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David Owen discusses his nonfiction book, Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River. He also reads a short segment from the book.
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio and more
- Added: Nov 30, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 6
Explorers Amy and Dave Freeman spent a year in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness to bring attention to threats to this area. Now they're ou...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Oct 02, 2017
- Length: 24:24
- Purchases: 1
Douglas Wood, longtime wilderness guide, is also a prolific author, perhaps best known for his first book, "Old Turtle." Now he's out with a memoir...
- Added: Sep 15, 2017
- Length: 16:12
From: Out of Bounds
Karen Joy Fowler talks about her compelling and heart breaking novel "We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves."
- Added: Sep 13, 2017
- Length: 28:00
Our guest on this episode of MN Reads is Lorin R. Robinson, the author of Tales From The Warming published in 2017 by Open Books.
Combining scient...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Jul 20, 2017
- Length: 12:32
- Purchases: 1
What will New York City look like in 2140? Scifi author Kim Stanley Robinson’s latest novel explores a possible future in which NYC is partly subme...
- Added: Jul 05, 2017
- Length: 40:50
How do cultural constructs, like race, influence our relationship to the natural world? Poet and professor Camille Dungy explores this question by ...
- Added: Jul 05, 2017
- Length: 25:50
From: New Letters on the Air
In the other half of this conversation with Dave Smith, the author of more than 20 books of poetry, essays, memoir and fiction, he talks about the ...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: May 24, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
A conversation with biologist and naturalist E.O. Wilson on what winning a second Pulitzer Prize meant for him and his Harvard colleagues. A look ...
- Added: Apr 27, 2017
- Length: 24:59
A new book by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Dan Egan examines Great Lakes history and current issues facing the region.
Bought by WCMU Michigan, WBFO, North Country Public Radio, and WKSU
- Added: Mar 24, 2017
- Length: :55
- Purchases: 4
Bob King, creator of the Duluth News-Tribune's Astro Bob blog, has written a great new book about how to find planets, constellations, satellites, ...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Dec 06, 2016
- Length: 18:13
- Purchases: 1
Great Lakes historian and author Michael Schumacher spoke with WTIP's Dave TerSteeg recently about his latest book, "Torn in Two, " which recounts ...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Nov 16, 2016
- Length: 25:22
- Purchases: 1
Gary Ferguson speaks about wilderness, loss, grief, and the symbolism of loons as reads from his memoir, THE CARRY HOME: LESSONS FROM THE AMERICAN ...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Nov 09, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Seth Kantner talks about growing up in rural Alaska -- 100 miles above the Arctic Circle -- and the essays in his collection 'Swallowed by the Grea...
Bought by KWMR, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KGLT, Spokane Public Radio, KSJD and more
- Added: Oct 31, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 6
Tim McDonnell grew up on the edge of the Boundary Waters and has been writing about wilderness for years. He joined WTIP's Dick Swanson to talk abo...
- Added: Aug 25, 2016
- Length: 19:35
Think of the Anthropocene as a science fiction thought experiment. We imagine future geologists looking back into the rock record, and trying to pi...
- Added: Aug 18, 2016
- Length: 36:22
-Pulitzer Prize winning author Dan Fagin on how a small town fought against pollution and the polluters. -Marc Edwards who helped uncover the water...
- Added: Jun 03, 2016
- Length: 28:59
-Pulitzer Prize winning author Dan Fagin on his book "Tom's River: A Story of Science and Salvation" that tells the story of a how small town fough...
- Added: Jun 03, 2016
- Length: 53:56
- Purchases: 3
Biologist Sean B Carroll talks to Craig Barfoot about his latest book, The Serengeti Rules. We find out how wolves can change the physical shape of...
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]
- Added: May 03, 2016
- Length: 28:50
- Purchases: 1
Biologist Sean B Carroll talks to Craig Barfoot about his latest book, The Serengeti Rules. We find out how wolves can change the physical shape of...
- Added: May 03, 2016
- Length: 07:21
Nobel Prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek argues that beauty is at the heart of the logic of the universe, a principle that has guided his pionee...
- Added: Apr 16, 2016
- Length: 27:26
Interview with author Mike Gonzales about his book, The Last Drop.
The one indispensable resource, water is increasingly controlled and even owned...
- Added: Apr 16, 2016
- Length: 29:04
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has spent a lifetime observing other creatures and other cultures, from the African savannah to her own backyard. You may...
- Added: Apr 12, 2016
- Length: 20:31
Kansas Poet Laureate (2009-2013) Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg is the author of multiple books of poetry and prose. She discusses her many books, includin...
- Added: Apr 05, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
The sci-fi epic of "Dune" takes place on a desert planet. There, the water in even a single tear is precious. Can Dune offer lessons for the drough...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 30, 2015
- Length: 20:00
- Purchases: 1
