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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
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
The Maumee River runs more than 100 miles before emptying into Lake Erie in Ohio. And it carries a lot of the farm runoff that triggers algae bloom...
- Added: Oct 31, 2017
- Length: :45
- Purchases: 3
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
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
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
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
“Killing Voltaire: An Observance for Charlie Hebdo” is a collaborative response by the Books Unbound community to the deadly attack January 7 on th...
- Added: Apr 20, 2015
- Length: 58:44
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
Born in New Orleans and an early figure of the Harlem Renaissance, Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875–1935) considered fiction her most representative form ...
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 57:59
- Purchases: 1
“The Mulatto” first appeared in 1837 in an anti-slavery magazine published by free people of color in France. Its author was the 19-year-old Victor...
Bought by WCPN
- Added: Feb 23, 2015
- Length: 58:27
- Purchases: 1
A four-part presentation of Herman Melville’s classic and problematic historical fiction “Benito Cereno” concludes. In the final episode, Captain A...
- Added: Feb 23, 2015
- Length: 01:01:33
The second in a four-part program on Herman Melville’s novella “Benito Cereno,” based on the memoir of the real-life sea captain Amasa Delano. Melv...
- Added: Feb 02, 2015
- Length: 58:35
The first of a four-part program on Herman Melville’s masterpiece of historical fiction, “Benito Cereno.” This American novella is based on a chapt...
- Added: Jan 28, 2015
- Length: 58:15
"Killing Voltaire: An Observance for Charlie Hebdo" is a collaborative response by the Books Unbound community to the deadly attack on the offices ...
- Added: Jan 19, 2015
- Length: 57:58
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: Jan 12, 2015
- Length: 59:38
- Purchases: 1
Tonight’s program is one half of a collaboration with WFHB’s Books Unbound centered around a memoir of a first-person eyewitness account written by...
- Added: Jan 06, 2015
- Length: 53:05
“The Queen of Spades” is a mock fairy tale about debt, gambling, guilt and the supernatural—and the deadening effect of money on love. An aging, on...
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 58:40
- Purchases: 1
A newly updated piece on NaNoWriMo. November is National Novel Writing Month, sometimes known as NaNoWriMo. In a studio loft on the Chicago's North...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 05:12
- Purchases: 2
Stefan Zweig was an Austrian Jew whose books were among the first burned by the Nazis in 1933. He was one of the most beloved writers of the 1920s ...
- Added: Oct 24, 2014
- Length: 57:48
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was 18 when she and her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, visited some literary friends and got involved in a challenge, t...
- Added: Sep 05, 2014
- Length: 58:01
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was 18 when she and her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, visited some literary friends and got involved in a challenge, t...
- Added: Aug 29, 2014
- Length: 58:00
James Joyce was a pioneering writer of modernist fiction and poetry, known for his innovative prose style and complex wordplay. Born in 1882 in Dub...
- Added: Aug 01, 2014
- Length: 58:28
