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Joaquin Murrieta became notorious during the California gold rush, and even inspired an author to write a famous swashbuckler. And an ancient city...
- Added: Sep 17, 2016
- Length: 02:25:39
Think of the Anthropocene as a science fiction thought experiment. We imagine future geologists looking back into the rock record, and trying to pi...
- Added: Aug 18, 2016
- Length: 36:22
"Recalculating" is Charles Bernstein's first new book of poetry since his daughter, Emma Bee Bernstein, died in December of 2008, and is in large m...
- Added: May 31, 2016
- Length: 57:19
A struggling writer finds unexpected kindness and friendship from his poor landlord in this short story by George Gissing, whom George Orwell ranke...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WMUU-LP
- Added: Mar 07, 2016
- Length: 57:55
- Purchases: 2
A Bloomington artist who has altered a single poem for years, all the while performing it for live audiences.
- Added: Feb 22, 2016
- Length: 07:38
America's formidable guardian of the Constitution, Justice Antonin Scalia, is dead...
- Added: Feb 20, 2016
- Length: 02:22:45
Stories about how our need for redemption from our disappointment expresses itself in the holiday season marked by the solstice and the turn of the...
- Added: Dec 23, 2015
- Length: 58:12
- Purchases: 3
A month of sci-fi, fantasy, gothic, and horror begins with two stories from W.E.B. Du Bois’s 1920 collection Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Oct 05, 2015
- Length: 59:53
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 09, 2015
- Length: 03:07:20
- Purchases: 1
Author James Madison spoke on June 24th at the annual meeting of the Friends of Monroe County Library about his new book Hoosiers: A New History of...
- Added: Jul 15, 2015
- Length: 56:17
Best known for her books about the joys of life in Italy, Frances Mayes has published a new memoir. But this time, she takes her readers back to he...
Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KKRN
- Added: May 29, 2015
- Length: 03:43
- Purchases: 3
Boneshaker Books is a collectively run, all-volunteer, progressive bookstore in the Seward neighborhood in Minneapolis. It has a year round. free b...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Apr 26, 2015
- Length: 04:18
- Purchases: 1
“Killing Voltaire: An Observance for Charlie Hebdo” is a collaborative response by the Books Unbound community to the deadly attack January 7 on th...
- Added: Apr 20, 2015
- Length: 58:44
The interconnected story cycle “Lost Borders” by Mary Hunter Austin concludes. Austin’s character types and settings are in many ways familiar from...
- Added: Apr 14, 2015
- Length: 59:51
The interconnected stories of ‘’Lost Borders’’ are set in the desert landscape of southern California, where author Mary Hunter Austin moved with h...
- Added: Apr 06, 2015
- Length: 01:08:57
David Feinberg started the Center for Genocide & Holocaust Studies at the University of Minnesota more than 10 years ago. This year, a group of Gol...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 05:59
The mystery over what the falcon really is, whether it even existed,and why it has any value has remained so compelling, in fact, that over the yea...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 09:15
Melvin McCosh was a poet, musician and bookstore owner who sold out of his home, and later in Dinkytown and the West Bank. KFAI producer Britt Aamo...
Bought by WDSE
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 06:02
- Purchases: 1
Born in New Orleans and an early figure of the Harlem Renaissance, Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875–1935) considered fiction her most representative form ...
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 57:59
- Purchases: 1
“The Mulatto” first appeared in 1837 in an anti-slavery magazine published by free people of color in France. Its author was the 19-year-old Victor...
Bought by WCPN
- Added: Feb 23, 2015
- Length: 58:27
- Purchases: 1
A four-part presentation of Herman Melville’s classic and problematic historical fiction “Benito Cereno” concludes. In the final episode, Captain A...
- Added: Feb 23, 2015
- Length: 01:01:33
The mystery over what the falcon really is, whether it even existed, and why it has any value has remained so compelling, in fact, that over the ye...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 05, 2015
- Length: 09:15
- Purchases: 1
The second in a four-part program on Herman Melville’s novella “Benito Cereno,” based on the memoir of the real-life sea captain Amasa Delano. Melv...
- Added: Feb 02, 2015
- Length: 58:35
Off the coast of Virginia, in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, lies a shrinking island called Tangier. Here, an unlikely adventurer docked his sai...
Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, WTJU, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 30, 2015
- Length: 03:51
- Purchases: 4
The first of a four-part program on Herman Melville’s masterpiece of historical fiction, “Benito Cereno.” This American novella is based on a chapt...
- Added: Jan 28, 2015
- Length: 58:15
