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A woman becomes a best-selling novelist by writing 120 books about her first romance.
- Added: Mar 27, 2018
- Length: 24:49
HOUR ONE: "Discovering America's Black DNA" - What happens when common DNA brings the black and white side of the family together for the first tim...
- Added: Mar 09, 2018
- Length: 01:58:58
Actor Dion has narrated hundreds of audio books and is an aural shape-shifter.
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Mar 02, 2018
- Length: 29:40
- Purchases: 1
Black History Month concludes with the Past American Voice of essayist and fiction writer James Alan McPherson (1943-2016). In this archive recordi...
- Added: Feb 28, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
-Poet Kiki Petrosino reflects on tragic outcomes during traffic stops between police and African American drivers.
-David Wiggins shares how Afric...
Bought by WCNY, WCSU-FM, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, Royalton Community Radio, WTJU and more
- Added: Feb 16, 2018
- Length: 53:55
- Purchases: 11
-Poet Kiki Petrosino reflects on tragic outcomes during traffic stops between police and African American drivers.
-David Wiggins shares how Africa...
Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, WUGA (part of GPB), WVAS, KRZA and more
- Added: Feb 16, 2018
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 7
For Valentines Day, we have a special love story – part fiction, part fact, based on a landmark US Supreme Court case. It’s called "Loving Vs. Virg...
- Added: Feb 13, 2018
- Length: 19:15
From: New Letters on the Air
For Black History Month, we present THE 19th U.S. Poet Laureate (2012-14) and former Mississippi Poet Laureate (2012-16), Natasha Trethewey, who wo...
- Added: Feb 08, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Michael Quess Moore, or, A Scribe Called Quess, describes himself as a poet, an educator, an actor, and an activist. When we met him before his per...
- Added: Feb 08, 2018
- Length: 07:02
Danez Smith's poetry frankly addresses HIV, gay hookups and violence aimed at black men. At formal events, he's not afraid to go flamboyant. KFAI's...
- Added: Feb 02, 2018
- Length: 04:25
In the second half of our conversation with former California Poet Laureate Al Young, he shares more from his book SOMETHING ABOUT THE BLUES: AN UN...
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
How sewing connects generations of women artists and workers -- The lesser known works of James Dickey -- The husband-and-wife team of celebrated a...
- Added: Dec 08, 2017
- Length: :30
How sewing connects generations of women artists and workers -- The lesser known works of James Dickey -- The husband-and-wife team of celebrated a...
Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRGY, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more
- Added: Dec 08, 2017
- Length: 53:56
- Purchases: 7
Thomas Mullen is the author of The Lightning Men, Darktown, and The Last Town on Earth, which was named Best Debut Novel of 2006 by USA TODAY. To l...
- Added: Oct 16, 2017
- Length: 15:39
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
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
A new documentary sheds light on the ugly history of lynching - The work of author Ernest Gaines - Reflections from Charlottesville residents on th...
- Added: Sep 29, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 9
Award-winning poet Elizabeth Alexander talks movingly about her memoir
"The Light of the World" about her husband's sudden death at age 50.
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 29:00
From: New Letters on the Air
Guest editor of BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2017, Natasha Trethewey talks about her her first creative non-fiction book, BEYOND KATRINA: A MEDITATION ON T...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WNJR
- Added: Sep 08, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Kiki Petrosino imagines an escape from a fairy house.
- Added: Aug 30, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 5
When disaster strikes, will we descend into dystopia — or cooperate?
We talk with Cory Doctorow about his new work of speculative fiction, Walkaw...
- Added: Aug 17, 2017
- Length: 59:02
LTR!s July showcase, Discover HAITI, offers an interesting sidebar to second most populous
country in the Caribbean at 10.6 million. It was the fi...
Bought by KISA Digital Studios
- Added: Jul 27, 2017
- Length: 01:03:13
- Purchases: 1
Johnson's novel Welcome to Braggsville puts four kids from Berkeley in Georgia to protest a Civil War reenactment with a pretend lynching. What co...
- Added: Jul 14, 2017
- Length: 26:31
- Purchases: 2
How do cultural constructs, like race, influence our relationship to the natural world? Poet and professor Camille Dungy explores this question by ...
- Added: Jul 05, 2017
- Length: 25:50
Douglas Kearney pays tribute to the late music icon Prince.
- Added: Jun 29, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
