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Return of the Confusables
From: KMUW
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We get back to one of our favorite topics: words that sound a lot like other words but that mean totally different things.

Bought by KECG and KRPS


  • Added: Mar 20, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
MN Reads: "The Last Supper Club" by Matthew Batt
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Matthew Batt talks about his new memoir "The Last Supper Club: A Waiter's Requiem"

  • Added: Nov 30, 2023
  • Length: 08:33
The Cruelest Month: Ten Poets Reflect on Love
From: New Letters on the Air
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We're celebrating National Poetry Month with a nod to what Missouri-born poet T.S. Eliot called THE CRUELEST MONTH. Listen to ten poets, reflectin...

Bought by KFCF FM, WNMU-FM, GCR (Global Community Radio), WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER and more


  • Added: Apr 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
Story Prize-winning Author George Saunders
From: New Letters on the Air
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George Saunders reads a passage from his Story Prize-winning collection, TENTH OF DECEMBER. In this public presentation, Saunders discusses his pat...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Dec 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
MN Reads: “Dumb Dumb Dumb: My Mother's Book Reviews” a memoir by Mary Jo Pehl
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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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
Working-Class Poets
From: New Letters on the Air
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The rigors and joys of work are celebrated in this special anthology program entitled WORKING CLASS POETS. B.H. Fairchild, Susan Gubernat, Robert S...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), and WNJR


  • Added: Sep 07, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
DIY Memoirist and Fiction Writer Ron Tanner
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Ron Tanner
Fiction writer Ron Tanner, the author of the 2022 short story collection FAR WEST,talks about the similarities between renovating a house and writi...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WNJR, and WJCU


  • Added: Aug 22, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Book Launch: Junkyard Tough
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Today on Culture Clique we talked with author and publisher Jenny Baertsch and illustrator Sara Pientok for the signing and launch of their first b...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2022
  • Length: 11:53
Fiction Writer and Essayist Charles Baxter
From: New Letters on the Air
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Fiction writer Charles Baxter reveals some of his motivations for writing short stories and novels. In this interview in front of an audience at th...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Feb 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Children's Authors Lemony Snicket & Kate DiCamillo
From: New Letters on the Air
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Both Lemony Snicket (the pen name of Daniel Handler) and Kate DiCamillo are authors of children's literature whose work has multigenerational appea...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Back to the Writing Well featuring Elizabeth Gaffney, George Saunders, and the late Pat Conroy
From: New Letters on the Air
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR's Classic Series continues with "Back to the Writing Well." This time we'll hear about the influence of place and family fro...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KRZA, WNJR, WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 29, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Write Question - Sarah Aswell - 438
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Comedian and humor writer Sarah Aswell discusses her works and stand up. She also reads a selection and shares a live comedy bit.

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


  • Added: Feb 12, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
PN 16-06 "Ode to Coffee" by Urayoan Noel
From: The Poetry Foundation
Series: PoetryNow
Caption: Uyayoan Noel
Urayoán Noel considers the pleasures of coffee and how those pleasures may differ between the English and Spanish languages.

Bought by KALW, KVNO, KTNA, KENW, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 7
Former Missouri Poet Laureate William Trowbridge
From: New Letters on the Air
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While At Rockhurst University'S 2014 Midwest Poets Series, Former Missouri Poet Laureate William Trowbridge reads poems from his numerous books tha...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: May 31, 2017
  • Length: 30:30
  • Purchases: 1
Novelist Arthur Phillips discusses the influence of Shakespeare
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Arthur Phillips
Four hundred years after the death of William Shakespeare and during the Folger Library's year long nationwide tour of The Bard's first folio in 20...

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jun 06, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Pitching Poetry: Recalculating Charles Bernstein
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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"Recalculating" is Charles Bernstein's first new book of poetry since his daughter, Emma Bee Bernstein, died in December of 2008, and is in large m...

  • Added: May 31, 2016
  • Length: 57:19
Dhaka Facebook Fest.?
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip Roy gets virtually stranded in Bangladesh at the Dhaka Lit. Fest.

  • Added: Nov 23, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
The Prick Of Noon: Talking About Romeo & Juliet
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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We have two guests with us tonight to discuss the play both as production or performance and as text; the deed and the word. As Harold Goddard said...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 59:19
TSR15-06 Nahko & Medicine For The People
From: Tent Show Radio
Series: Tent Show Radio
Caption: Tent Show Radio
“I think our music promotes the bridging of all tribes,” Nahko says. “The lyrics and the stories and our energy as a group break down people’s wall...

Bought by WGZS, KALH, KPIP-LP, KMSU, WRNC-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 10
Tim Dorsey discusses "Shark Skin Suite"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Tim Dorsey was a reporter and editor for the Tampa Tribune from 1987 to 1999, and is the author of seventeen other novels: Tiger Shrimp Tango, The ...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2015
  • Length: 11:04
African-American Poet Angela Jackson
From: New Letters on the Air
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In this public reading entitled "Love Letters to Generations," Angela Jackson shares some of her work, including a reading from her first novel, th...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WNJR


  • Added: Jan 22, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Live Wire Radio - Episode 240 Encore
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Author Daniel Handler and artist Lisa Brown, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire Radio
Author DANIEL HANDLER and artist LISA BROWN, comedian JAY FLEWELLING, music from THE DOUBLECLICKS.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service and KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Live Wire Radio - Episode 240 Encore NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Author Daniel Handler and artist Lisa Brown, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire Radio
Author DANIEL HANDLER and artist LISA BROWN, comedian JAY FLEWELLING, music from THE DOUBLECLICKS.

Bought by WRIR, WCPN, KUT, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Northwest Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: 54:03
  • Purchases: 8
Live Wire Radio - Episode 254 NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Comedian Todd Glass, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire Radio
Comedian TODD GLASS, author DANIEL H. WILSON, and music by EDJ.

Bought by WCPN, KUT, WRIR, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Jun 12, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
Live Wire Radio - Episode 254
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Comedian Todd Glass, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire Radio
Comedian TODD GLASS, author DANIEL H. WILSON, and music by EDJ.

Bought by KUNV, WRIR, Rhythm & News Service, and KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 12, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4