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Pulitzer prize-winning poet Rita Dove.
- Added: May 28, 2024
- Length: 24:10
The town of Brunswick, Maine is set to remove 2/3 of the trees on Maine Street because it is too expensive to work around them as they install new ...
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- Added: Apr 19, 2024
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Upon the passing of Dr Peter Higgs, a Sonnet to explain how the Higgs boson comes into our lives.
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- Added: Apr 01, 2024
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Poetry makes everything accessible, even the Special Theory of Relativity.
- Added: Apr 01, 2024
- Length: :51
Lit fests in India have historically been rather Anglophone affairs but now translated works of Indian literature are finding a much bigger place i...
- Added: Feb 05, 2024
- Length: 06:00
As lit fest’s, lit meets, literary carnivals pop up all over India, 3 in Kolkata alone in a month, some wonder whether whether this is about books ...
- Added: Jan 30, 2024
- Length: 06:00
Sukumar Ray is sometimes called the Edward Lear of Bengal. Abol Tabol his book of nonsense rhymes was part of my growing up. And I dare say every B...
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- Added: Jan 23, 2024
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Carl Sagan, a renowned astronomer, astrophysicist, and science communicator, has left an indelible mark on the scientific and literary worlds. His ...
- Added: Jan 07, 2024
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- Added: Jan 05, 2024
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The writer John Nichols first achieved national fame at age 24 with 'The Sterile Cuckoo', but went on to a second act when he moved to Taos, New Me...
- Added: Dec 09, 2023
- Length: 27:14
Alexander McCall Smith's "From a Far and Lovely Country" #24 in No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency Series
From: Diana KorteSeries: Booktalk
Host Diana Korte speaks with Alexander McCall Smith, the author of more than 100 books sold around the world in 40 languages. This includes the N...
- Added: Nov 01, 2023
- Length: 10:53
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is a beloved author now but when she started writing about her South Asian community in America in the 90s not everyone ...
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- Added: Jun 13, 2023
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If you think limericks just means Edward Lear, think again. The Limeric Lovers Publishers of Kolkata are devoted fans of limericks in Bengali, a lo...
- Added: Feb 28, 2023
- Length: 06:00
Kolkata is famous for its love of books. And its love for sweets. And Sandip Roy just went to Jugal's Literature Festival - the first ever literat...
- Added: Feb 14, 2023
- Length: 06:00
Literary festivals have returned to the ground in full form for the first time since the pandemic. Sandip Roy sends an audio postcard from a litfes...
- Added: Jan 30, 2023
- Length: 06:00
Andy Truscott speaks with Don Foster, a 2019 Delaware Division of the Arts Individual Artist Fellow in the field of fiction literature.
- Added: Oct 20, 2022
- Length: 21:57
Andy Truscott speaks with Dr. JoAnn Balingit and Dr. Traci Currie, the teaching artists and coaches of 2023's Poetry Out Loud Recitation Contest in...
- Added: Oct 12, 2022
- Length: 22:28
episode 3: The war in Ukraine is proving to be a real-time lab study of staying one step ahead of the hackers and finding ways to protect and prese...
- Added: Sep 16, 2022
- Length: 20:30
The Revolutionary Reader, Leading and Creating Change with Rohi’s Readery Founder Pranoo Kumar. A social justice driven children’s bookstore and ...
- Added: Aug 26, 2022
- Length: 27:17
This Spring, the Paris Book Fair was finally back in person! But even amidst this Parisian fairytale, reality reared its ugly head.
- Added: May 24, 2022
- Length: 06:00
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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At the Kolkata Book Fair Sandip wonders if anyone comes to the book fair anymore for actual books, and then 4 handwritten poems proved that they do.
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- Added: Apr 04, 2022
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While the Russian army fills the news hour, Sandip remembers his childhood exposure to the folk tales of Ukraine.
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- Added: Mar 07, 2022
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Sandip reflects on how literature festivals have mutated during the COVID pandemic.
- Added: Jan 24, 2022
- Length: 06:00
A recent trip to the Shillong Literary Festival gives Sandip pause to consider just what was missing for over a year.
- Added: Nov 30, 2021
- Length: 06:00
