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Eddie Miles is one of a dying breed: a Windy City hack who knows every street and back alley of his beloved city and takes its recent descent into ...
- Added: Apr 30, 2024
- Length: 27:08
Author Tashia Hart talks about her new book "Native Love Jams", a nominee for the Minnesota Book Award
- Added: Mar 28, 2024
- Length: 09:30
We get back to one of our favorite topics: words that sound a lot like other words but that mean totally different things.
- Added: Mar 20, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
We look at what happens when we approach non-English words with a little too much gusto, and how, exactly, we should be saying foreign words so tha...
- Added: Feb 01, 2024
- Length: 29:00
Doublespeak! We look at unconscious ways we follow the rules of English by doubling sounds and words, and how meanings of words can change when we ...
Bought by KBBI Alaska, KRPS, and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Jan 30, 2024
- Length: 28:57
- Purchases: 3
Dawn Powell wrote novels about people like herself: outsiders who’d come to New York City in the early twentieth century to make a name for themsel...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 22:02
- Purchases: 1
This episode features comedian Hari Kondabula, writer Kristi Coulter, and music from indie rock duo Quasi.
- Added: Jan 12, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Added: Dec 31, 2023
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
Author Douglas Wood talks about his latest work "A Wild Path"
- Added: Dec 07, 2023
- Length: 09:04
Oscar Wilde's devastating drawing-room comedy.
Bought by KKRN, KMUN, KCHW, WPCA-LP, Spokane Public Radio and more
- Added: Dec 05, 2023
- Length: 01:58:04
- Purchases: 28
Author Matthew Batt talks about his new memoir "The Last Supper Club: A Waiter's Requiem"
- Added: Nov 30, 2023
- Length: 08:33
Pat Livingston talks with bestselling author Ken Follett.
Bought by WKAR
- Added: Nov 10, 2023
- Length: 54:31
- Purchases: 1
Over 14,000 patrons have signed up for their first library card since Jay-Z's exhibit came to Central Library in mid-July. We talk to Brooklynites ...
- Added: Sep 29, 2023
- Length: 07:49
Simon Helberg, Jamie Belber, Glenne Headly, David Krumholtz, and Stacy Keach lead an all-star cast in Shakespeare's timeless comedy.
Bought by KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio, KCHW, KMUN, KWMR and more
- Added: Sep 20, 2023
- Length: 01:58:01
- Purchases: 44
Author Margi Preus talks about her Northeastern Minnesota Book Award nominated picture book "Lily Leads the Way"
- Added: Aug 03, 2023
- Length: 08:39
Eva Apelqvist talks about her award-winning book "Mörker Över Skateparken" and the upcoming release of her English-translation of "Fire From the Sk...
- Added: Jul 20, 2023
- Length: 07:49
Father and daughter Kurt and Ellie Johnson talk about their Minnesota Book Award winning novel "The Barrens"
- Added: Jun 29, 2023
- Length: 10:06
Author Mary Logue talks about her new book "The Big Sugar"
- Added: Jun 05, 2023
- Length: 08:52
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
The game's afoot, Watson!
Bought by KFCF FM, KUOW, KMUN, KWMR, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more
- Added: Apr 18, 2023
- Length: 01:58:02
- Purchases: 42
National Poetry Month continues with this "Classic" program featuring our current U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón (lee-moan). In this 2020 reading at ...
- Added: Apr 17, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Author Adam Herman talks about his new book "Villa Leila"
- Added: Apr 13, 2023
- Length: 08:34
Sean Doolittle is an American author of crime and suspense fiction. This is his seventh book.
- Added: Mar 22, 2023
- Length: 27:38
Award-winning and bestselling author William Kotzwinkle is back with the second in the darkly comedic Felonious Monk series featuring Tommy Martini...
- Added: Feb 20, 2023
- Length: 28:41
Paul Metsa talks about his new book “Alphabet Jazz”
- Added: Dec 29, 2022
- Length: 19:26
