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Caption: Amy Acker & Alexis Denisoff, San Francisco, CA 4/28/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Amy Acker and Alexis Denisof talk having no fear, short shooting schedules, and staircase soliloquies.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2013
  • Length: 09:03
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This week on Shelf Discovery, Kristin goes to group therapy with a bunch of monsters in Jesse Petersen's Club Monstrosity.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
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This week on Shelf Discovery, Kristin gets a lesson in Jedi history from Tim Lebbon's Into the Void.

  • Added: May 28, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
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This week on Shelf Discovery, Kristin explores a land that never was with Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden's Joe Golem and the Drowning City.

  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
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This week on Shelf Discovery, Kristin investigates what goes on behind the gates in Jane Haddam's Blood in the Water.

  • Added: May 14, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
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This week on Shelf Discovery, Kristin investigates murder in the Everglades with Heather Graham's Tall, Dark, and Deadly.

  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin leaves everything behind to read One Step Too Far by Tina Seskis.

  • Added: Apr 30, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin joins the deadly house hunt with Deader Homes and Gardens by Joan Hess.

  • Added: Apr 16, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin battles the gods with Tellulah Darling's My Ex from Hell.

  • Added: Apr 09, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
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Robert Jevne discusses his former love of the Chicago Cubs in a lighthearted tone and how their incessant losing seasons defeated his passion for b...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 04, 2013
  • Length: 01:02
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Taylor Tower at CKUT studios in Montreal, Canada
Edward Packard, the man behind the Choose Your Own Adventure books, talks about how he came up with the concept and what role adventure has played ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 02, 2013
  • Length: 12:56
  • Purchases: 1
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin enrolls in a school for the criminally gifted with Jeffrey Salane's Lawless.

  • Added: Apr 02, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
Caption: Margaret Wise Brown
The story of Margaret Wise Brown's work, life, and tragic early death.

Bought by WABE and Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser)


  • Added: Mar 26, 2013
  • Length: 06:13
  • Purchases: 2
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin tries on a new identity with Allie Larkin's Why Can't I Be You.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
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First published in 1947, Goodnight Moon has become one of the most popular books for young children. Yet the book’s author, Margaret Wise Brown, al...

Bought by WJCT, XRAY.fm, WFHB, and KVLU


  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Walter Salles, San Francisco, CA 12/8/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Walter Salles talks searching for freedom, finding the story behind the book, and bicycling with Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

  • Added: Mar 24, 2013
  • Length: 14:56
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin reunites with a troubled heroine in Black Sheep by C. J. Lyons.

  • Added: Mar 19, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin indulges in Jessica Beck's Illegally Iced.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
Caption: Joe Bev reads "Margery Dickerson", Credit: Lorie B. Kellogg
A short Irish fiction by Daws Butler, read by Joe Bevilacqua. Great for Saint Patrick Day or anytime.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2013
  • Length: 07:27
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin sets out on a classic spy mission with the 1941 thriller Above Suspicion by Helen MacInnes.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
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This week on Shelf Discovery, Kristin braces herself for the end of the world in Sherrilyn Kenyon's Time Untime.

  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
Caption: Matthew Quick, San Francisco, CA 2/1/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Matthew Quick talks living an examined life, being rejected over 70 times, and what it was like to get the phone call that changed his life.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 14:26
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin takes to New York City's underground with the graffiti artists of Adam Mansbach's Rage Is Back.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
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Heather McNaugher, a poet and professor at Chatham University, reads from her collection and answers some writer-ly questions.

  • Added: Feb 14, 2013
  • Length: 08:30
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin travels to the New World with Rhys Bowen's Murphy's Law.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2013
  • Length: 03:00