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“At the core of my work and life is the belief that disabled wisdom is the key to our survival and expansion,” shares Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasi...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KMUN and more
- Added: Jan 11, 2023
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 7
Christmas wouldn't be the same without Dickens. And, the railroads changed Christmas forever.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Dec 19, 2022
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 1
The Cedar-Riverside West Bank neighborhood in Minneapolis has a rich cultural history and long tradition of community art-making. Jamie Schumacher ...
- Added: Mar 03, 2022
- Length: 05:06
On October 5th, 2021, all three public library systems in New York City eliminated late fines. The change was 125 years in the making, and it made ...
Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio
- Added: Dec 21, 2021
- Length: 24:18
- Purchases: 1
Time now to check in again with Tracy Kampa. She is the Children's Librarian at the Grand Rapids Area Library. Tracy is also our Children’s Books C...
- Added: Nov 27, 2021
- Length: 11:23
Alice Henderson’s love of wild places inspired her new thriller series, which begins with A Solitude of Wolverines, as well as her novel Voracious,...
- Added: Nov 15, 2021
- Length: 25:47
Tammy Bobrowsky talks with young adult writer Sharon G. Flake. Her new novel is called "The Life I’m In", it’s the story of a young woman trapped i...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 20, 2021
- Length: 16:38
- Purchases: 1
Alaskan poet, editor, and publisher Jeremy Pataky shares work from his debut collection of poetry, Overwinter, as well as new work.
Bought by KTOO, Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, Raven Radio, KWMR and more
- Added: Feb 27, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 6
In Time Out Of Joint, Phillip K. Dick envisioned the same future that NASA did, even if we didn't get there. San Diego Air and Space Museum provide...
- Added: Oct 04, 2019
- Length: 24:08
Kingsolver takes us to 1950s Belgian Congo via the Prices, a missionary family. David Holway from UCSD gives us the rundown on local ant species wh...
- Added: Oct 04, 2019
- Length: 22:44
Shane Haggard and Lisa Will from San Diego City College discuss what would happen to the Earth after a meteor knocks the moon closer to us, and wha...
- Added: Sep 30, 2019
- Length: 22:43
Bryce Andrews discusses his environmental nonfiction, Down From the Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear. He also reads a short passage.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Aug 20, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
Author Julie Schumacher just couldn't get enough of the caustic college professor readers love to hate. So she wrote a follow-up to her 2014 novel ...
- Added: Nov 07, 2018
- Length: 03:58
Interview with Amy Thielen, author of Give a Girl a Knife, winner of the KAXE/KBXE 2018 Book Awards -- Reader's Choice
- Added: Mar 13, 2018
- Length: 15:06
Results from the First Annual KAXE/KBXE Book Awards and and interview with the Reader's Choice Award, Amy Thielen.
- Added: Mar 13, 2018
- Length: 26:00
We hear about listener-readers' favorite books from the summer, and we learn about a community member's book collection on our new feature, Show Me...
- Added: Oct 02, 2017
- Length: 07:59
This week on The Rough Draft Diaries you'll meet Jason Kucsma, the deputy director of the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library. We'll talk about Tole...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jun 05, 2017
- Length: 06:28
- Purchases: 1
Nobel Prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek argues that beauty is at the heart of the logic of the universe, a principle that has guided his pionee...
- Added: Apr 16, 2016
- Length: 27:26
Imagine a future where deadly tornadoes are a part of daily life. That's writer Kate Messner's world in "Eye of the Storm." 5th graders from Belved...
- Added: Mar 28, 2016
- Length: 20:10
Professor Nancy Berg examines the legacy of Iraqi-Jewish writers, along with questions of home and identity.
Bought by WABE
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 11:50
- Purchases: 1
Is there an invisible thread that connects humans to all life around us? Novelist Kathryn Davis explores how the fantastical world in her novel, Du...
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 20:51
Alfred Bundy and Kevin Jenkins in conversation about this book.
- Added: Nov 06, 2015
- Length: 18:57
The Blue Girl, Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings, Ready Player One, Kitchens of the Great M...
- Added: Sep 04, 2015
- Length: 05:48
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Series: "The Cutting Edge: Black News and Views- Where Journalism, Culture, Politics and Activism Converge"
Series: "The Cutting Edge: Black News and Views- Where Journalism, Culture, Politics and Activism Converge"
New York Times columnist Charles Blow, one of America's most innovative and respected journalists, has written a redemptive memoir that fits both t...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 59:49
Mary Losure began her wandering career path backpacking in the mountains of California and Oregon and kayaking in the Prince William Sound in Alask...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ
- Added: May 14, 2013
- Length: 19:55
- Purchases: 2
