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“A Day in the Life of a Conversationalist,” by Ken Cormier.
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- Added: Apr 02, 2019
- Length: 07:29
“Drowning Dogs,” a short story by Joan Joffe Hall, recorded at her home in 2006.
Song: “Kill That Fly,” by Psychedeladelphia (from The Blister Pa...
- Added: Mar 06, 2019
- Length: 08:13
Award-winning author, Chad Dundas discusses his childhood fascination with professional wrestling and how he came to write the graphic novel, "Unde...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Feb 14, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
“The Sounds of Lunch,” by Ken Cormier
- Added: Jan 28, 2019
- Length: 03:04
“Eulogy,” by Ken Cormier
Background music: “Earresponsibility,” by David Salowich (from The Blister Pack)
- Added: Jan 28, 2019
- Length: 03:39
Winner of San Francisco's 2015 LitQuake essay contest. Published in Word Riot (with audio) December 2015.
- Added: Nov 26, 2018
- Length: 03:18
Cai Emmons discusses her novel, "Weather Woman." She also reads a short passage.
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Oct 02, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Rob MacClanahan reads chapters 3 & 4 of H G Well's 1895 classic, "The Time Machine"
- Added: Sep 21, 2018
- Length: 01:25:52
One man's vision led to a vinyl-only record company producing albums of spoken-word horror literature. And the craziest part? It's flourishing.
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Jan 20, 2018
- Length: 09:57
- Purchases: 1
NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR pays tribute to the Past American Voice of John Ashbery. The poet, critic, and translator, who died on September 3rd at age ...
- Added: Sep 13, 2017
- Length: 29:00
In an era of fake news and alternative facts, what is the role of literature that blurs the line between fiction and non-fiction? Novelist Lynne Ti...
- Added: Apr 20, 2017
- Length: 30:55
Staff members at WMNR contribute poems for "Words & Music".
- Added: Apr 13, 2017
- Length: 09:03
Meet the Founder of Shower Beer, Beer Specifically Created for the Shower.
- Added: Apr 11, 2017
- Length: 59:59
Ray Bradbury's best work... the movie's opening credits were done with audio voiceover while antennas (and no words) grace the opening screen...
- Added: Feb 18, 2017
- Length: 02:12:23
Will Rogers remarks on the meeting of pilgrims and indians... Mark Twain's later years...
- Added: Nov 13, 2016
- Length: 02:44:16
Time travel is really possible, in theory...
- Added: Nov 03, 2016
- Length: 02:35:33
Here's the Nobel Prize for Literature winning Bob Dylan mixed with music and words from Barack Obama, the Nobel committee, Les Crane, James Taylor ...
- Added: Oct 17, 2016
- Length: 56:38
Jean Bouchebel and his family sweat bullets in an olive grove...
- Added: Sep 21, 2016
- Length: 11:51
Louis the German divides the Rhine and the doomed space shuttle Challenger is used by the Department of Defense on its last successful (classified)...
- Added: Sep 20, 2016
- Length: 02:20:46
Joaquin Murrieta became notorious during the California gold rush, and even inspired an author to write a famous swashbuckler. And an ancient city...
- Added: Sep 17, 2016
- Length: 02:25:39
'Obligations of a freeman', a serious sermon by a humorous and anti-religious Mark Twain...
- Added: Jul 16, 2016
- Length: 02:35:32
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
Garrison Keillor, reading an excerpt from Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 09, 2016
- Length: 02:35
- Purchases: 2
In a future world, we have lost the technology for video/film/picture or recorded image. It is against their religion to draw or be involved with ...
- Added: Feb 24, 2016
- Length: 09:32
This is part 2 of Episode 1 of the radio drama, "Columbus Myth." "Columbus Myth" is a speculative piece written from an African American perspecti...
- Added: Feb 23, 2016
- Length: 10:14
