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Journalist Ben Montgomery talks history and unconventional pedestrianism in his book, "The Man Who Walked Backward: An American Dreamer's Search fo...
Bought by KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Nov 15, 2018
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 3
The world's largest bus station, and a bus driver who wanted to be God.
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Mar 27, 2016
- Length: 54:12
- Purchases: 1
One of Allen Ginsberg's first publishers was taken to court for a book that an undercover police officer deemed "not fit for children to read."
- Added: Feb 03, 2016
- Length: :59
Most people who visit Calistoga -- a town in the Napa Valley -- come for the wine and the spa treatments; few come for the literary history. But th...
- Added: Jul 30, 2015
- Length: 10:19
How closely must historical fiction mirror recorded history? Author Marshall Klimasewiski weighs in.
- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 13:39
Our “Reading Chekhov” series culminates in a full hour on the Russian physician who spun the small happenings of old Russia into some of the most p...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: May 30, 2014
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 1
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
- Added: May 16, 2014
- Length: 01:26
John Berryman was a widely known poet, and teacher at the University of Minnesota. This is a recording of John Berryman reading his poem titled "Dr...
- Added: Sep 10, 2012
- Length: 02:27
Fifty year's after the publication of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" and its subsequent obscenity trial, poets and friends look back at its origins, ...
Bought by KICI Iowa City, KPIP-LP, KRZA, KSFR, New Hampshire Public Radio and more
- Added: Jun 05, 2007
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 6
Ted Berrigan Reads his poem "Heroin"
- Added: Mar 23, 2005
- Length: 02:29
- Purchases: 2
