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The first of a four-part program on Herman Melville’s masterpiece of historical fiction, “Benito Cereno.” This American novella is based on a chapt...
- Added: Jan 28, 2015
- Length: 58:15
"Killing Voltaire: An Observance for Charlie Hebdo" is a collaborative response by the Books Unbound community to the deadly attack on the offices ...
- Added: Jan 19, 2015
- Length: 57:58
The protagonist of "The Massacre of Yangzhou" is the southern Chinese city of Yangzhou, a rich and beautiful center of the failing Ming Dynasty as ...
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Jan 12, 2015
- Length: 59:38
- Purchases: 1
Tonight’s program is one half of a collaboration with WFHB’s Books Unbound centered around a memoir of a first-person eyewitness account written by...
- Added: Jan 06, 2015
- Length: 53:05
“The Queen of Spades” is a mock fairy tale about debt, gambling, guilt and the supernatural—and the deadening effect of money on love. An aging, on...
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 58:40
- Purchases: 1
"Heaven's Café" is a seasonal episode of Books Unbound featuring poetry from China, Germany, Mexico, Palestine, Cuba and England, with a tribute to...
- Added: Dec 22, 2014
- Length: 58:38
A three-episode program of short satiric fiction concludes with a slightly abridged version of “The Cloak” by Nikolai Gogol, read by Frank Buczolic...
- Added: Dec 15, 2014
- Length: 57:52
"Short, With a Wicked Tongue and Long Legs" is the second of a three-part of classic short satiric fiction. This week, the conclusion of The Life o...
- Added: Dec 15, 2014
- Length: 57:56
"Short, With a Wicked Tongue and Long Legs" is a three-part program of short satiric fiction that has "legs" because it stands up to the test of ti...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 58:53
Poet and artist Mina Loy (1882–1966) was at the center of avant-garde movements of the early 20th century, but the difficulty of her poetry and her...
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Nov 24, 2014
- Length: 59:39
- Purchases: 1
Stefan Zweig was an Austrian Jew whose books were among the first burned by the Nazis in 1933. He was one of the most beloved writers of the 1920s ...
- Added: Nov 07, 2014
- Length: 58:30
Stefan Zweig was an Austrian Jew whose books were among the first burned by the Nazis in 1933. He was one of the most beloved writers of the 1920s ...
- Added: Oct 31, 2014
- Length: 57:16
A newly updated piece on NaNoWriMo. November is National Novel Writing Month, sometimes known as NaNoWriMo. In a studio loft on the Chicago's North...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 05:12
- Purchases: 2
Stefan Zweig was an Austrian Jew whose books were among the first burned by the Nazis in 1933. He was one of the most beloved writers of the 1920s ...
- Added: Oct 24, 2014
- Length: 57:48
Stefan Zweig was an Austrian Jew whose books were among the first burned by the Nazis in 1933. He was one of the most beloved writers of the 1920s ...
- Added: Oct 17, 2014
- Length: 59:00
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was 18 when she and her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, visited some literary friends and got involved in a challenge, t...
- Added: Oct 17, 2014
- Length: 58:46
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was 18 when she and her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, visited some literary friends and got involved in a challenge, t...
- Added: Oct 03, 2014
- Length: 58:26
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was 18 when she and her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, visited some literary friends and got involved in a challenge, t...
- Added: Oct 03, 2014
- Length: 58:13
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was 18 when she and her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, visited some literary friends and got involved in a challenge, t...
- Added: Sep 19, 2014
- Length: 58:16
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was 18 when she and her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, visited some literary friends and got involved in a challenge, t...
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 58:15
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was 18 when she and her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, visited some literary friends and got involved in a challenge, t...
- Added: Sep 05, 2014
- Length: 58:01
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was 18 when she and her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, visited some literary friends and got involved in a challenge, t...
- Added: Aug 29, 2014
- Length: 58:00
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was 18 when she and her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, visited some literary friends and got involved in a challenge, t...
- Added: Aug 22, 2014
- Length: 58:31
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was 18 when she and her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, visited some literary friends and got involved in a challenge, t...
- Added: Aug 22, 2014
- Length: 57:55
James Joyce was a pioneering writer of modernist fiction and poetry, known for his innovative prose style and complex wordplay. Born in 1882 in Dub...
- Added: Aug 11, 2014
- Length: 54:00
