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On this episode of Art Beat, we visit with a local author who is known for her playwritting. This time, she has ventured into publishing her first ...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Jun 10, 2015
- Length: 15:59
- Purchases: 1
Jane Smiley discusses her 2014 book, SOME LUCK, the first in a trilogy that follows an Iowa farm family for more than a century. Smiley talks about...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WNJR
- Added: May 20, 2015
- Length: 30:30
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Apr 23, 2015
- Length: 10:21
- Purchases: 1
First, a prolific writer of everything, including letters. Langston Hughes wrote letters deep into the early morning. Arnold Rampersad and David Ro...
Bought by WCNY, Harford Community Radio, and WCWP
- Added: Apr 07, 2015
- Length: 59:54
- Purchases: 3
First, although he is most well-known for his fashion consulting on the show, Project Runway, his favorite hat to wear is as a teacher. In Tim Gunn...
Bought by Harford Community Radio
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 59:54
- Purchases: 1
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
Lee Matthew Goldberg graduated with an MFA from the New School. He is a regular contributor to The Montreal Review and The Adirondack Review. His ...
- Added: Mar 05, 2015
- Length: 12:06
Jason’s first novel was inspired by a dream in which his late mother visited him. He goes on to describe his day job while he was writing the book ...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Feb 19, 2015
- Length: 09:55
- Purchases: 2
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
Searching for the way Shakespeare really sounded. And more...
- Added: Jan 30, 2015
- Length: 53:57
- Purchases: 4
Searching for the way Shakespeare really sounded. And more...
- Added: Jan 30, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 5
Tim Dorsey was a reporter and editor for the Tampa Tribune from 1987 to 1999, and is the author of seventeen other novels: Tiger Shrimp Tango, The ...
- Added: Jan 23, 2015
- Length: 11:04
As I considered making a show to serve as a kind of year in review, I first thought to choose my favorite program from each month of the year, 12 s...
- Added: Dec 30, 2014
- Length: 57:06
In the age of texts, twitter and email, do people still write fan letters? What compels us to do so?
- Added: Dec 24, 2014
- Length: 29:40
First, Mary Higgins Clark, the "Queen of Suspense," discusses her latest work, The Cinderella Murder, written with best-selling author Alafair Burk...
Bought by WCWP
- Added: Dec 23, 2014
- Length: 54:51
- Purchases: 1
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
The World War Z author Max Brooks isn't kidding when it comes to zombies.
- Added: Oct 30, 2014
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
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
First, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of the best loved novels of the twentieth century. And for the last fifty years, Lee, has been li...
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 59:54
- Purchases: 3
Frank Wheeler, Jr. is a novelist living in Wisconsin.
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 13:47
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
Theodore Bikel talks not doing the tango, the responsibility of the artist, and why singing a song is never naive.
- Added: Sep 02, 2014
- Length: 12:53
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
The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!!
Featuring Author John C. Payne, Comedian Jan McInnis, and New York Times Bestseller, Summe...
- Added: Jul 16, 2014
- Length: 58:01
Henry Chang is a novelist and a native New Yorker.
- Added: Jul 08, 2014
- Length: 16:45
