dave Eggers.
- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 11:49
We spend the hour with science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist, Cory Doctorow. First, we talk with him about his terrific new boo...
- Added: Sep 06, 2019
- Length: 59:01
HOUR ONE: "Guilt Tripping" - From our diets to our accomplishments, none of us are perfect. So why do we feel so guilty? HOUR TWO: "Burnout" - Ev...
- Added: Feb 15, 2019
- Length: 01:58:57
