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In his new novel, Kirk Kjeldsen tells the story of an ex-con who is trying to reinvent himself in a new place. The backdrop for the story is Shangh...
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 53:54
- Purchases: 2
In his new novel, Kirk Kjeldsen tells the story of an ex-con who is trying to reinvent himself in a new place. The backdrop for the story is Shangh...
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 3
The U.S. State Department has estimated that 1 million children each year are exploited by the global sex industry. Through a new novel, one author...
Bought by KENW and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 2
With the end of the War in Iraq, tens of thousands of soldiers have returned home, and many of them are going to college. But the transition to aca...
Bought by WJCT and KCPW Salt Lake City
- Added: Jun 28, 2013
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
Andrew Kaplan is a journalist, novelist, and screenwriter.
- Added: Jun 05, 2013
- Length: 25:22
A Confederacy of Dunces, by New Orleans-born John Kennedy Toole, is one of the great stories of American literature. A new biography of Toole tells...
- Added: May 10, 2013
- Length: 53:54
- Purchases: 4
Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs—all names you might recognize as poets of the Beat Generation. But a friend and inspiration to ...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 02:27
Literary critic and pop culture enthusiast Ursula Heise dissects environmental storytelling and its relation to science… both real and fiction. [Se...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 34:06
As part of a series marking Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of the First World War, reporter, Alison Turner, talked to Dr Kate Macdonald ...
- Added: Nov 01, 2012
- Length: 54:00
In 1993, Toni Morrison became only the second American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Joanne Gabbin, executive director of the Furiou...
- Added: Oct 26, 2012
- Length: 02:39
1619 was the year the first Africans arrived on the North American continent. There were at least 20 of them and they came as slaves from Angola. B...
- Added: Oct 12, 2012
- Length: 29:00
When naming the most important stories of the 20th century, gossip writer Liz Smith rattled off the assassination of JFK, the Lindbergh kidnapping,...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Sep 24, 2012
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 1
Ron Capps helps returning service members write their way home. [27:06]
Bought by KPIP-LP and WRVO Public Media
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 27:38
- Purchases: 2
A new edition restores Oscar Wilde's famous novel to its original form.
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Jul 17, 2012
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
Charles Dickens turns 200 this year, and two new films based on his books are in the works. But one scholar says there’s more to Dickens than his m...
- Added: May 31, 2012
- Length: 02:27
Southern Gothic writer Harry Crews died in March of this year. Although many people have never heard of him, Crews’ stories about outcasts inspired...
- Added: May 24, 2012
- Length: 02:26
Radio Curious discusses the close relationship we humans have with other primates, with Dario Maestriprieri, author of “Games Primate Play: An Unde...
- Added: Apr 30, 2012
- Length: 29:02
Radio Curious speaks with Elizabeth Holtzman, a former congresswoman, former District Attorney of Brooklyn, New York and author of Cheating Justic...
- Added: Apr 30, 2012
- Length: 29:02
The Kentucky poet who coined the term “Affrilachian” has a new collection of poetry. Allison Quantz reports he takes on historical and current racism.
Bought by KENW and West Virginia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Apr 09, 2012
- Length: 02:27
- Purchases: 2
Wendy Welch has written a memoir about what it means to open an independent bookstore at a time when physical books seem to be disappearing. Alliso...
Bought by Prairie Public, KENW, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Apr 09, 2012
- Length: 02:31
- Purchases: 3
Appalachia is often imagined as rural and white, but a new wave of African-American writers is challenging the notion of a single Appalachian regio...
- Added: Apr 09, 2012
- Length: 28:57
- Purchases: 9
With the end of the War in Iraq, tens of thousands of soldiers have returned home, and many of them are going to college. Two writing professors ha...
Bought by KUOW, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 31, 2012
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 3
Are colleges and universities ready for the influx of veterans returning from military service?
- Added: Jan 31, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Literary biographer Brenda Wineapple discusses her book, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Dec 02, 2011
- Length: 28:55
- Purchases: 1
Meet Sam Spade, detective, lady-killer. Before it became a classic film, it was first an incredible moral tale of crime and deception. Find out why.
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Prairie Public, KZYX, KMUN, KPIP-LP and more
- Added: Aug 12, 2011
- Length: 29:17
- Purchases: 9
