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Get Behind Me, Now Stay There - Episode 75
From: Get Behind Me , Now Stay There
Series: Get Behind Me, Now Stay There
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring the band Rockstar Frame, actor Michael Sun Lee, and The Plot Against America, in...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2016
  • Length: 58:01
What Lies Between Us
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Every immigrant has a coming to the America memory. Nayomi Munaweera came to America when she was 12. It was the mid eighties. And Duran Duran.....

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 12, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
Justin Cronin and "The City of Mirrors" (Book Three of the post-apocalyptic "The Passage Trilogy")
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Justin describes the story’s origin, what it’s like to release a book in these days of social media, and what happens to him when his characters fi...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jun 20, 2016
  • Length: 09:53
  • Purchases: 1
The Radical Democracy of Henry David Thoreau: A Conversation with Branka Arsic
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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What may seem surprising as you listen is the way in which Thoreau’s understanding of death and life can inform our own considerations of what it m...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jun 07, 2016
  • Length: 59:14
  • Purchases: 1
Eliding History: Jill Lepore On Telling Stories
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Jill Lepore joins us to talk about three books: The Story of America; The Secret History of Wonder Woman; and Joe Gould's Teeth.

  • Added: Mar 29, 2016
  • Length: 01:03:04
Side By Sondheim
From: George Harter
Series: A Night on the Town
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The best of Stephen Sondheim from "West Side Story" to "Into The Woods"

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WVTF, and WRR


  • Added: Mar 26, 2016
  • Length: 58:09
  • Purchases: 3
Get Behind Me, Now Stay There - Episode 71
From: Get Behind Me , Now Stay There
Series: Get Behind Me, Now Stay There
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring Author Nicholas Stanton, Rapper Thraxxup, and The Revenant, now a major motion p...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2016
  • Length: 58:01
North Carolina Novelist David Joy, “Where All Light Tends To Go”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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This southern noir tale is the intimate story of 18-year-old Jacob McNeely whose daddy controls the crystal meth business in a small town in rural ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 20, 2016
  • Length: 09:37
  • Purchases: 2
Coming Home to Big Stone Gap (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Best-selling author Adriana Trigiani talks about life growing up in the small Appalachian town of Big Stone Gap. Plus: What are the biggest challen...

Bought by WCNY, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WTJU and more


  • Added: Jan 15, 2016
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 6
Get Behind Me, Now Stay There - Episode 69
From: Get Behind Me , Now Stay There
Series: Get Behind Me, Now Stay There
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring the Artist AmarA, Director Sue Zizza, and #1 New York Times bestseller The Grave...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2016
  • Length: 58:34
Art Beat Presents: " Shawn McGuire "
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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On this episode of Art Beat we visit Winona native Shawn McGuire, an author of young adult fiction that blends different settings with a touch of m...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: 21:54
Dhaka Facebook Fest.?
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip Roy gets virtually stranded in Bangladesh at the Dhaka Lit. Fest.

  • Added: Nov 23, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
Get Behind Me, Now Stay There - Episode 66
From: Get Behind Me , Now Stay There
Series: Get Behind Me, Now Stay There
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring Director and Writer Don Thacker, Author Dr. Frank Romano, and The Finest Hours i...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2015
  • Length: 58:45
Children's book aims to kickstart diversity in the mostly white world of kid lit
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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Think about some of the classics of children’s literature. There’s Where the Wild Things Are...Goodnight Moon...and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatbal...

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


  • Added: Jul 17, 2015
  • Length: 08:14
  • Purchases: 2
MR. HOLMES -- Jeffrey Hatcher Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Jeffrey Hatcher, San Francisco, CA 4/25/15, Credit: Andrea Chase
Jeffrey Hatcher talks leaving things out, earning pauses, and why Holmes is a man for all seasons.

  • Added: Jul 15, 2015
  • Length: 16:40
Land Where I Flee
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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When I moved to Calcutta from San Francisco, I’d often marvel, that for a city of 4 and half million, everyone seems to know everyone. But writer...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jun 02, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Poetry behind bars
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Prisoners aren’t known for being emotional. But a program at a Maine jail has inmates sharing personal poems with each other.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 05:43
  • Purchases: 1
James Reiss on Conversations with Allan Wolper
From: Conversations with Allan Wolper
Series: Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG
Caption: James Reiss
James Reiss has written six books of poetry. His critically acclaimed work has appeared in The New York Times, Esquire Magazine, The New Yorker, Th...

  • Added: May 01, 2015
  • Length: 30:01
THE CULT OF JT LEROY -- Marjorie Sturm Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Marjorie Sturm talks victimhood, context, and seeing what we want to see.

  • Added: Mar 14, 2015
  • Length: 21:31
"The stuff dreams are made of" - the search for the Maltese Falcon
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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The mystery over what the falcon really is, whether it even existed,and why it has any value has remained so compelling, in fact, that over the yea...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 09:15
Remembering Melvin McCosh
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Melvin McCosh was a poet, musician and bookstore owner who sold out of his home, and later in Dinkytown and the West Bank. KFAI producer Britt Aamo...

Bought by WDSE


  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 06:02
  • Purchases: 1
The Tropes of Fiction
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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A funny blog on the site Publishing Perspectives came up with a checklist for the must have ingredients of a bad South Asian diasporan novel. Arran...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
"The stuff dreams are made of" - the search for the Maltese Falcon
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - The Litography Project
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The mystery over what the falcon really is, whether it even existed, and why it has any value has remained so compelling, in fact, that over the ye...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 05, 2015
  • Length: 09:15
  • Purchases: 1
Jaipur Lit. Fest. 2015
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Kids singing at the Jaipur Lit. Fest.
Once if you wanted to be an Indian city of any standing, you were measured by flyovers, speciality hospitals or multiplexes. These days you are mea...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
Dasgupta's Delhi
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip Roy is at the Jaipur Literary festival in Kolkata, India's old capital, speaking with Rana Dasgupta about Delhi, India's new capital...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2015
  • Length: 06:00

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