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"The Glass Castle" author Jeannette Walls

From: New Letters on the Air

Former celebrity journalist Jeannette Walls discusses her hardscrabble childhood which she depicted in her memoir THE GLASS CASTLE, now an August 2...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, and WFIU

Added: Aug 18, 2017
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 3

With Ears to Hear: Voices Against the Heroic

From: WFHB
Series: Interchange

Cynthia Wolfe joins us to discuss her “Platinum” ranked audio program “Nuclear Nightingales” which consists of readings from the oral history Voice...

Added: Aug 04, 2017
Length: 57:43

The Write Question - Kevin Canty - 286

From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question

Caption: 'The Underworld' by Kevin Canty

Kevin Canty discusses his novel, 'The Underworld,' along with the nature of the human experience and Canty's own creative process. He also reads fr...

Bought by KSJD, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio

Added: Aug 03, 2017
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 3

189: Empathy for Monsters / 190: Telling a Life, 7/29/2017

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "Empathy for Monsters" - The American soldiers who guarded Saddam Hussein came to like and care about him. This hour: Should we feel empa...

Added: Jul 27, 2017
Length: 01:58:58

Giving Account: Thoreau at 200

From: WFHB
Series: Interchange

Caption: Thoreau's grave in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery , Credit: Doug Storm

On this occasion of the birth of Thoreau we are forced to confront the vexed nature of our reception of his genius. So many of us hate Thoreau, whi...

Added: Jul 18, 2017
Length: 58:05

Cents & Sensibility (promo)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo

How free-market capitalism influenced modern romance - Using vampires to teach irrational economics - The trials and tribulations of reading James ...

Bought by WNMU-FM

Added: Jun 09, 2017
Length: :29
Purchases: 1

Cents & Sensibility (hour)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

How free-market capitalism influenced modern romance - Using vampires to teach irrational economics - The trials and tribulations of reading James ...

Bought by WCNY, KWMR, WXDU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WCWP and more

Added: Jun 09, 2017
Length: 53:55
Purchases: 12

Cents & Sensibility (half)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

How free-market capitalism influenced modern romance - Using vampires to study irrational economics

Bought by WJCT, WUGA (part of GPB), KRDP, WCQS, KMUN and more

Added: Jun 09, 2017
Length: 28:59
Purchases: 8

The Rape of Eve: Newly Discovered Texts of Resistance

From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit

All the origin myths of Rome are rape narratives. Dr. Celene Lillie has found resistance to Rome's culture of rape and domination in Gnostic texts...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS

Added: Jun 02, 2017
Length: 57:57
Purchases: 2

Get Rhythm (promo)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo

A conversation with poet Tim Seibels - Finding America's lost musical treasures - The life and afterlife of jazz legend Bix Beiderbecke - The might...

Added: Apr 03, 2017
Length: :30

Get Rhythm (hour)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

A conversation with poet Tim Seibels - Finding America's lost musical treasures - The life and afterlife of jazz legend Bix Beiderbecke - The might...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KEDT, WTJU, WLIW and more

Added: Apr 03, 2017
Length: 53:58
Purchases: 11

Get Rhythm (half)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

A conversation with poet Tim Seibels - Finding America's lost musical treasures

Bought by WJCT, WSGE, WVAS, WCQS, KKRN and more

Added: Apr 03, 2017
Length: 28:59
Purchases: 8

Ferdinand the Cultural Icon (promo)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo

The unlikely story of a pacifist bull - Hidden messages scribbled in library books - Murder & poetry in Chaucer's London - A novel look at race rel...

Bought by WNMU-FM

Added: Jan 27, 2017
Length: :29
Purchases: 1

Ferdinand the Cultural Icon (hour)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

The unlikely story of a pacifist bull - Hidden messages scribbled in library books - Murder & poetry in Chaucer's London - A novel look at race rel...

Bought by WCNY, KTOO, WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan, WTJU and more

Added: Jan 27, 2017
Length: 53:58
Purchases: 7

Ferdinand the Cultural Icon (half)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

The unlikely story of a pacifist bull - The hidden messages scrawled in library books

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WUGA (part of GPB), KKRN and more

Added: Jan 27, 2017
Length: 28:57
Purchases: 9

Ferdinand, The Misunderstood Bull (feature)

From: With Good Reason
Series: news features

In 1936, just as the Spanish Civil War was beginning, an instantly successful and highly controversial children’s book arrived on the bookshelves. ...

Bought by KENW

Added: Jan 27, 2017
Length: 03:48
Purchases: 1

Irish Poet Anne-Marie Fyfe

From: New Letters on the Air

Irish poet Anne Marie Fyfe explores parallels in her poetry with work of the renowned William Butler Yeats for the "Mapping Yeats Symposium" at the...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WNJR

Added: Jan 26, 2017
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 2

Muscle: Flex Your Mouse

From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases

Roll up your sleeve past your bicep, flex your arm at the elbow, and squeeze — or contract — your bicep muscle. Take a look at it. What do you see?...

Added: Jan 22, 2017
Length: 09:32

Coccyx: Please Don't Sit on the Cuckoo

From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases

Coccyx is a small triangle-shaped bone at the base of the spinal column in humans and other apes. Representing a vestigial tail and most commonly c...

Added: Jan 21, 2017
Length: 05:37

Novelist Vaddey Ratner writes her story of Cambodia

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Vaddey Ratner, Credit: Christina Sherk

Vaddey Ratner's novel, In the Shadow of the Banyan honors her lost family

Bought by WNJR, WMUU-LP, and WRIR

Added: Nov 22, 2016
Length: 30:00
Purchases: 3

Polish Poet Adam Zagajewski

From: New Letters on the Air

Poet Adam Zagajewski (zah-gah-yev-ski), the 2016 recipient of the Griffin Lifetime Achievement Prize for Excellence in Poetry, was born in Lwow, Po...

Bought by WNJR

Added: Oct 26, 2016
Length: 30:00
Purchases: 1

The Write Question - Paula McLain - 267

From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question

Paula McLain talks about and reads from her latest novel Circling the Sun, which tells the story of the (actual) Beryl Markum with a first-person n...

Bought by KWMR, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio, KGLT, KSJD and more

Added: Oct 04, 2016
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 6

Lily of El Dorado

From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler

Louis the German divides the Rhine and the doomed space shuttle Challenger is used by the Department of Defense on its last successful (classified)...

Added: Sep 20, 2016
Length: 02:20:46

"Ship Captain's Daughter: Growing Up on the Great Lakes" by Ann M. Lewis (9/8/16)

From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads

Our guest is Ann M Lewis. Her book Ship Captain's Daughter: Growing Up on the Great Lakes [Wisconsin Historical Society Press] was nominated for a ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio