PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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Deep in hill country, a writer meets folk with an authentic sense of place; A former teen runaway offers frank insights into life on the run impers...
- Added: Feb 07, 2012
- Length: 28:22
Forest campers try to keep wild animals out of the trash; A rural historian explores the motivation behind storytelling through evocative vignettes...
- Added: Feb 07, 2012
- Length: 29:06
A professional cartoonist recalls her strange path to print; A six-year-old learns that bad things happen to good people; Grab her ass and she will...
- Added: Feb 07, 2012
- Length: 28:43
An amateur brewer goes to great lengths to bring homemade hooch home for the holidays; A first-time mother isn't sure what to expect when contracti...
- Added: Feb 07, 2012
- Length: 29:55
A Boy Scout in full dress uniform smokes a joint in Haight-Ashbury during the Summer of Love; A new home reveals the ever-present flow of blessings...
- Added: Feb 07, 2012
- Length: 29:05
No pen can hold an impulsive pig; A master storyteller recalls a chilling tale of murder on a college campus; A deflowered art student isn't sure G...
- Added: Feb 07, 2012
- Length: 29:18
A short, fervent summation of strange realities and terrible behavior--a visual, narrative journey into the epicenter of madness, and exploration o...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 07, 2011
- Length: 07:59
- Purchases: 1
"I was 19 when my father was kidnapped in Colombia. It was 1999. My mother came to my college campus to deliver the news and I flew to Bogota to be...
Bought by KUT, KFAI Minneapolis, and PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 23, 2011
- Length: 20:23
- Purchases: 3
I am a documentarian, chronicling the lives of performing musicians. As a writer, I am obligated to put their words to paper. As a story-teller, I ...
- Added: May 08, 2011
- Length: 41:49
I am a documentarian, chronicling the lives of performing musicians. As a writer, I am obligated to put their words to paper. As a story-teller, I ...
Bought by KUT
- Added: May 07, 2011
- Length: 42:23
- Purchases: 1
Heidi was adopted from Iran when she was three years old and raised in blue-blood Virginia. She will never be able to find her biological mother, b...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 08, 2010
- Length: 03:51
- Purchases: 4
Moving into an apartment in Camden, Canadian Craig Taylor can't help but feel the past coming to get him...
- Added: Jul 26, 2010
- Length: 07:57
- Added: Jul 07, 2010
- Length: 01:19
Biloxi, Mississippi, 3 a.m. The attackers advanced from the dark.
The violence was sudden, intense. Forester's cheek, nose and two ribs were brok...
Bought by KUT, KFAI Minneapolis, and Remix Radio
- Added: Mar 31, 2010
- Length: 15:28
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Mar 26, 2010
- Length: 01:23
- Added: Mar 23, 2010
- Length: :36
- Added: Mar 20, 2010
- Length: 02:25
- Purchases: 1
The tale of a Dunkin Donuts, an armed robbery, and a high school girl I wanted to throw sugar packets at. The author almost loses his jelly.
Bought by KBRP Community Radio, KUT, PRX Remix, and Remix Radio
- Added: Mar 16, 2010
- Length: 04:11
- Purchases: 4
If you have never replaced the wax seal beneath your toilet, I suggest that you do.
- Added: Jan 14, 2010
- Length: :29
- Added: Sep 30, 2009
- Length: 02:00
It's his second week on the job as house manager at a major American regional theater, and an icon of the modern cinema is paying a visit.
- Added: May 12, 2009
- Length: 07:21
- Purchases: 3
You should know what you're doing before you go white water rafting.
- Added: Mar 06, 2009
- Length: :29
Radio commentators sometimes receive threatening letters.
- Added: Feb 11, 2009
- Length: 01:55
- Added: Feb 01, 2009
- Length: :34
This audio essay is based upon a near accident during a winter weekend drive from Boston to New York City.
- Added: Jan 03, 2009
- Length: 04:47
