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Our healthcare system is in a state of transition, with both doctors and patients anxious about where we’re heading. Many doctors are exploring new...
Bought by WJCT, WCSU-FM, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WMNF, WLIW and more
- Added: Jul 18, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 6
Our healthcare system is in a state of transition, with both doctors and patients anxious about where we’re heading. Many doctors are exploring new...
- Added: Jul 18, 2014
- Length: 53:57
- Purchases: 4
For the holiday weekend, we look back in history at Sara Payson Willis, a novelist, journalist, and feminist who wrote under the pseudonym "Fanny F...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Jul 09, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
From: WBEZ
Freaks and nerds unite! Freakonomics' Stephen Dubner teaches Tricia and Greta how to think like a freak. Plus a portrait of astronaut Sally Ride on...
- Added: Jun 24, 2014
- Length: 26:59
- Purchases: 3
Murder, mystery, and poetry come together in medieval scholar Bruce Holsinger’s new novel set in Chaucer’s London.
- Added: May 30, 2014
- Length: 53:57
- Purchases: 3
Inspired by Frost’s focus on the choices we make throughout our lives, Sarah Milad has recorded voices from progressive ages to read his poem. The ...
- Added: Apr 14, 2014
- Length: 01:17
For Women's History Month with a nod to St.Patty's Day, we revisit Irish author Anne Enright, who discusses her dark but humorous approach to writi...
- Added: Mar 19, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Renowned writers, singers, and poets, including Maya Angelou and Nikki Giovanni, paid tribute to Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison with an extravaganza ...
Bought by WORT, WJCT, WTJU, Northwest Public Broadcasting, WCSU-FM and more
- Added: Feb 21, 2014
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 9
One of the most important writers of the Black Arts Movement, Sonia Sanchez recently completed her term as Philadelphia's first Poet Laureate. This...
- Added: Feb 14, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Eudora Welty was one of the South’s most beloved writers, and her fiction is still a study in detail and dialogue and wit. Her settings were often ...
Bought by Troy Public Radio and Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Jan 17, 2014
- Length: 13:47
- Purchases: 2
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Kristen Egan walks us through a creepy utopian novel from 1915, and explains why environmentalism and eugenics went hand in hand in the early 20th ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Radio Newark, PRX Remix, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Oct 07, 2013
- Length: 06:50
- Purchases: 4
A new novel by Sara Fraizan explores the issues of gender orientation. But, what sets this work apart from its predecessors is that it’s written fo...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Aug 20, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
Peggy Shumaker, Alaska's State Writer Laureate, 2010-2012, is adept at capturing the beauty of landscapes, both internal and external. She reads fr...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Jul 24, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
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
Catskin is part two of our series on tales of the persecuted heroine. If you think Cinderella had it rough, this girl's dad will do anything to mar...
- Added: Mar 03, 2013
- Length: 18:18
Poet, essayist, and teacher, Alison Hawthorne Deming compares the northeast and southwest landscapes and their different impacts on her writing pro...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 29:02
LouAnn Shepard Muhm is a widely published poet and teacher living in northern Minnesota. She has been featured in the mnartists.org series "What Li...
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 01:38
Retired educator, Lorie Yourd, shares her insightful, reflective poem "After Hearing About the Rain."
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 02:08
Originally published from 1932 to 1943, Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books are classics of children's literature, beloved by millions. Now T...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ
- Added: Jan 04, 2013
- Length: 14:51
- Purchases: 2
Kristy Guevera-Flanagan talks the terrors of truth, the progressive nature of soap operas, and why it took a woman writer to get Wonder Woman out o...
- Added: Nov 29, 2012
- Length: 21:10
Joe Wright talks dancing through class distinctions, the seduction of ego, and the magic of the intangible.
- Added: Nov 18, 2012
- Length: 12:04
Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.
- Added: Nov 07, 2012
- Length: 01:55:25
WTIP's Ann Possis chatted with author Mary Casanova recently about her newest book, "Frozen," from the U of MN Press. Set in the beautiful, wild ar...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Oct 31, 2012
- Length: 18:37
- Purchases: 1
Amy Clark is a native Iowan and recent transplant to Northern Minnesota. She is a poet, essayist, university instructor, and sometimes producer fo...
- Added: Oct 31, 2012
- Length: 02:20
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
