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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
Twelfth Night
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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The Bard's rollicking romantic comedy

Bought by KUNM, KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, KMUN and more


  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 11
MN Reads: “Meander North” by Marie Zhuikov
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Marie Zhuikov talks about her new book of essays “Meander North”

  • Added: Dec 08, 2022
  • Length: 15:14
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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“We're actors — we're the opposite of people!”

Bought by WPCA-LP, KUNM, KCHW, KKRN, KFCF FM and more


  • Added: Oct 18, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:03
  • Purchases: 13
Delaware State of the Arts - Gregory Hammond
From: Andrew Truscott
Series: Delaware State of the Arts Podcast
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Andy Truscott speaks with Greg Hammond, an author from Wilmington, Delaware – and one of the Delaware Division of the Arts’ 2022 Emerging Individua...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2022
  • Length: 22:13
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
How many ways can we ‘Spell Heaven’?
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Pacifica Municipal Pier, Credit: Toni Mirosevich
How do we find human connection? Being “in with the out crowd?" Author and poet Toni Mirosevich finds peers on the pier. She reads from her latest ...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Oct 04, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 1
MN Reads: “Windswept” by Margi Preus
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Margi Preus talks about Windswept, her new book for young readers

  • Added: Sep 15, 2022
  • Length: 11:23
The Head Water Blues Opry
From: KVSC
Series: St. Cloud Area Arts & Culture Collage
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What is The Blues? Arts and Cultural Heritage Reporter Jeff Carmack looks for the answer as he explores the Head Water Blues Opry, performed at th...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:25
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
The Big Ponder #43: The Typewriter
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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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
The Rivals
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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"He is the very pineapple of politeness."

Bought by KWMR, KMUN, Spokane Public Radio, KFCF FM, WPCA-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 09, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:04
  • Purchases: 18
MN Reads: "Rafferty's Last Case" by Larry Millett
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Larry Millett talks about his new book "Rafferty's Last Case"

  • Added: Aug 04, 2022
  • Length: 08:35
Josh Weiss discusses "Beat the Devils"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Josh Weiss is a novelist who lives in Philadelphia.

  • Added: Jun 01, 2022
  • Length: 26:48
T Jefferson Parker discusses "A Thousand Steps"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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A Thousand Steps is a beguiling thriller, an incisive coming-of-age story, and a vivid portrait of a turbulent time and place by three-time Edgar ...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2022
  • Length: 28:49
Boom Town: A Garrison Keillor Special
From: On the Strip Radio Network
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Garrison Keillor Returns to Lake Wobegon in Boom Town A Free One-Hour Special With Garrison Keillor From On The Strip Radio In his latest novel, P...

Bought by KTXK, KICI Iowa City, KENW, Interlochen Public Radio, WSKG and more


  • Added: Apr 11, 2022
  • Length: 55:02
  • Purchases: 6
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
Zooming the Lit Fests
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip reflects on how literature festivals have mutated during the COVID pandemic.

  • Added: Jan 24, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
Thomas Fox Averill shares his Christmas Novel
From: New Letters on the Air
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Thomas Fox Averill discusses his award-winning novel, A CAROL DICKENS CHRISTMAS, that weaves the influences of Charles Dickens and traditional Vict...

Bought by WRKF and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Dec 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Montevideo, Uruguay
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: Postcards from The Wind
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A postcard from Montevideo, Uruguay

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 12, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • 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
The Write Question - Robert Wrigley
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Robert Wrigley talks about his new essay collection, "Nemerov's Door" and reads from his upcoming collection of poetry, "The True Account of Myself...

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


  • Added: Dec 08, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
National Writers Series: Anthony Doerr
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Three
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Lysley Tenorio talks with author Anthony Doerr.

Bought by WNMU-FM, Michigan Radio, and WKAR


  • Added: Nov 11, 2021
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 3

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