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135 Stephen King
From: KCME
Series: Dinner and a Movie
Caption: Film music you remember, even if you've forgotten the film.
Quinn Riley explores the music from films based on the stories of Stephen King.

  • Added: Oct 30, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
Under the Eye of Power
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Tonight we are talking about hidden things: secret societies, international conspiracies. Joining us by telephone from New York is the author Colin...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jul 07, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Cupid's Arrow
From: melodically challenged
Series: WELCOME TO SPRING 2024!
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson famously wrote “’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” All of Cupid’s victims might beg to diff...

  • Added: May 03, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:06
The Write Question - Jenny Tinghui Zhang
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Chinese-American writer Jenny Tinghui Zhang discusses her debut novel, "Four Treasures of the Sky."

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, WETS, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Apr 20, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Poet Valzhyna Mort Part 1
From: New Letters on the Air
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In part one of this interview, Belarusian poet Valzhyna Mort reads from her early books, including FACTORY OF TEARS, in both English and Belarusian...

Bought by WNJR and WJCU


  • Added: Mar 09, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Fiction Writer Amina Gautier
From: New Letters on the Air
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Multi-award winning short story writer, Amina Gautier, shares excerpts from her 2018 PEN/Malamud Award-winning, THE LOSS OF ALL LOST THINGS, as par...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
After 9/11
From: New Letters on the Air
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This Classic NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR features a look back at the importance of poetry after 9/11 with readings by Arab-American Naomi Shihab Nye, no...

Bought by WGCU, WDCB, and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Sep 17, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Scottish Poet and Editor Robin Robertson: Part 1
From: New Letters on the Air
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Robin Robertson, whose known for his translations of ancient Greek works and his depiction of folktales from his native Scotland, discusses how myt...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WNJR


  • Added: Jul 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Write Question - Lauren Oyler
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Author Lauren Oyler discusses her debut novel "Fake Accounts."

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
Poet DaMaris Hill
From: New Letters on the Air
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We celebrate Black History Month with DaMaris Hill, the youngest and first living American poet to be signed to Bloomsbury Publishing. In the final...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 10, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Award-winning Poet and Fiction Writer Laura Kasischke
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Photo by David Shankbone CC BY 3.0
The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet, Laura Kasischke discusses her journey to writing fiction. Now the author of nine novels, she ...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Novelist Anthony Grooms
From: New Letters on the Air
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Anthony Grooms, author of the novel BOMBINGHAM, reads from his recent novel, THE VAIN CONVERSATION, based on a 1946 lynching of two black couples i...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 21, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck
From: New Letters on the Air
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We begin Native American Heritage Month with Cherokee citizen, Kim Shuck, the author of the recently released poetry collection, WHOSE WATER. San F...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Nov 05, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ghost
From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music
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Poetry and music for Halloween.

Bought by Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 31, 2020
  • Length: 55:04
  • Purchases: 1
DEATHPROOF
From: melodically challenged
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Truman Capote, author of In Cold Blood, said, “Imagination…can open any door—turn the key and let terror walk right in.” This week on melodically c...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:03
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Peter Balakian
From: New Letters on the Air
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Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Peter Balakian talks about his 2010 book, ZIGGURAT-- a contemplation on architecture, visual arts, his personal experi...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Sep 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Poet Valzhyna Mort Part 2
From: New Letters on the Air
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Today's classic NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR features poet Valzhyna Mort, whose work gives insight into her native country, Belarus. She shares poetry fr...

Bought by WRKF, WNJR, and WJCU


  • Added: Sep 01, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Poets Mia Leonin and Gustavo Adolfo Aybar
From: New Letters on the Air
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR continues National Hispanic Heritage Month with a public poetry reading at The Writer's Place in Kansas City with poets Mia ...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
The Write Question - Allen Morris Jones - 382
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Allen Morris Jones discusses his noir mystery novel, "Sweeney on the Rocks." He also reads short passages.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 27, 2019
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 2
Not the Day Nor the Hour
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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What is known is that there’s something going on, something a little wilder than usual. Plus: Rachel Monroe, writer & author & Marfa volunteer fire...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: May 31, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Voice Crying In the Wilderness
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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A harsh visit to the desert of the Bible: a place of banishment and horror, where ostriches and demons dance in the abandoned cabins.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
More with Scottish Poet and Editor Robin Robertson
From: New Letters on the Air
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In 2006, Robin Robertson's collection, SWITHERING, won the prestigious Forward Poetry Prize for best book. Now selections from that and his other f...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Aug 29, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Novelist Daniel Magariel
From: New Letters on the Air
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Daniel Magariel, a Kansas City native, is a young writer who hit it big with his debut novel, ONE OF THE BOYS. A NEW YORK TIMES Editor’s Choice in ...

  • Added: Jul 03, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
The Write Question - Bjorn Dihle - 329
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Bjorn Dihle discusses his book, "Haunted Inside Passage: Ghosts, Legends, and Mysteries of Southeast Alaska." He also reads two short passages.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KTOO, and KWMR


  • Added: Jun 12, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Write Question - Bruce Holbert - 323
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Bruce Holbert discusses his novel, Whiskey. He also reads a short passage and reflects on his own family history of violence & repair.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Apr 24, 2018
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 3