Facts About Fiction
- Location: Little Rock, Arkansas, Arkansas
- http://www.factsaboutfiction.org
Facts About Fiction are 1-minute spots designed to illuminate the lives and stories of authors and the works they've created. Recorded at the studios of KUAR FM 89.1 in Little Rock, Arkansas and hosted by J. Bradley Minnick, these quirky, compact pieces fasten onto different details of the writers using music, sounds, and the authors' voices themselves to create concrete, lasting impressions on the listener.
Series
Pieces
An unusual and irreverent comic strip about a misfit cat served as inspiration to 20th century poet e e cummings.
- Added: Feb 08, 2016
- Length: :58
Imagine you are children's literature publisher R. A. Montgomery...
- Added: Feb 08, 2016
- Length: 01:00
Children's author Maurice Sendak was a big collector of Disney paraphenalia
- Added: Feb 08, 2016
- Length: :59
J. California Cooper loved playing with paper dolls--even as an adult.
- Added: Feb 08, 2016
- Length: 01:00
Responding to his editor about why he wrote his most famous children's novel, E.B. White replied in characteristic good humor.
- Added: Feb 03, 2016
- Length: :58
One of Allen Ginsberg's first publishers was taken to court for a book that an undercover police officer deemed "not fit for children to read."
- Added: Feb 03, 2016
- Length: :59
American poet Frank O'Hara got into trouble with his overbearing mother.
- Added: Feb 03, 2016
- Length: :58
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