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The idea that art, literature and music in particular, might work as a sort of “Marshall Plan of the Mind” is our topic tonight. At the end of Worl...
- Added: Dec 11, 2018
- Length: 59:02
HOUR ONE: "Writing Truth And Lies" - How close to reality were the "Little House" books? Does it matter? This hour, we'll talk morality in memoirs....
- Added: Nov 09, 2018
- Length: 01:58:58
- In Virginia, an unprecedented number of women were elected to the House of Delegates last year. We hear from some of those women about what it wa...
Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU, KXCV and more
- Added: Sep 28, 2018
- Length: 53:58
- Purchases: 14
In this special fundraising edition of "To the Best of Our Knowledge," host Anne Strainchamps samples some of our best interviews about politics an...
Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KVSC, KACU, WITF, KANW and more
- Added: Sep 10, 2018
- Length: 01:27:35
- Purchases: 9
HOUR ONE: "Rethinking David Foster Wallace" - David Foster Wallace was one of the most brilliant writers of his generation. But is reading him diff...
- Added: Sep 07, 2018
- Length: 01:58:58
The national news media is mesmerized by a president who runs the White House like a reality show. Jen Rice takes a look at the weird relationship ...
- Added: Aug 24, 2018
- Length: 57:42
HOUR ONE: "When Women Rule" - From Homer to Harvey Weinstein, women are reclaiming the classics in the age of #MeToo. HOUR TWO: "Burnout" - Ever ...
- Added: Jun 08, 2018
- Length: 01:58:58
In the end, we wrap up our series at the beginning. Host Marcos Nájera reports on what he’s learned about Oscar Zeta Acosta. And the contributions ...
- Added: Jun 08, 2018
- Length: 17:24
The men in Zeta’s life. From family to friends to former lovers? You never know—some say Zeta was a constant chameleon in life, love, and the law. ...
- Added: Jun 08, 2018
- Length: 16:59
James Forman Jr., a former Washington, D.C., public defender, Yale University professor, and author of the Pulitzer Prize winner and The New York’s...
- Added: Jun 07, 2018
- Length: 24:54
-A new book "Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy" investigates how we lose sight on how destructive that behavior can be.
Bought by Harford Community Radio and WNMU-FM
- Added: Mar 02, 2018
- Length: :30
- Purchases: 2
-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 KTSW 89.9, KMUN, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WCMU Michigan, WRGY and more
- Added: Mar 02, 2018
- Length: 53:58
- Purchases: 9
-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
Thomas Mullen is the author of The Lightning Men, Darktown, and The Last Town on Earth, which was named Best Debut Novel of 2006 by USA TODAY. To l...
- Added: Oct 16, 2017
- Length: 15:39
National Hispanic Heritage Month continues with a look at Puerto Rico’s culture and stories through the eyes of the late Judith Ortiz Cofer. In the...
Bought by New England Public Media
- Added: Oct 12, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In Rockland, Maine celebrants of the 129th birthday of Edna St. Vincent Millay gathered zoomlike to honor her poetry. A woman's genius valued for i...
- Added: Sep 17, 2017
- Length: 05:32
José Martí, who would die in the Cuban Revolution against Spain at the age of 42, believed that knowledge and understanding was a collective constr...
- Added: Aug 22, 2017
- Length: 58:00
In this special fundraising edition of "To the Best of Our Knowledge," host Anne Strainchamps samples some of our best interviews about criticism a...
Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KVSC, WITF, KUSU, KANW and more
- Added: Aug 22, 2017
- Length: 01:27:35
- Purchases: 8
HOUR ONE: "Roadtrippin'" - What makes a road trip something special? It's not the destination.
HOUR TWO: "Do Protests Still Matter?" - In the wa...
- Added: Jul 07, 2017
- Length: 01:58:56
If the polls had been right and Hillary Clinton had won someone could have written a great American satire of an America where Donald Trump wins. B...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jun 19, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Kate Millett’s 1970 book, Sexual Politics, is a classic text of Second Wave Feminism, finding sexism and subjection inherent in the institutions of...
- Added: May 30, 2017
- Length: 58:00
The award-winning novelist, blogger, and advocate talks about science fiction and technology.
- Added: May 11, 2017
- Length: 26:59
- Purchases: 2
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
