PRX - Pieces for Format: Commentary
Can't find it?
Try Advanced Search
25 results
Exactly one hundred years ago this month, at a time of political polarization and the Spanish Flu pandemic, William Butler Yeats published “The Sec...
- Added: Nov 20, 2020
- Length: 27:15
HOUR ONE: "Endings (In Four Novellas)" - New Year's Eve can be depressing. We don't handle endings very well. This hour, how to end - relationships...
- Added: Dec 22, 2017
- Length: 01:58:58
A conversation with horror, sci-fi author Roy C. Booth.
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 12:56
Author Kelly Link discusses the archetypes of magical realism and William McKelvy explains the hallmarks and legacy of Gothic literature.
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 20:52
Publisher and fiction writer, Danielle Dutton, discusses the poetics of suburbia and the roadblocks of women in publishing. In the second half Prof...
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 20:51
In this Popcast, hear about the surprising podcast-like feel of a 1972 radio documentary about Sylvia Plath.
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 04:38
In the age of texts, twitter and email, do people still write fan letters? What compels us to do so?
- Added: Dec 24, 2014
- Length: 29:40
When you mention T.S. Eliot and then refer to texts like The Waste Land or his magnum opus The Four Quartets you generally elicit discomfort, anger...
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 31:33
When you mention T.S. Eliot and then refer to texts like The Waste Land or his magnum opus The Four Quartets you generally elicit discomfort, anger...
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 13:22
Mike Forbes is a Bemidji area writer. He's been published in Fire Ring, The Talking Stick, The Poet's Touch Stone, Voices For the Land, among other...
- Added: Feb 28, 2013
- Length: 01:40
Arthur Sze and hosts discuss the Santa Fe and Chihuahuan desert and how vastness comes through in the pace of poems.
Sze reads the Poem of the Wee...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 29:01
Julie Gard is a prose poet that lives in Duluth and teaches writing at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. She writes about art, travel, family, ...
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 02:08
Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays. In th...
- Added: Jan 22, 2013
- Length: 02:08
Anthony Swann likes music, physical books, coffee houses and he lives with his cat, Samba, in Bemidji, Minnesota. Here, Swann presents his poem, "B...
- Added: Jan 22, 2013
- Length: 03:35
Actress Mary-Louise Parker said this is one her favorite novels of all time and so she jumped at the chance to read excerpts. There's commentary by...
Bought by KMUN, KPIP-LP, KQED, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KRZA and more
- Added: Aug 18, 2011
- Length: 29:07
- Purchases: 6
A beloved American classic, Willa Cather's My Ántonia is best summarized by its epigraph---"the best days are the first to flee." Garrison Keillor ...
- Added: Aug 12, 2011
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 3
The particular and universal state of mind of libraries is one of random discovery.
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Feb 08, 2011
- Length: 03:33
- Purchases: 1
Guido has always been overly interested in books, and he tells about some of his favorite libraries.
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Feb 08, 2011
- Length: 05:06
- Purchases: 1
Last week, Aaron's oldest son signed up for his first Library card... to them, the library is spoken about like a mythical place.
- Added: Feb 08, 2011
- Length: 02:41
Lauren Kessler worked for minimum wage as an RA (resident assistant) while writing FINDING LIFE IN THE LAND OF ALZHEIMER'S (formerly titled, Dancin...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Apr 16, 2010
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Stephanie Kaza links buddhism and sustainability in her new book, MINDFULLY GREEN: A Personal and Spiritual Guide to Whole Earth Thinking. Sea Cha...
- Added: Mar 06, 2009
- Length: 29:03
Her first year in the competition, Annie says this piece is about a boy who thought he deserved a story. Annie Kahane is 19 years old and a member...
- Added: Apr 02, 2008
- Length: 03:04
From YO MISS! Teaching Inside the Cultural Divide, Volume 1, a play by Judith Sloan. WINNER FIRST PLACE 2008, Missouri Review Narrative Essay about...
- Added: Feb 25, 2008
- Length: 06:48
A musical setting of Walt Whitman's "I Sit and Look Out"
Bought by WBHM
- Added: Jul 08, 2007
- Length: 03:22
- Purchases: 1
Like a lot of people, columnist Cheryl-Anne Millsap misses having a little fun between the covers...of a good book.
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Mar 08, 2005
- Length: 03:12
- Purchases: 1