PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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The road to writing a best seller has to start somewhere.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 07, 2010
- Length: 03:20
- Purchases: 1
Taking a first job at an inner city non-profit can be horrifying. But there's a lot of perks too ...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Dec 22, 2009
- Length: 04:37
- Purchases: 1
A piece about my house and my stuff. I think the title pretty much describes it. I peer suspiciously through the curtains and auto-dial the police.
Bought by KSFR, PRX Remix, and Remix Radio
- Added: Dec 02, 2009
- Length: 02:33
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Nov 18, 2009
- Length: 03:38
That's what her mother said, changing majors, again?
- Added: Oct 18, 2009
- Length: 01:39
- Purchases: 2
College student worries about the cost of education.
- Added: Oct 18, 2009
- Length: 01:40
A college student ponders life.
- Added: Oct 18, 2009
- Length: 02:04
Jason Mehl tells the story of his meeting with a drunken Santa.
- Added: Oct 11, 2009
- Length: 06:52
- Purchases: 2
The author discusses his old home computer and general dorkitude.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix, WILL, and Remix Radio
- Added: Sep 20, 2009
- Length: 04:06
- Purchases: 4
During my homestay with a family in rural Morocco, I had a tricky cultural experience which many of us can relate to.
- Added: Aug 17, 2009
- Length: :00
On a late summer camping trip, a couple finds that a little seclusion can sometimes go a long way.
Bought by The Nature Podcast
- Added: Jun 25, 2009
- Length: 06:59
- Purchases: 1
A science experiment that didn't go tragically wrong
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jun 10, 2009
- Length: 01:13
- Purchases: 1
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
Writer Kelsey Timmerman and his brother were on a trip to Honduras and enjoying the jungle, the hammock, and the river that flowed right by their b...
Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon
- Added: Apr 17, 2009
- Length: 02:25
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Feb 14, 2009
- Length: 03:32
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Feb 10, 2009
- Length: 01:48
An otherworldly visit to one of America's most bizarre museums, the Glore Psychiatric Museum in St. Joseph, MO.
Bought by PRX Remix, KUT, KUOW, Remix Radio, KFAI Minneapolis and more
- Added: Feb 03, 2009
- Length: 13:48
- Purchases: 6
David discovers a restaurant in Paris.
- Added: Jan 28, 2009
- Length: 03:47
A short humorous piece about fighting middle age in Provincetown, MA during Carnival week.
- Added: Jan 26, 2009
- Length: 05:01
Old fashioned music and humorous social commentary
- Added: Jan 17, 2009
- Length: 59:00
Visitors to Jane Austen's museum are scattering cremains. Administrators there disapprove. So does Ian.
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 02:05
New York Times takes a look at a prostitute's MySpace page so we don't have to.
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 02:16
Mainstream media movie critics are being laid off. Consequences?
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 02:01
More cultural shorthand from the folks who offer cultural shorthand. We are not shorthanded in that department.
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 03:11
In Southern California, everything depends on one thing: how long will it take to drive there? Whether it's where you work, where you eat, or wher...
- Added: Dec 15, 2008
- Length: 04:44