PRX - Pieces for Tone: Quirky
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An unusual and irreverent comic strip about a misfit cat served as inspiration to 20th century poet e e cummings.
- Added: Feb 08, 2016
- Length: :58
J. California Cooper loved playing with paper dolls--even as an adult.
- Added: Feb 08, 2016
- Length: 01:00
Responding to his editor about why he wrote his most famous children's novel, E.B. White replied in characteristic good humor.
- Added: Feb 03, 2016
- Length: :58
American poet Frank O'Hara got into trouble with his overbearing mother.
- Added: Feb 03, 2016
- Length: :58
A few years ago Lisa Potts was looking behind her dresser when she saw a cassette tape. She’d forgotten about the tape--a recording of an interview...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Troy Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 26, 2015
- Length: 05:55
- Purchases: 5
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
- Added: Jun 23, 2014
- Length: 01:27
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
- Added: Jun 09, 2014
- Length: 01:41
What is librarian Emily's biggest fear? Not being able to finish all the books she is in the middle of.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 25, 2014
- Length: 02:50
- Purchases: 1
A short fiction by Daws Butler, read by Joe Bev and Lorie Kellogg.
Great for Wallace Shawn's birthday, the anniversary of "My Dinner with Andre", ...
- Added: Mar 11, 2013
- Length: 09:31
A short fiction by Daws Butler, read by Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg.
Great for Samuel Beckett's birthday, the anniversary of "Waiting for Go...
- Added: Mar 11, 2013
- Length: 09:34
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
Seattle poet Jody Zorgdrager reads “The Foretelling” and literary producer Elizabeth Austen reflects on what the poem has to say about our innate a...
- Added: Aug 24, 2009
- Length: 04:56
Kevin Matthews' short social commentary, a tongue-in-cheek take on Dr. Seuss
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Feb 19, 2006
- Length: 03:10
- Purchases: 1
Kevin Matthews' short social commentary, with a tongue-in-cheek look at spoken word
- Added: Oct 18, 2005
- Length: 02:09
