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Bob Kustra interviews novelist Chris Bohjalian about his latest best-seller "The Flight Attendant"

  • Added: Apr 06, 2019
  • Length: 30:01
Caption: WinCon 2018: River Valley Ghostbusters, Credit: Bill Stoneberg
On this episode of Culture Clique we go to the Winona Public Library for WinCon, a celebration of everything from cosplay and anime to comics and g...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2018
  • Length: 23:28
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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
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Terence Davies talks ecstasy, unfairness, and avoiding narrative cul-de-sacs,

  • Added: May 05, 2017
  • Length: 17:41
Caption: Kelly Hutchinson
Two short plays by the master of the form, David Ives (Venus In Fur, All in the Timing). In David Ives’ ITS ALL GOOD, a Chicago native visits his h...

Bought by WHRV, Oregon Public Broadcasting, KZYX, and KUNM


  • Added: Oct 14, 2015
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Jason Segel & James Ponsoldt, San Francisco, CA 5/2/15, Credit: Andrea Chase
Jason Segel and James Ponsoldt talk misconceptions, epiphanies of genius, and the musician’s ear.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2015
  • Length: 16:12
Caption: Jeffrey Hatcher, San Francisco, CA 4/25/15, Credit: Andrea Chase
Jeffrey Hatcher talks leaving things out, earning pauses, and why Holmes is a man for all seasons.

  • Added: Jul 15, 2015
  • Length: 16:40
Caption: Marsha Mason
Marsha Mason (4 time Academy Award nominee) and Steven Boyer (Tony nominee for HAND TO GOD and regular on TV's "Trial and Error") star in TASHA WA...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), WHRV, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and KUNM


  • Added: Jun 11, 2015
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Tonya Pinkins
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
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Lou Berney is the author of three novels, THE LONG AND FARAWAY GONE, WHIPLASH RIVER, and GUTSHOT STRAIGHT, as well as a collection of short stories...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 15:27
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Phillip Margolin is an attorney and the author of nineteen novels. You may visit him at www.phillipmargolin.com or at www.facebook.com/PhillipMargo...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2014
  • Length: 27:44
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Jon Bassoff was born in 1974 in New York City and currently lives in a ghost town somewhere in Colorado. His mountain gothic novel, Corrosion, was ...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2014
  • Length: 15:50
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Frank Wheeler, Jr. is a novelist living in Wisconsin.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 13:47
Caption: William Jackson Harper
William Jackson Harper is a lascivious bee swarming a young woman’s Upper West Side apartment. Two vultures have a bone to pick with Saint Francis....

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), New Hampshire Public Radio, Oregon Public Broadcasting, KZYX, and KUNM


  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Ed Kurtz is the author of A WIND OF KNIVES, CONTROL, and DEAD TRASH, as well as numerous short stories. His work has appeared in Needle: A Magazine...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2014
  • Length: 16:42
Caption: Gia Coppola, San Francisco, CA 5/2/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Gia Coppola talks collaboration, going with her gut, and using dreams as tools.

  • Added: May 16, 2014
  • Length: 08:56
Caption: James Ponsoldt, San Francisco, CA 5/6/13 , Credit: Andrea Chase
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
Caption: Amy Acker & Alexis Denisoff, San Francisco, CA 4/28/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Amy Acker and Alexis Denisof talk having no fear, short shooting schedules, and staircase soliloquies.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2013
  • Length: 09:03
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James Greer talks about Guided by Voices, his new band Detective and doing Broadway with Steven Soderbergh.

  • Added: May 08, 2013
  • Length: 47:00
Caption: Walter Salles, San Francisco, CA 12/8/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Walter Salles talks searching for freedom, finding the story behind the book, and bicycling with Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

  • Added: Mar 24, 2013
  • Length: 14:56
Caption: Matthew Quick, San Francisco, CA 2/1/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
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
Caption: Tennessee Williams
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
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Stephen Chbosky talks being reborn, taking notes, and the mysteries of the grilled sticky.

  • Added: Sep 30, 2012
  • Length: 13:16
Caption: Nicholas Sparks, San Francisco, CA 4/13/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Nicholas Sparks talks romance, editing, and why dogs are an author's best friend.

  • Added: Apr 18, 2012
  • Length: 12:21
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FINDING JOE -- Filmmaker Pat Solomon on bliss, fear, and why Joseph Campbell will always be relevant.

  • Added: Oct 14, 2011
  • Length: 13:51