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Why I Really Like This Book
From: Kate Macdonald
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a weekly podcast for curious readers about forgotten books

  • Added: Aug 07, 2011
  • Length: 01:21:44
A Conversation with Kevin Young
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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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
Tess Gerritsen discusses "The Silent Girl"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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A physician and the author of fourteen novels, Tess Gerritsen lives in Maine.

  • Added: Jul 20, 2011
  • Length: 28:22
Patrick DeWitt discusses The Sisters Brothers
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Patrick DeWitt is a novelist who lives in Oregon.

  • Added: Jun 15, 2011
  • Length: 27:37
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
Ace Atkins discusses "Infamous"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Ace Atkins is the author of eight novels. He lives on a farm in Mississippi.

  • Added: Apr 26, 2011
  • Length: 29:45
William Dietrich discusses "The Barbary Pirates"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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William Dietrich is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, an educator, and a novelist.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2011
  • Length: 30:54
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
Wallace Stroby discusses "Cold Shot to the Heart"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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A former newspaperman, Wallace Stroby lives in New Jersey.

  • Added: Mar 24, 2011
  • Length: 26:32
Jefferson Bass discusses "The Bone Yard"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
Caption: The Bone Yard
Jefferson Bass is the pen name of Dr. Bill Bass and journalist Jon Jefferson.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2011
  • Length: 29:26
Scott Montgomery discusses the crime scene
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Scott Montgomery is a fiction writer and crime novel taste-maker, and bookseller in Austin, Texas.

  • Added: Dec 13, 2010
  • Length: 28:46
C.S. Graham discusses "The Babylonian Codex"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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C.S. Graham is the pseudonym of writing team Steven Harris and Candice Proctor.

  • Added: Dec 10, 2010
  • Length: 28:37
Visions of the Big Sky - Part I
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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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
Yunte Huang discusses "Charlie Chan"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Yunte Huang is a professor of literature at UC at Santa Barbara.

  • Added: Sep 21, 2010
  • Length: 22:26
What's the Word? The African Novel
From: Modern Language Association
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An exploration of the African novel

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 02, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Fahrenheit 451
From: William S. Hammack
Series: Stories of Technology
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The message of Fahrenheit 451 in the age of DVD and electronic books: We run the risk that the literary and intellectual canon of the coming centur...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 03:34
Pompeii: Review of Robert Harris novel
From: William S. Hammack
Series: Stories of Technology
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Robert Harris's novel Pompeii does an incredible job of teaching about Roman Civil engineering and waterworks, although make no mistake, this alway...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:44
What's the Word? "Voices from the Ojibwe Nation"
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What's the Word? Honors National American Indian and Alaska-Native Heritage Month
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Three members of Ojibwe communities, which reach from Michigan to Montana in the United States and from Quebec to Saskatchewan in Canada, share the...

Bought by KZYX, KKWE Niijii Radio, WLIW, WNMU-FM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Oct 20, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 19
What's the Word? "American Indian and Alaska-Native Tribal Traditions"
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What's the Word? Honors National American Indian and Alaska-Native Heritage Month
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A celebration of American Indian and Alaska-Native tribal traditions

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WLIW, WNMU-FM, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Oct 09, 2009
  • Length: 29:10
  • Purchases: 27
What's the Word? Shakespeare after 9/11
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What's the Word? Remembering 9/11
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A look at how the events of September 11th changed the way we read Shakespeare's plays about politics and leadership.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KFOK-LPFM, KSFR, WTIP and more


  • Added: Aug 06, 2009
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 6
Moving Forward in Iraq
From: Woodrow Wilson Center
Series: Lee H. Hamilton Commentaries
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We arrived in Iraq carelessly; we should leave carefully. Former Congressman Lee Hamilton discusses America's goal in Iraq and how it might achieve...

Bought by WBFO


  • Added: May 21, 2009
  • Length: 02:04
  • Purchases: 1
Show 2: Dylan and the Three Kings
From: Bill King
Series: Shakespeare in the Alley: Bob Dylan's Poetics
Caption: Bill King in Folk Mode
Radical Solitude in "Just Like a Woman" and a Radio Drama

Bought by Prairie Public, KPIP-LP, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WRGY, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more


  • Added: Apr 02, 2009
  • Length: 59:35
  • Purchases: 8
Show 1: Dylan as Poet
From: Bill King
Series: Shakespeare in the Alley: Bob Dylan's Poetics
Caption: Dr. Bill King
Introduction to this series on Bob Dylan's Poetics with focus on "To Ramona"

Bought by WCNY, Prairie Public, RadioFreePalmer, KPIP-LP, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Apr 02, 2009
  • Length: 59:54
  • Purchases: 12
The Mindful Path to Sustainability
From: Bill Baue
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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
Unquiet History 9
From: Matthew Battles
Series: Unquiet History
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The enigma of the death of Socrates

Bought by Remix Radio and WMUB


  • Added: Nov 10, 2008
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 2