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Author Kalena Miller talks about her Minnesota Book Award-nominated middle-grade novel "Shannon in the Spotlight"

  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 08:33
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A Thousand Steps is a beguiling thriller, an incisive coming-of-age story, and a vivid portrait of a turbulent time and place by three-time Edgar ...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2022
  • Length: 28:49
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Who is being represented in new books? We are celebrating and lifting diverse voices in new books, those that have long been silenced but in doing ...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2022
  • Length: 14:21
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What We're Reading producer and Staff Librarian Tammy Bobrowsky talks with young adult writer Bill Konigsberg about his new novel "The Bridge." The...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2020
  • Length: 08:03
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Journalist and writer Sam Quiñones wrote a book titled, Dreamland:The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic, which details how this epidemic spre...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2016
  • Length: 14:00
Caption: Francisco from Chicago
Kids from Illinois and California share their favorite titles. Kitty Felde is host.

  • Added: May 18, 2016
  • Length: 07:29
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On this episode of, "Art Beat" we visit with a Winona State University graduate of the Mass Communication department who is a grade school teacher ...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2015
  • Length: 15:28
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It can take your breath away.

  • Added: May 01, 2014
  • Length: 01:36
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YA author Charlie Price talks about and reads from his novel DEAD GIRL MOON. He also shares information about his teaching career, which included w...

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


  • Added: Jan 23, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Erika Kooda
Erika Kooda is a senior at Grand Rapids High School and an intern at Northern Community Radio. During the school year she's been checking in with e...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 03:06
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: "Ordinary Grace" by Willian Kent Krueger
In this Real Good Words interview Heidi Holtan talks with William Kent Krueger about his latest novel, "Ordinary Grace." "Ordinary Grace" is a depa...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 14:54
  • Purchases: 2
Caption:  2013 Team Finals stage at the Cadillac Palace Theater, Credit: (TimeOut/Jeff Kroll)
Over the past 13 years, Louder than a Bomb, Chicago’s youth poetry competition, has grown from humble roots in the basement of a Division Street th...

Bought by WJSU, KMXT, and NPR Illinois


  • Added: Apr 25, 2013
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: "Y" by Leslie Adrienne Miller
Leslie Adrienne Miller is author of six collections of poetry including "Y," "The Resurrection Trade" and "Eat Quite Everything You See" from Grayw...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Nov 27, 2012
  • Length: 05:14
  • Purchases: 1
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By Mark Sheely. Culture Queue brings you Part Two and the conclusion of our radio play adaptation, The Immortal Ms. Sherlock Holmes. Will Holmes ou...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2012
  • Length: 01:56
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This week from Culture Queue, we're keen as mustard to bring you the thrilling conclusion of our play from across the pond. Join Sherlock, Moriarty...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2012
  • Length: 24:28
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This week on Culture Queue, we "honor" the memories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Orson Welles alike with our lastest radio play. It's "The Immorta...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2012
  • Length: 33:22
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By Brianna Hanson. This week, Culture Queue once again steps into the world of old timey radio drama. Because the University of Minnesota is home t...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 22, 2012
  • Length: :40
  • Purchases: 1
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Booking the Trend, by Mitch Skinner: If print is dead, you wouldn't know it by talking to people in the business. Physical books are still selling.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 06, 2012
  • Length: 01:28
  • Purchases: 1
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Maile Meloy is best known for her short stories and novels for adult readers. But during this program she talks about a novel she wrote for middle ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:04
  • Purchases: 1
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Liberal arts colleges are known for their small class sizes, individual attention, and atmosphere meant to inspire intellectual curiosity in its st...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2010
  • Length: 08:46
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Book-burning in Indiana

  • Added: Jan 28, 2010
  • Length: 10:22
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An interview with Professor Robert Wood on straight edge---why he studies it, his book on it, and some of the complexities and details of the culture.

Bought by KUNM and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Sep 13, 2007
  • Length: 11:27
  • Purchases: 2