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A crime novelist and poet talks about where in England her books are set, why she chose a hypnotherapist as a character in this novel, "Kind of Cru...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Nov 24, 2013
- Length: 09:56
- Purchases: 1
A new novel by Sara Fraizan explores the issues of gender orientation. But, what sets this work apart from its predecessors is that it’s written fo...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Aug 20, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
Liz Mason is the manager of Quimby's bookstore in Chicago and self-publishes a zine called Caboose. In this brief interview, she discusses her expe...
- Added: Aug 18, 2013
- Length: 02:35
It's Sherlock Holmes Vs. The Beatles in one of the great detectives most bizarre cases.
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Aug 08, 2013
- Length: 15:36
- Purchases: 1
Our second-annual Shakespeare in the South, with stories by writers Jay Jennings and Hope Coulter.
- Added: Jul 03, 2013
- Length: 29:00
A look at that DIY mainstay, known as the zine, through the lens of a long-running publication called Factsheet Five.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 02, 2013
- Length: 07:18
- 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
A National Book Award finalist, Kent writes about the residents of a small town in fictional Holt County on the plains of eastern Colorado. His new...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: May 16, 2013
- Length: 09:59
- Purchases: 1
Our Killer meets her first victim
- Added: May 16, 2013
- Length: 09:20
Although Andre is perhaps best known for his novel, "House of Sand and Fog," this is a memoir about tough times growing up in Massachusetts. This i...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: May 03, 2013
- Length: 09:58
- Purchases: 1
Over the past 13 years, Louder than a Bomb, Chicago’s youth poetry competition, has grown from humble roots in the basement of a Division Street th...
Bought by WJSU, KMXT, and NPR Illinois
- Added: Apr 25, 2013
- Length: 59:03
- Purchases: 3
A look at community motivated selfishness in "Buy Local" movements.
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 04:47
The world's only contract killer not to own a gun discovers she is in business.
- Added: Apr 14, 2013
- Length: 04:33
What if the curse that ruined your life could be turned into a money making proposition? “Everyone I have ever spent New Year’s Eve with has died ...
- Added: Mar 31, 2013
- Length: 07:28
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
True (and humorous) story about Mark and Eric who find a stack of brand-new copies of Fifty Shades of Grey, just sitting on the sidewalk.
- Added: Feb 08, 2013
- Length: 06:48
Marsh Muirhead, a writer, dentist, flight instructor, and much else besides, lives near Bemidji, MN on the banks of the Mississippi with his dog, S...
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 01:55
Bill Caldwell is a nurse, a therapist, and a poet. Much of what he knows about poetry is related to classes at The Loft at the Minnesota Center for...
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 03:08
Poet Athena Kildeagard, a University of Minnesota - Morris lecturer, looks deeply and metaphorically at a Blue Herring's stop in the poem "On Juggl...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 02:40
- Purchases: 1
This week it's stories about best laid plans, and how those plans go amiss. Stories by Wayne Ball, Peter O'Connell, and Mark Isbell. All stories ar...
- Added: Dec 25, 2012
- Length: :00
Be it a curmudgeonly Galwegian on the West coast of Ireland, an erudite scholar in Dublin or a literary motorcyclist 'flower child' of San Francisc...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Dec 20, 2012
- Length: 56:24
- Purchases: 1
This is the story of an exceptional 14-year-old boy with Asperger’s syndrome. He hates the color blue, keeps a very detailed notebook, needs flash...
- Added: Nov 13, 2012
- Length: 14:42
The smell of a book can like that of a lover - musky and old with experience, brand new, immature and innocent. Or, knowledgeable and hard-covered....
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 06:31
- Purchases: 1
The New York Times estimates that nearly forty percent of museum and gallery art is forged. Keep that in mind as you read the new book by B.A. Sha...
- Added: Nov 08, 2012
- Length: 20:24
Perhaps Rick Benjamin was nominated to host the show because he has just has this unmistakable GLOW...perhaps it's because of the way this energy i...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 44:14
