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Why are stories that remind us of how deeply humans are connected to the living world so important? In this conversation, author Richard Powers dis...
- Added: Apr 15, 2024
- Length: 52:09
This is the first of five episode charting the life, career and influence of filmmaker Whit Stillman during the rise of a new American auteur movem...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 54:00
Mike Curato talks about his award-winning graphic novel Flamer, his writing practice, and how it feels to have his story vaulted into national head...
- Added: Nov 02, 2023
- Length: 16:39
The education system can change top-down, or bottom-up. Author Suzanne DeMallie wrote “Can You Hear Me Now?” – a book about how parents and teache...
- Added: Mar 19, 2021
- Length: 59:36
Spoon talks about his love for Star Trek and the day his TV was taken from him. Matthew visits a Star Trek fan club.
- Added: Apr 27, 2020
- Length: 20:00
Episode 2. Spoon talks about a dog rescue program that took place inside Lancaster State Prison. He talked to Common the rapper, Matthew visits a s...
- Added: Apr 27, 2020
- Length: 20:00
The men in Zeta’s life. From family to friends to former lovers? You never know—some say Zeta was a constant chameleon in life, love, and the law. ...
- Added: Jun 08, 2018
- Length: 16:59
Hear our conversation with William Finnegan, author of Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life. William is the 2016 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biograp...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: May 24, 2016
- Length: 10:38
- Purchases: 1
A mystery writer, a philosopher, a poet and a filmmaker, each give us some insights about ourselves through talking about their own work
- Added: Apr 29, 2016
- Length: 01:58:59
Kathleen Finneran talks about the writing process of her memoir, The Tender Land: A Family Love Story, and the memories that inspired it.
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 13:44
As I considered making a show to serve as a kind of year in review, I first thought to choose my favorite program from each month of the year, 12 s...
- Added: Dec 30, 2014
- Length: 57:06
Poet Paul Legault shares how he challenged the norms of translation in his interpretations of Emily Dickinson's poetry.
- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 14:00
Historical fiction is an ongoing balance between fact and fiction, but what if the story takes place outside of reality? Author Sarah Shun-Lien Byn...
- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 15:12
How closely must historical fiction mirror recorded history? Author Marshall Klimasewiski weighs in.
- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 13:39
Finding Place in the Placelessness: Justin Hamm and Christina Olson talk with assistant editor John McCarthy about their experiences as editors for...
- Added: Mar 05, 2014
- Length: 15:53
We enlist the aid of noted scholar of autobiography, John Eakin, as we seek to answer Andrew Bird's question: where exactly does the self reside, i...
- Added: Jul 10, 2013
- Length: 28:26
In this episode we discuss how Jack's conquest of the giant relates to 19th century English colonialism with the help of scholar Brian Szumsky. We ...
- Added: Mar 29, 2013
- Length: 22:35
The humorist and author talks about his novel, "Insane City," and the real-life insane city that inspired it...Miami. He then sits down with Virgin...
- Added: Feb 22, 2013
- Length: 56:30
John Irving reads from and talks about his novel "In One Person," and sits down with Virginia Prescott about writing, sex, and why he'd never becom...
- Added: Feb 22, 2013
- Length: 51:30
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
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
Listeners will find Nature Dreaming: Rediscovering California’s Landscapes with David Mas Masumoto both entertaining and enlightening. Two one hour...
- Added: Sep 02, 2011
- Length: 01:50:16
- Purchases: 2
"Eat, Pray, Love" author Elizabeth Gilbert reads from her latest memoir, "Committed." In an interview with Virginia Prescott, she reveals what it i...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Feb 14, 2011
- Length: 53:24
- Purchases: 1
Dmae Roberts features an in-depth and lively interview with Northwest Writer Ivan Doig.
- Added: Dec 02, 2010
- Length: 28:02
A conversation about the Bible's universality and relevance in pop culture, with the author who aims to give "people what they don't get in church ...
Bought by WFIU
- Added: Jun 09, 2010
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1