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We revisit a major race debate within the Romance Writers of America that began in 2019 and talk about why questions of race in art and in institut...
Bought by WXDU, RadioFreePalmer, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Jun 02, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Creators of an outstanding new collection of poems about spaceflight and exploration join Mat Kaplan to talk about the book as Bill Nye and other n...
Bought by WFHB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioStPete Florida, KWMR, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more
- Added: Oct 14, 2020
- Length: 28:50
- Purchases: 10
This week, we speak with two writers, Laura Lasuertmer and Wendy Lee Spacek. Spacek and Lasuertmer run a writing workshop in the local jail. They t...
- Added: Mar 12, 2020
- Length: 29:01
This week, we have several kites, or messages, from people inside and outside of the prison walls. First, we have a statement that was recorded for...
- Added: Mar 09, 2020
- Length: 29:00
First, we have updates on the Vaughn 17 and hunger strikes and noise demonstrations from immigrant detention centers around the country. After the ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2020
- Length: 29:51
This week is focused on words from prisoners sent or smuggled from inside. From the jail in Evansville, Indiana, to letters from participants in Op...
- Added: Feb 17, 2020
- Length: 30:04
Our own Emily Lakdawalla, Planetary Society senior editor and book lover, shares her 2019 list of favorite space books. She also presents a list of...
Bought by KDNK, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WMUU-LP, KWMR, KRZA and more
- Added: Nov 20, 2019
- Length: 28:50
- Purchases: 8
On today's special edition of Big Talk!, Michael Glab speaks with Indiana State Poet Laureate Adrian Matejka about his poetry and the inspiration h...
- Added: Jan 08, 2018
- Length: 08:23
The author of #1 bestseller The Martian is back with Artemis, a superbly-researched, rollicking adventure in the first city on the Moon. You might ...
Bought by WTJU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more
- Added: Nov 08, 2017
- Length: 28:50
- Purchases: 7
Bloomington author Annette Oppenlander discusses her books, including a coming of age novel set in World War II Germany, with Michael Glab on this ...
- Added: Mar 30, 2017
- Length: 08:38
"Recalculating" is Charles Bernstein's first new book of poetry since his daughter, Emma Bee Bernstein, died in December of 2008, and is in large m...
- Added: May 31, 2016
- Length: 57:19
A struggling writer finds unexpected kindness and friendship from his poor landlord in this short story by George Gissing, whom George Orwell ranke...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WMUU-LP
- Added: Mar 07, 2016
- Length: 57:55
- Purchases: 2
A Bloomington artist who has altered a single poem for years, all the while performing it for live audiences.
- Added: Feb 22, 2016
- Length: 07:38
The interconnected story cycle “Lost Borders” by Mary Hunter Austin concludes. Austin’s character types and settings are in many ways familiar from...
- Added: Apr 14, 2015
- Length: 59:51
The interconnected stories of ‘’Lost Borders’’ are set in the desert landscape of southern California, where author Mary Hunter Austin moved with h...
- Added: Apr 06, 2015
- Length: 01:08:57
A four-part presentation of Herman Melville’s classic and problematic historical fiction “Benito Cereno” concludes. In the final episode, Captain A...
- Added: Feb 23, 2015
- Length: 01:01:33
The second in a four-part program on Herman Melville’s novella “Benito Cereno,” based on the memoir of the real-life sea captain Amasa Delano. Melv...
- Added: Feb 02, 2015
- Length: 58:35
"Killing Voltaire: An Observance for Charlie Hebdo" is a collaborative response by the Books Unbound community to the deadly attack on the offices ...
- Added: Jan 19, 2015
- Length: 57:58
The protagonist of "The Massacre of Yangzhou" is the southern Chinese city of Yangzhou, a rich and beautiful center of the failing Ming Dynasty as ...
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Jan 12, 2015
- Length: 59:38
- Purchases: 1
Tonight’s program is one half of a collaboration with WFHB’s Books Unbound centered around a memoir of a first-person eyewitness account written by...
- Added: Jan 06, 2015
- Length: 53:05
“The Queen of Spades” is a mock fairy tale about debt, gambling, guilt and the supernatural—and the deadening effect of money on love. An aging, on...
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 58:40
- Purchases: 1
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was 18 when she and her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, visited some literary friends and got involved in a challenge, t...
- Added: Sep 05, 2014
- Length: 58:01
Host Doug Storm is joined by three professors of literature at Indiana University, Jennifer Fleissner, Jonathan Elmer, and Christoph Irmscher, to e...
- Added: Jun 03, 2014
- Length: 56:38
Host Doug Storm ends our three-part series on Bloomington author Ross Lockridge, Jr. and his bestselling novel of 1948 with an interview with Ernes...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 01:01:01
Host Doug Storm continues the three-part series on the bestselling 1948 novel Raintree County with excerpts from a conversation with Larry Lockridg...
- Added: May 13, 2014
- Length: 57:28
