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George Saunders, the renowned short story writer, talks about his debut novel, LINCOLN IN THE BARDO, winner of Britain's 2017 Man Booker Prize for ...
- Added: Jun 07, 2022
- Length: 29:00
Patricia Smith, a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts fellow and the 2018 winner of the coveted Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, is now the 2021 Ruth...
Bought by WDCB
- Added: Feb 28, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Stewart O'Nan has written over 20 books as varied as the best-selling novel, SNOW ANGELS (now a film) to the non-fiction book co-written with Steph...
- Added: Nov 25, 2019
- Length: 29:00
From: New Letters on the Air
For Black History Month, we present THE 19th U.S. Poet Laureate (2012-14) and former Mississippi Poet Laureate (2012-16), Natasha Trethewey, who wo...
- Added: Feb 08, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
For Women's History Month, we revisit a novel that's built around real life West Virginia murders of a widow and her three children during the Grea...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Mar 11, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
As spring showers are truly bringing May flowers to St. Cloud, Arts and Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack brings us an Untold Stories of Cent...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: May 08, 2015
- Length: 26:06
- Purchases: 1
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
100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. Runaway slaves often hid in self-made caves.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Apr 24, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
As part of a series marking Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of the First World War, reporter, Alison Turner, asked expat actors living in...
- Added: Nov 01, 2012
- Length: 06:49
A dramatic musical based on "The Diary of Anne Frank," with music by Michael Cohen and libretto by Enid Futterman. Perfect for scheduling in April ...
- Added: Apr 22, 2012
- Length: 58:01
- Purchases: 2
A radio program featuring author Julia Alvarez along with Neko Case, Edwidge Danticat, and Junot Diaz, among others.
Bought by KMUN, Kansas Public Radio, KPIP-LP, KQED, and KRZA
- Added: Aug 16, 2011
- Length: 29:55
- Purchases: 5
A stamp auction in Frankfurt leads an author to a war-time love story
Bought by The PRX Podcast
- Added: Dec 07, 2006
- Length: 11:45
- Purchases: 1