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"I keep my mouth shut now. I’ve turned into a professional coward.”
- Hunter S. Thompson, as told to Studs Terkel in 1967.
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Jul 29, 2015
- Length: 17:15
- Purchases: 1
The best of American poets and the worst of American wars met head-on 150 years ago this summer in Walt Whitman’s Drum-Taps, his reflections on nur...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WABE
- Added: Jun 07, 2015
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 5
An untold story from World War II: Author and journalist Jan Jarboe Russell discusses her book, "The Train to Crystal City: FDR’s Secret Prisoner E...
- Added: May 29, 2015
- Length: 30:01
Jane Smiley discusses her 2014 book, SOME LUCK, the first in a trilogy that follows an Iowa farm family for more than a century. Smiley talks about...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WNJR
- Added: May 20, 2015
- Length: 30:30
- Purchases: 2
Yoko Ono is best known for her marriage to John Lennon and for her perceived role in the breakup of the Beatles. But she was an accomplished and in...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WCNY, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WABE, WTJU and more
- Added: May 08, 2015
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 6
Yoko Ono is best known for her marriage to John Lennon and for her perceived role in the breakup of the Beatles. But she was an accomplished and in...
- Added: May 08, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
David Treuer, Ojibwe from Leech Lake, now lives in southern California, writing and teaching at USC. He joined WTIP's Buck Benson recently to discu...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Mar 31, 2015
- Length: 23:28
- Purchases: 1
A new online archive of Grimm’s fairy tales reveals the evolution of these iconic stories, whose earlier versions were often violent and sexually s...
- Added: Feb 27, 2015
- Length: 53:55
- Purchases: 5
Searching for the way Shakespeare really sounded. And more...
- Added: Jan 30, 2015
- Length: 53:57
- Purchases: 4
Off the coast of Virginia, in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, lies a shrinking island called Tangier. Here, an unlikely adventurer docked his sai...
Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, WTJU, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 30, 2015
- Length: 03:51
- Purchases: 4
Katharine Weber discusses her historical novel TRIANGLE, about the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.
- Added: Jan 29, 2015
- Length: 27:20
Feminist poet Honor Moore talks about the anthology she edited, Poems From The Women’s Movement.
Bought by WABE
- Added: Jan 29, 2015
- Length: 19:37
- Purchases: 1
Historian and writer Eve LaPlante talks about her book, MARMEE AND LOUISA. It’s about the powerful relationship between Louisa May Alcott and her m...
- Added: Jan 29, 2015
- Length: 28:57
Susan Cheever talks about her acclaimed 2010 biography, LOUISA MAY ALCOTT and about her 2007 book, AMERICAN BLOOMSBURY, Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Wa...
- Added: Jan 29, 2015
- Length: 59:07
John Steinbeck, the author of such classics as “the Grapes of Wrath” and “Of Mice and Men” was born to a middle class family in a beautiful, turret...
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 07:27
As I considered making a show to serve as a kind of year in review, I first thought to choose my favorite program from each month of the year, 12 s...
- Added: Dec 30, 2014
- Length: 57:06
Next year marks the 150th anniversary of Leo Tolstoy’s great Russian tome, War and Peace. While the novel’s great length scares many readers away, ...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Dec 12, 2014
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 1
January 2015 marks the 150th anniversary of the first publication of Tolstoy’s War and Peace. A new book offers Tolstoyan wisdom for troubled times...
- Added: Dec 12, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 4
In his slim, lucid and compulsively readable book Why Read Moby-Dick, Nathaniel Philbrick makes an enthusiastic case for taking a look at Melville...
Bought by Prairie Public, KPIP-LP, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, and WNJR
- Added: Nov 21, 2014
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 4
165 Halloweens on, we still call on Edgar Allan Poe when we want a disturbing kind of classic — all of the horror with none of the guilt. His most ...
- Added: Nov 06, 2014
- Length: 58:35
- Purchases: 6
Evolutionary biologist Sean B. Carroll shares his findings on the friendship between writer Albert Camus and biologist Jacques Monod.
- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 13:25
A historian raises questions about the morality of the archival process and reveals how the NSA may change the future of history research.
- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 12:39
How magic and law shaped the witch trials of early modern Europe
- Added: Oct 28, 2014
- Length: 29:33
Lillian Daniel on the problems of being spiritual but not religious; Katy Scrogin on The Still Point of the Turning World.
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 32:00
Lillian Daniel on spirituality vs. religiosity; Katy Scrogin on A History of Religion in 5 1/2 Objects: Bringing the Spiritual to Its Senses.
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 31:18
