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Humans are the only animal to produce emotional tears. Asking questions about this behavior can help us better understand how we live our lives.
- Added: Jan 18, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Author Sue Leaf talks about her new book "Impermanence"
- Added: Jan 18, 2024
- Length: 08:20
Paul Metsa and Rick Shefchik talk about their new book "Blood in the Tracks"
- Added: Sep 14, 2023
- Length: 13:41
Author Karen Fults Kaler talks about her new book "Eastcliff"
- Added: May 11, 2023
- Length: 08:52
Minnesota Book Award Finalist Sheila Packa talks about her book of poetry "Surface Displacements"
- Added: Mar 02, 2023
- Length: 09:42
In this special anthology program novelist Meg Wolitzer and poet Molly Peacock both discuss the importance of writing about the lives and work of w...
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Poet Mark Gibbons discusses his collection, Mostly Cloudy. He also reads a few selections.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Jun 03, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Norma Cole meditates on the Syrian refugee crisis.
- Added: Apr 01, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 5
Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb describes how her grandfather rewrote verses of the Qur’an using only the @ sign on his typewriter.
- Added: May 07, 2018
- Length: 03:59
- Purchases: 5
Randall Horton thinks about the ways we trap ourselves and others in boxes.
- Added: Apr 02, 2018
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
Emily Skillings writes a tribute to poet John Ashbery who died in September of 2017.
- Added: Feb 19, 2018
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
This episode features a conversation with Peter Heller about his sophomore novel, Celine. He also reads short selections from the book.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Feb 15, 2018
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 3
Sueyeun Juliette Lee mediates on loss and its aftermath.
- Added: Nov 27, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Hoa Nguyen considers the objects of jokes and humor.
- Added: Oct 30, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Ocean Vuong remembers Tamir Rice, the 12-year old boy killed by police in Cleveland, OH in 2014.
- Added: Sep 12, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 7
Five previously undiscovered Kurt Vonnegut short stories have been discovered in Indiana University's Lilly Library.
- Added: Sep 11, 2017
- Length: 07:04
From: New Letters on the Air
In the other half of this conversation with Dave Smith, the author of more than 20 books of poetry, essays, memoir and fiction, he talks about the ...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: May 24, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries, Haley meets with Drew Coomer, a poet, author, musician, and creator of The Lost, Long Gone, Forgotten R...
- Added: Mar 28, 2016
- Length: 05:59
Kathleen Finneran talks about the writing process of her memoir, The Tender Land: A Family Love Story, and the memories that inspired it.
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 13:44
Radio Curious revisits a conversation with David Ebershoff, author “Pasadena,” a book about storytelling through the life of Linda Stamp, a young g...
- Added: Sep 02, 2015
- Length: 29:01
Vermont Poet Laureate (2011-2015), Sydney Lea reads for the Writers Series sponsored by the literary magazine, PLEIADES at the University of Centra...
- Added: Aug 13, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
A tribute to Eduardo Galeano , he passed on April 13, 2015, this interview originally aired Sep 2009 but still relevant today.
Eduardo Hughes Gale...
- Added: Apr 16, 2015
- Length: 27:57
WTIP's Buck Benson welcomed retired teacher Tim McDonnell to Studio A recently to chat about his memoir, "The Whole Forest for a Backyard: A Gunfli...
- Added: Sep 10, 2013
- Length: 20:10
The late Jon Hassler was an author, an educator, a playwrite, and an artist. Hassler didn't begin writing until age 37. Nevertheless he published f...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 19:43
- Purchases: 2
Mitch Skinner finds out how to survive while selling traditional books.
- Added: Mar 05, 2013
- Length: 05:12
