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Pamela Sneed’s prose and poetry can reach out and grab you. She reads selections from her memoir, Funeral Diva, and shares some of her life story. ...
- Added: Aug 27, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Jericho Brown talks about writing his Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection The Tradition
Bought by WMPG
- Added: Jun 14, 2021
- Length: 29:38
- Purchases: 1
Poet and playwright Darrel Alejandro Holnes explores immigration and belonging through poetry and theater.
- Added: May 03, 2021
- Length: 28:42
- Purchases: 3
Award-winning writer and two-time NEA Literature Fellow Camille T. Dungy discusses her work as an ecopoet.
Bought by WSLR, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KZUM
- Added: Apr 18, 2021
- Length: 29:17
- Purchases: 3
Acclaimed Irish crime writer Tana French keeps pushing the genre in her latest book The Searcher.
- Added: Mar 19, 2021
- Length: 28:47
Author Danielle Evans discusses her recent short-story collection "The Office of Historical Corrections."
Bought by KZUM and Harford Community Radio
- Added: Feb 19, 2021
- Length: 28:51
- Purchases: 2
Former poet laureate of the United States Tracy K. Smith in wide-ranging conversation about poetry, history, and memory.
Bought by WMPG and Harford Community Radio
- Added: Feb 12, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Artistic Director of Alabama Shakespeare Festival Rick Dildine brings theater outdoors and has the audience "Speak the Speech."
Bought by Harford Community Radio
- Added: Feb 08, 2021
- Length: 26:46
- Purchases: 1
Poet Adrian Mateka talks about The Big Smoke a collection of 52 poems about Jack Johnson--the first African-American heavyweight world champion.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KMUN, KGNU Community Radio, KZUM, and Harford Community Radio
- Added: Jul 06, 2020
- Length: 29:27
- Purchases: 5
How accurate was Vonnegut when he described the end of the world? We tackle climate science with climate researchers from the Scripp’s Institute of...
- Added: May 01, 2019
- Length: 24:57
A talk with Jeffrey Wright about his documentary that looks at veterans writing and performing collective poems.
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Dec 11, 2018
- Length: 30:10
- Purchases: 1
Winner of San Francisco's 2015 LitQuake essay contest. Published in Word Riot (with audio) December 2015.
- Added: Nov 26, 2018
- Length: 03:18
Author Kiersten White's retelling of the Mary Shelley's classic novel from the point of view of Mrs. Frankenstein.
- Added: Oct 30, 2018
- Length: 29:36
A conversation with Kiran Singh Sirah--head of the International Storytelling Center which builds community one story at a time.
- Added: Jun 08, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Jennifer Haigh's novel Heat and Light takes a hard look at fracking in an Appalchian town
- Added: May 03, 2018
- Length: 28:18
Emily St John Mandel's post-apocalyptic novel Station Eleven looks at what endures when civilization ends.
- Added: Mar 23, 2018
- Length: 29:28
Actor Dion has narrated hundreds of audio books and is an aural shape-shifter.
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Mar 02, 2018
- Length: 29:40
- Purchases: 1
Think about the many stories you’ve heard or read over the years. Some of those stories may have had a major impact on your life, or maybe even the...
- Added: Jan 04, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
The National Book Award winner talks about author Julia Alvarez, Oscar Wao, and the wonder of reading.
- Added: Oct 12, 2017
- Length: 24:59
Award-winning poet Elizabeth Alexander talks movingly about her memoir
"The Light of the World" about her husband's sudden death at age 50.
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 29:00
From: Out of Bounds
Karen Joy Fowler talks about her compelling and heart breaking novel "We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves."
- Added: Sep 13, 2017
- Length: 28:00
Johnson's novel Welcome to Braggsville puts four kids from Berkeley in Georgia to protest a Civil War reenactment with a pretend lynching. What co...
- Added: Jul 14, 2017
- Length: 26:31
- Purchases: 2
The award-winning novelist, blogger, and advocate talks about science fiction and technology.
- Added: May 11, 2017
- Length: 26:59
- Purchases: 2
Kim Roberts brings a poet’s eye to The Scientific Method
Bought by WNJR
- Added: May 04, 2017
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
Thomas Dooley's collection of poetry Trespass shines a light in dark places.
- Added: Apr 27, 2017
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
