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For the last two years the Kolkata Literary Meet has been a Zoom affair, but this year the audience is back and reminds Sandip just how important t...
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- Added: Apr 19, 2022
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
A woman creates a radio broadcast of bedtime stories for children in war zones.
- Added: Feb 25, 2021
- Length: 02:30
It was just two years ago that India Supreme Court decriminalized homosexuality, but the real hope for change might not lie in politics.
- Added: Aug 31, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Join World Footprints as we discuss the power of storytelling, narratives on race and, of course, travel.
- Added: Jul 27, 2020
- Length: 39:54
How can we possibly dream of a better future in the middle of a pandemic? One way is with the help of literature.
- Added: Jul 13, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Amitav Ghosh’s newest novel Gun Island is a story about both two of his great themes - migration and climate.
- Added: Sep 10, 2019
- Length: 06:00
On Trauma, Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam.
- Added: Nov 11, 2017
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 2
Poetry and the pain of experience are the subjects of this episode titled "Our Cheated Hearts." Author Winston Groom incorporated his experiences i...
- Added: Apr 27, 2017
- Length: 25:00
Take note: On this episode we're following the "Race Beat." We talk with Hank Klibanoff who's book "The Race Beat" tells the story of journalists c...
- Added: Apr 27, 2017
- Length: 25:00
This episode's stories come from some of Alabama's Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists: Rick Bragg who wrote about the Susan Smith murders and the O...
- Added: Apr 27, 2017
- Length: 25:00
In this episode we're looking at the small town through the literary lens. Hear how Shirley Ann Grau author of "Keepers of the House" hung up on th...
- Added: Apr 25, 2017
- Length: 24:59
World reknowned author Kent Nerburn wrote the novel Neither Wolf Nor Dog in the early 1990s. Director Steven Lewis Simpson made it into a movie o...
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- Added: Mar 10, 2017
- Length: 13:54
- Purchases: 1
Iranian-American writer Firoozeh Dumas' commentaries about her hyphenated life have aired on NPR.
But that was a different America. While Firoozeh ...
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- Added: Feb 01, 2017
- Length: 06:00
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Jeffrey Hatcher talks leaving things out, earning pauses, and why Holmes is a man for all seasons.
- Added: Jul 15, 2015
- Length: 16:40
Marjorie Sturm talks victimhood, context, and seeing what we want to see.
- Added: Mar 14, 2015
- Length: 21:31
John Steinbeck, the author of such classics as “the Grapes of Wrath” and “Of Mice and Men” was born to a middle class family in a beautiful, turret...
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 07:27
From the book, "For The Love Of Baseball: A Celebration Of The Game That Connects Us All," co-editor Lee Gutkind reads from his chapter. Just one o...
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- Added: Jul 03, 2014
- Length: 01:40
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Nicholas Wrathall talks starting at the end, putting his money where his mouth is, and why Gore Vidal could not be ignored.
- Added: May 23, 2014
- Length: 19:56
India just lost its grand old man of letters. Khushwant Singh was 99 and still writing when he died in Delhi last week.
- Added: Mar 25, 2014
- Length: 04:30
This is one example of our 21 weekday 100-second modules for March, 2014....
-- A new author each day reading a compelling passage from their new ...
- Added: Mar 06, 2014
- Length: 01:40
Prof. Timothy Moore describes the historical context of Greek tragedies and shares his own research into the music of ancient Roman comedies.
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- Added: Dec 20, 2013
- Length: 12:39
- Purchases: 1
Florida Frenz is the pen name of a 16 year old girl with autism. As How to Be Human describes, she has worked hard to be an "empowered autistic." A...
- Added: Aug 11, 2013
- Length: 21:34
Amy Acker and Alexis Denisof talk having no fear, short shooting schedules, and staircase soliloquies.
- Added: Jun 05, 2013
- Length: 09:03
Stephen Chbosky talks being reborn, taking notes, and the mysteries of the grilled sticky.
- Added: Sep 30, 2012
- Length: 13:16
Academy Award Winner, Geoffrey Fletcher sits down with Artsy Fartsy Show's Barika Taheer Edwards to chat about screenwriting and the his launch of ...
- Added: Apr 28, 2012
- Length: 17:06
