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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
In search of inefficiency in an overly efficient digital world, Jakob Lewis entered the ‘typosphere,’ an online community of typewriter enthusiasts...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Aug 17, 2022
- Length: 27:43
- Purchases: 1
A group of children worry about their Hispanic grandmother after the death of her only sibling, Uncle Lolo. Written by Michael Fidel Marquez, Narr...
- Added: Jul 11, 2017
- Length: 25:31
Pirates and their deeds become legend. Blackbeard, Lester’s personal favorite, did this thing with canon fuses, or so the legend goes. Just as his...
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 26:15
Philip Armand gets repeatedly bitten by a spider and a famous artist dangles the carrot of fame.
- Added: Mar 21, 2016
- Length: 06:22
Being a roofer was never sold to Philip Armand as a safe profession. When he nearly falls to his death, he is left thinking about his childhood di...
- Added: Mar 12, 2016
- Length: 04:19
When the Rough Draft Diaries first met Jan Wahl, we knew we would be in for a treat. Jan's living room is lined with Disney memorabilia, his baseme...
- Added: Jan 18, 2016
- Length: 06:03
Writer and radio producer Jonathan Goldstein talks about starting out in radio, working at This American Life, and blurring the line between fact &...
- Added: Jan 17, 2016
- Length: 09:53
Linda Back McKay is an independent advertising and marketing writer and director in the Twin Cities. Her most recent books are "The Next Best Thing...
- Added: Dec 16, 2015
- Length: 02:21
Robert Jevne lives, works, farms and occassionally writes in the greater Jacobson area.
- Added: Aug 26, 2015
- Length: :53
An amusing passage from one of 2014's Ten Best Books (New York Times Book Review), Family Life is a novel by Akhil Sharma who grew up in Delhi, Ind...
- Added: Feb 13, 2015
- Length: 01:40
James C. Henderson is a graduate of Metropolitan State University's Creative Writing program, and Hamline University's MFA program. He lives in New...
- Added: Aug 13, 2014
- Length: 03:20
Robert Jevne lives, works, and talks about himself in the third person in the greater Jacobson area. This manner of speaking is most likely an outg...
- Added: Jul 17, 2014
- Length: 01:35
The literal translation of Julia Helene Oxenreider is: Youthful, changing soft-haired sunlight riding ox. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Min...
- Added: Apr 11, 2014
- Length: 03:56
Host and producer of This American Life IRA GLASS, RadioLab's JAD ABUMRAD and ROBERT KRULWICH, Prairie Home Companion's GARRISON KEILLOR and music ...
Bought by 90.5 WESA, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, KSRQ, and WCPN
- Added: Dec 13, 2013
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 5
The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!!
Featuring Artists David Phillips and Amara Kopakova.
- Added: Feb 21, 2013
- Length: 27:55
This week it's stories about best laid plans, and how those plans go amiss. Stories by Wayne Ball, Peter O'Connell, and Mark Isbell. All stories ar...
- Added: Dec 25, 2012
- Length: :00
In this Cutting Edge Special, some of the work of late poet Louis Reyes is highlighted through live performances at WBAI and his show "Perspective"
- Added: Apr 25, 2012
- Length: 01:00:03
A gift from the Julia Child Foundation. In "Cannery Row" the hobos poach a chicken over a campfire, in a 5-gallon coffee can. What they don't know,...
Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KZYX, KRCB 104.9, KZYX, and KUT
- Added: Sep 17, 2010
- Length: 26:55
- Purchases: 5
Please join Arts & Cultural Reporter Jeff Carmack for a feature covering the rather unique and inspiring people and organizations which create a re...
- Added: May 17, 2010
- Length: 28:58
On a cool October night, two dozen international writers were shuttled to Fort Madison, Iowa, home of the Tri-State Rodeo. They had come in search ...
- Added: Feb 20, 2010
- Length: 14:46
Salon regular and Emmy winning writer Joseph Dougherty discovers an unnoticed gift in a crowded train station.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Aug 23, 2006
- Length: 03:15
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jul 13, 2006
- Length: 10:36
- Purchases: 1
