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On this episode of The Custom House we'll find out how the multifaceted world of the early Jewish literary imagination has been flattened and releg...
- Added: Aug 09, 2013
- Length: 31:08
A look at one of the turning points of the Civil Rights struggle 50 years later: the assassination of Medgar Evers. With poetry by Frank X. Walke...
- Added: Jul 31, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
WTIP's Dick Swanson chatted with Sue Leaf recently about her new book, "A Love Affair with Birds," from the U of MN Press. The book is a wonderful ...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jul 02, 2013
- Length: 24:04
- Purchases: 1
David writes both histories and biographies and has narrated many a broadcast program. His latest book is "The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris....
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Jun 12, 2013
- Length: 10:02
- Purchases: 1
Today on Art Beat we continue our coverage of Rockwell Kent in Winona, A Centennial Celebration. We feature Emilio DeGrazia, Winona’s Poet Laureate...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Jun 06, 2013
- Length: 29:41
- Purchases: 1
This month's Save America's Treasures Archive selection features the perfect poet to hear around Memorial Day--the late John Ciardi, who was a gunn...
- Added: May 31, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Memorial Day can be tough for veterans - especially those who've served in combat. For some, the tributes and ceremonies exacerbate their struggle ...
- Added: May 19, 2013
- Length: 03:32
- Purchases: 2
After working for years as a corporate lawyer in England, Alex George moved to the states with his family and opened his own law practice in mid-Mi...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: May 15, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Mary Losure began her wandering career path backpacking in the mountains of California and Oregon and kayaking in the Prince William Sound in Alask...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ
- Added: May 14, 2013
- Length: 19:55
- Purchases: 2
First, Rick Atkinson gives the details of the epic story of D-Day and the 700 mile offensive that led to the triumphant liberation of Europe in, "T...
- Added: May 14, 2013
- Length: 59:54
- Purchases: 3
A Confederacy of Dunces, by New Orleans-born John Kennedy Toole, is one of the great stories of American literature. A new biography of Toole tells...
- Added: May 10, 2013
- Length: 53:54
- Purchases: 4
In 1964, Southern man-of-letters Robert Penn Warren traveled the country with an old reel-to-reel tape recorder and spoke with dozens of men and wo...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Apr 19, 2013
- Length: 08:50
- Purchases: 1
In this episode we discuss how Jack's conquest of the giant relates to 19th century English colonialism with the help of scholar Brian Szumsky. We ...
- Added: Mar 29, 2013
- Length: 22:35
Rhoda Gilman is a well known historian and author. In 2012 the Minnesota Historical Society published her book, "Stand Up! The Story of Minnesota's...
- Added: Mar 21, 2013
- Length: 04:57
Carol Ann Russell is a Professor of English at Bemidji State University. She has published four full-length books of poetry. Russell has also been ...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 1
Professor Robin Bernstein: Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 05, 2013
- Length: 19:59
- Purchases: 1
Catskin is part two of our series on tales of the persecuted heroine. If you think Cinderella had it rough, this girl's dad will do anything to mar...
- Added: Mar 03, 2013
- Length: 18:18
Mike Forbes is a Bemidji area writer. He's been published in Fire Ring, The Talking Stick, The Poet's Touch Stone, Voices For the Land, among other...
- Added: Feb 28, 2013
- Length: 01:40
In this episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill will suggest that the greatest author of such sea-based literature was Joseph Conrad and will...
- Added: Feb 25, 2013
- Length: 05:37
During this program, photographer and author Charlotte Caldwell talks about the importance of preserving the stories represented by one-room school...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Feb 05, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
This podcast talks about the many versions of Cinderella told around the world and the different kinds of footwear she wore to the ball. My persona...
- Added: Jan 26, 2013
- Length: 21:08
Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 04:23
Syndicated columnist and author, Jim Northrup, talks with Heidi Holtan on a whole range of topics from his column "Fond Du Lac Follies" to his expe...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, and KSRQ
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 19:02
- Purchases: 3
Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs—all names you might recognize as poets of the Beat Generation. But a friend and inspiration to ...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 02:27
Herbert Huncke's line "I'm beat, man" gave Jack Kerouac the label for a generation seeking spiritual sustenance and "kicks" in post-war America.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WJCT, KRZA, and KPIP-LP
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 4
