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Banned Books Week! Tammy Bobrowsky discusses banned and challenged books: Harry Potter, The Fault in Our Stars, Little Brother, And Tango Makes Thr...
- Added: Oct 02, 2015
- Length: 04:36
Jason Segel and James Ponsoldt talk misconceptions, epiphanies of genius, and the musician’s ear.
- Added: Aug 08, 2015
- Length: 16:12
The Name of the Wind, Ana of California, Go Set a Watchman, Within These Woods, and Great Kitchens of the Midwest
Bought by KKRN
- Added: Jul 20, 2015
- Length: 03:18
- Purchases: 1
Jeffrey Hatcher talks leaving things out, earning pauses, and why Holmes is a man for all seasons.
- Added: Jul 15, 2015
- Length: 16:40
Best known for her books about the joys of life in Italy, Frances Mayes has published a new memoir. But this time, she takes her readers back to he...
Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KKRN
- Added: May 29, 2015
- Length: 03:43
- Purchases: 3
David Feinberg started the Center for Genocide & Holocaust Studies at the University of Minnesota more than 10 years ago. This year, a group of Gol...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 05:59
Marjorie Sturm talks victimhood, context, and seeing what we want to see.
- Added: Mar 14, 2015
- Length: 21:31
Alice Sheldon served in the OSS and the CIA. And then she went deep undercover posing as a male science fiction writer. It wasn't an assignment, it...
- Added: Mar 12, 2015
- Length: 23:44
- Purchases: 2
Never one to shy away from controversial topics, Joyce’s latest novel is based on the true story of Tawana Brawley of upstate New York who made hea...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Mar 04, 2015
- Length: 09:58
- Purchases: 1
John Steinbeck, the author of such classics as “the Grapes of Wrath” and “Of Mice and Men” was born to a middle class family in a beautiful, turret...
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 07:27
Next year marks the 150th anniversary of Leo Tolstoy’s great Russian tome, War and Peace. While the novel’s great length scares many readers away, ...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Dec 12, 2014
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 1
“Passages: Treasures of the Bible,” currently is in Springfield, Mo, the fifth stop on a national tour. Learn more about the traveling exhibit here...
- Added: Sep 30, 2014
- Length: 08:16
Theodore Bikel talks not doing the tango, the responsibility of the artist, and why singing a song is never naive.
- Added: Sep 02, 2014
- Length: 12:53
Novelist Helen Oyeyemi reads from her dreamy, fairy-tale-inspired novel and reflects on themes of beauty and race.
- Added: Aug 18, 2014
- Length: 07:21
- Purchases: 2
Why do books so often turn to music? Richard Powers, author of a new, music-filled novel Orfeo, speaks to the strength of songs and symphonies, inc...
Bought by KICI Iowa City, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 12:57
- Purchases: 3
Nicholas Wrathall talks starting at the end, putting his money where his mouth is, and why Gore Vidal could not be ignored.
- Added: May 23, 2014
- Length: 19:56
Gia Coppola talks collaboration, going with her gut, and using dreams as tools.
- Added: May 16, 2014
- Length: 08:56
Pratibha Parmar discusses making the recent documentary about an iconic American writer, Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth, which can be seen on the Am...
- Added: Feb 20, 2014
- Length: 27:59
- Purchases: 3
Prof. Timothy Moore describes the historical context of Greek tragedies and shares his own research into the music of ancient Roman comedies.
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Dec 20, 2013
- Length: 12:39
- Purchases: 1
The former host of NPR’s Talk of the Nation tells KVMR’s Brian Bahouth about reading poetry and other writing with Ensemble Galilei. A mix of word...
- Added: Nov 21, 2013
- Length: 09:13
John Krokidas talks taking small liberties, exploding into the new, and the tender side of David Cross.
- Added: Oct 31, 2013
- Length: 16:44
Filmmaker Stephen Silha talks serendipity, flow charts, and why the motto “adventure not predicament” are words to live by
- Added: Oct 01, 2013
- Length: 13:54
On a balmy Tuesday during the summer before ninth grade, a car accident on a rain-slicked highway flipped Janna’s safe and happy world upside down,...
- Added: Sep 03, 2013
- Length: 17:45
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
Director James Ponsoldt talks dignity, Geiger counters of honesty, and where to get a great piece of pie.
- Added: Aug 04, 2013
- Length: 13:54
