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In the first half of this conversation with writer Keegan Jennings Goodman reads an excerpt of his most recent book. Edited by Alex Kime.
- Added: May 16, 2018
- Length: 22:19
We hear listener-reader recommendations and a tribute to Ursula K. LeGuin.
- Added: Feb 14, 2018
- Length: 06:22
- Added: Jun 22, 2017
- Length: 04:53
Tommy Pico’s first book is one long poem in the form of a text — call it an epic sext. But it doesn’t just chronicle Pico’s dalliances with "boys, ...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Jun 15, 2017
- Length: 24:54
- Purchases: 1
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
The practice of hunting wild birds with trained birds — for fun — is called falconry. Though it came into its own almost 1,000 years ago in England...
Bought by 'The Sea'
- Added: Feb 03, 2017
- Length: 31:40
- Purchases: 1
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Roll up your sleeve past your bicep, flex your arm at the elbow, and squeeze — or contract — your bicep muscle. Take a look at it. What do you see?...
- Added: Jan 22, 2017
- Length: 09:32
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Coccyx is a small triangle-shaped bone at the base of the spinal column in humans and other apes. Representing a vestigial tail and most commonly c...
- Added: Jan 21, 2017
- Length: 05:37
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
The word “inauguration" takes us all the way back to the politics of ancient Rome and the birds behind the words inauguration, inaugural, auspiciou...
- Added: Jan 20, 2017
- Length: 22:14
“A Time for Heroes”
As the children prepare to fight the coming of the white rabbit, and the community struggles with how to protect our sons and ...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Jan 14, 2017
- Length: 31:54
- Purchases: 1
“Down the Rabbit Hole”
This happened in early October just a few weeks ago in a small coastal town. A boy named Fox, age ten, went missing from hi...
- Added: Jan 14, 2017
- Length: 30:40
If you have been listening to the news since the highly contagious, Draco Incendia Trychophyton or “Dragonscale” began to spread, you know what kin...
- Added: Jan 14, 2017
- Length: 21:26
In the fact of the fear, confusing and despair many Americans feel after the election, one group of individuals joined together to share stories of...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Nov 16, 2016
- Length: 52:51
- Purchases: 1
The story of a girl who was totally convinced her teenage diary would one day be discovered... and become mandatory reading for generations to come.
- Added: Oct 02, 2016
- Length: 16:05
Author Jeffrey Toobin of the New Yorker reads "The Colfax Crew” an essay from the PEN Prison Writing Contest by Tim Boland of Minnesota Correctiona...
- Added: Jul 28, 2016
- Length: 10:55
Philip Armand becomes enamored with Campari while on vacation in Milan, then discovers the geography of the past and future.
- Added: Jun 22, 2016
- Length: 06:17
Do you know that feeling you get when you’re about to leave a place? Like you’re seeing it all for the first time? That all the sounds and sights ...
- Added: Mar 05, 2016
- Length: 22:59
A 2015 MacArthur "Genius" Fellow Ellen Bryant Voigt talks with fellow poet and professor, Michelle Boisseau, about her collection HEADWATERS. Voigt...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Jan 21, 2016
- Length: 30:30
- Purchases: 1
Zeb's just found a trailer which is lucky because crocobass tend to enjoy their prey while it's still alive.
- Added: Dec 27, 2015
- Length: 04:09
When Thanksgiving arrived in 2008, Robert found himself struggling with a tangled mess of emotions. The economic crisis in the U.S., big changes at...
- Added: Dec 05, 2015
- Length: 31:20
Sandip Roy gets virtually stranded in Bangladesh at the Dhaka Lit. Fest.
- Added: Nov 23, 2015
- Length: 06:00
A poem about Thanksgiving by Sharon Olds, read by Eliza Foss
- Added: Nov 05, 2015
- Length: 01:47
The former U.S. poet laureate reads his poem about the end of autumn.
- Added: Sep 24, 2015
- Length: 01:17
- Added: Jul 08, 2015
- Length: 27:40
- Purchases: 1
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
