PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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This piece is about the absurdity that gay marriage will hurt a heterosexual marriage.
- Added: Jan 25, 2016
- Length: 02:58
A sound-designed piece from a cat's perspective on her last adventure.
- Added: Dec 20, 2015
- Length: 07:32
It’s hardly Santaland but as Christmas approaches Montoo’s bakery, in a dingy lane in central Kolkata, is one of the city's hottest addresses.
- Added: Dec 16, 2015
- Length: 06:00
Sandip Roy gets virtually stranded in Bangladesh at the Dhaka Lit. Fest.
- Added: Nov 23, 2015
- Length: 06:00
Angus Bossenberry's Song Story takes us on a colorful and funny road trip as he hitchhikes up the Pacific Coast Highway in California.
- Added: Nov 21, 2015
- Length: 05:43
What would you do if you had 100Million Euros (or more!) to spend on a country? What would you spend it on?
The leaders of Macedonia chose statues...
- Added: Oct 13, 2015
- Length: 14:58
Stuff always falls apart while traveling. Plans change, health declines. Items disintegrate… Relationships fade… It doesn’t always happen, but it’s...
- Added: Oct 13, 2015
- Length: 14:44
I hate high fives and have only tried to high five one person as an adult. It was Denzel Washington. He wasn't really into it.
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 06:16
The diaries of a high school misfit who in an attempt to fit in found herself in a series of epic, embarrassing moments -- culminating at the SATs.
- Added: Jul 27, 2015
- Length: 15:17
Victor Figueroa looks the part of a Hispanic, but some call him a "fake Puerto Rican," since he doesn't speak Spanish and knows few customs. Here,...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 03:52
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jun 11, 2015
- Length: 07:24
- Purchases: 1
The most important meal of the day - breakfast - is no longer a priority among teenagers. Why can't they find the time for golden waffles doused in...
- Added: Jun 06, 2015
- Length: 01:33
- Added: May 11, 2015
- Length: 09:53
Chaya Gilboa falls deeply in love with a library book, and becomes convinced that her soulmate will have felt the same connection to the text. She ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 12:51
A funny blog on the site Publishing Perspectives came up with a checklist for the must have ingredients of a bad South Asian diasporan novel. Arran...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Have you ever stuck with something that was difficult because you knew the reward was worth the journey? Follow Robert Franklin’s day as he prepare...
- Added: Jan 21, 2015
- Length: 05:21
Coyotes have been important characters in the mythologies of many Native American cultures. They’re often seen as tricksters with unpredictable per...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and XRAY.fm
- Added: Dec 02, 2014
- Length: 11:33
- Purchases: 2
Off-Ramp contributor Collin Friesen takes a humorour look at the differences between Canadian Thanksgiving and American Thanksgiving.
- Added: Nov 19, 2014
- Length: 04:38
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: Summer Institute Edition
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: Summer Institute Edition
A mother & daughter recollect moving to Austin from Vietnam.
This story was produced by Ana Kolendo, Linda O’Neal, and Lindsey Shirack during the ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 05:46
- Purchases: 1
Irasema Gonzalez talks about coming of age as a young Latina in 1990s Chicago, and how her definitions of love and womanhood shifted with the passi...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 10:04
- Purchases: 1
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
- Added: Oct 05, 2014
- Length: 01:47
After all, you do need something to listen to when on infinite hold with Verizon.
- Added: Mar 26, 2014
- Length: 02:26
- Added: Dec 09, 2013
- Length: 04:30
Liz Massey's family only had 3 holiday record albums when she was growing up. In this story, she explains her role as an unlikely evangelist for on...
- Added: Nov 24, 2013
- Length: 08:22
