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The Upstart Crow: Shakespeare's feud with Robert Greene
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Summer with the Bard
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Professor Joe Loewenstein details Shakespeare's creative and intellectual response to accusations of plagiarism by Robert Greene.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 16:39
Why Shakespeare?
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Summer with the Bard
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Scholars and directors shed light on the question of why we continue to study and admire William Shakespeare.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 16:50
Battle of the Sexes: The Women of Shakespeare
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Summer with the Bard
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Jami Ake questions the role of marriage in Shakespeare's plays and whether the famous playwright qualifies as a feminist.

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 15:11
  • Purchases: 1
"The Quality of Mercy": A Shakespearean theme
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Summer with the Bard
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Robert Wiltenbug surveys the great moments of mercy, both granted and withheld, in Shakespeare's many plays.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 15:07
The Write Question - Shann Ray - 258
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Award-winning author Shann Ray talks about and reads from his novel AMERICAN COPPER.

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


  • Added: Dec 28, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Poet and Novelist Philip Lee Williams
From: New Letters on the Air
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Philip Lee Williams talks about how science, literature, music and visual art have helped shape his writing life. In this first half of a two part ...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Dec 18, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Author Bill Natale on His New Book and Race Relations in Chicago
From: Awesome Vegans with Elysabeth Alfano
Series: The Dinner Party with Elysabeth Alfano
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Author of "1968: A Story As Relevant Today As It Was Then", Bill Natale sits down to discuss race relations in Chicago and his new book with Elysab...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2015
  • Length: 47:02
Candace Simar on Writing Historical Fiction
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
Caption: Cover Designed by Riverplace
A shelterbelt is a line of trees, meant to protect from the wind and snow. Farmers plant them to keep fields from eroding or topsoil from blowing a...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Nov 23, 2015
  • Length: 15:07
  • Purchases: 1
Superior's North Shore has a rich literary history--Patrick Coleman explains
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Patrick Coleman, senior curator & acquisitions librarian at the Minnesota Historical Society, stopped by the WTIP studios recently. He was in Gran...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2015
  • Length: 15:02
Tracking Subversives: Alan Wald On the Development of the Literary Left
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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According to or my guest, Alan Wald, the aim of the literary radical is “to endow history with meaning.” We track three “subversives” in our progra...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2015
  • Length: 57:14
Meet the new Poet Laureate of the United States, Juan Felipe Herrera
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Juan Felipe Herrera Unity Poem Fiesta. , Credit: Courtesy University of California-Riverside
The new poet laureate of the United States and two-time National Endowment for the Arts fellow calls for everyone’s heart to speak out.

Bought by KPIP-LP, KFCF FM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WLPR , KPVL and more


  • Added: Sep 21, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 7
O my Homunculus
From: Pop Up Archive
Series: Popcast
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In this Popcast, hear about the surprising podcast-like feel of a 1972 radio documentary about Sylvia Plath.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 04:38
Buffalo Trail: A Novel of the American West
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Jeff Guinn talks about a female warrior named Mochi and reads from his latest historical novel, BUFFALO TRAIL, during this episode of The Write Que...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KCMJ Community Radio, KSJD, Yellowstone Public Radio, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 14, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 5
A discussion with Peter Finn about "The Zhivago Affair"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Reader's Corner host Bob Kustra talks with the Washington Post's Peter Finn about his fascinating book.

  • Added: Sep 04, 2015
  • Length: 30:10
The Write Question - Sally Thompson - 236
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Sally Thompson, archaeologist, ethnographer, ethnohistorian, and lead author of 'PEOPLE BEFORE THE PARK: The Kootenai and Blackfeet Before Glacier ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KGLT, KCMJ Community Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 31, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
The Wright Brothers with Special Guest David McCullough
From: Alan Duncan
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What can America learn for today from the Wright brothers? Don’t miss this fascinating interview with David McCullough on The Public Square®.

  • Added: Jul 09, 2015
  • Length: 57:26
Whitman at War
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The best of American poets and the worst of American wars met head-on 150 years ago this summer in Walt Whitman’s Drum-Taps, his reflections on nur...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WABE


  • Added: Jun 07, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 5
Reader's Corner featuring author Jan Jarboe Russell
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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An untold story from World War II: Author and journalist Jan Jarboe Russell discusses her book, "The Train to Crystal City: FDR’s Secret Prisoner E...

  • Added: May 29, 2015
  • Length: 30:01
Pulitzer Prize-winning Novelist Jane Smiley
From: New Letters on the Air
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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
Six Chairs: Rowan Pope, Voice to Vision and the Holocaust Book Project
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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David Feinberg started the Center for Genocide & Holocaust Studies at the University of Minnesota more than 10 years ago. This year, a group of Gol...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 05:59
The Mysterious James Tiptree
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
Caption: Alice Sheldon, Credit: Eric Molinsky
Alice Sheldon served in the OSS and the CIA. And then she went deep undercover posing as a male science fiction writer. It wasn't an assignment, it...

Bought by WABE and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 12, 2015
  • Length: 23:44
  • Purchases: 2
Newly discovered John Steinbeck story now on newsstands
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - The Litography Project
Caption: John Steinbeck's childhood home., Credit: Max Pringle
John Steinbeck, the author of such classics as “the Grapes of Wrath” and “Of Mice and Men” was born to a middle class family in a beautiful, turret...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 07:27
Will Rogers
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
Caption: Will Rogers
This show examines the life and times of Will Rogers who said, "I never met a man I didn't like"

  • Added: Jan 10, 2015
  • Length: 02:38:06
Give War and Peace a Chance (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Next year marks the 150th anniversary of Leo Tolstoy’s great Russian tome, War and Peace. While the novel’s great length scares many readers away, ...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Dec 12, 2014
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 1
Give War and Peace a Chance (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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January 2015 marks the 150th anniversary of the first publication of Tolstoy’s War and Peace. A new book offers Tolstoyan wisdom for troubled times...

Bought by WJCT, WCPN, KRDP, and WLIW


  • Added: Dec 12, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 4