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Aesthetic Bliss with Edna O'Brien and Lila Azam Zanganeh
From: Open Source
Caption: Edna O'Brien
We're succumbing to the enchantments of prose this hour, first with Edna O'Brien, that "scandalous woman" in the James Joyce and Samuel Beckett fam...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 10, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 155
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Alela Diane, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Guests include Author Erik Larson, a special audio tour of the audio talent legend Mel Blanc, and musical guest Alela Diane.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 09, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 154
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Matthew Inman, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Guests Include Matthew Inman (Creator of The Oatmeal), Essayist/Artist Margaret Malone, and musical guest Dolorean

  • Added: Jun 03, 2011
  • Length: 58:58
Louisa Van Velser (mother of Walt Whitman), May 23, 1873
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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The mother of one of our greatest American writers. Long thought to be illiterate ... revealed by her letters to have a distinctive writing voice t...

  • Added: May 17, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Tales from the South 004
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Fall 2010 Season
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Lisa Brandom, Rich Adams, and Lynn Ramage Shafer share about the transition to new perceptions: of God, of familiar places, and of humiliation. Sou...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Tales from the South 003
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Fall 2010 Season
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Marcia Camp parks her unique ride, Joanna Siebert searches for a bird and a connection, Bob Donaldson witnesses the birth of rock and roll, and Ken...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 149
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Chelsea Cain, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Guests include: New York Times bestselling thriller author Chelsea Cain, essayist and blogger Stacy Bolt and musical guest Holcombe Waller.

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Apr 21, 2011
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Slavery in the Upper Mississippi Valley
From: KVSC
Series: St. Cloud Area Arts & Culture Collage
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As the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War is upon us, we have an interview conducted by Arts & Cultural Heritage Reporter Jeff Carmack wit...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2011
  • Length: 26:30
David Lipsky and Rick Moody on David Foster Wallace
From: KCRW
Series: KCRW's Bookworm
Caption: Michael Silverblatt, Credit: Marc Goldstein
When David Foster Wallace died, he left behind drafts of a novel called The Pale King.

  • Added: Apr 13, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Tom Perrotta on Flannery O'Connor -- a literary affinity
From: Jenny Attiyeh
Caption: Flannery O'Connor in 1962, Credit: Joe McTyre/Atlanta Constitution
Tom Perrotta, the author of "Little Children", "Election" and the upcoming novel "The Leftovers", speaks with ThoughtCast about a writer who fascin...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 30:00
Michelle Latiolais
From: Mario Diaz
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Michell Latiolis reveals how the death of her husband impacted the stories in her new collection Widow.

  • Added: Apr 07, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
A real life film noir: Dashiell Hammett and the case of the missing manuscript
From: KALW
Caption: hough he died in 1961, author Dashiell Hammett's manuscripts are still being discovered.
What do the city of San Francisco, a long lost manuscript, and a Mediterranean bird of prey have in common? Well, they’re all part of the legend of...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KZYX


  • Added: Apr 04, 2011
  • Length: 07:43
  • Purchases: 2
Hallie Ephron discusses "Come and Find Me'
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Hallie Ephron is a journalist and fiction writer living in New England.

  • Added: Apr 02, 2011
  • Length: 28:30
Victorians Get the Google Treatment
From: With Good Reason
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How many Victorian books would you have to read to know the Victorians? What if you could read all 1.7 million?

  • Added: Mar 29, 2011
  • Length: 28:57
MILDRED PIERCE -- Todd Haynes on his five-part HBO minseries
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Todd Haynes, San Francisco, CA, 3/25/11, Credit: Andrea Chase
Filmmaker Todd Haynes talks mother love, class distinction, and authenticity.

  • Added: Mar 27, 2011
  • Length: 16:43
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 145
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Priory, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Guests include: Artistic Director of the acclaimed Oregon Shakespeare Festival, indie filmmaker Matt McCormick, musical guests the indescribable Pr...

Bought by WCPN, WNJR, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Mar 25, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Wallace Stroby discusses "Cold Shot to the Heart"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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A former newspaperman, Wallace Stroby lives in New Jersey.

  • Added: Mar 24, 2011
  • Length: 26:32
JANE EYRE - Director Cary Fukunaga and star Mia Wasikowska interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Director Cary Fukunaga and star Mia Wasikowska talk classics, cold, and control.

  • Added: Mar 20, 2011
  • Length: 06:17
Jenny Shank, author 'The Ringer'
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During this program Jenny Shank talks about her new (and first) book, THE RINGER, a novel about baseball, racial tension, and two families trying t...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 18, 2011
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 144
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Live Wire! cast, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Guests include: the multitalented Christine McKinley of the History Channel's "Decoded", author and Americana expert Kurt Reighley, with musical gu...

Bought by WCPN, WGBH Radio Boston, and WNJR


  • Added: Mar 17, 2011
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 3
Jeff Hull, author of 'Pale Morning Done' and 'Streams of Consciousness: Hip-Deep Dispatches from the River of Life
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During this program, Jeff Hull and Chérie Newman talk about Hull's books and magazine articles, plus fly fishing, cloud seeding, wolves, and clinic...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 14, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 143
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Wesley Stace
Guests include: Author Wesley Stace aka musician John Wesley Harding, Eastern European gypsy/jazz/klezmer punk band Chervona and storyteller Aaron ...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston and WNJR


  • Added: Mar 11, 2011
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 2
Eyesore Opulence - Peter Hessler & Christian Wiman
From: Open Source
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New Yorker correspondent Peter Hessler reports from the road in China on the human side of miracle growth and epic migration. Then, we meet poet Ch...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 10, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Author Elizabeth Gilbert on being "Committed."
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Writers on a New England Stage
Caption: Author Elizabeth Gilbert
"Eat, Pray, Love" author Elizabeth Gilbert reads from her latest memoir, "Committed." In an interview with Virginia Prescott, she reveals what it i...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 14, 2011
  • Length: 53:24
  • Purchases: 1
The Last Word on Libraries
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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The particular and universal state of mind of libraries is one of random discovery.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Feb 08, 2011
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 1

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