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Alexander McCall Smith's "From a Far and Lovely Country" #24 in No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency Series
From: Diana KorteSeries: Booktalk
Host Diana Korte speaks with Alexander McCall Smith, the author of more than 100 books sold around the world in 40 languages. This includes the N...
- Added: Nov 01, 2023
- Length: 10:53
Andy Truscott speaks with Don Foster, a 2019 Delaware Division of the Arts Individual Artist Fellow in the field of fiction literature.
- Added: Oct 20, 2022
- Length: 21:57
Andy Truscott speaks with Dr. JoAnn Balingit and Dr. Traci Currie, the teaching artists and coaches of 2023's Poetry Out Loud Recitation Contest in...
- Added: Oct 12, 2022
- Length: 22:28
The Revolutionary Reader, Leading and Creating Change with Rohi’s Readery Founder Pranoo Kumar. A social justice driven children’s bookstore and ...
- Added: Aug 26, 2022
- Length: 27:17
Publishing the American Dream with Chase Backer Publisher of Metropolitan Magazine. Maximum Health Radio explores the images, people, and stories t...
- Added: Jun 24, 2021
- Length: 27:00
- Purchases: 2
An interview with Sandra Niemi, author of "Glamour Ghoul: The Passions and Pain of the Real Vampira, Maila Nurmi." Niemi is Nurmi's niece and she ...
- Added: Jan 29, 2021
- Length: 29:08
An interview with Peter David, author of "Mr. Sulu Grabbed My Ass, and Other Highlights from a Life in Comics, Novels, Television, Films and Video ...
- Added: Dec 10, 2020
- Length: 27:50
Join World Footprints as we discuss the power of storytelling, narratives on race and, of course, travel.
- Added: Jul 27, 2020
- Length: 39:54
In 1940s Winchester, England, a woman tries to find her place in the world after great loss in the aftermath of the Great War.
- Added: Oct 27, 2019
- Length: 12:13
During the Nazi regime, many German artists, scientists, and other intellectuals found refuge in Southern California. The authors Lion Feuchtwanger...
- Added: Aug 07, 2019
- Length: 34:48
A feature-style interview with Stan Lee looking back at his life and career.
- Added: Nov 12, 2018
- Length: 09:03
From Alexander the Great's "pillow book" (The Iliad) to the Mayan Popul Vuh; from Gilgamesh to Harry Potter by way of Goethe and the notion of “wor...
- Added: Jan 03, 2018
- Length: 59:01
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
This episode's stories come from some of Alabama's Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists: Rick Bragg who wrote about the Susan Smith murders and the O...
- Added: Apr 27, 2017
- Length: 25:00
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
World reknowned author Kent Nerburn wrote the novel Neither Wolf Nor Dog in the early 1990s. Director Steven Lewis Simpson made it into a movie o...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Mar 10, 2017
- Length: 13:54
- Purchases: 1
Mary Shelley’s novel of 1818, Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus, seems to me to clang like a hammer blow against a bell that tolls our self-i...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Dec 19, 2016
- Length: 01:00:01
- Purchases: 1
In Don’s third book it’s 1917 and the three Jewett brothers—Cane, Cob and Chimney—set off from their rural southern home for a life of crime. The ...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Aug 02, 2016
- Length: 09:53
- Purchases: 1
The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!!
Featuring the band Rockstar Frame, actor Michael Sun Lee, and The Plot Against America, in...
- Added: Jul 21, 2016
- Length: 58:01
What may seem surprising as you listen is the way in which Thoreau’s understanding of death and life can inform our own considerations of what it m...
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Jun 07, 2016
- Length: 59:14
- Purchases: 1
Jill Lepore joins us to talk about three books: The Story of America; The Secret History of Wonder Woman; and Joe Gould's Teeth.
- Added: Mar 29, 2016
- Length: 01:03:04
The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!!
Featuring Author Nicholas Stanton, Rapper Thraxxup, and The Revenant, now a major motion p...
- Added: Mar 08, 2016
- Length: 58:01
This southern noir tale is the intimate story of 18-year-old Jacob McNeely whose daddy controls the crystal meth business in a small town in rural ...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Feb 20, 2016
- Length: 09:37
- Purchases: 2
