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'Hidden in Plain Sight: The San Francisco Poet's Street-Corner Oasis’ (2017) documents the underground (yet overground) poetry happening ’The Corne...
- Added: Aug 14, 2023
- Length: 09:06
How do we find human connection? Being “in with the out crowd?" Author and poet Toni Mirosevich finds peers on the pier. She reads from her latest ...
Bought by WORT
- Added: Oct 04, 2022
- Length: 28:50
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jun 18, 2016
- Length: 53:16
- Purchases: 1
My friend Archie Meade is developing a new literary genre. It's called "arithmefiction." He said "it's like science fiction, only it's about math...
- Added: Aug 11, 2015
- Length: 02:49
Episode 16 features an interview from 2009 with the noted writer Sarah Schulman, the author of After Dolores, Shimmer, People in Trouble, Rat Bohem...
- Added: Jan 08, 2014
- Length: 35:31
A look at that DIY mainstay, known as the zine, through the lens of a long-running publication called Factsheet Five.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 02, 2013
- Length: 07:18
- Purchases: 1
True (and humorous) story about Mark and Eric who find a stack of brand-new copies of Fifty Shades of Grey, just sitting on the sidewalk.
- Added: Feb 08, 2013
- Length: 06:48
The smell of a book can like that of a lover - musky and old with experience, brand new, immature and innocent. Or, knowledgeable and hard-covered....
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 06:31
- Purchases: 1
First, we join biographer John Szwed in thanking the eccentric musical anthropologist Alan Lomax for his rare recordings of early twentieth century...
Bought by KRVS, KPIP-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KXOT Public Radio, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Mar 17, 2011
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 5
A gift from the Julia Child Foundation. We hear Julia introducing her late friend, M.F.K. Fisher, who takes us out for a staggeringly gluttonous me...
- Added: Sep 21, 2010
- Length: 28:23
- Purchases: 4
From Hawaiia, a tropical canvas.
- Added: Nov 12, 2008
- Length: 03:58
Sometimes we look for secrets, sometimes the secrets find us.
- Added: Apr 17, 2008
- Length: 17:22
- Added: Mar 03, 2008
- Length: 05:04
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Mar 03, 2008
- Length: 07:28
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Mar 03, 2008
- Length: 10:54
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Feb 15, 2008
- Length: 05:25
From: Katie Ball
In this interview country music songwriting legend talks about growing up in rural Florida and how it affected him as a songwriter.
- Added: May 05, 2007
- Length: 16:24
- Added: Jan 12, 2007
- Length: 04:17
- Purchases: 1
Finally, some practical information on how to handle life in corporate America! Feel free to take notes. There will be a test on this material.
- Added: Jan 12, 2007
- Length: 08:05
- Purchases: 2
Feel free to get up and move about the cabin...or you might want to pay attention to the man in the window seat next to you; he has a story he'd li...
Bought by KUNM
- Added: Jan 12, 2007
- Length: 05:11
- Purchases: 1
A collection of diverse tales told in 1962 by a Dublin heart doctor.
- Added: Jul 18, 2006
- Length: 59:03
Have you ever been crossing the street and felt the hand of memory close around the back of your head?
- Added: Jul 13, 2006
- Length: 05:16
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Jul 13, 2006
- Length: 10:36
- Purchases: 1
Imagine yourself in a bar, the sort of old fashioned place with dark wood and red leather booths and the ghosts of a million cigarettes. You order...
Bought by KUNM and PRX Administrator
- Added: Jul 13, 2006
- Length: 18:17
- Purchases: 2
Feel free to get up and move about the cabin...or you might want to pay attention to the man in the window seat next to you; he has a story he'd li...
- Added: Jul 13, 2006
- Length: 06:43
- Purchases: 2
