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We speak with Jenny Odell, author of "Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock," about how the ways we think about time shapes our lives. A...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Have you ever wished there was a different way to read – or hear - the news? For generations, through wars and political upheaval, poets have been ...
Bought by WRKF, Boise State Public Radio, KUOW, WKSU, and KECG
- Added: Jan 18, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
HOUR ONE: "Docupoetry" - Have you ever wished there was a different way to read – or hear - the news? For generations, through wars and political u...
- Added: Jan 12, 2024
- Length: 01:59:00
Multi-award winning short story writer, Amina Gautier, shares excerpts from her 2018 PEN/Malamud Award-winning, THE LOSS OF ALL LOST THINGS, as par...
- Added: Feb 10, 2022
- Length: 29:00
We talk with journalist Nina Burleigh about Trump’s failure on Covid and what that says about our public health system—and capitalism. Her book is ...
- Added: Jul 16, 2021
- Length: 58:59
Samantha Dwyer from Humanities Montana interviews acclaimed science journalist David Quammen about his book, "Spillover: Animal Infections and the ...
- Added: Apr 13, 2020
- Length: 23:00
This week is focused on words from prisoners sent or smuggled from inside. From the jail in Evansville, Indiana, to letters from participants in Op...
- Added: Feb 17, 2020
- Length: 30:04
Author Benjamin Percy talks about his writing and his novel "Red Moon" with friend and fellow writer Jeremy Chamberlin.
Bought by WKAR and WDET Detroit Public Radio
- Added: Dec 09, 2018
- Length: 54:30
- Purchases: 2
On today's special edition of Big Talk!, Michael Glab speaks with Indiana State Poet Laureate Adrian Matejka about his poetry and the inspiration h...
- Added: Jan 08, 2018
- Length: 08:23
On this episode of Overheard, two authors. First Cokie Roberts tells us about her book Capital Dames. Later, Lawrence Wright on his book Thirteen D...
Bought by Radio Catskill, WLPR , and KUT
- Added: Feb 21, 2017
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 3
Claudia’s writing has been published in The New York Times, Mother Jones, Women’s Day, the Huffington Post and The Stranger, among other magazines ...
- Added: Feb 07, 2017
- Length: 13:03
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
A Bloomington artist who has altered a single poem for years, all the while performing it for live audiences.
- Added: Feb 22, 2016
- Length: 07:38
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
TJ English is an award winning journalist and screenwriter.
- Added: Oct 12, 2015
- Length: 16:14
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
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
Journalist and MPR host Cathy Wurzer and educator Bruce Kramer embarked on a series of broadcast conversations as Bruce dealt with ALS, about how f...
- Added: May 12, 2015
- Length: 24:03
“Exploring with Robert McAlmon” is a three-episode series of fiction and poetry by one of the lesser-known Modernists. McAlmon has been called a le...
- Added: May 11, 2015
- Length: 01:03:45
“Exploring with Robert McAlmon” is a three-episode series of fiction and poetry by one of the lesser-known Modernists. Born in 1895, McAlmon grew u...
- Added: May 04, 2015
- Length: 55:54
James Reiss has written six books of poetry. His critically acclaimed work has appeared in The New York Times, Esquire Magazine, The New Yorker, Th...
- Added: May 01, 2015
- Length: 30:01
The interconnected story cycle “Lost Borders” by Mary Hunter Austin concludes. Austin’s character types and settings are in many ways familiar from...
- Added: Apr 14, 2015
- Length: 59:51
The interconnected stories of ‘’Lost Borders’’ are set in the desert landscape of southern California, where author Mary Hunter Austin moved with h...
- Added: Apr 06, 2015
- Length: 01:08:57
Mary Hunter Austin was born in Illinois in 1868 and died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1934. Her father encouraged her interest in writing, but died ...
- Added: Mar 16, 2015
- Length: 58:06
