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Caption: "Mayor of the Universe" by Lorna Landvik
Lorna Landvik is the author of eight previous novels including the best selling "Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons, "Oh My Stars," and "The View Fro...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KVSC


  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 20:20
  • Purchases: 2
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I Like Your Mustache, and other Lithuanian Tales features huge plates of fat dumplings smothered in sour cream and minced onion and a distinctly Ba...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2012
  • Length: 12:14
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When Jack Beck and Wendy Welch decided to move to the small mountain town of Big Stone Gap, they hadn’t planned on opening a used bookstore.

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Apr 09, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jeanne Marie Beaumont
Poet Jeanne Marie Beaumont's books include CURIOUS CONDUCT and PLACEBO EFFECTS, and her collection, BURNING OF THE THREE FIRES. She assembles ever...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Mar 09, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Galen Green
Songwriter Galen Green discusses his songs inspired by S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders, written and performed for The Bushwick Book Club Seattle's mont...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Bucket of Honey, Credit: Wade Trenbeath
Songwriters Annie Jantzer and Nate Bogopolsky of Bucket of Honey discuss their approach to writing songs inspired by Frank Miller's The Dark Knight...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
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When will I get over my obsession with Walden Pond? As a 20something interested in connecting to nature, is Thoreau the best example?

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Mar 23, 2011
  • Length: 10:18
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Julia Child, Credit: Christopher Hirscheimer
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...

Bought by KSJD, KSFR, KZYX, and WTIP


  • Added: Sep 21, 2010
  • Length: 28:23
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Kyrgyzstani writer, Jamby Djusubalieva
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
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Jonny Porkpie is a novelist, burlesque impressario, and the self-proclaimed Burlesque Mayor of New York. He is married to the burlesque artist Na...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2009
  • Length: 29:21
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Amy Sedaris voices a spot about her book "I Like You", a thank you gift for $120 pledge.

  • Added: Jun 30, 2009
  • Length: 01:10
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...the flights of fancy, the follies, the letdowns, and the soft landings

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Nov 12, 2008
  • Length: 03:44
  • Purchases: 1
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Arrange all materials within reach. Make yourself comfortable. Begin.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 03, 2008
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 1
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Travel. Adventure. Romance. Inexplicable narratives from the man in the window seat.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 03, 2008
  • Length: 07:28
  • Purchases: 1
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New Yorkers are passionate about their libraries for all kinds of reasons

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 16, 2007
  • Length: 04:06
  • Purchases: 1
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Commercial parody for people who are too busy for books on tape - from Live Wire!, a live radio variety show.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2007
  • Length: 04:01
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creative writing in detroit public schools

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 07, 2006
  • Length: 11:03
  • Purchases: 1
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Have you ever been crossing the street and felt the hand of memory close around the back of your head?

Bought by KUNM and WMNF


  • Added: Jul 13, 2006
  • Length: 05:16
  • Purchases: 2
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The interview was just a formality, but the results were highly unexpected.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Jul 13, 2006
  • Length: 10:36
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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Two women, with two very different outlooks. They both would like your attention. Frankly, they demand your attention.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Jul 13, 2006
  • Length: 10:11
  • Purchases: 1
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Sophie discovers giants are planning to eat the children of England. How do you free the world of guzzle-swallomping, kid-eating giants? You cook u...

Bought by KZYX, KWCW, and KTNA


  • Added: Oct 17, 2005
  • Length: 28:48
  • Purchases: 3