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2222: The Scandalous Truth About Memoir, 5/31/2022
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Why should anyone read—let alone write—a memoir?

  • Added: May 26, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
2112: Avengers: A Conversation with Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely, 3/25/2021
From: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
Series: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
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On this week’s On Story we’ll hear from Avengers: Infinity War and End Game writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. The two will discuss th...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2021
  • Length: 53:58
2021-02-19 Climate Narratives with Elizabeth Kolbert and Kim Stanley Robinson
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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In the past decade, narratives of a dystopian climate future have helped connect people with heroes in worlds decimated by climate disruption and i...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA, Ohm Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 11
210219: Climate Narratives with Elizabeth Kolbert and Kim Stanley Robinson, 2/19/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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In the past decade, narratives of a dystopian climate future have helped connect people with heroes in worlds decimated by climate disruption and i...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
That's It!
From: New Letters on the Air
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THAT'S IT!--A special program looking back on the career of longtime NEW LETTERS editor Robert Stewart. In this public reading, Albert Goldbarth, J...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
The Write Question - Elisa New - 381
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Harvard professor Elisa New explores the value of poetry in a social setting as it relates to her PBS production, "Poetry in America."

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 22, 2018
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
Truth in Storytelling: The Reality of Teachers’ Lives
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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Author Roxanna Elden discusses her new satirical novel Adequate Yearly Progress, which tells the story of the teachers’ lives across one year in th...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2018
  • Length: 45:49
Revisiting Deliverance (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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How sewing connects generations of women artists and workers -- The lesser known work of James Dickey -- The husband-and-wife team of celebrated au...

Bought by WJCT, KRZA, WUGA (part of GPB), KMUN, KKRN and more


  • Added: Dec 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
The Crossword Kid (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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A conversation with the New York Times' newest crosswords editor - The forgotten genius of Christopher Marlowe

Bought by WJCT, WUGA (part of GPB), KRDP, WVAS, KMUN and more


  • Added: Oct 27, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
An Outrage: Reflections on Racism (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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A new documentary sheds light on the ugly history of lynching - The work of author Ernest Gaines - Reflections from Charlottesville residents on th...

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting, WLPR , KUHF, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
An Outrage: Reflections on Racism (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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A new documentary sheds light on the ugly history of lynching - The work of author Ernest Gaines - Reflections from Charlottesville residents on th...

Bought by WCNY, Georgia Public Broadcasting, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WTJU and more


  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 11
Can't Look... Have To Look (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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How gratuitous violence is increasingly turning off viewers - Why German detectives are pacifists - Godzilla's hidden messages - The lasting wisdom...

Bought by WNMU-FM and WLIW


  • Added: Jan 06, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Can't Look... Have To Look (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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How gratuitous violence is increasingly turning off viewers - Why German detectives are pacifists - Godzilla's hidden messages - The lasting wisdom...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WEZU, WTJU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jan 06, 2017
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 9
Can't Look... Have To Look (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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How gratuitous violence is increasingly turning off viewers - Why German detectives are pacifists - Godzilla's hidden messages

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, KKRN, WUGA (part of GPB), WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Jan 06, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
American Sanctuaries
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: American Sanctuaries
NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR celebrates libraries with this audio anthology of poets, novelists, and memoirists who talk about how they found inspiration...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Oct 13, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
#1417- A Zeal for History: Looking for Jesus with Reza Aslan, Part 2
From: Sandburg Media
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Reza Aslan on Zealot and academia; Maxwell Grant on Lev Grossman's Magicians series.

  • Added: Oct 13, 2014
  • Length: 44:08
The Dirty Old Man of Delhi
From: KALW
Caption: Khushwant Singh at his home in Delhi
India just lost its grand old man of letters. Khushwant Singh was 99 and still writing when he died in Delhi last week.

  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
A Conversation with Filmmaker, Pratibha Parmar
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Pratibha Parmar discusses making the recent documentary about an iconic American writer, Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth, which can be seen on the Am...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, and WCSU-FM


  • Added: Feb 20, 2014
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 3
Penguin turns chicken
From: KALW
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When the publishers Penguin and Random House merged, it called itself The world's first truly global book publishing company". Sounds powerful. But...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
The Hustler Who Inspired the Beats
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Herbert Huncke's line "I'm beat, man" gave Jack Kerouac the label for a generation seeking spiritual sustenance and "kicks" in post-war America.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WJCT, KRZA, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 4
Poet and fiction writer, Sapphire
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Sapphire
Poet and fiction writer Sapphire, best-known for her novel PUSH, which became the award-winning film PRECIOUS, reads from her 2011 novel, THE KID, ...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Nov 16, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Virginia Festival of the Book
From: With Good Reason
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With Good Reason brings you highlights from the 2011 Virginia Festival of the Book

  • Added: Mar 29, 2011
  • Length: 28:57
Arab Novels
From: War News Radio
Caption: An Iraqi official displays a recovered stolen artifact., Credit: Associated Press
From Guarding Heritage March 19, 2010. War News Radio speaks with writer Claudia Roth-Pierpont about her readings of Arabic novels.

  • Added: Mar 19, 2010
  • Length: 07:24