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Author Jess Lourey talks about her Minnesota Book Award winning thriller "The Quarry Girls"
- Added: Jun 22, 2023
- Length: 06:30
For Black History Month, NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR revisits this program with the late August Wilson. FENCES, his Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winnin...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WDCB, and WNJR
- Added: Feb 25, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Artistic Director of Alabama Shakespeare Festival Rick Dildine brings theater outdoors and has the audience "Speak the Speech."
Bought by Harford Community Radio
- Added: Feb 08, 2021
- Length: 26:46
- Purchases: 1
2018 is the 25th anniversary of Angels In America. Author of its oral history, The World Only Spins Forward discusses the influence of the play.
- Added: Jun 22, 2018
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 2
Carrie La Seur discusses her sophomore novel, The Weight of An Infinite Sky. She also reads a short selection from the book.
Bought by KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Feb 12, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Author interview with Tim Federle whose self help book Life is Like a Musical compares connects lessons learned as a professional in the theater t...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Nov 27, 2017
- Length: 10:14
- Purchases: 1
We look back on the life of novelist Kent Haruf (1943-2014). September 2017 marks the inaugural Kent Haruf Literary Celebration in Salida for this ...
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Aug 10, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Terence Davies talks ecstasy, unfairness, and avoiding narrative cul-de-sacs,
- Added: May 05, 2017
- Length: 17:41
Dramatist Anna Deavere Smith discusses her technique of interviewing real people to use their stories on stage. She talks about the School to Priso...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WNJR
- Added: Dec 01, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Henry Schvey discusses the inspiration for his play on the life of painter Oskar Kokoschka,
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 12:16
Poet Mary Jo Bang explores the process of translating Dante Alighieri's Inferno, and professor Jessica Rosenfeld explains the origins of literature.
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 20:23
When the hurly burly’s done, fair is foul and foul is fair, by the pricking of my thumbs something wicked this way comes, screw your courage to the...
- Added: Feb 02, 2016
- Length: 01:01:00
Jason Segel and James Ponsoldt talk misconceptions, epiphanies of genius, and the musician’s ear.
- Added: Aug 08, 2015
- Length: 16:12
Jeffrey Hatcher talks leaving things out, earning pauses, and why Holmes is a man for all seasons.
- Added: Jul 15, 2015
- Length: 16:40
In Forward Observer, Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins plays a harried Veterans Administration Hospital clerk. An elderly World War II veteran is giv...
Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), KUNM, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and KUNM
- Added: Mar 17, 2015
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 4
Gia Coppola talks collaboration, going with her gut, and using dreams as tools.
- Added: May 16, 2014
- Length: 08:56
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
John Krokidas talks taking small liberties, exploding into the new, and the tender side of David Cross.
- Added: Oct 31, 2013
- Length: 16:44
Director James Ponsoldt talks dignity, Geiger counters of honesty, and where to get a great piece of pie.
- Added: Aug 04, 2013
- Length: 13:54
Amy Acker and Alexis Denisof talk having no fear, short shooting schedules, and staircase soliloquies.
- Added: Jun 05, 2013
- Length: 09:03
Walter Salles talks searching for freedom, finding the story behind the book, and bicycling with Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
- Added: Mar 24, 2013
- Length: 14:56
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
Matthew Quick talks living an examined life, being rejected over 70 times, and what it was like to get the phone call that changed his life.
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 14:26
In this Views and Brews Remix on Becoming Tennessee Williams professor Charlotte Canning, joins director Norman Blumensaadt and actress Jennifer Un...
- Added: Nov 26, 2012
- Length: 01:00:52
Stephen Chbosky talks being reborn, taking notes, and the mysteries of the grilled sticky.
- Added: Sep 30, 2012
- Length: 13:16
