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How can we possibly dream of a better future in the middle of a pandemic? One way is with the help of literature.
- Added: Jul 13, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Sandip remembers his early childhood attraction to a group of mustacioed morons. Astrix and Obelix.
- Added: Mar 31, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Sandip Roy spoke with James Crabtree about his new book "The Billionaire Raj."
- Added: Feb 17, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Sandip takes us to one of his favorite places, the Kolkata Book Fair, now in it’s 44th year!
- Added: Feb 11, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Sandip Roy remembers on of India’s most beloved writers.
Nabaneeta dev Sen
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Nov 11, 2019
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Amitav Ghosh’s newest novel Gun Island is a story about both two of his great themes - migration and climate.
- Added: Sep 10, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Sandip Roy speaks with author and Afghan born American, vegan beefcake and most lovable teddy bear, Nemat Sadat.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 16, 2019
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
The 85 year old Ruskin Bond is a bit of an accidental Indian, but he is also one of the most loved Indian writers. Sandip Roy met him at the Tata S...
- Added: Jun 18, 2019
- Length: 06:00
The Kolkata Book Fair is one of the largest in the world. But it also has space for the smallest of publishers.
- Added: Feb 11, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Sandip Roy remembers his boyhood fascination with Hergé's famous comic, Tintin
- Added: Jan 22, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Sandip and writers Amy Tan and Rabih Alameddine explore what makes Jaipur one of the greatest literature festivals in the world.
- Added: Feb 05, 2018
- Length: 06:00
Writer Sandip Roy experiences a deeper meaning to the 'Lit fest’ circuit.
- Added: Jan 23, 2018
- Length: 06:00
From Alexander the Great's "pillow book" (The Iliad) to the Mayan Popul Vuh; from Gilgamesh to Harry Potter by way of Goethe and the notion of “wor...
- Added: Jan 03, 2018
- Length: 59:01
If the polls had been right and Hillary Clinton had won someone could have written a great American satire of an America where Donald Trump wins. B...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jun 19, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
This mother’s Day I was thinking about a very particular mother. Not mine but a woman named Leila Seth.
Leila Seth was the first woman to top th...
- Added: May 17, 2017
- Length: 06:00
When I was a little boy I once lost my parents in a busy market in Kolkata. I cannot begin to imagine what it means to be lost for 25 YEARS. Like S...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 14, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Iranian-American writer Firoozeh Dumas' commentaries about her hyphenated life have aired on NPR.
But that was a different America. While Firoozeh ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Feb 01, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 2
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
The word “inauguration" takes us all the way back to the politics of ancient Rome and the birds behind the words inauguration, inaugural, auspiciou...
- Added: Jan 20, 2017
- Length: 22:14
Mary Shelley’s novel of 1818, Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus, seems to me to clang like a hammer blow against a bell that tolls our self-i...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Dec 19, 2016
- Length: 01:00:01
- Purchases: 1
Every immigrant has a coming to the America memory. Nayomi Munaweera came to America when she was 12. It was the mid eighties. And Duran Duran.....
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 12, 2016
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 2
What may seem surprising as you listen is the way in which Thoreau’s understanding of death and life can inform our own considerations of what it m...
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- Added: Jun 07, 2016
- Length: 59:14
- Purchases: 1
Jill Lepore joins us to talk about three books: The Story of America; The Secret History of Wonder Woman; and Joe Gould's Teeth.
- Added: Mar 29, 2016
- Length: 01:03:04
The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!!
Featuring Author Nicholas Stanton, Rapper Thraxxup, and The Revenant, now a major motion p...
- Added: Mar 08, 2016
- Length: 58:01
The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!!
Featuring the Artist AmarA, Director Sue Zizza, and #1 New York Times bestseller The Grave...
- Added: Jan 06, 2016
- Length: 58:34
On this episode of Art Beat we visit Winona native Shawn McGuire, an author of young adult fiction that blends different settings with a touch of m...
- Added: Dec 30, 2015
- Length: 21:54
