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The Meaning of 'Drash'
From: KUOW
Series: Sound Focus
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Author Wendy Marcus reflects on a storytelling tradition that goes back to Wendy's childhood. KRAK

  • Added: Jul 30, 2008
  • Length: 09:00
Interview with DIANE ACKERMAN, author of bestseller "The Zoo Keeper's Wife."
From: Out of Bounds
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Very personal conversation with author Diane ACKERMAN about The Zoo Keeper's Wife, now a major film.

  • Added: Jan 16, 2008
  • Length: 29:30
Susan Sontag and Norman Mailer on Live From Prairie Lights
From: Iowa Public Radio
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Susan Sontag and her last novel, "In America." Norman Mailer and his book, "Time of Our Time.

  • Added: Jan 10, 2008
  • Length: 54:30
The Face of Poetry
From: David Kates
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"The Face of Poetry" is an exhibit matching black and white photographs of some of the most important poets of the last 50 years with their poems.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2007
  • Length: 04:09
Paper Trail
From: Julie Subrin
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A stamp auction in Frankfurt leads an author to a war-time love story

Bought by The PRX Podcast


  • Added: Dec 07, 2006
  • Length: 11:45
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 5 - 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
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Episode 5 features former poet laureates Anthony Hecht, Maxine Kumin, Reed Whittemore, and newly appointed laureate Donald Hall.

Bought by WCPN, WFHB, North Country Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KRUA and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2006
  • Length: 01:04:05
  • Purchases: 8
RN Documentary: For Every Atom Belonging to Me?
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Cunningham invokes the spirit of Walt Whitman in his latest book ?Specimen Days? ? part of a wave of post 9/1...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 06, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: The City of Falling Angels
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Interview with the author John Berendt about his new book ?The City of Falling Angels?.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 17, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Evergreen interview w/ DANIEL SCHWARZ author of fascinating book "Imagining the Holocaust"
From: Out of Bounds
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Schwarz discusses his groundbreaking book "Imagining the Holocaust"

  • Added: Apr 12, 2006
  • Length: 29:29
Episode 4 - 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
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Episode 4 features Howard Nemerov, Billy Collins and William Stafford. Optional 5-minute drop-in also available.

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


  • Added: Apr 04, 2006
  • Length: 01:04:04
  • Purchases: 12
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
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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
Episode 2 - 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
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Episode 2 features former poet laureates from the 1990s: Joseph Brodsky, Mona Van Duyn and Robert Pinsky. They read some of their most famous poe...

Bought by WCPN, WFHB, North Country Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KRUA and more


  • Added: Mar 09, 2006
  • Length: 01:04:01
  • Purchases: 10
Monticello's Jewish Hero
From: With Good Reason
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The story of one man who saved Jefferson's estate from ruin and one "being" that captured authors' fancies.

Bought by WDCB


  • Added: Dec 15, 2005
  • Length: 29:55
  • Purchases: 1
Cotopaxi Jewish Colony
From: KRCC-FM
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A look at a community of Jewish immigrants

  • Added: Oct 07, 2005
  • Length: 07:30
Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop
From: KCUR
Series: KC Currents
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An interview with KCUR's Chuck Haddix on his recent book chronicling the history of Kansas City Jazz in the 1920s and 30s.

  • Added: Jul 07, 2005
  • Length: 09:13
Paternalism
From: Talking History
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Interview with David Leverenz on the transformation of the image of the role and image of the father. Raymond Geselbracht comments on the relations...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2005
  • Length: 29:00
Dr. Seuss
From: Talking History
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Philip Nel author of Dr. Seuss American Icon talks with host, Bryan Le Beau and shares some interesting information about the man, his life and more.

Bought by WHQR


  • Added: Dec 28, 2004
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1

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