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Gail Rixen has been a finish carpenter, a health care aid, and she currently farms near Nebish, Minnesota. Rixen has published three books of poetr...
- Added: Jan 29, 2013
- Length: 02:22
Charmaine Donovan makes her living as a Chemical Dependency Counselor in the Brainerd area. She's a member of numerous regional and national writer...
- Added: Jan 29, 2013
- Length: 02:34
Dean Brooks graduated from Bemidji State University in 2012 with a degree in Creative Writing. He looks for inspiration in dusty corners, early mor...
- Added: Jan 29, 2013
- Length: 01:32
Mike Forbes is a Bemidji area writer. He's been published in Fire Ring, The Talking Stick, The Poet's Touch Stone, Voices For the Land, among other...
- Added: Jan 29, 2013
- Length: 02:04
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
- Added: May 25, 2012
- Length: 07:30
- Purchases: 2
We all know a bad translation when we see one… or do we? I spoke with Jay Rubin, translator for the best-selling author Haruki Murakami, among othe...
- Added: May 11, 2012
- Length: 11:35
Heidi Holtan talked with Bemidji author Will Weaver about young adult novels and his latest “The Survivors” a sequel to the bestselling “Memory Boy...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Apr 17, 2012
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 1
Welcome to the Jazz Age. This lyrical portrait of The Great Gatsby features readings by actor Sam Waterston and commentary by Robert Redford, among...
Bought by Prairie Public, KMUN, KPIP-LP, KQED, KRZA and more
- Added: Aug 16, 2011
- Length: 29:13
- Purchases: 7
Meet Sam Spade, detective, lady-killer. Before it became a classic film, it was first an incredible moral tale of crime and deception. Find out why.
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Prairie Public, KZYX, KMUN, KPIP-LP and more
- Added: Aug 12, 2011
- Length: 29:17
- Purchases: 9
Every Wednesday night on Real Good Words, Heidi talks with authors about their writings.
Heard that phrase before? Want to take it on as your own?...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jun 09, 2011
- Length: 23:43
- Purchases: 1
The particular and universal state of mind of libraries is one of random discovery.
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Feb 08, 2011
- Length: 03:33
- Purchases: 1
Guido has always been overly interested in books, and he tells about some of his favorite libraries.
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Feb 08, 2011
- Length: 05:06
- Purchases: 1
Last week, Aaron's oldest son signed up for his first Library card... to them, the library is spoken about like a mythical place.
- Added: Feb 08, 2011
- Length: 02:41
A gift from the Julia Child Foundation. In "Cannery Row" the hobos poach a chicken over a campfire, in a 5-gallon coffee can. What they don't know,...
Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KZYX, KRCB 104.9, KZYX, and KUT
- Added: Sep 17, 2010
- Length: 26:55
- Purchases: 5
A series of 5 very short stories from the POV of soda, water, corn chips, cigarettes, and a can of potted meat
- Added: Jun 13, 2008
- Length: 09:18
This is the group piece (4 poets) performed in-studio by Northside College Prep High School, which was a team finalist in the 2008 Louder Than a Bo...
- Added: Apr 02, 2008
- Length: 03:08
Actor Alan Arkin discusses the character John Singer in Carson McCullers' "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter."
- Added: Mar 25, 2008
- Length: :59
- Added: Sep 30, 2007
- Length: 04:36
- Purchases: 1
"And the rest is silence" is the famous, much-praised last line of Hamlet - it applies to the cut to sudden-black at the end of The Sopranos, doesn...
- Added: Jun 23, 2007
- Length: 03:55
we're all closure-junkies - craving resolutions in the endings of the stories we encounter - can we break the habit long enough to appreciate the e...
- Added: Jun 23, 2007
- Length: 07:09
first of series of special analysis of The Sopranos' ending ... here, I compare it to the famous ending of Stockton's The Lady or The Tiger...
- Added: Jun 23, 2007
- Length: 04:41
- Added: Mar 14, 2006
- Length: 04:27
