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Author Rudolfo Anaya discusses the importance of oral tradition in light of his 1972 novel, "Bless Me, Ultima."
- Added: Mar 25, 2008
- Length: :59
Actor Stephen Lang reads from "A Farewell to Arms," Ernest Hemingway's tale of love and loss during World War I. Includes commentary on Hemingway'...
- Added: Mar 25, 2008
- Length: 01:59
Novelist Alice Walker discusses the theme of revival in Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God."
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Mar 25, 2008
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
Novelist and former detective, Joe Gores, disucsses the "hardboiled" nature of Dashiell Hammett's timeless thriller, "The Maltese Falcon."
- Added: Mar 25, 2008
- Length: 01:29
Actor Alan Arkin discusses the character John Singer in Carson McCullers' "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter."
- Added: Mar 25, 2008
- Length: :59
Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor discusses Atticus Finch's sense of justice in Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird."
- Added: Mar 25, 2008
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 2
Musician Blake Hazard discusses the power of music in Carson McCullers' novel, "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter."
- Added: Mar 25, 2008
- Length: 01:29
- Added: Jul 08, 2007
- Length: 03:22
- Purchases: 1
"And the rest is silence" is the famous, much-praised last line of Hamlet - it applies to the cut to sudden-black at the end of The Sopranos, doesn...
- Added: Jun 23, 2007
- Length: 03:55
first of series of special analysis of The Sopranos' ending ... here, I compare it to the famous ending of Stockton's The Lady or The Tiger...
- Added: Jun 23, 2007
- Length: 04:41
Kevin Matthews' short social commentary, a tongue-in-cheek take on Dr. Seuss
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Feb 19, 2006
- Length: 03:10
- Purchases: 1
Author Alan Ginsberg reminisces on the effects peyote had on him and some of his writings. (1995)
Bought by WRVO Public Media
- Added: Jul 06, 2005
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
Author Alan Ginsberg extols Bob Dylan’s lyrics. (1995)
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and WRVO Public Media
- Added: Jul 06, 2005
- Length: :58
- Purchases: 2
A powerful 1985 reading of an anti slavery poem by the late Amiri Baraka. In this piece, Baraka treats the issue of voice - and what happens when a...
Bought by KUNM
- Added: Mar 23, 2005
- Length: 04:51
- Purchases: 1
Ted Berrigan Reads his poem "Heroin"
- Added: Mar 23, 2005
- Length: 02:29
- Purchases: 2
great pro peace performance by Ginsberg
- Added: Mar 23, 2005
- Length: 04:16
- Purchases: 2
