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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2012
  • Length: 01:54:56
Caption: Singer/Writer Christine McKinley, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Science Author, Michael Nielsen. Writer and Musician, Christine McKinley. Musical Guests, Crooked Fingers.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: May 30, 2012
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Southern Gothic writer Harry Crews died in March of this year. Although many people have never heard of him, Crews’ stories about outcasts inspired...

  • Added: May 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:26
Caption: Indie Pop band Lost Lander, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
AJ JACOBS - New York Times bestselling author. DAVID WOLMAN - Author and Journalist. LOST LANDER - Portland indie pop band.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: May 11, 2012
  • Length: 55:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Luis Alberto Urrea
Known for his book THE DEVIL'S HIGHWAY, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for nonfiction, and his American Book Award-winning memoir, NOBODY'S SON, Luis Al...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: May 10, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Songwriter Sean Storts discusses writing songs inspired by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' graphic novel Watchmen. Written and performed for the mon...

  • Added: May 09, 2012
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Acclaimed Author & Stand-up Comedian Moshe Kasher, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
MOSHE KASHER - Author and Stand-up Comedian. JANE JONES - Co-Founder & Co-Artistic Director of Book-It Repertory Theatre SHOOK TWINS - Indie Folk Duo

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: May 03, 2012
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Acclaimed Author & Stand-up Comedian Moshe Kasher, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
MOSHE KASHER - Author and Stand-up Comedian. JANE JONES - Co-Founder & Co-Artistic Director of Book-It Repertory Theatre SHOOK TWINS - Indie Folk Duo

Bought by WNJR, Rhythm & News Service, and WCPN


  • Added: May 03, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Gypsy Folk & Bluegrass band, Black Prairie, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
JIM LYNCH - Author WENDY McCLURE - Author and Essayist BLACK PRAIRIE - Acoustic folk, gypsy, bluegrass band

Bought by WNJR and Rhythm & News Service


  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Singer/Songwriter/Author Storm Large, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
STORM LARGE - Singer, songwriter, author SUSAN SALADOFF - Documentary filmmaker

Bought by WNJR and Rhythm & News Service


  • Added: Apr 19, 2012
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Singer/Songwriter/Author Storm Large, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
STORM LARGE - Singer, songwriter, author SUSAN SALADOFF - Documentary filmmaker

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Apr 19, 2012
  • Length: 55:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Survivors by Will Weaver
Heidi Holtan talked with Bemidji author Will Weaver about young adult novels and his latest “The Survivors” a sequel to the bestselling “Memory Boy...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 17, 2012
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
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Appalachia is often imagined as rural and white, but a new wave of African-American writers is challenging the notion of a single Appalachian regio...

Bought by WJCT, WMMT, KUER, KRZA, XRAY.fm and more


  • Added: Apr 09, 2012
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 9
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The editor of My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, Vol 1 discusses the relationship of the two artists. [29:32]

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 29:33
  • Purchases: 1
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A new chapter in the Godfather will be published later this year. The author speaks with us about the experience, what's in store for the Corleone...

Bought by WJCT and WABE


  • Added: Mar 19, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
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In the 1890s, Fra Dana dreamed of becoming a famous painter. But then she fell in love with a cowboy from northern Wyoming and her life got complic...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 18, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Quiddity explores Lincoln through poetry with guest - professor & poet, Dan Guillory, whose works include Living with Lincoln and The Lincoln Poems.

  • Added: Mar 15, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Abraham Lincoln through Fiction—a conversation with professor and novelist Adam Braver, whose work includes Mr. Lincoln's Wars; also, poetry from D...

Bought by KUCB


  • Added: Mar 14, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 1
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Reality and illusion are often hard to sort out; especially when someone from India is adept at infusing others with illusions.

  • Added: Mar 02, 2012
  • Length: 15:21
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The Magna Carta is one of most important legal documents in history and it is now being digitized, translated, and uploaded online.

Bought by WJCT and WMNR


  • Added: Feb 27, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The poetic folk band, Hey Marseilles, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
ELIZABETH WEIL - Author of "No Cheating, No Dying: I had a Good Marriage and I Tried to Make it Better." IAN KARMEL - Stand-up comic, winner of t...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Feb 24, 2012
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Eclectic Indie Band Typhoon, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Current Oregon Poet Laureate PAULANN PETERSEN. Her latest book is The Voluptuary. KATE BEATON, cartoonist for The New Yorker, brings her highly a...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Feb 15, 2012
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Mark Vonnegut, author of "Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So" discusses his book, his work as a pediatrician and his life as the...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2012
  • Length: 28:51
Caption: Improvisational Comedian Reggie Watts, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Comedian Reggie Watts, Musician and Author Josh Ritter, Radio Talk Show Host Peter Sagal and Author Sarah Vowell.

Bought by KUT, KUOW, Rhythm & News Service, and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 08, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: G.P. Putnam's Sons jacket cover, Credit: Natalie C. Sousa, cover design
Meg Rosoff, a Printz Award-winning author, returns to the young adult marketplace with "There is No Dog," a provocative and imaginative novel starr...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2012
  • Length: 21:06