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Our guest is Pulitzer Prize winning biographer John Matteson whose The Annotated Little Women was published last month. Alcott’s often autobiograph...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Dec 22, 2015
- Length: 58:31
- Purchases: 1
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
Uptalk is that rising, questioning tone some people use when ending a statement. And women aren't the only ones who do it—so finds a study of conte...
Bought by WCNY, WVTF, KEDT, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, WTJU and more
- Added: Sep 04, 2015
- Length: 53:55
- Purchases: 7
This Poetry Month, we honor the late African American poet Lucille Clifton, who was widely acclaimed for her powerful explorations of race, womanho...
- Added: Apr 14, 2015
- Length: 53:56
- Purchases: 6
A new online archive of Grimm’s fairy tales reveals the evolution of these iconic stories, whose earlier versions were often violent and sexually s...
- Added: Feb 27, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 6
A new online archive of Grimm’s fairy tales reveals the evolution of these iconic stories, whose earlier versions were often violent and sexually s...
- Added: Feb 27, 2015
- Length: 53:55
- Purchases: 5
The author of “Twenty Chickens for a Saddle” is a social entrepreneur who works in southern Africa. But back when she was 7 she moved from England ...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Feb 08, 2015
- Length: 08:50
- Purchases: 2
Katharine Weber discusses her historical novel TRIANGLE, about the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.
- Added: Jan 29, 2015
- Length: 27:20
Feminist poet Honor Moore talks about the anthology she edited, Poems From The Women’s Movement.
Bought by WABE
- Added: Jan 29, 2015
- Length: 19:37
- Purchases: 1
Historian and writer Eve LaPlante talks about her book, MARMEE AND LOUISA. It’s about the powerful relationship between Louisa May Alcott and her m...
- Added: Jan 29, 2015
- Length: 28:57
Susan Cheever talks about her acclaimed 2010 biography, LOUISA MAY ALCOTT and about her 2007 book, AMERICAN BLOOMSBURY, Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Wa...
- Added: Jan 29, 2015
- Length: 59:07
Novelist Helen Oyeyemi reads from her dreamy, fairy-tale-inspired novel and reflects on themes of beauty and race.
- Added: Aug 18, 2014
- Length: 07:21
- Purchases: 2
Linda Stasi is a Sunday New York Daily News columnist who specializes in skewering celebrities and politicians. Stasi has won a prestigious Mystery...
- Added: Feb 22, 2014
- Length: 30:06
First Draft highlights the voices of writers as they discuss their work, their craft and the literary arts. This week's show features an interview...
- Added: Dec 18, 2013
- Length: 28:59
A crime novelist and poet talks about where in England her books are set, why she chose a hypnotherapist as a character in this novel, "Kind of Cru...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Nov 24, 2013
- Length: 09:56
- Purchases: 1
On Skype, Cathy Byrd talks to poet Khadijah Queen about her creative practice and shares poems from her latest book, "Black Peculiar."
- Added: Jan 04, 2013
- Length: 15:03
Can we ever atone for the sins of the past? Or does each generation of women invent itself anew?
In THE POSSIBILITY OF YOU, bestselling author Pam...
- Added: May 09, 2012
- Length: 13:39
Radio Curious speaks with Elizabeth Holtzman, a former congresswoman, former District Attorney of Brooklyn, New York and author of Cheating Justic...
- Added: Apr 30, 2012
- Length: 29:02
Tom Perrotta, the author of "Little Children", "Election" and the upcoming novel "The Leftovers", speaks with ThoughtCast about a writer who fascin...
- Added: Apr 11, 2011
- Length: 30:00
Novelist Laura Moriarty was a practicing social worker, when she began indulging in the "hobby" of writing. Then she sold her novel and she became...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 29:00
An interview with Megan Marshall, the biographer of The Peabody Sisters -- three women who helped found the Transcendentalist movement in the mid-1...
Bought by WGBH Radio Boston
- Added: Sep 06, 2009
- Length: 35:58
- Purchases: 1
Poet Lucille Clifton is widely acclaimed for her powerful explorations of race, womanhood, and spirituality.
- Added: Jul 13, 2009
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 3
Terry Tempest Williams discusses her book which draws parallels between the Rwandan genocide and the plight of the Utah prairie dog
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KVMR
- Added: May 05, 2009
- Length: 23:57
- Purchases: 3
Why you've never heard of the Wright Brothers' sister, Katharine.
- Added: Apr 14, 2009
- Length: 29:00
Growing up is never easy ... but some of us make light of things like junior high angst by writing books based on our experience. This is author Sa...
- Added: Dec 13, 2006
- Length: 06:59
