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A Poetic Journey Through the Landscape of the Human Heart
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Kate Cholewa talks about and reads from her debut novel, 'Shaking Out The Dead'

Bought by KSJD, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 08, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Understanding Others: Transformative Writers
From: New Letters on the Air
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We give thanks for transformative writers in this episode entitled UNDERSTANDING OTHERS, a show that features excerpts from six programs that highl...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
Emily Dickinson and Psyche Influence Novel Set in the American West
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Bruce Holbert talks about his new novel, The Hour of Lead. He also explains how the Myth of the West damages human relationships and why the bad gu...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KSJD


  • Added: Nov 17, 2014
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
Navigating A Lifelong Love Affair
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Pete Fromm talks about his latest novel, IF NOT FOR THIS, and about the process of being involved while two of his stories were made into films.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KSJD, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 03, 2014
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
The Standard Loneliness Package
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
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You must be accountable for your actions.

  • Added: May 01, 2014
  • Length: 04:10
If I Could Remember
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
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I'm sorry for hurting you.

  • Added: May 01, 2014
  • Length: 04:17
Akhil Sharma on "Family Life"
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The writer that so many other writers are talking about is the Indian-born New Yorker, Akhil Sharma. His novel is “Family Life,” a faithful recount...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Apr 23, 2014
  • Length: 27:46
  • Purchases: 1
The Teacher of Literature
From: Open Source
Series: Radio Open Source: Reading Chekhov
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We’re reading and gabbing about a story called “The Teacher of Literature,” published in 1894; Chekhov was 34 years old. It’s a story about a young...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2014
  • Length: 01:21:57
Richard Powers: A Musical Theory of Everything
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Richard Powers is indulging us in a runaway riff on music, in a little room in the Boston Athenaeum, on the top of Beacon Hill, overlooking the Old...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Apr 03, 2014
  • Length: 47:52
  • Purchases: 1
The Student
From: Open Source
Series: Radio Open Source: Reading Chekhov
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We’re reading a famous story called “The Student.” It’s a late winter, early spring night in the 1890s, Easter weekend. A student is coming home f...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KWMR


  • Added: Mar 27, 2014
  • Length: 20:08
  • Purchases: 2
Gusev
From: Open Source
Series: Radio Open Source: Reading Chekhov
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Chekhov wrote “Gusev” on shipboard, returning from his stark study mission to the prison island of Sakhalin in 1890. He was 30 years old, ten years...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2014
  • Length: 52:19
Dreams
From: Open Source
Series: Radio Open Source: Reading Chekhov
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The story this time is called “Dreams.” It’s a dense 7-page fantasy of the good life in the far wilds of Eastern Siberia. It’s a dream of freedom t...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Mar 27, 2014
  • Length: 41:36
  • Purchases: 1
Poetry Compilation with Adrew Kozma, Kate Mohler, and Susana Lang
From: NPR Illinois
Series: Quiddity
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Features selections from past issues of Quiddity which include poems read by Andrew Kozma, Kate Mohler, and Susana Lang.

  • Added: Mar 04, 2014
  • Length: 16:51
Poetry and Prose with Kate Asche, Tim Kahl, and Trellan Smith
From: NPR Illinois
Series: Quiddity
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Features selections from recent issues of Quiddity, including “Sympathy for the Wendigo” by Tim Kahl, two poems from Kate Asche, as well as “A Leg ...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2014
  • Length: 17:24
Pulitzer-Prize Winning Novelist Richard Ford
From: New Letters on the Air
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We finish National Novel Writing Month with the Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Richard Ford, who sees fiction as a vehicle to provide renewal and ...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Nov 27, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Author Thomas Fox Averill
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Thomas Fox Averill
Thomas Fox Averill's novel RODE was named the 2012 Outstanding Western Novel by the National Cowboy Museum, Based on the American song "Tennessee ...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Sep 11, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
An Interview with Russell Rowland
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During this program, Russell Rowland talks about and reads from his novel, 'High and Inside,' in which an alcoholic baseball player moves from Bost...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KSJD


  • Added: Jun 11, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
Novelist Alex George
From: New Letters on the Air
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After working for years as a corporate lawyer in England, Alex George moved to the states with his family and opened his own law practice in mid-Mi...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Pakistani-American writer Ayad Akhtar
From: New Letters on the Air
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Pakistani-American writer Ayad Akhtar has made a living as a screenwriter, but 2012 brought him notice as both a playwright and a novelist. He deb...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: May 01, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Interview with Mark Strand. November 11, 2012.
From: Words On A Wire
Series: Words On A Wire (Best Of)
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Mark Strand encourages a return to writing long-hand; he unveils his writing and revision processes. He reads "The Poems of the Spanish Poet" from ...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 14:30
Marjorie Smith, author of Making Up Amelia
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During this program, Marjorie Smith talks about and reads from her novel, Making Up Amelia, which is set in Guam, Saipan, and San Francisco

Bought by KSJD, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 14, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Jess Walter, author of 'Beautiful Ruins'
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During this program, Jess Walter talks about and reads from his latest novel, 'Beautiful Ruins.' He also defines the mosaic novel and talks about p...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
My Audio Universe Spring 2012 - 59:00 - explicit
From: Brian Bahouth
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Our Spring 2012 Edition features five short stories specially adapted to audio. Unique sound design illuminates the best contemporary short fictio...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
The Pawn - explicit
From: Brian Bahouth
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The Pawn chronicles a meth addict’s transformative journey to the river and back.

  • Added: Apr 27, 2012
  • Length: 21:33
A Simple Rigid Structure
From: Brian Bahouth
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A Simple Rigid Structure is a short story that illustrates how tragically submissive and pliable a person will be for acceptance and love.

  • Added: Apr 27, 2012
  • Length: 14:07