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MN Reads: "Annika Rose" by Cheri Johnson
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Cheri Johnson talks about her new book "Annika Rose"

  • Added: Jun 06, 2024
  • Length: 06:51
Author Danielle Evans: Dealing with History through Fiction
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Exploring complexities through short stories: a conversation with author and 2020 NEA Literature Fellow Danielle Evans

Bought by KMUN, WMPG, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KECG and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2024
  • Length: 29:04
  • Purchases: 7
National Writers Series: V.E. Schwab
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Five
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Beth Milligan talks with fantasy author V.E. Schwab.

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Nov 10, 2023
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 1
An Outside Watcher Coming In: Book artist Felicia Rice
From: Suki Wessling
Series: The Babblery
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Book artist Felicia Rice on a lifetime of creating letterpress art and confronting the issues of our time.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Sep 25, 2023
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 1
Exploring the world at the speed of andante
From: Suki Wessling
Series: Babblery Minibabbles
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This mini-episode from The Babblery features writers Patrice Vecchione of Monterey and Tania Romanov of San Francisco, who both wrote books about w...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2023
  • Length: 26:23
Author and Disability Advocate Rebekah Taussig Discusses Her Memoir "Sitting Pretty."
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Rebekah Taussig, Credit: Micah Jones
Marking Disability Pride month by revisiting my 2020 interview with Rebekah Taussig who discusses her memoir in essays "Sitting Pretty The View fr...

Bought by WSLR, WMPG, KMUN, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Jul 17, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
2021 National Book Award Winner Tiya Miles Turns Her Hand to Fiction
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Tiya Miles, Credit: Stephanie Mitchell
2011 MacArthur Fellow, 2021 National Book Award winner, historian, and novelist Tiya Miles discusses how fiction and history meet in her novel.

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KZUM, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jun 20, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Novelist Whitney Terrell
From: New Letters on the Air
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Novelist Whitney Terrell talks about his third novel, THE GOOD LIEUTENANT. Terrell was embedded with the military in Iraq, writing non-fiction for ...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: May 29, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Poet Ellen Bass: Part 2
From: New Letters on the Air
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We continue National Poetry Month with part two of a conversation with poet Ellen Bass, the author of the 2020 book INDIGO. She discusses how, aft...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
US Poet Laureate Ada Limón
From: New Letters on the Air
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For National Poetry Month, we'll hear early work by our current U.S. Poet Laureate, Ada Limón. The author of six poetry books, including the 2022 c...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and KMUN


  • Added: Apr 17, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 136: Michael Lewis on What Makes Some People Irreplaceable , 4/16/2023
From: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Series: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
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What makes someone impossible to forget?

  • Added: Apr 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:08
MN Reads: "Tumbled" by Heather Wilde
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Heather Wilde talks about her new memoir "Tumbled"

  • Added: Mar 30, 2023
  • Length: 09:45
Novelist Bushra Rehman: A Rose Grows in Corona,Queens
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Bushra Rehman, Credit: Andrea Dobrich
Novelist and poet Bushra Rehman celebrates the Pakistani-American community of 1980’s Corona, Queens and the coming of age of a queer Muslim girl a...

Bought by WSLR, RADIOLEX, RadioStPete Florida, KECG, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Mar 14, 2023
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 8
MN Reads: “Not the Camilla We Knew” by Rachael Hanel
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Rachael Hanel talks about her new book “Not the Camilla We Knew”

  • Added: Dec 22, 2022
  • Length: 09:26
Conversations: Shirlene Obuobi, MD
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
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In this episode, Emily speaks with physician, artist, and author, Shirlene Obuobi about fiction as escapism, and the stories behind her debut novel...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 38:22
Novelist Geraldine Brooks
From: New Letters on the Air
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Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer, Geraldine Brooks talks about her 2015 book, THE SECRET CHORD. This historical novel about the Biblical King...

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


  • Added: Nov 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Revisiting A Conversation with Author Vanessa Hua
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Vanessa Hua, Credit: Andria Lo
Author Vanessa Hua discusses her fiction and her determination to shine a light on the multiplicity of voices within the Chinese-American diaspora

Bought by RADIOLEX, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KZUM, Spokane Public Radio, and KMUN


  • Added: Aug 26, 2022
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 5
Sarah Smarsh Explores Class in Rural America
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Sarah Smarsh, Credit: Paul Andrews
Sarah Smarsh discusses her book Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth which is 2022-2023 NEA Big Read...

Bought by KZUM, WMPG, WDCB, RADIOLEX, KZUM and more


  • Added: Jul 26, 2022
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 7
National Writers Series: Joy Harjo
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Four
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Holly T. Bird talks with U.S. poet laureate Joy Harjo.

Bought by WNMU-FM, Michigan Radio, and WKAR


  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 3
National Writers Series: Ellen Airgood
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Four
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Author Ellen Airgood talks with Susan Odgers about her new novel "Tin Camp Road."

Bought by WNMU-FM and WKAR


  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 2
Podcast – Author Linda Strader
From: Adam Scull
Series: EatSleepWrite.org
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Linda Strader was one of the first women hired on a fire crew with the U.S. Forest Service. A naïve twenty-year-old in the mid-1970s, she discovers...

  • Added: May 31, 2022
  • Length: 14:41
Poet Shin Yu Pai
From: New Letters on the Air
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Taiwanese-American poet, Shin Yu(Yee) Pai(Pie), reads from her seventh collection, ADAMANTINE, and her earlier work, SIGHTINGS, in which she not on...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WJCU


  • Added: May 19, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Poet Victoria Chang
From: New Letters on the Air
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Poet Victoria Chang talks about approaching poetry from the business world, and the influence of her Taiwanese immigrant parents on her work. She ...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
National Writers Series: Honorée Jeffers, Wanda Morris, Vanessa Riley
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Four
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Rochelle Riley talks with authors Honorée Jeffers, Wanda Morris, and Vanessa Riley.

Bought by WNMU-FM and WKAR


  • Added: Mar 23, 2022
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 2
Poet and Essayist Kathryn Nuernberger
From: New Letters on the Air
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Poet and essayist Kathryn Nuernberger discusses how she once shied away from being a "woman writer" and why she now embraces it, as she reads from ...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:00