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2021 National Book Award Winner Tiya Miles Turns Her Hand to Fiction
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Tiya Miles, Credit: Stephanie Mitchell
2011 MacArthur Fellow, 2021 National Book Award winner, historian, and novelist Tiya Miles discusses how fiction and history meet in her novel.

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KZUM, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jun 20, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Novelist Bushra Rehman: A Rose Grows in Corona,Queens
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Bushra Rehman, Credit: Andrea Dobrich
Novelist and poet Bushra Rehman celebrates the Pakistani-American community of 1980’s Corona, Queens and the coming of age of a queer Muslim girl a...

Bought by WSLR, RADIOLEX, RadioStPete Florida, KECG, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Mar 14, 2023
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 8
How many ways can we ‘Spell Heaven’?
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Pacifica Municipal Pier, Credit: Toni Mirosevich
How do we find human connection? Being “in with the out crowd?" Author and poet Toni Mirosevich finds peers on the pier. She reads from her latest ...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Oct 04, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 1
Rita Dove: Rara Avis
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Poet Rita Dove, Credit: Fred Viebahn
Pulitzer-prize winning poet Rita Dove.

  • Added: Jul 28, 2022
  • Length: 24:10
Sarah Smarsh Explores Class in Rural America
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Sarah Smarsh, Credit: Paul Andrews
Sarah Smarsh discusses her book Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth which is 2022-2023 NEA Big Read...

Bought by KZUM, WMPG, WDCB, RADIOLEX, KZUM and more


  • Added: Jul 26, 2022
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 7
A conversation with Iranian-American novelist Marjan Kamali
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Novelist Marjan Kamali talks about her recent novel The Stationery Shop-- a story that begins in 1953 in Iran and spans 60 years. We talk about Per...

Bought by RADIOLEX, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 28:24
  • Purchases: 3
Meet Novelist Andrew Krivak
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Andrew Krivak, Credit: Sharona Jacobs
Andrew Krivak Andrew Krivak talks about The Bear a meditative novel about the last of humanity which is a surprisingly uplifting book and also a re...

Bought by WMPG, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., RADIOLEX, KZUM, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 20, 2021
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 5
USAF Veteran Lauren Hough: ‘Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing’
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Essayist Lauren Hough in 2018, Credit: Karl Poss IV / Vintage Books
In our queer nod to Veterans Day, we bring you writer Lauren Hough, who grew up in the infamous Christian free-love cult The Family. At 18, she joi...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Jun 08, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Tana French!
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Tana French, Credit: Jessica Ryan
Acclaimed Irish crime writer Tana French keeps pushing the genre in her latest book The Searcher.

  • Added: Mar 19, 2021
  • Length: 28:47
The National Endowment for the Arts presents writer Danielle Evans
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Danielle Evans , Credit: Beowulf Sheehan
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
The National Endowment for the Arts presents Art Works
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Tracy K. Smith, Credit: Rachel Eliza Griffiths
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
The Afternoon We Spent With Alice Notley
From: Marjorie Van Halteren
Caption: Poet alicce Notley and composer/poet Jeff Gburek in front of Alice's bookcase in Paris., Credit: Marjorie Van Halteren
An intimate conversation with poet Alice Notley at her home in Paris. Produced by award-winning producer Marjorie Van Halteren.

  • Added: Apr 11, 2020
  • Length: 34:02
166: My Diary is a Jane Austen Novel
From: The Mortified Podcast
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What happens when teenagers try to make their lives feel as romantic as Pride and Prejudice? This week, modern day teen diaries that sound like the...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: Jun 02, 2019
  • Length: 25:17
  • Purchases: 1
Just in time for Halloween---Kiersten White's The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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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
Interview w/ writer DANA SPIOTTA about her most recent novel "Innocents and Others"
From: Out of Bounds
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The award-winning teacher and novelist discusses her latest novel "Innocents and Others"

  • Added: Sep 13, 2017
  • Length: 27:00
The Cool Gaze of Madame Realism
From: The Organist
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In an era of fake news and alternative facts, what is the role of literature that blurs the line between fiction and non-fiction? Novelist Lynne Ti...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2017
  • Length: 30:55
Author Jacqueline Woodson interview on Art Works--the weekly podcast from the National Endowment for the Arts
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Caption: Jacqueline Woodson, Credit: Juna F. Nagle
With Another Brooklyn, acclaimed children’s author Jacqueline Woodson creates an adult novel that reads like poetry

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 08, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
GPV30 Book Review - A Spool of Blue Thread
From: Gerald Jones
Series: GetPublished! Radio Book Review Featurettes
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
Here's Gerald's audio book review of A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2017
  • Length: 03:07
GPV13 Book Review - Adultery
From: Gerald Jones
Series: GetPublished! Radio Book Review Featurettes
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
Here's Gerald's audio book review of Adultery by Paulo Coelho.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:54
Uppity Women: Women's History Month Special
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Vicki Leon
This is a series of quotations from women who were passionate about their politics, power and immortality. They sought justice, equality, knowledge...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 02, 2016
  • Length: 29:28
  • Purchases: 2
Author Julianna Baggott--4 kids and 20 books--she explains how she does it.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Julianna Baggott , Credit: Laura Ciociola
Harriet Wolf’s Seventh Book of Wonders took Julianna Baggott 18 years to write. Julianna discusses how writing 14 other novels in a variety of genr...

Bought by WMUU-LP and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jan 08, 2016
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
Joyce Carol Oates and “The Sacrifice”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Never one to shy away from controversial topics, Joyce’s latest novel is based on the true story of Tawana Brawley of upstate New York who made hea...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Mar 04, 2015
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 1
Story of an African childhood: Author Robyn Scott
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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The author of “Twenty Chickens for a Saddle” is a social entrepreneur who works in southern Africa. But back when she was 7 she moved from England ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Feb 08, 2015
  • Length: 08:50
  • Purchases: 2
GenderPalooza
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive: Summer 2013
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For the first RadioActive podcast of summer 2013, new hosts Isaac Noren and Carlos Nieto bring you stories about gender and gender stereotypes.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 13:07
Megan Marshall reads from her Pulitzer-winner, Margaret Fuller: A New American Life (5/13)
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2014
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100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. An early activist profiled.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1