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Shelf Discovery: The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows one woman’s fight for freedom in The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon.

Bought by RADIOLEX, WUTC, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jun 19, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: The Girls of Summer by Katie Bishop
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin travels to the Greek Islands as a young woman reminisces about a life-changing summer in The Girls of Summe...

Bought by RADIOLEX, WRMU, GCR (Global Community Radio), WUTC, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jun 12, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
June Again
From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music
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Insightful and whimsical poetry about summer vacations .

  • Added: Jun 11, 2023
  • Length: 59:21
Nicole Chung Discusses Her Memoir "A Living Remedy"
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Nicole Chung, Credit: Carletta Girma
Nicole Chung writes of family and loss with a focus on broader societal failures.

Bought by KMUN, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KZUM


  • Added: Jun 06, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 5
Shelf Discovery: Hot Pot Murder by Jennifer J. Chow
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin searches for a killer with a food stand owner and her cousin in Hot Pot Murder by Jennifer J. Chow.

Bought by RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), WRMU, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jun 05, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Shelf Discovery: The Women Who Built Hollywood by Susan Goldman Rubin
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin travels back to the early days of movies to meet 12 influential women in The Women Who Built Hollywood by S...

Bought by WUTC, RADIOLEX, WRMU, GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: May 29, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
Novelist Whitney Terrell
From: New Letters on the Air
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Novelist Whitney Terrell talks about his third novel, THE GOOD LIEUTENANT. Terrell was embedded with the military in Iraq, writing non-fiction for ...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: May 29, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Shelf Discovery: The Ferryman by Justin Cronin
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin explores life in an eerily utopian community in The Ferryman by Justin Cronin.

Bought by RADIOLEX, WRMU, GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: May 22, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Dance-Punk and the Genre Series
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we discussed the new book "Dance-Punk," part of a new series of "Genre" books from 33 1/3. We discussed the history of dance-punk ...

  • Added: May 20, 2023
  • Length: 28:29
Shelf Discovery: The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows a romance author’s quest to find love on TV in The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren.

Bought by RADIOLEX, WRMU, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Revisiting Author and Author and 2021 National Humanities Medalist Amy Tan
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Amy Tan, Credit: Julian Johnson
In time for Mother's Day: Author and 2021 National Humanities Medalist Amy Tan discusses “The Joy Luck Club,” her writing with its themes of family...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KZUM


  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 28:26
  • Purchases: 4
Shelf Discovery: The Last Word by Katy Birchall
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin goes to work with two bickering coworkers with a past in The Last Word by Katy Birchall.

Bought by WRMU and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: May 08, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Shelf Discovery: Swamp Story by Dave Barry
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin ventures into the Everglades with a motley group of misfits in Swamp Story by Dave Barry.

Bought by RADIOLEX, WRMU, GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: May 01, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Meet Meg Medina: Library of Congress’s 2023-24 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Meg Medina, Credit: Scott Elmquist
Author and Library of Congress’s 2023-24 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Meg Medina wants to spark joy in young readers as they f...

Bought by WSLR and KZUM


  • Added: May 01, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Cruelest Month: Ten Poets Reflect on Love
From: New Letters on the Air
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We're celebrating National Poetry Month with a nod to what Missouri-born poet T.S. Eliot called THE CRUELEST MONTH. Listen to ten poets, reflectin...

Bought by KFCF FM, WNMU-FM, GCR (Global Community Radio), WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER and more


  • Added: Apr 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
Shelf Discovery: French Holiday by Sarah Ready
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows a brokenhearted young woman as she escapes to France in French Holiday by Sarah Ready.

Bought by RADIOLEX, RadioStPete Florida, WRMU, and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Apr 24, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Poet Ellen Bass: Part 1
From: New Letters on the Air
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California poet Ellen Bass, the author of the 2020 book INDIGO, describes looking back on her childhood in Philadelphia for inspiration, especially...

Bought by KAAD-LP and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Revisiting Ecopoet Camille T. Dungy
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Camille T Dungy, Credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Ecopoet and two-time NEA Literature Fellow Camille T Dungy discusses how history and race complicates nature writing

Bought by KECG, WSLR, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KZUM, WDCB and more


  • Added: Apr 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 6
Shelf Discovery: The Soulmate by Sally Hepworth
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin searches for love and truth after tragedy strikes two very different couples in The Soulmate by Sally Hepwo...

Bought by RADIOLEX, WRMU, GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Apr 17, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Poet Ada Limón
From: New Letters on the Air
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National Poetry Month continues with this "Classic" program featuring our current U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón (lee-moan). In this 2020 reading at ...

Bought by WNMU-FM and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Apr 17, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 136: Michael Lewis on What Makes Some People Irreplaceable , 4/16/2023
From: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Series: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
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What makes someone impossible to forget?

  • Added: Apr 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:08
Shelf Discovery: Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin explores the ugly side of the quest for beauty in Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang.

Bought by RADIOLEX, WRMU, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Apr 10, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Writing Through (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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What do the mythological Chimera and motherhood have in common?

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, KHEN-LP, KCHW, and WYAP


  • Added: Apr 06, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
Writing Through (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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What do the mythological Chimera and motherhood have in common?

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WFHB, KVSC, WRMU, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 06, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 8
Writing Through (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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What do the mythological Chimera and motherhood have in common?

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WTJU, WMUU-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KXCV and more


  • Added: Apr 06, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7

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