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Lawyer Turned Poet Monica Youn
From: New Letters on the Air
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A lawyer-turned-poet and twice a finalist for the National Book Award, Monica Youn reveals why she felt the need to leave the legal field for creat...

  • Added: May 23, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
IT Came from Beyond Zen: A Conversation With Brad Warner
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Brad Warner
Soto Zen Priest, Brad Warner, talks about Zen, zazen, and Dogen, the 13th century Japanese Zen Master.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Dec 30, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
PN 16-48 "At the Vietnam Center and Archive" by Hai-Dang Phan
From: The Poetry Foundation
Series: PoetryNow
Caption: Hai-Dang Phan, poet
Hai-Dang Phan examines archival documents concerning the abduction of a young Vietnamese woman by Thai pirates in the 1980s.

Bought by KALW, KHSU, KENW, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 18, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
PN 16-45 "Chinese Dream 14" by Timothy Yu
From: The Poetry Foundation
Series: PoetryNow
Caption: Timothy Yu, poet, Credit: Margarita Corporan
Timothy Yu meditates on perceptions of race, on television and in social media.

Bought by KALW, KHSU, and KENW


  • Added: Apr 24, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Douglas Coleman Show w_ Colin Flaherty
From: Douglas Coleman
Series: The Douglas Coleman Show
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Interview with Author Colin Flaherty

  • Added: Apr 10, 2017
  • Length: 59:34
Joyce Carol Oates / Amy Tan
From: Colleen Nelson
Series: Overheard with Evan Smith
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On this episode of Overheard, we sit down with two renowned American authors. First up, Joyce Carol Oates followed by Amy Tan.

Bought by WLPR and KUT


  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Novelist Vaddey Ratner writes her story of Cambodia
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Vaddey Ratner, Credit: Christina Sherk
Vaddey Ratner's novel, In the Shadow of the Banyan honors her lost family

Bought by WNJR, WMUU-LP, and WRIR


  • Added: Nov 22, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Joe Ide discusses "IQ"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Joe Ide grew up in South Central Los Angeles. This is his first novel.

  • Added: Oct 27, 2016
  • Length: 08:54
Michael Berry and the art of translation
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Yu Hua and Michael Berry Beijing August 2010 , Credit: courtesy of Michael Berry
Michael Berry reflects on the art of translating Yu Hua’s influential novel and new Big Read title To Live into English

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KPIP-LP, WRIR, WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 23, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 5
Kao Kalia Yang -- What is home? A refugee's challenge.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Kao Kalia Yang
Kao Kalia Yang's book, The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir is a personal story that speaks to the moment.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jun 29, 2016
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 3
Poet and Chinese Translator Jonathan Stalling
From: New Letters on the Air
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As part of Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month, we hear from Jonathan Stalling, the first westerner chosen as Beijing University's Poet-in-Reside...

Bought by KQED and XRAY.fm


  • Added: May 18, 2016
  • Length: 30:30
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 7 - Flying the Dragon
From: Kitty Felde
Series: Book Club for Kids
Caption: Paul and Ethan at Hooray for Books! bookstore in Alexandria, Virginia
Kite fighting on the National Mall - it's all part of the Cherry Blossom Festival. It's also at the center of Natalie Dias Lorenzi's novel "Flying ...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2016
  • Length: 18:27
The Tropes of Fiction
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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A funny blog on the site Publishing Perspectives came up with a checklist for the must have ingredients of a bad South Asian diasporan novel. Arran...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sandip Roy's Dispatch: The Gurkha's Daughter
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Nepalese/Indian-American author Prahjwal Parajuly is not your usual "trope."

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jul 28, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Bless thee! Thou art translated
From: Richard Paul
Series: Shakespeare Unlimited
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When Shakespeare’s work is translated into foreign languages, does it cease to be Shakespeare?

  • Added: Jul 17, 2014
  • Length: 24:11
A Conversation with novelist, Julie Otsuka
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Julie Otsuka, Credit: Robert Bessoir
Julie Otsuka’s first novel When the Emperor Was Divine explores her family’s history in the Japanese-American internment camps during World War II.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jul 11, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
Henry Chang discusses "Death Money"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Henry Chang is a novelist and a native New Yorker.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2014
  • Length: 16:45
A Conversation with David Mura
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: David Mura, Credit: Courtesy of American Program Bureau, Inc.
Poet, Writer and Spoken-Word Performer David Mura uses his considerable talents as a poet, novelist, memoirist and performer to explore what it me...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Apr 16, 2014
  • Length: 27:29
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Novelist, Manil Suri
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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The City of Devi, an apocalyptic sex comedy and love story, is the third book in Manil Suri’s trilogy centered on Mumbai. [26:08]

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 26:07
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Writer, M. Evelina Galang
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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M. Evelina Galang's work spans generations with her writing of young Filipina-Americans and the surviving World War II "comfort women." [22:15]

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KZUM, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 22:16
  • Purchases: 3
An Interview with Jamie Ford
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Jamie Ford talks about and reads from his second novel, Songs of Willow Frost. He also talks about west coast Chinese culture in the early 20th cen...

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


  • Added: Jan 01, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Interview with Arthur Sze. Sunday, September 30, 2012.
From: Words On A Wire
Series: Words On A Wire (Best Of)
Caption: Arthur Sze
Arthur Sze and hosts discuss the Santa Fe and Chihuahuan desert and how vastness comes through in the pace of poems. Sze reads the Poem of the Wee...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
LIFE OF PI -- Ang Lee Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Ang Lee talks faith, storytelling, and being pushed to the edge.

  • Added: Nov 20, 2012
  • Length: 10:18
A Conversation with Maxine Hong Kingston
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Maxine Hong Kingston discusses her path-breaking books. [22:55]

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: May 10, 2012
  • Length: 22:55
  • Purchases: 1
Remembrance: On Time And Distance
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Caption: Chu-Yin Lo Roberts
Dmae Roberts produced a special half-hour radio memorial on the 10th anniversary of her mom’s death. Remembrance: On Time And Distance is part memo...

Bought by KVSC, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Prairie Public, KVSC, and WBEZ


  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 5