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Poets Hadara Bar-Nadav and Kathryn Nuernberger, who were both chosen as 2017 NEA Literary Fellows, talk about their work in this interview at the K...
- Added: Jan 16, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Multi-award-winning poet and MacArthur fellow, Terrance Hayes, reads from his fifth book, HOW TO BE DRAWN, winner of the 2016 NAACP Image Award for...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Oct 10, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Diane Williams, a three-time winner of the Pushcart Prize for Fiction is the author of eight books, and the editor of the acclaimed literary journa...
- Added: Sep 10, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
This audio anthology features readings by six poets, including a few who are part of the book co-edited by Cherokee writers Diane Glancy and Linda ...
- Added: Aug 23, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
While at the Woodneath Library Center, novelist Larry Watson reads from his tenth book, AS GOOD AS GONE, now out in paperback. He reveals how cowbo...
- Added: Aug 15, 2018
- Length: 29:00
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
The Iraq War ended in December 2011, a dramatic setting for former U.S. Army Captain Matt Gallagher, who discusses his novel, YOUNGBLOOD, which dra...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: May 25, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Black History Month concludes with the Past American Voice of essayist and fiction writer James Alan McPherson (1943-2016). In this archive recordi...
- Added: Feb 28, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
From: New Letters on the Air
For Black History Month, we present THE 19th U.S. Poet Laureate (2012-14) and former Mississippi Poet Laureate (2012-16), Natasha Trethewey, who wo...
- Added: Feb 08, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
The late poet Kenneth Irby (1936-2015) traveled the States before settling in Lawrence, where he spent his teaching and writing career at the Unive...
- Added: Jan 31, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
2018 marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. On this episode of Don't Cha Know we discuss the importance of ...
- Added: Jan 26, 2018
- Length: 26:23
Independent bookseller Mara Panich-Crouch talks with Sarah Aronson about recently published books from authors near and far while also making gift ...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Nov 30, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
National Hispanic Heritage Month continues with a look at Puerto Rico’s culture and stories through the eyes of the late Judith Ortiz Cofer. In the...
Bought by New England Public Media
- Added: Oct 12, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
We begin National Hispanic Heritage month with the Past American Voice of Judith Ortiz Cofer, who influenced and mentored Latina writers around the...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Sep 20, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR pays tribute to the Past American Voice of John Ashbery. The poet, critic, and translator, who died on September 3rd at age ...
- Added: Sep 13, 2017
- Length: 29:00
From: New Letters on the Air
Guest editor of BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2017, Natasha Trethewey talks about her her first creative non-fiction book, BEYOND KATRINA: A MEDITATION ON T...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WNJR
- Added: Sep 08, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Georgia State Poet Laureate Judson Mitcham, whose work will appear in THE BEST AMERICAN POETRTY 2017, is also a gifted fiction writer. In this sho...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Jul 26, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Poetry and the pain of experience are the subjects of this episode titled "Our Cheated Hearts." Author Winston Groom incorporated his experiences i...
- Added: Apr 27, 2017
- Length: 25:00
Take note: On this episode we're following the "Race Beat." We talk with Hank Klibanoff who's book "The Race Beat" tells the story of journalists c...
- Added: Apr 27, 2017
- Length: 25:00
A conversation with biologist and naturalist E.O. Wilson on what winning a second Pulitzer Prize meant for him and his Harvard colleagues. A look ...
- Added: Apr 27, 2017
- Length: 24:59
In this episode we're looking at the small town through the literary lens. Hear how Shirley Ann Grau author of "Keepers of the House" hung up on th...
- Added: Apr 25, 2017
- Length: 24:59
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
Meet the Founder of Shower Beer, Beer Specifically Created for the Shower.
- Added: Apr 11, 2017
- Length: 59:59
On this episode of Overheard, two Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historians.
First Doris Kearns Goodwin on Teddy Roosevelt followed by Jon Me...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Feb 21, 2017
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 1
A conversation with Pulitzer Award-winning poet and former U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey - Maya Angleou's global legacy - Highlights from Fu...
- Added: Jan 13, 2017
- Length: 53:56
