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Author and photographer John Noltner talks about the Minnesota Book Award nominated "Lessons on the Road to Peace"
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 07:21
Student activists in York, Pennsylvania organized a silent protest when hundreds of books were banned from their classrooms, paving the way for las...
- Added: Dec 13, 2023
- Length: 28:10
We continue National Poetry Month with part two of a conversation with poet Ellen Bass, the author of the 2020 book INDIGO. She discusses how, aft...
- Added: Apr 21, 2023
- Length: 29:00
Author Anne Riley is not about to be stereotyped. Although she is a successful fiction writer, she has branched out into science, philosophy and dr...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 28, 2023
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
We talk with Fintan O’Toole about his scathing — and tender — personal history of modern Ireland, We Don’t Know Ourselves. Then we hear Seamus Hean...
- Added: Mar 15, 2023
- Length: 59:01
In June, Terry Tempest Williams visited Missoula, Montana, to take part in the 2022 “In the Footsteps of Norman Maclean” literary festival, which w...
Bought by KVNF, Yellowstone Public Radio, WETS, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Dec 15, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
Poet CAConrad discusses their latest collection: "AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration."
Bought by WETS, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jan 26, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
British writer Rupert Thomson, whose 2021 book BARCELONA DREAMING is set just before the 2008 financial crash, often writes about tough times. He ...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)
- Added: Jul 01, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Interview with author Dave Eggers.
- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 11:49
We spend the hour with science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist, Cory Doctorow. First, we talk with him about his terrific new boo...
- Added: Sep 06, 2019
- Length: 59:01
Michigan native Marcus Wicker reads from his 2011 National Poetry Series winning collection, MAYBE THE SADDEST THING, which was also a finalist for...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Jan 30, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
2018 is the 25th anniversary of Angels In America. Author of its oral history, The World Only Spins Forward discusses the influence of the play.
- Added: Jun 22, 2018
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 2
Mark Sundeen discusses his book, The Unsettlers: In Search of the Good Life in Today's America. He also reads a short passage from the book.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Dec 11, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Poet and visual artist Bianca Stone talks about her various projects, from her first full length book SOMEONE ELSE'S WEDDING VOWS to her 2016 illus...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: May 18, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Poetry and music about the emergence of spring.
- Added: Apr 07, 2017
- Length: 52:07
Poetry and sonnets in several musical settings.
- Added: Apr 01, 2017
- Length: 53:28
Poetry and music expressing the transition into adulthood.
- Added: Mar 24, 2017
- Length: 01:00:12
Here's Gerald's audio book review of A Delicate Truth by John Le Carré.
- Added: Mar 05, 2017
- Length: 03:08
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
The practice of hunting wild birds with trained birds — for fun — is called falconry. Though it came into its own almost 1,000 years ago in England...
Bought by 'The Sea'
- Added: Feb 03, 2017
- Length: 31:40
- Purchases: 1
Here's Gerald's audio book review of Griftopia by Matt Tiaibi
- Added: Jan 25, 2017
- Length: 02:18
Here's Gerald's audio book review of The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco about the roots of fascism in Europe.
- Added: Jan 12, 2017
- Length: 03:14
Speeches on writing and peace from the winners of the 2016 Dayton Literary Peace Prize: Susan Southard, Viet Thanh Nguyen and Marilynne Robinson- w...
Bought by KVNF
- Added: Jan 04, 2017
- Length: 51:25
- Purchases: 1
Poetry and music about the powers of rain.
- Added: May 28, 2016
- Length: 49:11
What does it mean to be a ‘research university?’ WorldCanvass guests answer that question from multiple perspectives on this program called “Resea...
- Added: Jan 29, 2016
- Length: 34:47
Author of "1968: A Story As Relevant Today As It Was Then", Bill Natale sits down to discuss race relations in Chicago and his new book with Elysab...
- Added: Dec 07, 2015
- Length: 47:02
