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In 1969, a white journalist named Grace Halsell, published a book called Soul Sister. It was her account of living as a “black woman” in the United...
- Added: Oct 15, 2021
- Length: 12:18
Andre Maurois said, “We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.” Welcome to this week’s melodica...
- Added: Oct 12, 2021
- Length: 01:00:06
KBFT Native Writing Fest Series is a Live Community Writers Event & Interview with the world's most notable writers! In this segment we meet with B...
- Added: Oct 11, 2021
- Length: 05:39
From: Francesca Rheannon
This week: two novels exploring love, trauma and the legacies of war. Both are based on true stories from World War II.
First, Jai Chakrabarti tel...
- Added: Oct 09, 2021
- Length: 59:00
Stanley Horowitz wrote, ”Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.” Welcome to another e...
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- Added: Oct 04, 2021
- Length: 01:00:00
- Purchases: 1
Leila Slimani's New Novel: In the Country of Others
- Added: Oct 01, 2021
- Length: 11:26
Paula Hawkins' New Thriller: A Slow Fire Burning
- Added: Oct 01, 2021
- Length: 10:28
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
HOUR ONE: "Finding Meaning In Desperate Times" - The pandemic isn't just a health crisis, it's an x-ray into our psyches. This hour, how COVID-19 i...
- Added: Sep 24, 2021
- Length: 01:58:59
At melodically challenged, we are proud of our show’s sound, and for that we thank Rettward von Doernberg, who generously lets us use his music, B...
- Added: Sep 09, 2021
- Length: 01:00:07
The story of a cryptic children’s book, a real-life treasure hunt, and its very mysterious winner: “He refused to be on camera. It’s just his voice...
- Added: Aug 13, 2021
- Length: 37:07
There are more than 100,000 Little Free Library sites worldwide. We learn about them from Little Free Library Inc's Shelby King. We've also got boo...
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- Added: Jul 26, 2021
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 11
There are more than 100,000 libraries placed worldwide. We learn about them from Little Free Library Inc's Shelby King. We've also got book reviews...
- Added: Jul 21, 2021
- Length: 58:00
HOUR ONE: "Eye-To-Eye With Animals" - Have you ever locked eyes with an animal in the wild? It can be a shattering experience. HOUR TWO: "Books W...
- Added: Jun 25, 2021
- Length: 01:59:01
Today we revisit the great novella of Herman Melville, “Benito Cereno,” serialized in 1855 in Putnam’s Magazine. Written with the US Civil War on t...
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- Added: Jun 23, 2021
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 1
Staff Librarian Tammy Bobrowsky talks with writer Sarah Pinsker. Her new novel is called "We Are Satellites." It's about
one family and the technol...
- Added: Jun 11, 2021
- Length: 10:47
HOUR ONE: "The Resilient Brain" - In 1848, an explosion drove an iron rod through the skull of a railroad foreman. Find out how it changed science ...
- Added: Jun 11, 2021
- Length: 01:59:00
Our guest is author Thalia Field and our show is about the way normative stories, whether told as fiction or science or religion or history, work t...
- Added: May 25, 2021
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 3
"Among fake Instagram pages, long-buried family secrets, and the horrors of middle school, one suburban mom searches to find herself."
What We're ...
- Added: May 13, 2021
- Length: 11:28
What We're Reading producer and Staff Librarian Tammy Bobrowsky talks with writer David Arnold. His new novel is called The Electric Kingdom. It's ...
- Added: May 13, 2021
- Length: 13:11
The author of The Martian introduces us to his terrific new novel and shares his thoughts about the current state of space exploration.
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- Added: May 05, 2021
- Length: 28:50
- Purchases: 12
One man's trash is another man's treasure! A garbage truck driver in Columbia is enriching the lives of thousands of children by recovering thrown-...
- Added: Apr 26, 2021
- Length: 02:30
We talk with novelist Anna North about her acclaimed new novel, Outlawed. It’s about an alternate reality 1890s Hole in the Wall Gang—this one, run...
- Added: Apr 07, 2021
- Length: 59:00
Essayist and translator Eliot Weinberger takes us on a brief tour through the extraordinarily creative thinking concerning angels, asking do they h...
- Added: Apr 06, 2021
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 2
Author Lauren Oyler discusses her debut novel "Fake Accounts."
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Apr 01, 2021
- Length: 29:01
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