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Eddie Miles is one of a dying breed: a Windy City hack who knows every street and back alley of his beloved city and takes its recent descent into ...
- Added: Apr 30, 2024
- Length: 27:08
Author Matthew Batt talks about his new memoir "The Last Supper Club: A Waiter's Requiem"
- Added: Nov 30, 2023
- Length: 08:33
National Poetry Month continues with this "Classic" program featuring our current U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón (lee-moan). In this 2020 reading at ...
- Added: Apr 17, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Paul Metsa talks about his new book “Alphabet Jazz”
- Added: Dec 29, 2022
- Length: 19:26
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
Fiction writer Ron Tanner, the author of the 2022 short story collection FAR WEST,talks about the similarities between renovating a house and writi...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WNJR, and WJCU
- Added: Aug 22, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Dec 12, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
Lysley Tenorio talks with author Anthony Doerr.
Bought by WNMU-FM, Michigan Radio, and WKAR
- Added: Nov 11, 2021
- Length: 54:30
- Purchases: 3
We feature literature and commentary about the December holiday season from our rich archives. The late Rabbi Gerald Kane discusses the origins of ...
- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Our celebration of State Poets Laureate continues with part two of a former Kansas Poets Laureate reading, sponsored by the Kansas Area Watershed C...
- Added: Sep 11, 2019
- Length: 29:00
David Toll is a noted newsman, author and publisher, a maverick known for his wit and keen observations of life on the Comstock and the state of Ne...
Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio
- Added: Aug 21, 2019
- Length: 08:44
- Purchases: 1
Simeon Mills discusses his novel about growing up robot in the 1990s, The Obsoletes. He also reads two short selections.
Bought by KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Jul 24, 2019
- Length: 28:53
- Purchases: 3
Author of thrillers and mysteries Harlan Coben talks with National Writers Series co-founder Doug Stanton.
- Added: Jan 26, 2019
- Length: 54:30
- Purchases: 2
Winner of San Francisco's 2015 LitQuake essay contest. Published in Word Riot (with audio) December 2015.
- Added: Nov 26, 2018
- Length: 03:18
Hi-Phi Nation stays overnight at the Brooklyn Public Library during the 2018 Night of Philosophy. From 7pm to 7am on a Saturday night, thousands of...
- Added: Jul 25, 2018
- Length: 45:13
Award-winning poet Henritetta Goodman discusses her collection of 48 linked Italian sonnets, "All That Held Us." She also reads a handful of poems ...
Bought by KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Jun 28, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Soto Zen Priest, Brad Warner, talks about Zen, zazen, and Dogen, the 13th century Japanese Zen Master.
- Added: Dec 30, 2017
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 2
We look back on the life of novelist Kent Haruf (1943-2014). September 2017 marks the inaugural Kent Haruf Literary Celebration in Salida for this ...
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Aug 10, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Alexandra Teague discusses her debut novel, a quirky coming-of-age story. She reads both from the book as well as selected poem from her previous c...
Bought by KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Aug 03, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
When Sinead Morrissey won the 2013 T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize for her fifth book, PARALLAX, her work was then published in the U.S. pulling from all f...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Mar 30, 2017
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
GetPublished! Radio co-host and sci-fi author Thomas Page gives us an oddball history lesson about Communism as a quasi-religious faith that might ...
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 03:27
Here's Gerald's audio book review of Unpronounceable by Susan diRende.
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 04:51
GetPublished! Radio co-host and sci-fi author Thomas Page gives us an oddball history lesson about the British army in Africa.
- Added: Mar 05, 2017
- Length: 03:35
Here's Gerald's audio book review of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson.
- Added: Mar 05, 2017
- Length: 02:13
Here's Gerald's audio book review of Funny Girl by Nick Hornby.
- Added: Mar 05, 2017
- Length: 02:54
