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Library workers often risk their livelihoods when they speak out against censorship, spurring community members to pick up the fight for intellectu...
Bought by WORT
- Added: Dec 13, 2023
- Length: 25:35
- Purchases: 1
Maia Kobabe's debut memoir, Gender Queer, was the most frequently banned book in 2021 and 2022. We talked with Maia about what it's like to be on t...
- Added: Nov 30, 2023
- Length: 17:55
Banning of so-called “classics” grabs public attention, but books like To Kill a Mockingbird and 1984 don't need your defense. It's the more recent...
- Added: Nov 08, 2023
- Length: 19:25
This mini-episode from The Babblery features writers Patrice Vecchione of Monterey and Tania Romanov of San Francisco, who both wrote books about w...
- Added: Sep 05, 2023
- Length: 26:23
Christmas wouldn't be the same without Dickens. And, the railroads changed Christmas forever.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Dec 19, 2022
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 1
Here at Possibly, we try to make climate change feel more manageable and less overwhelming. But there’s no avoiding that this problem is terrifying...
- Added: Aug 13, 2022
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
The Cedar-Riverside West Bank neighborhood in Minneapolis has a rich cultural history and long tradition of community art-making. Jamie Schumacher ...
- Added: Mar 03, 2022
- Length: 05:06
‘Leaves of Grass - Illuminated’ is a live performance film of Patrick Scully's acclaimed stage play by the same name. Scully performs the role of r...
- Added: Jan 03, 2022
- Length: 06:25
On October 5th, 2021, all three public library systems in New York City eliminated late fines. The change was 125 years in the making, and it made ...
Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio
- Added: Dec 21, 2021
- Length: 24:18
- Purchases: 1
Time now to check in again with Tracy Kampa. She is the Children's Librarian at the Grand Rapids Area Library. Tracy is also our Children’s Books C...
- Added: Nov 27, 2021
- Length: 11:23
Tracy Kampa recommends:
Red, White, and Whole, by Rajani LaRocca
While I Was Away, by Waka T. Brown
Mel Fell, by Corey R. Tabor
It Fell from the S...
- Added: Nov 06, 2021
- Length: 13:03
Pamela Sneed’s prose and poetry can reach out and grab you. She reads selections from her memoir, Funeral Diva, and shares some of her life story. ...
- Added: Aug 27, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Western Films as America’s origin story, and why they sound the way they do. Featuring Gary Farmer, Rion Amilcar Scott, Jeff Grace and Kathryn Kali...
- Added: Feb 02, 2021
- Length: 50:00
Kim Hines’ Young Adult Novella Wingo Fly (2020) revolves around Christy Wingo, a 10 year old Black girl in 1965 Minneapolis, Minnesota. The book is...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Oct 21, 2020
- Length: 05:31
- Purchases: 1
We place some focus on some stories that are inspired by famous literature.
- Added: Jan 22, 2020
- Length: 58:02
Shelley McIntire is a longtime resident of Cook County and a member of the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.
She describes herself as ...
- Added: Dec 27, 2019
- Length: 09:56
On this episode of Art Beat we enter a fantasy realm of magic, swords and dragons with Minnesota author James Petrillo. Petrillo’s most recent nove...
- Added: Jul 30, 2019
- Length: 44:44
Online search engines are basically universal, so questions at the library reference desk are changing. We follow the story of one question, “I wan...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 24, 2019
- Length: 20:01
- Purchases: 1
A racial justice book group confronts the reality of racism on Cape Cod.
- Added: Jun 11, 2019
- Length: 04:32
A feature-style interview with Stan Lee looking back at his life and career.
- Added: Nov 12, 2018
- Length: 09:03
Author Julie Schumacher just couldn't get enough of the caustic college professor readers love to hate. So she wrote a follow-up to her 2014 novel ...
- Added: Nov 07, 2018
- Length: 03:58
Results from the First Annual KAXE/KBXE Book Awards and and interview with the Reader's Choice Award, Amy Thielen.
- Added: Mar 13, 2018
- Length: 26:00
We hear about listener-readers' favorite books from the summer, and we learn about a community member's book collection on our new feature, Show Me...
- Added: Oct 02, 2017
- Length: 07:59
Stan Lee, the creator of American Pop Culture myths like Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, and Iron Man, will take part in the fifth annual Awesome ...
- Added: Jun 19, 2017
- Length: 03:47
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
