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Dorothy Scarborough
From: KUHF
Series: Texas Originals
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A folklorist, a teacher and a writer who penned several novels focusing on lives of women in Texas.

Bought by KTTZ, KTTZ, and KAMU


  • Added: May 22, 2014
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
Edna Ferber
From: KUHF
Series: Texas Originals
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A playwright and author who penned many novels including "Show Boat" and "Giant."

Bought by KTTZ, KTTZ, and KAMU


  • Added: May 22, 2014
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
The Write Question - Adrianne Harun - 233
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Adrianne Harun explains why she chose the color white to represent evil in her novel 'A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain.' And she talks abou...

Bought by KWMR, KGLT, KSJD, Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 29, 2014
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 10
Mile High Club, American Fun, Breaking the Bond, The Grandparent Role, and Get a Digital Art Collection
From: 2BoomerBabes Radio Hour
Series: 2 Boomer Babes Radio Hour
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First, Erica Jong, author of Fear of Flying, gives insight on the novel, and tells what she thinks about modern feminism, romance and dating. Then,...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM and WCWP


  • Added: Apr 29, 2014
  • Length: 54:51
  • Purchases: 2
Megan Marshall reads from her Pulitzer-winner, Margaret Fuller: A New American Life (5/13)
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2014
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100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. An early activist profiled.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
Julia Dahl reads from Invisible City: A Novel (5/9)
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2014
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100-second module, from our weekday readings for May; a daughter observes.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
"Prison Baby" by Deborah Jiang Stein
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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MN Reads featured author Deborah Jiang Stein talking about her memoir Prison Baby, and how she turned the discovery of her birth in prison to a her...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 10:18
  • Purchases: 1
Aging Voices Read “The Road Not Taken”
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Harvest by Open Orchard Productions
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Inspired by Frost’s focus on the choices we make throughout our lives, Sarah Milad has recorded voices from progressive ages to read his poem. The ...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2014
  • Length: 01:17
"West of the Moon" by Margi Preus
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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We will talk with author Margi Preus about her journey from the little girl who needed to write her own starring theatrical roles to the author of ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 06, 2014
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 1
Man Booker Prize-winning author Anne Enright
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Anne Enright
For Women's History Month with a nod to St.Patty's Day, we revisit Irish author Anne Enright, who discusses her dark but humorous approach to writi...

Bought by XRAY.fm and WJCU


  • Added: Mar 19, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Maxine Kumin: Past American Voice
From: New Letters on the Air
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We begin the celebration of Women's History Month with a tribute to Maxine Kumin, who died on February 6, 2014 at the age of 88. A former Consultan...

Bought by KRZA, KVSC, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KQED


  • Added: Mar 07, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Linda Stasi on Conversations With Allan Wolper
From: Conversations with Allan Wolper
Series: Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG
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Linda Stasi is a Sunday New York Daily News columnist who specializes in skewering celebrities and politicians. Stasi has won a prestigious Mystery...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2014
  • Length: 30:06
Sheer Good Fortune: Celebrating Toni Morrison (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Renowned writers, singers, and poets, including Maya Angelou and Nikki Giovanni, paid tribute to Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison with an extravaganza ...

Bought by WORT, WJCT, WTJU, Northwest Public Broadcasting, WCSU-FM and more


  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 9
Family's artistic creativity spans multiple generations
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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The sudden and dramatic regression of Monica Moses’ development in the early years of her life alarmed her mother and grandmother. They watched as ...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 04:16
A Conversation with Writer, Terry Tempest Williams
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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In her latest book, When Women Were Birds, Terry Tempest Williams explores the legacy of her mother’s journals. [28:11]

Bought by Harford Community Radio and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 28:11
  • Purchases: 2
A Conversation with Veteran, Lynn Hill
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Lynn Hill discusses her participation in "Holding It Down" -- Vijay Iyer's and Mike Ladd's performance piece based on the dreams of veterans of col...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 26:45
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Author, Lillian Faderman
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Lillian Faderman's writes a "reconstructed memoir" about her mother's life as an immigrant factory worker and single mother during the Great Depres...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 27:52
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Writer, M. Evelina Galang
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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M. Evelina Galang's work spans generations with her writing of young Filipina-Americans and the surviving World War II "comfort women." [22:15]

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KZUM, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 22:16
  • Purchases: 3
Renowned poet, playwright, and activist Sonia Sanchez
From: New Letters on the Air
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One of the most important writers of the Black Arts Movement, Sonia Sanchez recently completed her term as Philadelphia's first Poet Laureate. This...

Bought by KBIA, WVAS, and WJCU


  • Added: Feb 14, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
A Conversation with author, Margot Livesey
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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NEA Lit Fellow and author Margot Livesey discusses The Flight of Gemma Hardy---her reimagining of Jane Eyre. [32:40]

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 11, 2014
  • Length: 32:40
  • Purchases: 1
“Minneapolis Madams: The Lost History of Prostitution on the Riverfront" by Penny Peterson
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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MN Reads talks with author and historian Penny Peterson, about her book “Minneapolis Madams: The Lost History of Prostitution on the Riverfront.” P...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 15:01
  • Purchases: 1
Edwidge Danticat
From: New Letters on the Air
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Edwidge Danticat, winner of the MacArthur Foundation Genius Award, returns fifteen years after her first interview with NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR to t...

Bought by WABE, XRAY.fm, and WJCU


  • Added: Feb 06, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Jaipur Lit. Fest.
From: KALW
Caption: Nayomi Muneewara
Sandip Roy meets Oakland, CA author Nayomi Muneewara at one of the world's greatest literature festivals. Her new book is "Island of a Thousand Mir...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
Remembering Eudora Welty
From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South
Caption: Eudora Welty, New Haven, CT, 1974, Credit: William Ferris
Eudora Welty was one of the South’s most beloved writers, and her fiction is still a study in detail and dialogue and wit. Her settings were often ...

Bought by Troy Public Radio and Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Jan 17, 2014
  • Length: 13:47
  • Purchases: 2
Deborah Sharp's Florida Mysteries on Thirty Four 50
From: Joseph Sr Dobzynski
Series: Thirty-Four50 - Joseph Dobzynski - Florida Series
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Deborah Sharp was a reporter for USA Today for nearly two decades. Given all the stories she wrote about killer sharks, rampaging alligators, and h...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2014
  • Length: 24:10

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