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We look at some "rules" of the language that were mostly just made up so people could feel like they were speaking proper English.

Bought by KECG and KRPS


  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This Bonus Episode comes to us from the Ottumwa Public Library in Iowa where the Middle School Book Club shares its favorite books.

  • Added: Apr 06, 2016
  • Length: 07:31
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Love Harry Potter? You'll love the tale of a different sort of wizard school.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 20:19
Caption: Illustration of Pearl Curran and Patience Worth from the American Weekly, ca. 1940
Professor Daniel Shea shares the story of Pearl Curran, who, beginning in 1913, used a Ouija board to transcribe novels, plays, essays, and poetry ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 30, 2013
  • Length: 13:35
  • Purchases: 1
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Interview about Quist's novel God's Angry Man, the true story of a Minnesota boy orphaned at age seven during te Greaat Depression and indentured a...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 02, 2011
  • Length: 17:57
  • Purchases: 1
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Ask people why they write and you'll hear many reasons. Here are some I hadn't expected.

  • Added: Feb 03, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
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The inner secrets of a comma, a writer, a teacher.

  • Added: Nov 13, 2008
  • Length: 03:24
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Thom Steinbeck, son of novelist John Steinbeck, discusses his father's unique method of encouraging his sons to read.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Mar 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Novelist Alice Walker discusses the theme of revival in Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God."

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Mar 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1