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Jack Kerouac’s influence on American literature cannot be overstated, particularly as a leader of the Beat movement and his connection to the post...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 10:26
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The Book Nook | wprnPublicRadio.com An Interview with Author Guy Morris by Adam Scull https://wprnpublicradio.com/articles/guy-morris/ Check out ...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2024
  • Length: 18:59
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Brain surgeon and unlikely war hero Ryan Brenan has everything: a booming practice, a beautiful home in an idyllic setting, and a happy, loving fam...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2024
  • Length: 12:55
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ix months after the sudden loss of an unplanned pregnancy, Hannah Moore is almost ready to think about living again. That is until one fateful day ...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2024
  • Length: 10:16
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George Saunders reads a passage from his Story Prize-winning collection, TENTH OF DECEMBER. In this public presentation, Saunders discusses his pat...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Dec 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Episode Fourteen – I feel like a sack of broken glass. D’laska and Ainsworth question Andre Gabriel at his apartment. It is not “official.” Agains...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2022
  • Length: 14:27
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Hannah R. Lyon is a professional editor who has assisted dozens of authors in both fiction and nonfiction, polishing their manuscripts to perfectio...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2022
  • Length: 19:38
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Rise of the Ravenisha: A Fantasy Fiction Novel On Freeing Yourself From Bondage And Coming Into Your Own Power A wonderfully woven, speculative fic...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2022
  • Length: 16:46
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In returning to the rails - the river of steel - fifteen years after a childhood trauma that haunts him, young Lynden Hoover gets help from The Duk...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2022
  • Length: 18:08
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Modern-day Britain, with the terrorism threat level set at severe and rising to critical, needs extraordinary measures to overcome the next threat,...

  • Added: May 30, 2022
  • Length: 15:30
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Leah Goldberg was a celebrated writer, translator, teacher, and professor of comparative literature. She is rediscovered anew by each generation of...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 15:53

  • Added: Oct 18, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
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From time to time, we all feel as though we're "on the outside." In this episode of The Apple Seed, we share some tales about "outsiders." This col...

Bought by KKRN, KSJE, KCHW, and WVPE


  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 54:57
  • Purchases: 4
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- Scent number 20: Chanel No. 5 Perfume - Walker brings us back to her startup days when the coveted perfume Chanel No. 5 helped her close many bu...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2021
  • Length: 02:54
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Today's episode is full of stories about horses and the remarkable history that revolves around these animals.

Bought by KSJE and WVPE


  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 54:58
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Basswood Shoes (digital painting), Credit: Donald Whalen
A group of children worry about their Hispanic grandmother after the death of her only sibling, Uncle Lolo. Written by Michael Fidel Marquez, Narr...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2017
  • Length: 25:31
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“A Time for Heroes” As the children prepare to fight the coming of the white rabbit, and the community struggles with how to protect our sons and ...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jan 14, 2017
  • Length: 31:54
  • Purchases: 1
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“Down the Rabbit Hole” This happened in early October just a few weeks ago in a small coastal town. A boy named Fox, age ten, went missing from hi...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2017
  • Length: 30:40
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If you have been listening to the news since the highly contagious, Draco Incendia Trychophyton or “Dragonscale” began to spread, you know what kin...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2017
  • Length: 21:26
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
An interview with MMA fighter and poet Carlo Matos, plus work from issue 7.1

  • Added: May 08, 2014
  • Length: 17:17
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This episode we highlight contributors to issue 7.5 including an interview with National Book Award Finalist, poet Matt Rasmussen.

  • Added: May 07, 2014
  • Length: 16:47
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Background Music: Serious, deep thought, with groove

  • Added: Nov 02, 2013
  • Length: 01:44
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“Some days I am overwhelmed by the amount of thoughts and ideas circling through my mind. I reach in to grab one so I can mull it over, feel it, t...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Aug 21, 2013
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 1
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Siobhan’s debut collection of short stories is that most unusual of war books. It's not about the battlefields. Most of the stories take place at F...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 16, 2013
  • Length: 10:05
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Features a conversation with August Wilson scholar Jeannie Zeck about Wilson’s plays and the many influences on his work; the show also features pe...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 29:03