PRX - Pieces for Tone: Quirky

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Caption: Pacifica Municipal Pier, Credit: Toni Mirosevich
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
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Discussions with authors Megan Miranda ("Such a Quiet Place") and Emily Henry ("People We Meet on Vacation").

Bought by WNMU-FM, Michigan Radio, and WKAR


  • Added: Aug 28, 2021
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 3
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR continues National Hispanic Heritage Month with a look back at Latina author Sandra Cisneros, who received the National Med...

Bought by KFCF FM, WNJR, KRZA, XRAY.fm, KHNS and more


  • Added: Sep 26, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
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“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
Caption: J. California Cooper, Credit: Ellen Banner / The New York Times
J. California Cooper loved playing with paper dolls--even as an adult.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
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WTIP's Ann Possis had the chance to speak with best-selling Minnesota author Lorna Landvik recently about her new book, "Best to Laugh." It's loos...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2014
  • Length: 18:38
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This Women's Words features Esther Marcella Hoffmann from Mankato, Minnesota reading two poems, "For the Males," and "Mama Gaia."

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 30, 2014
  • Length: 02:21
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Freakonomics' Stephen J. Dubner
Freaks and nerds unite! Freakonomics' Stephen Dubner teaches Tricia and Greta how to think like a freak. Plus a portrait of astronaut Sally Ride on...

Bought by KUAC, WRIR, and KMXT


  • Added: Jun 24, 2014
  • Length: 26:59
  • Purchases: 3
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This Women's Words from KUMD features Duluthian Jocelyn Pihlaja reading her short story, "Nice Day for a White Wedding."

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 17, 2014
  • Length: 05:37
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Adele Park, Credit: http://www.jittersaudiobook.com/
What happens when a female shock jock from Hackensack, New Jersey finds herself working at a radio station near a polygamist enclave in Utah?

  • Added: Feb 21, 2013
  • Length: 14:22
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
Caption: Randy Ross writes from the Loneliest Planet
Marlins, dead cats, beagles, and red wine make for an interesting evening.

  • Added: May 10, 2012
  • Length: 04:12
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
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The 16th U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan talks about what led her to become a poet at 19, how she justifies and legitimizes being a poet to herself and...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 28:56
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Review of audiobook I Feel Bad About My Neck

  • Added: Jan 13, 2008
  • Length: 03:59