PRX - Pieces for Tone: This American Life-esque
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Pirates and their deeds become legend. Blackbeard, Lester’s personal favorite, did this thing with canon fuses, or so the legend goes. Just as his...
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 26:15
- Added: Aug 03, 2016
- Length: 24:46
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
This is the story of a dead man. He gave up the ghost a few years ago. And some who knew him might say he never had a ghost to give up in the first...
- Added: Jul 22, 2016
- Length: 26:09
Philip Armand becomes enamored with Campari while on vacation in Milan, then discovers the geography of the past and future.
- Added: Jun 22, 2016
- Length: 06:17
Philip Armand explores a mysterious black dot on his nose and his parents buy him a used motorcycle.
- Added: Jun 22, 2016
- Length: 08:06
Philip Armand misses an opportunity to share cake with Sir Terence Conran because he has his head up his A@%.
- Added: Jun 22, 2016
- Length: 06:13
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Michael Eric Dyson's new book, "The Black Presidency Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America", explores the powerful, surprising way the p...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 01:00:50
Philip Armand gets repeatedly bitten by a spider and a famous artist dangles the carrot of fame.
- Added: Mar 21, 2016
- Length: 06:22
Being a roofer was never sold to Philip Armand as a safe profession. When he nearly falls to his death, he is left thinking about his childhood di...
- Added: Mar 12, 2016
- Length: 04:19
Since the story of Jan Wahl was divided into two episodes, we thought we'd add part two a lil early so you can enjoy the rest of his story.
- Added: Jan 19, 2016
- Length: 06:08
When the Rough Draft Diaries first met Jan Wahl, we knew we would be in for a treat. Jan's living room is lined with Disney memorabilia, his baseme...
- Added: Jan 18, 2016
- Length: 06:03
Writer and radio producer Jonathan Goldstein talks about starting out in radio, working at This American Life, and blurring the line between fact &...
- Added: Jan 17, 2016
- Length: 09:53
On this episode of Art Beat, we visit with a Minnesota author who grew up in Waseca. This individual recently published a memoir. We visit with Rac...
- Added: Dec 28, 2015
- Length: 29:02
On this episode of Art Beat we sit down with local author Catherine Alexander. We visit with Catherine about her novel, Frenchie, which tells the s...
- Added: Dec 17, 2015
- Length: 37:51
Linda Back McKay is an independent advertising and marketing writer and director in the Twin Cities. Her most recent books are "The Next Best Thing...
- Added: Dec 16, 2015
- Length: 02:21
Robert Jevne lives, works, farms and occassionally writes in the greater Jacobson area.
- Added: Dec 16, 2015
- Length: 01:45
When Thanksgiving arrived in 2008, Robert found himself struggling with a tangled mess of emotions. The economic crisis in the U.S., big changes at...
- Added: Dec 05, 2015
- Length: 31:20
Erin Lynn Marsh is a Bemidji poet. She's published her work in Sugarhouse Review, Post Road Magazine, and Paper Darts. She's a graduate of the MFA...
- Added: Dec 02, 2015
- Length: 01:20
Sharon Chmielarz's poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines nationwide. She's also published travel memoirs and three children's picture ...
- Added: Nov 12, 2015
- Length: 02:02
Gary Lee Joyner is a musician, visual artist,teacher and poet from the Twin Cities. He describes the map of his activities as an archipelago of isl...
- Added: Nov 04, 2015
- Length: 02:17
Sonya Kosler was born in Montana and lives now in Dent, Minnesota, at the literal southwestern edge of KAXE-KBXE land. She's a member of the Lakes ...
- Added: Oct 15, 2015
- Length: 03:26
Brian Laidlaw is a graduate of the University of Minnesota MFA program in poetry. He lives in the Twin Cities, and teaches songwriting at McNally S...
- Added: Sep 23, 2015
- Length: 02:19
Donald Dass, a Duluth poet, says about himself that he's a lifelong bon-vivant easing into geezerhood while examines he the mystery, whimsy and fru...
- Added: Sep 16, 2015
- Length: 01:26
Kevin Zepper teaches at Minnesota State University - Moorehead.
- Added: Sep 09, 2015
- Length: 01:52
