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A Conversation with Maxine Hong Kingston
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Maxine Hong Kingston discusses her path-breaking books. [22:55]

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: May 10, 2012
  • Length: 22:55
  • Purchases: 1
Remembrance: On Time And Distance
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Caption: Chu-Yin Lo Roberts
Dmae Roberts produced a special half-hour radio memorial on the 10th anniversary of her mom’s death. Remembrance: On Time And Distance is part memo...

Bought by KVSC, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Prairie Public, KVSC, and WBEZ


  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 5
Debra Gwartney, author of 'Live Through This'
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During this program, Debra Gwartney reads from 'Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters' and talks about the challenges she faced...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 27, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Real Good Words: Cheryl Strayed - "Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
Caption: Cheryl Strayed - Wild
Minnesota author Cheryl Strayed joins Heidi Holtan to discuss her honest and raw new book.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 24, 2012
  • Length: 26:27
  • Purchases: 1
Mary Clearman Blew, author of 'This Is Not The Ivy League'
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During this program, Mary Clearman Blew talks about the challenges of writing memoir that includes living people. She also reads passages from her ...

Bought by KREV-LP and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 30, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
A Conversation with Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Poet Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz talks about slam poetry and community.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 22:05
  • Purchases: 1
Janet Skeslien Charles, author of Moonlight In Odessa
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During this program, Janet Skeslin Charles talks about, and reads from 'Moonlight In Odessa', a darkly humorous novel about eastern European women ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 23, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Emeryville's poet laureate thinks outside the big box
From: KALW
Caption: Janell Moon is Emeryville's first poet laureate
It may surprise you to learn that 40 of the 50 states have Poet Laureates, as do a growing number of California cities – including Emeryville, whic...

  • Added: May 16, 2011
  • Length: 06:43
Ripley Hugo
From: Chérie Newman
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Ripley Hugo talks about and reads several of the poems in her collection, 'On The Right Wind.' The program also includes interviews with a few of h...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2011
  • Length: 52:35
Author Molly Gloss and the Heroines of the American West
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Stage and Studio
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This show profiles novelist Molly Gloss, whose books have shed light on untold stories of women in the American West.

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Nov 23, 2010
  • Length: 27:52
  • Purchases: 1
Laura Bell
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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The Write Question producer, Chérie Newman, talks with Laura Bell about her new memoir, CLAIMING GROUND.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 04, 2010
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
This Is Not The Story You Think It Is... A Season of Unlikely Happiness, by Laura Munson
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
Caption: Laura Munson, Credit: Heidi Long
Laura Munson is the author of 14 unpublished novels and one memoir, which was published almost immediately after she wrote it. This is Not The Stor...

Bought by KWMR, WFIU, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 02, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Rock and Roll Life of Debra Marquart
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Debra Marquart
Debra Marquart talks about her life growing up in rural North Dakota, her rebellious departure, and how she’s returned in her imagination. She rea...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 29:00
Natalie Goldberg - on ThoughtCast!
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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Natalie Goldberg, the writer, painter and writing teacher, speaks with ThoughtCast in Santa Fe, NM!

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and WFIU


  • Added: Sep 06, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
This I Believe - Dalia Sofer
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Since nothing is permanent, Dalia Sofer believes happiness is found in life's more ephemeral gifts.

Bought by WEZU and WEZU


  • Added: Feb 09, 2009
  • Length: 04:39
  • Purchases: 2
A Story About How I'm Not Going to Tell One by Annie Kahane
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2008
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Her first year in the competition, Annie says this piece is about a boy who thought he deserved a story. Annie Kahane is 19 years old and a member...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2008
  • Length: 03:04
Interview with Award-winning poet and Novelist MARGE PIERCY
From: Tish Pearlman
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Feminist Icon and award-winning writer MARGE PIERCY in conversation about her life and work

  • Added: Aug 17, 2007
  • Length: 27:30
Interview with award-winning poet, ALICE FULTON
From: Out of Bounds
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Conversation with award-winning poet ALICE FULTON

  • Added: Apr 12, 2007
  • Length: 29:30
The Street of the Cauldron Makers
From: Homelands Productions
Series: Worlds of Difference
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A well-known Turkish novelist confronts her country's modern history on a nondescript street in Istanbul.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX to iTunes


  • Added: Apr 10, 2007
  • Length: 13:26
  • Purchases: 2
Bottom Dollar Girls- Part 2
From: Tanya Ott
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Author of the Bottom Dollar Girls series talks about becoming a novelist and how southern culture translates in the north

  • Added: Nov 14, 2006
  • Length: 05:59
Honest, triumphant...and pornographic
From: Susan Johnston
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When is literature pornography, and pornography also literature?

  • Added: Feb 17, 2006
  • Length: 13:29
Ghada Kanafani, Palestinian Poet in Exile
From: Claudia Cragg
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Ghada Kanafani, Palestinian Poet in Exile

Bought by WYSO and KUNM


  • Added: Feb 02, 2006
  • Length: 20:05
  • Purchases: 2
RN Documentary: Becoming Rebecca West
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A portrait of journalist/writer Rebecca West whose life spanned most of the 20th century, with memories from her great-niece and thoughts from an a...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Nov 01, 2005
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 1
Twilight's Breaking Dawn
From: Jacob C. Norman
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Poetry by Jacob C. Norman set to music.

  • Added: Sep 17, 2005
  • Length: 09:48
Quilting the Black-eyed Pea
From: With Good Reason
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Poets Nikki Giovanni and Lucinda Roy discuss their roles as African American poets in contemporary America and share personal visions of the "Middl...

Bought by KPVL and WCSU-FM


  • Added: Apr 06, 2005
  • Length: 29:51
  • Purchases: 2