PRX - Pieces for Tone: Quirky
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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
“I keep saying ‘where’s the body? Kill someone,’” Marilyn Stasio told us. She reads at least 200 crime novels a year to determine which are worthy ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 23:58
- Purchases: 1
For many, Cape Cod means sunshine and sandy beaches. But to one West Barnstable writer and producer, the Cape means foggy cemeteries at night, dang...
- Added: May 26, 2016
- Length: 04:36
In a remote corner of Tel Aviv's grimy, labyrinthine central bus station, Mendy Cahan has built a home for Israel's rejected Yiddish books, and it'...
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 16:05
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
On the 240th anniversary of Paul Revere's famous ride, re-visiting the Longfellow poem. What did Longfellow get right or wrong? Who rode that night...
Bought by KUT and Prairie Public
- Added: Mar 21, 2011
- Length: 10:14
- Purchases: 2
On a cool October night, two dozen international writers were shuttled to Fort Madison, Iowa, home of the Tri-State Rodeo. They had come in search ...
- Added: Feb 20, 2010
- Length: 14:46
Dealers of Americana talk about the allure of old books.
Bought by Remix Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, and WBHM
- Added: Apr 20, 2009
- Length: 04:17
- Purchases: 4
- Added: Dec 07, 2006
- Length: 11:03
- Purchases: 1
