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Producer Tammy Bobrowsky talks about this national event with Independent Bookstore Day program director Samantha Schoech and Park Rapids bookstore...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2016
  • Length: 11:10
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Pete Hautman talks about his latest book, Eden West. We hear what reader-listeners' children are reading,and readers Max and Jackson read from thei...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2016
  • Length: 07:14
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Tammy Bobrowsky reviews the book "American Girls: Social media and the secret lives of teenagers;" and listener-readers review "The Distant Marvels...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2016
  • Length: 06:15
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Tammy Bobrowsky reviews Ojibwe Imprints on Northern Minnesota, a listener reviews Bob Mehr's new book Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replaceme...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2016
  • Length: 06:55
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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
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American Housewife, The Geography of Genius, and Every Anxious Wave. Listener-readers review A Walk in the Woods, The Horizontal World, and Wild.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2016
  • Length: 06:40
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Imagine you are children's literature publisher R. A. Montgomery...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Hunter S. Thompson, Long Beach, California, May 1989, Credit: Rs79
Hunter S. Thompson had his first run-in with federal agents as a young boy during the Louisville summer of 1946

  • Added: Feb 03, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
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Tammy Bobrowsky reviews The Girl on the Train, and No Baggage: a minimalist tale of love & wandering. Listener-readers review The Boys in the Boat:...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2016
  • Length: 06:06
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Heidi Holtan speaks with William Kent Krueger about his 2013 novel, Ordinary Grace, the Cork O'Connor series, and the journey of writing. His next ...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2016
  • Length: 11:49
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Tammy Bobrowsky speaks with young adult fantasy author, Marie Lu, about her new book, "The Rose Society," and adds to her To Read list "Girl Waits ...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2016
  • Length: 08:17
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Northern Community Radio staff share passages from their favorite Christmastime scenes in literature.

  • Added: Dec 28, 2015
  • Length: 09:53
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Tammy Bobrowsky talks about books: "Everybody's Heard about the Bird: The True Story of 1960s Rock 'n' Roll in Minnesota," The Thrilling Adventures...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2015
  • Length: 05:49
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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
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Tammy Bobrowsky and listener-readers review the following books: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, Letters to Isabella, Home, and The Art of Languag...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2015
  • Length: 08:25
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Tammy Bobrowsky reviews books with recent or upcoming movie adaptations, including listener-reader reviews: A Walk in the Woods, Room, The Devil in...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2015
  • Length: 06:49
Caption: Jason Segel & James Ponsoldt, San Francisco, CA 5/2/15, Credit: Andrea Chase
Jason Segel and James Ponsoldt talk misconceptions, epiphanies of genius, and the musician’s ear.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2015
  • Length: 16:12
Caption: Jeffrey Hatcher, San Francisco, CA 4/25/15, Credit: Andrea Chase
Jeffrey Hatcher talks leaving things out, earning pauses, and why Holmes is a man for all seasons.

  • Added: Jul 15, 2015
  • Length: 16:40
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Off the coast of Virginia, in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, lies a shrinking island called Tangier. Here, an unlikely adventurer docked his sai...

Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, WTJU, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 30, 2015
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Fifty-thousand words in a month. How's it going?, Credit: National Novel Writing Month Organizatoin
A newly updated piece on NaNoWriMo. November is National Novel Writing Month, sometimes known as NaNoWriMo. In a studio loft on the Chicago's North...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 05:12
  • Purchases: 2
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Andrie Morris talks to playwright and Shakespeare expert, Jennie Buckman and Jatinder Verma, Artistic Director of Tara Arts about working with Shak...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2014
  • Length: 16:14
Caption: Gia Coppola, San Francisco, CA 5/2/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Gia Coppola talks collaboration, going with her gut, and using dreams as tools.

  • Added: May 16, 2014
  • Length: 08:56
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If you think you want to launch a new poetry slam, first take a walk through the Bay Area. Your cutting edge idea may have already been done. In Sa...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 10:24
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From Tolstoy to Lermontov, the program that’s putting the Russian classics to work—in a juvenile detention center.

Bought by WCNY, KPIP-LP, and WTJU


  • Added: Sep 03, 2013
  • Length: 53:50
  • Purchases: 3
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China is everywhere in American news, but we seem to hear the same stories over and over. A new book set in Shanghai seeks to tell a less familiar ...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2013
  • Length: 02:32