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David Clewell, former Poet Laureate of Missouri (2010-12), whose new work is featured in the current issue of NEW LETTERS magazine, draws upon a mi...
- Added: Dec 04, 2013
- Length: 29:00
We have a way of talking about STEM fields as the opposite of the humanities–but it’s hard to have one without the other.
- Added: Sep 10, 2013
- Length: 53:53
- Purchases: 3
In his new novel, Kirk Kjeldsen tells the story of an ex-con who is trying to reinvent himself in a new place. The backdrop for the story is Shangh...
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 53:54
- Purchases: 2
In his new novel, Kirk Kjeldsen tells the story of an ex-con who is trying to reinvent himself in a new place. The backdrop for the story is Shangh...
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 3
With the end of the War in Iraq, tens of thousands of soldiers have returned home, and many of them are going to college. But the transition to aca...
Bought by WJCT and KCPW Salt Lake City
- Added: Jun 28, 2013
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
A Confederacy of Dunces, by New Orleans-born John Kennedy Toole, is one of the great stories of American literature. A new biography of Toole tells...
- Added: May 10, 2013
- Length: 53:54
- Purchases: 4
1619 was the year the first Africans arrived on the North American continent. There were at least 20 of them and they came as slaves from Angola. B...
- Added: Oct 12, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Ron Capps helps returning service members write their way home. [27:06]
Bought by KPIP-LP and WRVO Public Media
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 27:38
- Purchases: 2
A new edition restores Oscar Wilde's famous novel to its original form.
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Jul 17, 2012
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
Radio Curious discusses the close relationship we humans have with other primates, with Dario Maestriprieri, author of “Games Primate Play: An Unde...
- Added: Apr 30, 2012
- Length: 29:02
Radio Curious speaks with Elizabeth Holtzman, a former congresswoman, former District Attorney of Brooklyn, New York and author of Cheating Justic...
- Added: Apr 30, 2012
- Length: 29:02
Appalachia is often imagined as rural and white, but a new wave of African-American writers is challenging the notion of a single Appalachian regio...
- Added: Apr 09, 2012
- Length: 28:57
- Purchases: 9
Are colleges and universities ready for the influx of veterans returning from military service?
- Added: Jan 31, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Literary biographer Brenda Wineapple discusses her book, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Dec 02, 2011
- Length: 28:55
- Purchases: 1
a weekly podcast for curious readers about forgotten books
- Added: Aug 07, 2011
- Length: 01:21:44
Poet Kevin Young talks about his book, Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels.
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 23:45
- Purchases: 1
Nigerian-American writer Teju Cole is our idea of a post-imperial global mind in motion. His celebrated first novel, "Open City," is about a solita...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: May 20, 2011
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
In the cultural crossroads of Manhattan's West Side, we found two standard-bearers for our most promising American tradition -- the literary and in...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Apr 07, 2011
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
In VISIONS OF THE BIG SKY, Dan Flores revisits the Northern Rockies artistic tradition to explore its diversity and richness. In his essays about t...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KSJD, Yellowstone Public Radio, WRPI, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Sep 27, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
Stephanie Kaza links buddhism and sustainability in her new book, MINDFULLY GREEN: A Personal and Spiritual Guide to Whole Earth Thinking. Sea Cha...
- Added: Mar 06, 2009
- Length: 29:03
