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Less than one percent of the entire country serves in the military at any given time nowadays, which is perfectly fine from a national security per...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2021
  • Length: 58:01
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An interview with Peter David, author of "Mr. Sulu Grabbed My Ass, and Other Highlights from a Life in Comics, Novels, Television, Films and Video ...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2020
  • Length: 27:50
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Back in 1992, a twenty-four-year-old author from Tel Aviv – a guy by the name of Etgar Keret – was about to publish his very first collection of sh...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2020
  • Length: 13:52
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One author's journey to becoming published and how she balances life as a mom, wife and writer since COVID-19. (There is no internal narration).

  • Added: May 17, 2020
  • Length: 10:17
Caption: resist, Credit: flocabulary
Celebrating the Month of our founder Cesar Chavez through his own words and with the people who were closer to him.

  • Added: Apr 24, 2019
  • Length: 01:01
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A woman becomes a best-selling novelist by writing 120 books about her first romance.

  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 24:49
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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
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Kwame Ture, once known as Stokely Carmichael was born in Trinadad, later moving to the United States at the age of eleven. He would become a lead...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 21, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:35
  • Purchases: 1
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Podcasting from The Old Oak Street Burial Ground in Grafton, MA, Piazza and I speak with author, Roberta Grimes, about her book “The Fun of Dying: ...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2014
  • Length: 52:54
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Finding Place in the Placelessness: Chad Simpson and Monica Berlin talk with Assistant Editor John McCarthy about the under-appreciated, rich cultu...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2014
  • Length: 16:27
Caption: Bobby Pickles (left); Van Wallach (right)
Bobby speaks, from the steps of the NYC Public Library, with Van Wallach, author of "A Kosher Dating Odyssey: One Former Texas Baptist's Quest for ...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2013
  • Length: 50:02
Caption: "Wild Boy: The Real Life of the Savage of Aveyron." by Mary Losure
Mary Losure began her wandering career path backpacking in the mountains of California and Oregon and kayaking in the Prince William Sound in Alask...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: May 14, 2013
  • Length: 19:55
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Jon Hassler, Credit: Greg Becker
The late Jon Hassler was an author, an educator, a playwrite, and an artist. Hassler didn't begin writing until age 37. Nevertheless he published f...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 24, 2013
  • Length: 19:43
  • Purchases: 2
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Bobby speaks with Dina Rae, a loving wife and mother who resides in the Chicago suburbs and writes novels of fiction about what we both agree to be...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2013
  • Length: 39:48
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On this edition we explore the literaty genre or the memoir.

  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
Caption: "First Year" by J. O. Salls
“First Year” is a 2011 novel by retired teacher, J.O. Salls. It’s the story of 23 year old English teacher, Robert Baker. The story takes us throug...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 10, 2012
  • Length: 11:23
  • Purchases: 2
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In this second of a two-part series highlighting the winners of the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards to be held in Cleveland on Sept. 13th, producer...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2012
  • Length: 58:04
Caption: Muddy Jungle Rivers - Wendell Affield
Wendell Affield of Bemidji joins Charlie Pulkrabek to talk about his new memoir about his experience in the Mobile Riverine Force while serving as ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 06, 2012
  • Length: 14:07
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Cheryl Strayed - Wild
Minnesota author Cheryl Strayed joins Heidi Holtan to discuss her honest and raw new book.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 24, 2012
  • Length: 26:27
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Henry Winkler, Credit: Photo Credit: Richard Jensen
Actor Henry Winkler didn't know he had dyslexia till his oldest son was diagnosed with it. Winkler was 31 at the time. He has become the author of...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2010
  • Length: 06:32
Caption: Crazy Heart author Thomas Cobb is a professor at Rhode Island College., Credit: Rhonda J. Miller
With Crazy Heart winning Academy Awards for best actor and best original song, Rhode Island author Thomas Cobb says the seeds of his book were pla...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2010
  • Length: 04:00
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What is the importance forgetting has played throughout human history? What will be the effects on society, relationships and humanity now that so...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2010
  • Length: 58:02
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Modern life has become a constant stream of electronic devices demanding our attention. What are the consequences when we choose e-mail, Blackberri...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2009
  • Length: 29:01
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The development of the large human head and broad shoulders provide many evolutionary benefits for our species but also require assistance for a sa...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
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A conversation with founder Anthony Rotolo

  • Added: Jun 15, 2009
  • Length: 24:44