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Caption: Dancing to the Lyrics won Dwayne Ratleff a Best Indie Book Award in the “LGBTQ Coming Of Age” category., Credit: Book cover art by Leann E. Johnson / L&J Graphics
Dwayne Ratleff grew up Black, poor and gay in 1960s Baltimore. As a youngster, his grandma taught him: “Don’t explain yourself, be yourself.” His a...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KALW, and WORT


  • Added: Oct 04, 2022
  • Length: 29:10
  • Purchases: 4
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Today on Culture Clique we stopped by No Name Bar for a night of storytelling. The event was inspired by the popular podcast The Moth. Several diff...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2022
  • Length: 52:17
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Today on Culture Clique we stopped by No Name Bar for a night of storytelling. The event was inspired by the popular podcast The Moth. Several diff...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2022
  • Length: 47:52
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By getting personal and a little surreal The New Silence by Brian Price uses humor, heightened language, and edgy jazz to take on the thorny questi...

Bought by KAAD-LP and KUNM


  • Added: Apr 19, 2020
  • Length: 27:13
  • Purchases: 2
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Native Author, Marcie Rendon visits the Virginia Public Library and the Nett Lake Community during KBFT's Native Writing Festival.

  • Added: Apr 16, 2020
  • Length: 04:58
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Bob Kustra interviews Lauren Wilkinson about her debut novel "American Spy"

  • Added: Nov 26, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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Our celebration of Women's History Month continues with Rachel Hall, whose own family’s history of strong women and wartime papers and photos insp...

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 29, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Glen Chamberlain talks about the stories in her collection, 'All I Want Is What You've Got.' She also reads several passages and tells why she ditc...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KGLT, KCMJ Community Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KSJD and more


  • Added: Jun 21, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Award-winning author Shann Ray talks about and reads from his novel AMERICAN COPPER.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KGLT, KCMJ Community Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KSJD and more


  • Added: Dec 28, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
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For a long time, Marian Palaia wrote short stories, instead of a novel. Not because she didn't want to write a whole book, but because she was terr...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KCMJ Community Radio, KGLT, KSJD, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 05, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Craig Lancaster talks about and reads from his fifth novel, THIS IS WHAT I WANT. He also describes his journey from copy editor to full-time author.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KGLT, KSJD, KCMJ Community Radio, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 17, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 6
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Antonya Nelson talks about writing short stories and reads from her collection FUNNY ONCE.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KGLT and more


  • Added: May 30, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 9
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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
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Sharma Shields talks about and reads from her debut novel 'The Sasquatch Hunter's Almanac.'

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


  • Added: Mar 03, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 5
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S.M. Hulse talks about an reads from her debut novel Black River.

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


  • Added: Feb 20, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Kim Zupan talks about and reads from his debut novel, The Ploughmen.

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


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Molly Gloss talks about and reads from her novel Falling From Horses. She also tells what she knows about the welfare of animals that appear in mov...

Bought by 'The Sea', KMUN, Spokane Public Radio, KSJD, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 30, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 5
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David Allan Cates talks about and reads from his latest novel, Tom Connor's Gift.

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


  • Added: Jan 19, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Kate Cholewa talks about and reads from her debut novel, 'Shaking Out The Dead'

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


  • Added: Dec 08, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Bruce Holbert talks about his new novel, The Hour of Lead. He also explains how the Myth of the West damages human relationships and why the bad gu...

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


  • Added: Nov 17, 2014
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
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Pete Fromm talks about his latest novel, IF NOT FOR THIS, and about the process of being involved while two of his stories were made into films.

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


  • Added: Oct 03, 2014
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
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Open Source in 2001 with John Updike, reflecting on and reading from his novella Rabbit Remembered, the last in a five-part series about an America...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 2
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The writer that so many other writers are talking about is the Indian-born New Yorker, Akhil Sharma. His novel is “Family Life,” a faithful recount...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Apr 23, 2014
  • Length: 27:46
  • Purchases: 1
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My Dad never wanted to be a hero. Survival was the only option.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2014
  • Length: 11:01
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Ben Westlie graduated from Bemidji State University in 2006 with a BFA in creative and professional writing. He's published three chapbooks of poe...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2014
  • Length: 02:18