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Fed up with the election? Threatening to move to Canada? A new book, "How to Move to Canada: A Discontented American's Guide to Canadia Relocation,...
- Added: Oct 25, 2016
- Length: 14:50
What does children's book author Dav Pilkey have in common with Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, and Maya Angelou? His books, like theirs, appear on the...
- Added: Oct 05, 2016
- Length: 16:13
Mystics, Scientists, Astronomists, Harlequins, Writers, and Artists -- Pop!
Explore the modern masters of pop-up books: Matthew Reinhart, Robert S...
- Added: Aug 17, 2016
- Length: 10:10
Lester Blackiston was the pirate of Shockoe Bottom. He was a minor Beat poet, a questionable inventor, a man who avoided work at all costs. He had ...
- Added: Jul 27, 2016
- Length: 23:27
Father and daughter poets Willis and Aliki Barnstone share their work, talk about how they influence each other, and read from poems old and new.
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Jul 22, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Tammy Bobrowsky talks with New York Times bestselling author Ryan North about his fun spin on Shakespeare in his new book “Romeo and/or Juliet: a c...
- Added: Jun 20, 2016
- Length: 09:49
- Added: Jun 18, 2016
- Length: 53:16
- 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
An interview with the author Jamie Holmes about his book, Nonsense. A look at the surprising upside of ambiguity—and how, properly harnessed, it ca...
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]
- Added: Apr 19, 2016
- Length: 28:01
- Purchases: 1
Melody loves words, but she can't speak or write or even walk across a room. Until a new computer opens up her life. Students from St. Lucy School ...
- Added: Feb 23, 2016
- Length: 19:48
Book Club for Kids goes to LA for a discussion of Roald Dahl's first book for kids "James and the Giant Peach." Public radio legend Cash Peters is ...
- Added: Feb 17, 2016
- Length: 21:34
Kite fighting on the National Mall - it's all part of the Cherry Blossom Festival. It's also at the center of Natalie Dias Lorenzi's novel "Flying ...
- Added: Feb 16, 2016
- Length: 18:27
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
Two short plays. In Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn’s Fifth Planet, a professional astronomer played by Amy Ryan (Birdman; Gone, Baby, Gone) an...
Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), WHRV, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and KUNM
- Added: Jan 15, 2016
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 4
The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!!
Featuring the Artist AmarA, Director Sue Zizza, and #1 New York Times bestseller The Grave...
- Added: Jan 06, 2016
- Length: 58:34
Robert Jevne lives, works, farms and occassionally writes in the greater Jacobson area.
- Added: Oct 08, 2015
- Length: :44
The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!!
Featuring Director and Writer Don Thacker, Author Dr. Frank Romano, and The Finest Hours i...
- Added: Oct 07, 2015
- Length: 58:45
The Adventure of the Speckled Band from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle part one, directed by Jason Merrin, composed by...
- Added: Sep 28, 2015
- Length: 28:44
Congressman Brad Ashford reads from Rainbow Rowell's unlikely romance "Eleanor & Park". Kids from the Book Worm Girls book club discuss the book.
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 21:03
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
Jeanne Lutz grew up on a dairy farm in southern Minnesota and lives in St Paul now. She loves to write poetry because its something she can do anyw...
- Added: Jul 30, 2015
- Length: 01:12
The poet, Danny Klecko runs a bakery in St. Paul. Some of his poems are written while his Capital City bread is in the oven. If you listen to "The ...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jul 15, 2015
- Length: 02:13
- Purchases: 1
