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Author Lisa M. Bolt Simons gives readers a choice in her latest book "Boxed Out"

  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 09:07
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Author and dancer Georgia Finnegan talks about her new book "Grace & Grit: A History of Ballet in Minnesota"

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 08:08
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Author Mary Logue talks about her new book "The Big Sugar"

  • Added: Jun 05, 2023
  • Length: 08:52
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Author Adam Herman talks about his new book "Villa Leila"

  • Added: Apr 13, 2023
  • Length: 08:34
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Mary Jo Pehl talks about her 2022 memoir “Dumb Dumb Dumb: My Mother's Book Reviews”

  • Added: Oct 06, 2022
  • Length: 09:38
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Margi Preus talks about Windswept, her new book for young readers

  • Added: Sep 15, 2022
  • Length: 11:23
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Larry Millett talks about his new book "Rafferty's Last Case"

  • Added: Aug 04, 2022
  • Length: 08:35
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Discussions with authors Megan Miranda ("Such a Quiet Place") and Emily Henry ("People We Meet on Vacation").

Bought by WNMU-FM, Michigan Radio, and WKAR


  • Added: Aug 28, 2021
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 3
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Humorist and author Roy Blount Jr. talks with National Writers Series co-founder Doug Stanton.

Bought by WKAR and Michigan Radio


  • Added: Oct 30, 2019
  • Length: 54:29
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Karama Neal (left) with Judge Olly Neal (right).
Judge Olly Neal tells his daughter how discovering African American author Frank Yerby's books in his school library turned him around academically.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 04, 2019
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 2
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Poet Robert Jevne shares his poem "In Praise of Shag" on this segment of Wordish.

  • Added: Feb 18, 2019
  • Length: 01:59
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Award-winning author, Chad Dundas discusses his childhood fascination with professional wrestling and how he came to write the graphic novel, "Unde...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 14, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Where can you find a book on traditional lefse recipes? Where can a 5 year old, a 15 year old, and a 55 year old all find something to read? Wher...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2018
  • Length: 27:57
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Paige Embry discusses her book Our Native Bees: America's Endangered Pollinators and the Fight to Save Them. She also reads a short passage.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KWMR, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Feb 28, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Robert Jevne lives, works, farms and occassionally writes in the greater Jacobson area.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2015
  • Length: :44
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The dystopian novel, "Nineteen Eighty Four" describes a future society martialed by constant surveillance, tyranny, and torture...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2015
  • Length: 02:20:44
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring our New York correspondent Chrissy McIntyre, Author Chip Wagar, and Cuba Straits...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2015
  • Length: 57:41
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Jeff Nunokawa is a professor of Victorian Literature at Princeton University. Nunokawa is known for his unique literary essays on his Facebook page...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2014
  • Length: 27:58
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Mike Finley says about himself, "I'm a Minnesotan who has been writing forever. I seem to write poems that are simultaneously anxiety provoking and...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2014
  • Length: 01:43
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Mike Finley says about himself, "I'm a Minnesotan who has been writing forever. I seem to write poems that are simultaneously anxiety provoking and...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2014
  • Length: 01:59
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2014
  • Length: 01:34
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2014
  • Length: 01:19
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2014
  • Length: 01:43
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2014
  • Length: 01:49
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2014
  • Length: 01:50