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Novelist Thomas Keneally
From: New Letters on the Air
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We mark the centennial of the start of World War I with the acclaimed author of 29 books, including the well-known SCHINDLER'S LIST (originally SCH...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
Crazy Love
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Rosie Perez, Credit: Rob Northway
John Leguizamo, Rosie Perez and Bobby Cannavale star in CRAZY EIGHTS by David Lindsay-Abaire (Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner). Two recovering drug ...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), WRGY, KUNM, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Oregon Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jun 26, 2014
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 8
Mixed Martial Arts and Writing
From: NPR Illinois
Series: Quiddity
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
An interview with MMA fighter and poet Carlo Matos, plus work from issue 7.1

  • Added: May 08, 2014
  • Length: 17:17
Contributor Spotlight: Issue 7.5
From: NPR Illinois
Series: Quiddity
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This episode we highlight contributors to issue 7.5 including an interview with National Book Award Finalist, poet Matt Rasmussen.

  • Added: May 07, 2014
  • Length: 16:47
Akhil Sharma on "Family Life"
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The writer that so many other writers are talking about is the Indian-born New Yorker, Akhil Sharma. His novel is “Family Life,” a faithful recount...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Apr 23, 2014
  • Length: 27:46
  • Purchases: 1
Author Isabel Allende's first crime novel: Ripper
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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A Chilean-born author, Isabel is best known for her novels and memoirs. But now, after deciding not to retire from writing books after all, she's ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 14, 2014
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 2
Food and Wine Books in the News
From: The Book Report
Series: The Book Report
Caption: Elaine Charles, Credit: Former Library of Congress and Miami Herald staffer
A spread of new books about food: from evil sugar to wonderful wine.

  • Added: Apr 04, 2014
  • Length: 54:10
Richard Powers: A Musical Theory of Everything
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Richard Powers is indulging us in a runaway riff on music, in a little room in the Boston Athenaeum, on the top of Beacon Hill, overlooking the Old...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Apr 03, 2014
  • Length: 47:52
  • Purchases: 1
Crime Novelist and Investigative Reporter Hank Phillippi Ryan
From: New Letters on the Air
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Acclaimed crime fiction writer and Emmy-winning investigative reporter, Hank Phillippi Ryan reads from her Mary Higgins Clark award-winning novel, ...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Mar 13, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Dog and a Cat
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Jesse Eisenberg
Two plays starring Jesse Eisenberg, Ed Asner, Adam Driver and Kathleen Turner - one about a dog, and one about a cat. A deposed dictator's beloved ...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), Oregon Public Broadcasting, KUNM, WMPG, KUT and more


  • Added: Feb 11, 2014
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 6
Author Martin Cruz Smith and “Tatiana”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Arkady Renko, a senior investigator in the Moscow prosecutor's office, is back. Smith’s first book in this 8-book series was “Gorky Park” published...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 16, 2014
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 1
Author Amy Tan and “The Valley of Amazement”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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This Chinese-American novelist, perhaps best known for her book, "Joy Luck Club," takes readers to Shanghai and its International Settlement where ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 19, 2013
  • Length: 10:04
  • Purchases: 1
Pulitzer-Prize Winning Novelist Richard Ford
From: New Letters on the Air
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We finish National Novel Writing Month with the Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Richard Ford, who sees fiction as a vehicle to provide renewal and ...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Nov 27, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Crime novelist Sophie Hannah and "Kind of Cruel"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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A crime novelist and poet talks about where in England her books are set, why she chose a hypnotherapist as a character in this novel, "Kind of Cru...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 24, 2013
  • Length: 09:56
  • Purchases: 1
Poet and Novelist Linda Rodriguez
From: New Letters on the Air
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We continue our celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month with Linda Rodriguez, author of the poetry collection HEART'S MIGRATION. A winner o...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Author Thomas Fox Averill
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Thomas Fox Averill
Thomas Fox Averill's novel RODE was named the 2012 Outstanding Western Novel by the National Cowboy Museum, Based on the American song "Tennessee ...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Sep 11, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ives Said It
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Liv Rooth
A trio of short plays from a master of the medium, David Ives, with an April Fools Day feel to them. First, in SURE THING, a chance meeting between...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), Oregon Public Broadcasting, KZYX, and KUNM


  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
Off My Chest
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Jesse Eisenberg
In Jesse Eisenberg’s satirical, humorous A Little Part of All of Us with Jesse Eisenberg and Justin Bartha, a young man displays his tenuous hold o...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), Oregon Public Broadcasting, KUNM, and Oregon Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Sep 04, 2013
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
Culturology: Author Christina Baker Kline talks to Heidi Holtan in this Real Good Words interview
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "Orphan Train" by author Christina Baker Kline
In the last half of the nineteenth and first third of the twentieth centuries unwanted children from east coast cities were the cargo of what were ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 20, 2013
  • Length: 17:09
  • Purchases: 2
Author Adam Johnson, an American obsessed with North Korea
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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In “The Orphan Master’s Son,” this Stanford University creative writing teacher introduces us to the people of modern-day North Korea. Johnson spe...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 17, 2013
  • Length: 10:04
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: Minnesota Author Peter Geye talks to Heidi Holtan in this Real Good Words interview
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Author: Peter Geye
Minnesota author Peter Geye's newest book is called "The Lighthouse Road." Around the turn of the last century Thea Eide left Norway for America, s...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KSRQ, and KVSC


  • Added: Aug 05, 2013
  • Length: 18:40
  • Purchases: 3
Second Chances
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Amy Ryan
Three short plays, with Amy Ryan, Michael Stuhlbarg and others. In SKIN, romance sparks at the college health clinic where two Bengali students awa...

Bought by KUNM, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), Oregon Public Broadcasting, XRAY.fm, KUNM and more


  • Added: Aug 02, 2013
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 6
"Country Noir" and fiction writer Daniel Woodrell
From: New Letters on the Air
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Two of Daniel Woodrell's eight novels are now acclaimed films. The 1998 movie RIDE WITH THE DEVIL was adapted from his novel WOE TO LIVE ON, and th...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Jun 28, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
An Interview with Russell Rowland
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During this program, Russell Rowland talks about and reads from his novel, 'High and Inside,' in which an alcoholic baseball player moves from Bost...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KSJD


  • Added: Jun 11, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
Culturology: Sara Stonich talks to Heidi Holtan in this Real Good Words interview
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "Vacationland" by Sara Stonich
Sara Stonich is the best-selling author of internationally acclaimed novels "These Granite Islands," "The Ice Chorus," and the memoir "Shelter." St...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 10, 2013
  • Length: 18:38
  • Purchases: 2