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California wants to deprive you of fuel, and that's why you're already paying a new "global warming" tax.

  • Added: Sep 03, 2015
  • Length: 15:58
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Progressive events in California and America threaten liberty, sovereignty and the Constitution...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2015
  • Length: 02:50:47
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The dystopian novel, "Nineteen Eighty Four" describes a future society martialed by constant surveillance, tyranny, and torture...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2015
  • Length: 02:20:44
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Craig Lancaster talks about and reads from his fifth novel, THIS IS WHAT I WANT. He also describes his journey from copy editor to full-time author.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KGLT, KSJD, KCMJ Community Radio, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 17, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 6
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My friend Archie Meade is developing a new literary genre. It's called "arithmefiction." He said "it's like science fiction, only it's about math...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2015
  • Length: 02:49
Caption: Marsha Mason
Marsha Mason (4 time Academy Award nominee) and Steven Boyer (Tony nominee for HAND TO GOD and regular on TV's "Trial and Error") star in TASHA WA...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), WHRV, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and KUNM


  • Added: Jun 11, 2015
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Susan Adrian talks about and reads from her YA novel TUNNEL VISION, a story full of spies, espionage, and a teen with superpowers .

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KCMJ Community Radio, Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KSJD


  • Added: Jun 08, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Antonya Nelson talks about writing short stories and reads from her collection FUNNY ONCE.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KGLT and more


  • Added: May 30, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 9
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Jane Smiley discusses her 2014 book, SOME LUCK, the first in a trilogy that follows an Iowa farm family for more than a century. Smiley talks about...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WNJR


  • Added: May 20, 2015
  • Length: 30:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Caroline Patterson, judge of MTPR's 50th Anniversary Short Fiction Contest talks about the winning stories and the what makes a great short story. ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 13, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
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Megan Kruse talks about and reads from her debut novel, Call Me Home

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KSJD, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 27, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
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Butte is a unique city in Montana, as are the novels and films created in and about it. Beginning with the 1880s, Aaron Parrett's book 'Literary Bu...

Bought by KSJD, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
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Listen to the full recording of the first chapter of The 1001 Nights Podcast, which includes fiction retellings of "The Story of the Trader and the...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2015
  • Length: 01:27:30
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Author of seven post-World War II novels, Joe Kanon takes us back to Berlin, a once grand city now 80% destroyed in the late 1940s. In this book e...

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


  • Added: Apr 02, 2015
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: David Auburn
Two short plays about political operatives by Pulitzer Prize Winner David Auburn. In the comic DAMAGE CONTROL, a political aide has a public relati...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), KZYX, Connecticut Public (WNPR), Oregon Public Broadcasting, KUNM and more


  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 6
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A classic radio drama adapted for KUST radio from the short story "Summer Session" by Alice Dunbar-Nelson.

  • Added: Mar 24, 2015
  • Length: 07:35
Caption: Tonya Pinkins
In Forward Observer, Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins plays a harried Veterans Administration Hospital clerk. An elderly World War II veteran is giv...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), KUNM, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and KUNM


  • Added: Mar 17, 2015
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Sharma Shields talks about and reads from her debut novel 'The Sasquatch Hunter's Almanac.'

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KGLT, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KSJD


  • Added: Mar 03, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 5
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We have two guests with us tonight to discuss the play both as production or performance and as text; the deed and the word. As Harold Goddard said...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 59:19
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S.M. Hulse talks about an reads from her debut novel Black River.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KSJD, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 20, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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African-American author LaShonda Katrice Barnett, interviewed recently on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday (2/8/15), reads here from her heralded new n...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
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Jason’s first novel was inspired by a dream in which his late mother visited him. He goes on to describe his day job while he was writing the book ...

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


  • Added: Feb 19, 2015
  • Length: 09:55
  • Purchases: 2
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Tonight’s show, Shadows are Black: Slavery’s Long Setting, features a discussion on the text and context of Herman Melville’s 1855 novella “Benito ...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2015
  • Length: 57:12
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Kim Zupan talks about and reads from his debut novel, The Ploughmen.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KSJD, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3