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HOUR ONE: "Against Capitalism" - Congress has passed a Republican resolution "denouncing socialism." But what does that even mean? This hour, a soc...
- Added: Nov 03, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "The Hidden Geometry Of Everything" - The human brain is naturally mathematical. But there's one particular kind of math that's the secre...
- Added: Jan 06, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
Salman Rushdie praised A.M. Homes’ latest novel, The Unfolding as, “A terrific black comedy, written almost entirely in pitch-perfect dialogue, tha...
Bought by KWMR, RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK and more
- Added: Sep 14, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 6
Today we feature four poets who help us see our own predicaments – one who shows us we contain multitudes; one whose life and writing was always an...
- Added: Apr 05, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Our special guests for this fifth episode on Lone Star State identity are two authors with Texas-sized reputations: Lawrence Wright (The Looming To...
- Added: Mar 29, 2022
- Length: 32:31
David Hill is a writer from Hot Springs, Arkansas. His work has appeared regularly in Grantland and The Ringer, and has been featured in The New Yo...
- Added: Oct 18, 2021
- Length: 14:16
Alan Wald's Literary Left Trilogy investigates aspects of intellectual, literary, and cultural movements and figures associated with left-wing poli...
- Added: Mar 23, 2021
- Length: 59:03
Richard and his daughter Margaret investigate the bird insurrection, while humans attack the U.S. Capitol and President Trump is impeached for the ...
- Added: Jan 24, 2021
- Length: 11:47
This week, we have several kites, or messages, from people inside and outside of the prison walls. First, we have a statement that was recorded for...
- Added: Mar 09, 2020
- Length: 29:00
Our celebration of State Poets Laureate continues with a look back at previous holders of the title in Kansas. Part one of this public reading feat...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Sep 04, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Interview by Ken Winkes: Tim describes his career as a reporter, talks about his politics, and reveals he has a new book.
- Added: May 17, 2019
- Length: 28:01
Told in full for the first time, “Camelot’s End: Kennedy vs. Carter and the Fight that Broke the Democratic Party” is a carefully threaded narrativ...
Bought by WYPL
- Added: Jan 25, 2019
- Length: 25:00
- Purchases: 1
-A new book "Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy" investigates how we lose sight on how destructive that behavior can be.
-Managers who...
Bought by WJCT, KRDP, Harford Community Radio, WUGA (part of GPB), WVAS and more
- Added: Mar 02, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 8
HOUR ONE: More and more power is getting consolidated in the hands of a few. If capitalism is broken, what's next? HOUR TWO: Why does an empire c...
- Added: Dec 20, 2017
- Length: 01:58:58
This episode's stories come from some of Alabama's Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists: Rick Bragg who wrote about the Susan Smith murders and the O...
- Added: Apr 27, 2017
- Length: 25:00
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
Destroying Books Destroys Culture? This year, 100 million people in the U.S. did not read a book. The past is full of book burnings designed to cen...
- Added: Sep 07, 2016
- Length: 30:01
Professors Derek Hirst and Steven Zwicker discuss the life and work of Andrew Marvell.
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 16:04
Before anyone foresaw a time when a television celebrity could become president, Norman Mailer wrote in Esquire that John F. Kennedy was a mythical...
- Added: Jan 25, 2016
- Length: 24:38
According to or my guest, Alan Wald, the aim of the literary radical is “to endow history with meaning.” We track three “subversives” in our progra...
- Added: Nov 03, 2015
- Length: 57:14
The dystopian novel, "Nineteen Eighty Four" describes a future society martialed by constant surveillance, tyranny, and torture...
- Added: Aug 22, 2015
- Length: 02:20:44
Hosts Doug Storm and Trish Kerle' are joined by historian Jim Madison to discuss the Hoosier through history. Madison has just published a new book...
- Added: Sep 23, 2014
- Length: 01:01:02
Join us as we talk with author Elizabeth Dorsey Hatle about her book, "The Ku Klux Klan in Minnesota," where she explores the history of the Klan i...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jun 24, 2014
- Length: 09:07
- Purchases: 1
A journalist, turned political aide, who found fame as a novelist.
- Added: May 22, 2014
- Length: 01:59
- Purchases: 3
Kevin Cook is a journalist living in New York City.
- Added: May 14, 2014
- Length: 23:31
