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An Iranian refugee comes of age in Oklahoma, and he shares with us how his Christian faith informs his writing in unexpected ways.

  • Added: Feb 15, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
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Eva Apelqvist talks about her award-winning book "Mörker Över Skateparken" and the upcoming release of her English-translation of "Fire From the Sk...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2023
  • Length: 07:49
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HOUR ONE: 'Decolonizing the Mind' - Colonization in Africa was much more than a land grab. It was a project to replace — and even erase — local cul...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:59
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This WorldCanvass explores the life, writings, and legacy of a giant in world literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky. Two hundred years after his birth and...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2021
  • Length: 31:19
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This WorldCanvass explores the life, writings, and legacy of a giant in world literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky. Two hundred years after his birth and...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2021
  • Length: 28:17
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This WorldCanvass explores the life, writings, and legacy of a giant in world literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky. Two hundred years after his birth and...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2021
  • Length: 27:20
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We celebrate National Hispanic Heritage month with the second part of our interview with poet Xanath (shaw-nath) Caraza, who is a finalist for the ...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Diane Glancy
We continue Native American Heritage Month with Cherokee writers, Diane Glancy and Linda Rodriguez, who discuss co-editing the anthology THE WORLD ...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Barcelona - July 1936, Credit: Muriel Rukeyser, permission of William L. Rukeyser
Rowena Kennedy-Epstein describes Savage Coast as a young woman’s political and sexual awakening imbued with the anarchist spirit of the moment; it’...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 13, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
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Author Peter Matthiessen talks with National Writers Series co-founder Doug Stanton.

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 54:29
  • Purchases: 1
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While Spanish painter and printmaker Francisco de Goya and Russian writer Leo Tolstoy were separated by time and space, the two created incomparabl...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2019
  • Length: 34:24
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While Spanish painter and printmaker Francisco de Goya and Russian writer Leo Tolstoy were separated by time and space, the two created incomparabl...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2019
  • Length: 26:51
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While Spanish painter and printmaker Francisco de Goya and Russian writer Leo Tolstoy were separated by time and space, the two created incomparabl...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2019
  • Length: 31:19
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WorldCanvass guests address questions about the power and indispensability of strong, imaginative, and critical reading in today’s complex world. ...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2019
  • Length: 51:57
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WorldCanvass guests address questions about the power and indispensability of strong, imaginative, and critical reading in today’s complex world. ...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2019
  • Length: 25:45
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WorldCanvass guests address questions about the power and indispensability of strong, imaginative, and critical reading in today’s complex world. S...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2019
  • Length: 27:27
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The idea that art, literature and music in particular, might work as a sort of “Marshall Plan of the Mind” is our topic tonight. At the end of Worl...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2018
  • Length: 59:02
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Author and journalist Gwen Florio discusses her literary novel, Silent Hearts. She also reads a short passage.

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


  • Added: Aug 14, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Padma Viswanathan
Novelist Padma Viswanathan, a 2017 recipient of the Porter Fund Literary Prize, and poet Geoffrey Brock, discuss how they balance their writing car...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
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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
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-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
Caption: Naomi Benaron
NAOMI BENARON is a trained scientist, marathon runner, and massage therapist. She is also the author of two award-winning fiction books, LOVE LETTE...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Nov 07, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In this episode we explore beast bridegroom tales and other stories where pigs marry peasants and men fall for snakes. It's a mad fairy tale world ...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2013
  • Length: 27:22
Caption: Rashid Novaire
In Amsterdam, Cathy Byrd meets Dutch novelist Rashid Novaire, of Moroccan and Dutch descent. The writer's heritage is embedded in his imagination.

  • Added: Jan 21, 2013
  • Length: 16:15
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Natasha Wimmer was awarded an NEA Literature Fellowship in 2007 to translate Roberto Bolaño's epic novel 2666. In this interview, she discusses the...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Jul 29, 2011
  • Length: 27:08
  • Purchases: 1