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The Write Question - Michael McGriff - 289

From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question

Michael McGriff talks about his artistic process and reads from two collections of poetry. He also discuses his translation of the Swedish Nobel Pr...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KWMR, and KSJD

Added: Aug 07, 2017
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 4

First Poet Laureate of Belfast Sinéad Morrissey: Part 2

From: New Letters on the Air

When Sinead Morrissey won the 2013 T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize for her fifth book, PARALLAX, her work was then published in the U.S. pulling from all f...

Bought by WNJR

Added: Mar 30, 2017
Length: 30:00
Purchases: 1

Polish Poet Adam Zagajewski

From: New Letters on the Air

Poet Adam Zagajewski (zah-gah-yev-ski), the 2016 recipient of the Griffin Lifetime Achievement Prize for Excellence in Poetry, was born in Lwow, Po...

Bought by WNJR

Added: Oct 26, 2016
Length: 30:00
Purchases: 1

Shelf Discovery: The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike

From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery

On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin moves into an eerie apartment with the Japanese thriller The Graveyard Apartment by author Mariko Koike.

Bought by WMUU-LP and WLPR

Added: Oct 18, 2016
Length: 03:00
Purchases: 2

Essayist and Fiction Writer Thomas E. Kennedy

From: New Letters on the Air

National Magazine Award winning essayist Thomas E. Kennedy discusses his approach to essay writing, particularly in his collection RIDING THE DOG: ...

Bought by WNJR

Added: Jul 28, 2016
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

Pulitzer 100: Shifting the Spotlight (Half Hour)

From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series

Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Paula Vogel has tackled traditionally taboo subjects. In a different role, Vogel has also distinguished herself a...

Added: Jun 03, 2016
Length: 28:59

Pulitzer 100: Shifting the Spotlight (Hour)

From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series

-Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel has tackled traditionally taboo subjects. Vogel has also distinguished herself as an exceptional tea...

Added: Jun 03, 2016
Length: 53:56

Remembering Baghdad

From: Hold That Thought
Series: Going Global

Caption: Baghdad Radio Orchestra 1938, Credit: Shlomo Elkivity

Professor Nancy Berg examines the legacy of Iraqi-Jewish writers, along with questions of home and identity.

Bought by WABE

Added: Mar 10, 2016
Length: 11:50
Purchases: 1

WorldCanvass: Don Quixote's Four Century Saga (Part 3)

From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass

The four century saga of knight-errant Don Quixote and his squire Sancho Panza kicks off the new season of WorldCanvass. Host Joan Kjaer and Worl...

Bought by KPIP-LP

Added: Sep 22, 2015
Length: 23:53
Purchases: 1

WorldCanvass: Don Quixote's Four Century Saga (Part 2)

From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass

The four century saga of knight-errant Don Quixote and his squire Sancho Panza kicks off the new season of WorldCanvass. Host Joan Kjaer and World...

Bought by KPIP-LP

Added: Sep 22, 2015
Length: 26:02
Purchases: 1

WorldCanvass:Don Quixote's Four Century Saga (Part 1)

From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass

The four century saga of knight-errant Don Quixote and his squire Sancho Panza kicks off the new season of WorldCanvass. Host Joan Kjaer and World...

Bought by KPIP-LP

Added: Sep 22, 2015
Length: 23:05
Purchases: 1

Across The Sea (Los Buques Suicidantes)

From: Rachel Liu
Series: Anthology

Caption: Ghost Ship, Credit: Albert Pinkham Ryder

Jackie, a journalist in the 1920s, thought she'd seen it all when she boarded a ship headed where few ships dare sail.

Added: Sep 08, 2015
Length: 30:27

A discussion with Peter Finn about "The Zhivago Affair"

From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra

Reader's Corner host Bob Kustra talks with the Washington Post's Peter Finn about his fascinating book.

Added: Sep 04, 2015
Length: 30:10

Vicente Gutierrez, the publisher and editor of Highway: Making it Work

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Here's how a writer created the music magazine he wanted to read.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KPIP-LP, WNJR, KPVL, and WABE

Added: Aug 14, 2015
Length: 28:29
Purchases: 5

Under The Algerian Sun: Camus and Daoud

From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon

It’s the rare writer who can pick up where Albert Camus — master of midcentury philosophy and fiction — left off in the modern classic, The Outside...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KMUN

Added: Jun 26, 2015
Length: 58:37
Purchases: 2

Author and MacArthur Fellow Edwidge Danticat talks about her memoir

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Edwidge Danticat, Credit: Jonathan Demme

In this conversation, Edwidge explores the writing of her powerful memoir, Brother, I’m Dying.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR

Added: Jun 09, 2015
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 3

Under Magnolia (Feature)

From: With Good Reason
Series: news features

Best known for her books about the joys of life in Italy, Frances Mayes has published a new memoir. But this time, she takes her readers back to he...

Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KKRN

Added: May 29, 2015
Length: 03:43
Purchases: 3

Under Magnolia (Hour Long Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

When Frances Mayes moved to Tuscany, Italy she left behind her family and roots in Fitzgerald, Georgia. In her new memoir Under Magnolia, the renow...

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, WFAE, WABE, KKRN and more

Added: May 29, 2015
Length: 53:55
Purchases: 6

Understanding Others: Transformative Writers

From: New Letters on the Air

We give thanks for transformative writers in this episode entitled UNDERSTANDING OTHERS, a show that features excerpts from six programs that highl...

Added: Dec 04, 2014
Length: 29:00

Please Burn After Reading

From: Hold That Thought
Series: Writing from History

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

Mushi, Ticks, and Walking Sticks (Hour Long Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

In Japan, insects (or "mushi") are pets, medicine, and even vehicles for spirits. Plus: A robot that kills ticks. And more...

Bought by WCNY, WABE, WTJU, and KKRN

Added: Jul 11, 2014
Length: 53:57
Purchases: 4

Mushi, Ticks, and Walking Sticks

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

In Japan, insects (or "mushi") are pets, medicine, and even vehicles for spirits. Plus: A robot that kills ticks. And: A poem about the insect know...

Bought by WJCT, WDBM, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WLIW, WMNF and more

Added: Jul 11, 2014
Length: 28:59
Purchases: 6

A Conversation with Dinaw Mengestu

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Dinaw Mengestu, Credit: Michael Lionstar

The author discusses the latest Big Read pick, The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears, his novel about an Ethiopian exile in a gentrifying Washingt...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WABE