PRX - Pieces for Topic: Literature
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In the middle of the 20th century, a ten square block area in North Gowanus was home to the largest Mohawk settlement outside of Canada. We hear ab...
- Added: Sep 30, 2021
- Length: 28:17
Books on conveyor belts, book vacuums and books in the mail. This episode of “Borrowed” will take you behind the scenes to see how books travel aro...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 16:48
- Purchases: 1
Hunter S. Thompson had his first run-in with federal agents as a young boy during the Louisville summer of 1946
- Added: Feb 03, 2016
- Length: 01:00
Off the coast of Virginia, in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, lies a shrinking island called Tangier. Here, an unlikely adventurer docked his sai...
Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, WTJU, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 30, 2015
- Length: 03:51
- Purchases: 4
Southern Gothic writer Harry Crews died in March of this year. Although many people have never heard of him, Crews’ stories about outcasts inspired...
- Added: May 24, 2012
- Length: 02:26
Dealers of Americana talk about the allure of old books.
Bought by Remix Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, and WBHM
- Added: Apr 20, 2009
- Length: 04:17
- Purchases: 4
Fifty year's after the publication of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" and its subsequent obscenity trial, poets and friends look back at its origins, ...
Bought by KICI Iowa City, KPIP-LP, KRZA, KSFR, New Hampshire Public Radio and more
- Added: Jun 05, 2007
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 6
