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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
The writing of Joshua Clover blends the worlds of poetry and economic crisis. We discuss his latest book of poetry, Red Epic, and his forthcoming w...
- Added: Sep 29, 2015
- Length: 59:55
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
The death of the matriarch and the return of the family adventurer casts the future of the Parke dynasty in doubt, while an interracial love affair...
- Added: Sep 14, 2015
- Length: 57:55
Set in antebellum New England but published in the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War, the novel Two Men begins to draw together the nar...
- Added: Sep 14, 2015
- Length: 58:03
The novel Two Men continues as rumor spreads of a Parke family heir’s affair with a biracial woman. The compressed, elliptical and sometimes satiri...
- Added: Sep 14, 2015
- Length: 58:22
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
It’s the rare writer who can pick up where Albert Camus — master of midcentury philosophy and fiction — left off in the modern classic, The Outside...
- Added: Jun 26, 2015
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 2
In this conversation, Edwidge explores the writing of her powerful memoir, Brother, I’m Dying.
- Added: Jun 09, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
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
“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
“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
“Lost Borders” by Mary Hunter Austin continues with interconnected stories about the American West from a feminist and conservationist perspective....
- Added: Mar 31, 2015
- Length: 58:02
In the interconnected story cycle of “Lost Borders,” Mary Hunter Austin challenges the masculine myths of the American West through the perspective...
- Added: Mar 23, 2015
- Length: 58:12
Liz Carlisle talks about and reads from Lentil Underground: Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America
Bought by KGLT, KSJD, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Mar 16, 2015
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 4
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
