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2020-05-15 Storytelling Through the Climate Crisis

From: Climate One
Series: Climate One

How do we confront the reality of a future that will be hauntingly different from today? Some authors are using fiction to create relatable narrati...

Bought by WUTC, WJCT, KICI Iowa City, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), WMUU-LP and more

Added: May 14, 2020
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 8

2021-02-14 What Is Love?

From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk

Do you them because they're lovable, or are they lovable because you love them?

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, WCNY, GCR (Global Community Radio), KSKQ, KICI Iowa City and more

Added: Jan 25, 2020
Length: 53:59
Purchases: 7

191213: Rewind: Jonathan Safran Foer and David Wallace-Wells, 12/13/2019

From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed

A look back at conversations with two writers confronting the climate challenge in 2019. In "The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming," David-Wa...

Added: Dec 12, 2019
Length: 59:00

2019-12-13 Rewind: Jonathan Safran Foer and David Wallace-Wells

From: Climate One
Series: Climate One

A look back at conversations with two writers confronting the climate challenge in 2019. In "The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming," David-Wa...

Bought by WJCT, MPR News Stations, WMUU-LP, KUNM, WFHB and more

Added: Dec 12, 2019
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 10

191004: Jonathan Safran Foer: We Are the Weather, 10/4/2019

From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed

Is clinging to habits and cravings destroying our future? An outspoken critic of factory farming and animal-centric diets, Jonathan Safran Foer wri...

Added: Oct 03, 2019
Length: 58:59

19-10-04 Jonathan Safran Foer: We Are the Weather

From: Climate One
Series: Climate One

Is clinging to habits and cravings destroying our future? An outspoken critic of factory farming and animal-centric diets, Jonathan Safran Foer wri...

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, WMUU-LP, KBBI Alaska, KSQD Santa Cruz and more

Added: Oct 03, 2019
Length: 58:59
Purchases: 7

Jeffrey Toobin Reads Award-Winning Prison Essay

From: PEN America
Series: The Freedom to Write

Author Jeffrey Toobin of the New Yorker reads "The Colfax Crew” an essay from the PEN Prison Writing Contest by Tim Boland of Minnesota Correctiona...

Added: Jul 28, 2016
Length: 10:55

Author John Vaillant on his first work of fiction, "The Jaguar's Children"

From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse

John Vaillant, best-selling author of "The Tiger" and "The Golden Spruce," has turned to fiction with his debut novel about a young man trapped du...

Added: Mar 26, 2015
Length: 23:50

Love, Poetry, and Philosophy

From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk

What's love got to do with poetry and philosophy?

Bought by KMUN, KSKQ, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, XRAY.fm, WMUU-LP and more

Added: Mar 03, 2015
Length: 54:00
Purchases: 12

2020-04-19 Poetry as a Way of Knowing

From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk

Can we come to know things poetically that we couldn't get at through other forms of thinking, writing, or talking?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KICI Iowa City, KSKQ, KICI Iowa City, KMUN and more

Added: Mar 03, 2015
Length: 54:00
Purchases: 13

Acoustic Stories: Aaron Brown On Shakespeare - "Proof of Bill's Translatability."

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories

Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...

Added: Oct 01, 2013
Length: 03:00

Acoustic Stories: Steve Downing On Nerds - "When You Go the Opposite Direction of the Herd, the Destination Isn't Marked By A Crowd."

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories

Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...

Added: Sep 05, 2013
Length: 02:49

Acoustic Stories: Aaron Brown: "I just love the feeling of good old papyrus in my hands."."

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories

Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...

Bought by WTIP

Added: Feb 21, 2013
Length: 03:43
Purchases: 1

Culturology: Dan Sinykin reviews "The Fall of Alice K." by Jim Heynen

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology

Caption: "The Fall of Alice K." by Jim Heynen

Dan Sinykin brings us a review of Jim Heynen's new book "The Fall of Alice K."

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio

Added: Nov 27, 2012
Length: 04:19
Purchases: 1

The Beat: Gail Rixen - "One of Us"

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat

Gail Rixen has been a finish carpenter, a health care aid, and she currently farms near Nebish, Minnesota. Rixen has published three books of poetr...

Added: Oct 23, 2012
Length: 03:25

The Beat: Ann Neidringhaus - "Horrendous Certainty"

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat

Ann Niedringhaus is a Duluth poet who has been widely published in journals and anthologies. She belongs to a Duluth writers group that is currentl...

Added: Oct 18, 2012
Length: 02:03

The Beat: Will Weaver - "The Tow Rope"

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat

Will Weaver grew up on a dairy farm in Minnesota. He's attended St. Cloud State, the University of Minnesota, and Stanford. He was a Professor of E...

Added: Oct 03, 2012
Length: 02:07

"Is Ghostwriting Ethical?" with guest Deborah Brandt

From: Prairie Public
Series: Why? Philosophical Discussions About Everyday Life

Every day, politicians publish books telling the stories of their lives and their political views. But more often than not these “autobiographies” ...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM