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Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The town of Brunswick, Maine is set to remove 2/3 of the trees on Maine Street because it is too expensive to work around them as they install new ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 19, 2024
  • Length: 01:49
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Upon the passing of Dr Peter Higgs, a Sonnet to explain how the Higgs boson comes into our lives.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: :49
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Poetry makes everything accessible, even the Special Theory of Relativity.

  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: :51
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Jack Kerouac’s influence on American literature cannot be overstated, particularly as a leader of the Beat movement and his connection to the post...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 10:26
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Herman Wouk, a literary giant renowned for his profound engagement with historical themes, is influential in World War II literature. His magnum op...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2024
  • Length: 08:38
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“Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do” by Studs Terkel is not just a book; it’s a journey into the ...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2024
  • Length: 10:22
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Raymond Chandler, born on July 23, 1888, was an American-British novelist and screenwriter renowned for his contributions to the hardboiled detecti...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2024
  • Length: 06:29
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The Book Nook | wprnPublicRadio.com An Interview with Author Guy Morris by Adam Scull https://wprnpublicradio.com/articles/guy-morris/ Check out ...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2024
  • Length: 18:59
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Poetry Month and Einstein creating E=mc squared

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  • Added: Jan 05, 2024
  • Length: :55
  • Purchases: 1
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Brain surgeon and unlikely war hero Ryan Brenan has everything: a booming practice, a beautiful home in an idyllic setting, and a happy, loving fam...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2024
  • Length: 12:55
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ix months after the sudden loss of an unplanned pregnancy, Hannah Moore is almost ready to think about living again. That is until one fateful day ...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2024
  • Length: 10:16
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The worst U.S. mass murder of homosexuals in the 20th century was by a gruesome fire in a New Orleans French Quarter nightclub. Yet, the Upstairs L...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2023
  • Length: 19:45
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George Saunders reads a passage from his Story Prize-winning collection, TENTH OF DECEMBER. In this public presentation, Saunders discusses his pat...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Dec 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In June, Terry Tempest Williams visited Missoula, Montana, to take part in the 2022 “In the Footsteps of Norman Maclean” literary festival, which w...

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


  • Added: Dec 15, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
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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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Here is the story of Sir David Lean, one of the greatest moviemakers of all time, director of such epics as Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, The...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2022
  • Length: 18:23
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In search of inefficiency in an overly efficient digital world, Jakob Lewis entered the ‘typosphere,’ an online community of typewriter enthusiasts...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 17, 2022
  • Length: 27:43
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Poet Rita Dove, Credit: Fred Viebahn
Pulitzer-prize winning poet Rita Dove.

  • Added: Jul 28, 2022
  • Length: 24:10
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I've done many interviews with authors, but only a few of them wearing two hats, that of being an editor, as well as an author. It was time for me ...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2022
  • Length: 20:21
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Moonlit alleys, shadowy tunnels and buried secrets… Summer of 1929. Blanche Magruder lays alone in a home for the aged and infirm, of supposed uns...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2022
  • Length: 17:12
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Writing Young Adult paranormal, she finds inspiration from events that have been in her life for as long as she can remember. Inheriting the sensit...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2022
  • Length: 13:07
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Jon Bassoff is the author of nine novels. His mountain gothic novel, Corrosion, has been translated into French and German and was nominated for th...

  • Added: Jul 04, 2022
  • Length: 21:08
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Hannah R. Lyon is a professional editor who has assisted dozens of authors in both fiction and nonfiction, polishing their manuscripts to perfectio...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2022
  • Length: 19:38
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World Building Consultant Andrew Wall "Half the time when my wife Katie asks me what I’m doing, I tell her I’m creating characters, building worl...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2022
  • Length: 13:02
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Edward Di Gangi was adopted at birth in New York City. An only child, he made no effort to explore his heredity until, at age 67, a visit to a ceme...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2022
  • Length: 20:38