PRX - Pieces for Topic: Literature

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

20 results


A.M. Homes: “The Unfolding” of American Democracy
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
Piece image
Salman Rushdie praised A.M. Homes’ latest novel, The Unfolding as, “A terrific black comedy, written almost entirely in pitch-perfect dialogue, tha...

Bought by KWMR, RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Survival Guide for Humans Learned from Marine Mammals with Alexis Pauline Gumbs
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
Piece image
Are you drowning? With extreme temperatures, a global pandemic and other crises how do we take a breath? Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ UNDROWNED: Black F...

Bought by KWMR, RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Esi Edugyan, author of "Washington Black"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
Piece image
Bob Kustra interviews Esi Edugyan about her novel "Washington Black"

  • Added: Sep 16, 2019
  • Length: 30:16
Biblical Mythology and Wholeheartedness
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Carol Delaney and Brene Brown
Carol Delaney deconstructs the myth of Abraham and Isaac and Brene Brown challenges us to Dare Greatly.

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Jul 06, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 1
233: Endings (In Four Novellas) / 234: Procrastination, 12/30/2017
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
Piece image
HOUR ONE: "Endings (In Four Novellas)" - New Year's Eve can be depressing. We don't handle endings very well. This hour, how to end - relationships...

  • Added: Dec 22, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:58
PN 16-07 "Virtual" by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
From: The Poetry Foundation
Series: PoetryNow
Caption: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa meditates on political exile and personal loss.

Bought by KALW, KVNO, PRX Remix, KALW, KHSU and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Douglas Coleman Show w_ Neville Johnson and Ricky Ryba
From: Douglas Coleman
Series: The Douglas Coleman Show
Piece image
Interviews with Entertainment Attorney Neville Johnson and Actor, Model Ricky Ryba, Plus music by Whitney Tai.

  • Added: Aug 15, 2016
  • Length: 59:52
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
Sheer Good Fortune: Celebrating Toni Morrison
From: With Good Reason
Piece image
Renowned writers, singers, and poets, including Maya Angelou and Nikki Giovanni, paid tribute to Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison with an extravaganza ...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WNSB, KISA Digital Studios, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWIT and more


  • Added: Jan 27, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 7
Sex Lives of Wives
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
Piece image
Radio Curious revisits a conversation about women's sexuality with Holly Hollenbeck, author of “Sex Lives of Wives, Reigniting the Passion, True Co...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 29:01
Recovery
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human
Piece image
This week, on State of the Human, people are changing radically in order to recover

Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 58:52
  • Purchases: 2
Letters of Note
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Shaun Usher
In 2009 Shaun Usher began a blog to showcase correspondence that he felt deserved a wider audience. The blog quickly became popular and widely shar...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2014
  • Length: 13:31
Affrilachian Poets
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
Piece image
Appalachia is often imagined as rural and white, but a new wave of African-American writers is challenging the notion of a single Appalachian regio...

Bought by WJCT, WMMT, KUER, KRZA, XRAY.fm and more


  • Added: Apr 09, 2012
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 9
A Conversation with Sarah Greenough about O'Keeffe and Stieglitz
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Piece image
The editor of My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, Vol 1 discusses the relationship of the two artists. [29:32]

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 29:33
  • Purchases: 1
Live! Wire Radio Episode 160 NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Chuck Palahniuk, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Famed Novelist Chuck Palahniuk, Author Lidia Yuknavitch, Indie rock band Blouse.

Bought by WCPN


  • Added: Oct 06, 2011
  • Length: 55:01
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Wesley Stace / John Wesley Harding
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Piece image
Novelist Wesley Stace, who performs under the stage name, John Wesley Harding, discusses his work.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Sep 08, 2011
  • Length: 29:27
  • Purchases: 1
MN Author Gayla Marty and "Memory of Trees"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
Piece image
MN Author Gayla Marty and "Memory of Trees: A Daughter's Story of a Family Farm".

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Jun 07, 2010
  • Length: 23:26
  • Purchases: 1
MN Author K.L. Malmquist and "F.L. Wasselwick's Return of the Golden Turtle"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
Piece image
MN author Keven Malmquist talks with Heidi Holtan about "F.L. Wasselwick's Return of the Golden Turtle"

  • Added: May 21, 2010
  • Length: 14:47
MN Poets Louis Jenkins and Steve Downing
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
Piece image
Heidi talks with poets Louis Jenkins and Steve Downing about their poetry and their event happened on April 21st at Itasca Community College

  • Added: Apr 26, 2010
  • Length: 10:56
Episode 3 - Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
From: New Letters on the Air
Series: Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
Piece image
Episode 3 of Life Distilled features former U.S. Poet Laureates Richard Wilbur, Robert Hass, Rita Dove and Stanley Kunitz. Optional 5-minute drop-...

Bought by WCPN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WFHB, North Country Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2006
  • Length: 01:04:00
  • Purchases: 11