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Basque writer Unai Elorriaga and Amaia Gabantxo, translator of Elorriaga's novel Plants Don’t Drink Coffee, discuss the book as well as the art of ...
- Added: Jul 28, 2011
- Length: 25:51
Lee Cowan goes for a walk in the woods with her furry children, Jillian Burgess returns to her small, childhood school with her own young boys, and...
- Added: Apr 27, 2011
- Length: 29:01
How many Victorian books would you have to read to know the Victorians? What if you could read all 1.7 million?
- Added: Mar 29, 2011
- Length: 28:57
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
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
First, we join biographer John Szwed in thanking the eccentric musical anthropologist Alan Lomax for his rare recordings of early twentieth century...
Bought by KRVS, KPIP-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KXOT Public Radio, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Mar 17, 2011
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 5
Some of our favorite Memorable Moments, including The Decemberists' Colin Meloy, Christopher Moore, The Lonely Forest, Taylor Mali
- Added: Dec 31, 2010
- Length: 59:11
What if you were a superhero that had a completely undesirable power? Today on Art Beat we visit with a Winona local who is creating a character th...
- Added: Dec 20, 2010
- Length: 32:24
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...
- Added: Sep 21, 2010
- Length: 28:23
- Purchases: 4
Jerry Stahl is a novelist, essayist, and screenwriter living in Los Angeles.
- Added: Jul 12, 2010
- Length: 31:22
It sucks we lose so many talented people so young, perhaps they're not gone after all...
- Added: Apr 02, 2010
- Length: 09:18
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
In Boston's densest neighborhood, the Chinatown Storefront Library converted a vacant commercial space into a thriving community center. And then i...
- Added: Feb 17, 2010
- Length: 13:44
- Purchases: 2
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
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
A novelist, poet, and furniture maker, Jim Nisbet lives in San Francisco.
- Added: Sep 10, 2009
- Length: 31:07
- Added: Aug 24, 2009
- Length: 06:12
- 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
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
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
An original comedic adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic.
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 59:09
- Purchases: 2
...the flights of fancy, the follies, the letdowns, and the soft landings
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Nov 12, 2008
- Length: 03:44
- Purchases: 1
A journey to the edges of land and sea
- Added: Nov 12, 2008
- Length: 03:30
From Hawaiia, a tropical canvas.
- Added: Nov 12, 2008
- Length: 03:58
A series of 5 very short stories from the POV of soda, water, corn chips, cigarettes, and a can of potted meat
- Added: Jun 13, 2008
- Length: 09:18
