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An American Sonnet to those to whom we have said "Farewell".
- Added: Jan 19, 2021
- Length: 01:42
A struggling writer finds unexpected kindness and friendship from his poor landlord in this short story by George Gissing, whom George Orwell ranke...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WMUU-LP
- Added: Mar 07, 2016
- Length: 57:55
- Purchases: 2
To close Black History Month, words that inspired hope and incited action in the struggle for the abolition of slavery and for the empowerment of p...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WMUU-LP
- Added: Feb 29, 2016
- Length: 59:20
- Purchases: 2
The first published short story by an African American, “The Mulatto” appeared in 1837 in an anti-slavery magazine in France. Its author was the 19...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WMUU-LP
- Added: Feb 22, 2016
- Length: 58:22
- Purchases: 2
A black man and a white woman might be the last two people on earth in the post-apocalyptic tale “The Comet,” an early example of African-American ...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WMUU-LP
- Added: Feb 15, 2016
- Length: 58:38
- Purchases: 2
Illness cuts short Nurse Periwinkle’s service for the Union Army as Hospital Sketches concludes. In the last chapters of her thinly fictionalized m...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WMUU-LP
- Added: Feb 08, 2016
- Length: 58:07
- Purchases: 2
Both Louisa May Alcott and Walt Whitman were profoundly affected by the aftermath of the Battle of Fredericksburg during the American Civil War. In...
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Feb 01, 2016
- Length: 58:40
- Purchases: 1
Stories about how our need for redemption from our disappointment expresses itself in the holiday season marked by the solstice and the turn of the...
- Added: Dec 23, 2015
- Length: 58:12
- Purchases: 3
Christmas is the setting as sly women turn the tables on their menfolk in a pair of overlooked short stories from the classic era of magazine fiction.
- Added: Dec 21, 2015
- Length: 58:01
- Purchases: 3
Uyghur writer Nurmuhemmet Yasin’s poignant beast fable led to his imprisonment by the Chinese government on charges of inciting separatism. The tal...
- Added: Dec 14, 2015
- Length: 58:26
- Purchases: 2
Contemporary women poets reimagine fairy tales and the cultural icon of the ballerina—especially of the black swan school—along with two unsettling...
- Added: Dec 07, 2015
- Length: 57:59
- Purchases: 2
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: Nov 09, 2015
- Length: 59:28
- Purchases: 1
“Berenice” by Edgar Allan Poe is the featured story for the Halloween finale of “American Girls Horror Stories.” One of Poe’s lesser-known tales, “...
- Added: Nov 02, 2015
- Length: 56:01
Male fears of female domination form one of the strands of horror in “The Thing on the Doorstep” by H.P. Lovecraft, with marriage both transforming...
- Added: Oct 27, 2015
- Length: 58:25
A hallucinatory, apocalyptic fervor pervades the 1860 short story “Circumstance” by Harriet Prescott Spofford, about a woman held all night by a my...
- Added: Oct 19, 2015
- Length: 58:03
A cultural horror of women’s bodies is the theme of the second episode of “American Girls Horror Stories,” juxtaposing two 19th-century American gh...
- Added: Oct 12, 2015
- Length: 57:49
A month of sci-fi, fantasy, gothic, and horror begins with two stories from W.E.B. Du Bois’s 1920 collection Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Oct 05, 2015
- Length: 59:53
- Purchases: 1
Marking the 150th anniversary of the end of the American Civil War, Books Unbound’s summer series “Elizabeth Stoddard and the 1860s” concludes with...
- Added: Sep 28, 2015
- Length: 58:07
The Civil War-era novel Two Men by Elizabeth Stoddard (1823–1902) heads into its final chapters. Spoiled by what we now label “white male privilege...
- Added: Sep 21, 2015
- Length: 58:52
Two Men, the second novel by Elizabeth Stoddard (1823–1902), is a family saga published in 1865, in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War. In th...
- Added: Sep 14, 2015
- Length: 58:04
Two Men, the second novel by Elizabeth Stoddard (1823–1902), is a family saga published in 1865, in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, but i...
- Added: Aug 11, 2015
- Length: 58:19
Two Men, the second novel by Elizabeth Stoddard (1823–1902), was published in 1865, in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, but is set before ...
- Added: Aug 03, 2015
- Length: 58:10
Author James Madison spoke on June 24th at the annual meeting of the Friends of Monroe County Library about his new book Hoosiers: A New History of...
- Added: Jul 15, 2015
- Length: 56:17
The Life Of Lazarillo de Tormes, His Fortunes and Misfortunes is a classic of Spanish literature, written anonymously and one of only six novels on...
- Added: Jun 02, 2015
- Length: 58:29
Robert McAlmon was a ubiquitous presence among the “Lost Generation” of American expatriate writers during the 1920s and ’30s in Paris. Bisexual, h...
- Added: May 18, 2015
- Length: 58:25
