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A Conversation with Translator, Natasha Wimmer
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Natasha Wimmer was awarded an NEA Literature Fellowship in 2007 to translate Roberto Bolaño's epic novel 2666. In this interview, she discusses the...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Jul 29, 2011
  • Length: 27:08
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Writer, Unai Elloriaga
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Basque writer Unai Elorriaga and Amaia Gabantxo, translator of Elorriaga's novel Plants Don’t Drink Coffee, discuss the book as well as the art of ...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2011
  • Length: 25:51
History's Tragic Irony with Teju Cole and Simon Schama
From: Open Source
Caption: Teju Cole
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
Kim Barker, author of The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During the program, Kim Barker talks about her addiction to living in and reporting from war zones in Afghanistan while working as the South Asia b...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 17, 2011
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Moral Maps and Geographies of Conflict - Melani McAlister & Téa Obreht
From: Open Source
Caption: Melani McAlister's book jacket for Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and US Interests, 1945-2000
How do war stories work, and where do we find them? Our guests this week are mapping out terrains of conflict and confusion in our lifetimes, from ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Cultural Capital - Hamid Dabashi & Andre Aciman
From: Open Source
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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
Eyesore Opulence - Peter Hessler & Christian Wiman
From: Open Source
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New Yorker correspondent Peter Hessler reports from the road in China on the human side of miracle growth and epic migration. Then, we meet poet Ch...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 10, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Poets of the Moment - Elliott Colla & Jaimy Gordon
From: Open Source
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Elliott Colla talks about the poetry of revolution and its role for transformation in Egypt. Then, we're with Jaimy Gordon, whose novel The Lord of...

Bought by WLPR , KWMR, KUNM, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 18, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 4
Three Cups of Tea
From: War News Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
From Ground Up (23 April 2010): War News Radio reports on the book Three Cups of Tea.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2010
  • Length: 07:35
Arab Novels
From: War News Radio
Caption: An Iraqi official displays a recovered stolen artifact., Credit: Associated Press
From Guarding Heritage March 19, 2010. War News Radio speaks with writer Claudia Roth-Pierpont about her readings of Arabic novels.

  • Added: Mar 19, 2010
  • Length: 07:24
Award-winning novel "Netherland" with Joseph O'Neill
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Joseph O'Neill
NETHERLAND, the 2009 novel by Joseph O'Neill, won the PEN/Faulkner award. He discusses the arduous process of writing the book, which is set in hi...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 29:00
"The Cairo Trilogy" by Naguib Mahfouz
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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An interview with Fouad Ajami about The Cairo Trilogy by Egyptian Nobel Laurete Naguib Mahfouz who died 30 Aug 2006.

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 31, 2006
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 2
How Mulien Saves His Mother from Hades
From: KCUR
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Taiwanese story that is the basis for Ghost Month in Buddhist Culture.

Bought by KZYX and PRX Administrator


  • Added: Oct 30, 2005
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 2
Azar Nafisi interview
From: Holly Kernan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
interview with Iranian author of "Reading Lolita in Tehran"

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 18, 2003
  • Length: 21:18
  • Purchases: 1