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Summer Reading List
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What books should thoughtful people read this summer?

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KSKQ, WLPR , KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Aug 20, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 7
The Muse on the Inside
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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Our topic this week is creativity behind bars. We showcase poetry from prisoners working with the Indiana Prisoners' Writing Project, a piece by Sh...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2017
  • Length: 28:19
The Write Question - Seth Kantner - 269
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Seth Kantner talks about growing up in rural Alaska -- 100 miles above the Arctic Circle -- and the essays in his collection 'Swallowed by the Grea...

Bought by KWMR, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KGLT, Spokane Public Radio, KSJD and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Write Question - Keth McCafferty - 265
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Keith McCafferty talks about and reads from the fifth book in his Sean Stranahan mystery series, Buffalo Jump Blues. He also talks about real-life ...

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


  • Added: Sep 19, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Ideas Books: Will Atkinson, Class
From: Craig Barfoot
Series: Ideas Books
Caption: Ideas Books: Will Atkinson
Interview with author Will Atkinson about his book, Class. The topic of class is not only amongst the oldest and most controversial of all concepts...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2016
  • Length: 29:59
Safe as Houses, Part Two: An Anthology
From: WFHB
Series: Books Unbound
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Our strange and surprising relationships with house and household objects are explored in an early story by Virginia Woolf, a modern adaptation of ...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 14, 2016
  • Length: 58:34
  • Purchases: 2
Safe as Houses, Part One: ‘The House of Cobwebs’ by George Gissing
From: WFHB
Series: Books Unbound
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A struggling writer finds unexpected kindness and friendship from his poor landlord in this short story by George Gissing, whom George Orwell ranke...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 07, 2016
  • Length: 57:55
  • Purchases: 2
Not Light, But Fire: Readings from African-American Abolitionists
From: WFHB
Series: Books Unbound
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To close Black History Month, words that inspired hope and incited action in the struggle for the abolition of slavery and for the empowerment of p...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Feb 29, 2016
  • Length: 59:20
  • Purchases: 2
Books Unbound - “The Mulatto” by Victor Séjour
From: WFHB
Series: Books Unbound
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The first published short story by an African American, “The Mulatto” appeared in 1837 in an anti-slavery magazine in France. Its author was the 19...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Feb 22, 2016
  • Length: 58:22
  • Purchases: 2
W.E.B. Du Bois’s ‘Darkwater’: Two Stories
From: WFHB
Series: Books Unbound
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A black man and a white woman might be the last two people on earth in the post-apocalyptic tale “The Comet,” an early example of African-American ...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Feb 15, 2016
  • Length: 58:38
  • Purchases: 2
‘Hospital Sketches’ by Louisa May Alcott, Conclusion
From: WFHB
Series: Books Unbound
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Illness cuts short Nurse Periwinkle’s service for the Union Army as Hospital Sketches concludes. In the last chapters of her thinly fictionalized m...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Feb 08, 2016
  • Length: 58:07
  • Purchases: 2
Hospital Sketches’ by Louisa May Alcott, Part Three
From: WFHB
Series: Books Unbound
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Both Louisa May Alcott and Walt Whitman were profoundly affected by the aftermath of the Battle of Fredericksburg during the American Civil War. In...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 58:40
  • Purchases: 1
‘Hospital Sketches’ by Louisa May Alcott, Part Two
From: WFHB
Series: Books Unbound
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The dauntless nurse of Hospital Sketches gains a deeper understanding of the effects of war from the wounded men she cares for in the second part o...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jan 25, 2016
  • Length: 58:02
  • Purchases: 1
Freedom's Just Another Word For Absurdity: Sartre, Beauvoir, and Camus
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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What do acting, literature and philosophy have in common with branding, fascism and incarceration? How can the humanities confront the problem of t...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2016
  • Length: 58:22
‘Hospital Sketches’ by Louisa May Alcott, Part One
From: WFHB
Series: Books Unbound
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Beloved as the author of Little Women, Louisa May Alcott drew on her service as a Union nurse during the Civil War for her first major literary suc...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jan 18, 2016
  • Length: 58:40
  • Purchases: 1
The Edge of Christmas, Second Christmas: Classic Stories for the Season
From: WFHB
Series: Books Unbound
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Stories about how our need for redemption from our disappointment expresses itself in the holiday season marked by the solstice and the turn of the...

Bought by KRPS, KRPS, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Dec 23, 2015
  • Length: 58:12
  • Purchases: 3
The Edge of Christmas, Part One: Classic Stories for the Season
From: WFHB
Series: Books Unbound
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Christmas is the setting as sly women turn the tables on their menfolk in a pair of overlooked short stories from the classic era of magazine fiction.

Bought by KRPS, KRPS, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Dec 21, 2015
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 3
Bad Girls Like Nice Shoes: Fairy Tales and Ballerinas for Nutcracker season
From: WFHB
Series: Books Unbound
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Contemporary women poets reimagine fairy tales and the cultural icon of the ballerina—especially of the black swan school—along with two unsettling...

Bought by WVTF and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Dec 07, 2015
  • Length: 57:59
  • Purchases: 2
Killing Voltaire, November 13 Edition: An Observance for Charlie Hebdo
From: WFHB
Series: Books Unbound
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In response to the November 13 attacks in Paris, Books Unbound revisits an episode originally created in the wake of the January 7 attack on the of...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2015
  • Length: 58:57
The Massacre of Yangzhou
From: WFHB
Series: Books Unbound
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The protagonist of "The Massacre of Yangzhou" is the southern Chinese city of Yangzhou, a rich and beautiful center of the failing Ming Dynasty as ...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Nov 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:28
  • Purchases: 1
American Girls Horror Stories, Conclusion: Fall to Pieces
From: WFHB
Series: Books Unbound
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“Berenice” by Edgar Allan Poe is the featured story for the Halloween finale of “American Girls Horror Stories.” One of Poe’s lesser-known tales, “...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2015
  • Length: 56:01
American Girls Horror Stories, Part Four: Body and Soul
From: WFHB
Series: Books Unbound
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Male fears of female domination form one of the strands of horror in “The Thing on the Doorstep” by H.P. Lovecraft, with marriage both transforming...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 58:25
American Girls Horror Stories, Part Three: Beast
From: WFHB
Series: Books Unbound
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A hallucinatory, apocalyptic fervor pervades the 1860 short story “Circumstance” by Harriet Prescott Spofford, about a woman held all night by a my...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2015
  • Length: 58:03
“American Girls Horror Stories, Part Two: The Host”
From: WFHB
Series: Books Unbound
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A cultural horror of women’s bodies is the theme of the second episode of “American Girls Horror Stories,” juxtaposing two 19th-century American gh...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2015
  • Length: 57:49