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An Enemy Like Me, written by award-winning author Teri M Brown, is a novel about love, war, and the complexities of family and identity.
- Added: Jan 04, 2024
- Length: 10:11
The classic holiday tale by Oscar Wilde is interpreted along with sacred Christmas music.
Bought by Michigan Radio and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Dec 07, 2023
- Length: 58:28
- Purchases: 2
For Women's History Month, we feature a special program about four important feminist poets who led the the next generations into the 21st century....
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WNMU-FM, KBIA, WNMU-FM, WDCB and more
- Added: Mar 08, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 19
How do we find human connection? Being “in with the out crowd?" Author and poet Toni Mirosevich finds peers on the pier. She reads from her latest ...
Bought by WORT
- Added: Oct 04, 2022
- Length: 28:50
- Purchases: 1
What is The Blues? Arts and Cultural Heritage Reporter Jeff Carmack looks for the answer as he explores the Head Water Blues Opry, performed at th...
- Added: Sep 12, 2022
- Length: 29:25
E.L. Doctorow passed away in July 2015, but left behind twelve novels, three volumes of short fiction, and a stage drama, winning most of the major...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KAAD-LP, WNJR, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Jul 12, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
By getting personal and a little surreal The New Silence by Brian Price uses humor, heightened language, and edgy jazz to take on the thorny questi...
- Added: Apr 19, 2020
- Length: 27:13
- Purchases: 2
Bob Kustra talks with Novelist Jonathan Evison about "Lawn Boy"
- Added: Mar 15, 2019
- Length: 30:11
A story of intrigue, deception, and murder most foul. Welcome, dear listener... to the Sanguine Script part 3!
- Added: Dec 05, 2018
- Length: 13:30
It is an experimental radio piece based on the poem by the Argentine poet Oliverio Girondo. 25 seconds of life was created in the context of the ne...
- Added: Aug 14, 2018
- Length: 15:11
When you have nothing, where do you turn for warmth and comfort? Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Match Girl" strikes a match and in the brief...
- Added: Dec 09, 2016
- Length: 09:24
In a future world, we have lost the technology for video/film/picture or recorded image. It is against their religion to draw or be involved with ...
- Added: Feb 24, 2016
- Length: 09:32
This is part 2 of Episode 1 of the radio drama, "Columbus Myth." "Columbus Myth" is a speculative piece written from an African American perspecti...
- Added: Feb 23, 2016
- Length: 10:14
Nothing is more powerful than the magic that comes from your mind, down your arm, through your fingertips, down your pen and onto the page. The Mar...
- Added: Dec 24, 2015
- Length: 19:59
Here we are and thus we go – upon the merry-go-round we journey so. . . Join Unbroken Circle tenali for a spellbinding look-see into the puzzling n...
- Added: Sep 30, 2015
- Length: 01:52:24
The former U.S. poet laureate reads his poem about the end of autumn.
- Added: Sep 24, 2015
- Length: 01:17
Tonight’s show, Shadows are Black: Slavery’s Long Setting, features a discussion on the text and context of Herman Melville’s 1855 novella “Benito ...
- Added: Feb 10, 2015
- Length: 57:12
Featuring novelist Eric Shonkwiler and work from Quiddity issue 7.2. While Eric has lived and worked in every contiguous US Time zone, the Ohio na...
- Added: Oct 21, 2014
- Length: 18:05
Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Job in Suck City, reads his poem "Embrace Noir."
- Added: Sep 02, 2014
- Length: 01:57
- Purchases: 2
Open Source in 2001 with John Updike, reflecting on and reading from his novella Rabbit Remembered, the last in a five-part series about an America...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 03:50
- Purchases: 2
You must be accountable for your actions.
- Added: May 01, 2014
- Length: 04:10
We’re reading and gabbing about a story called “The Teacher of Literature,” published in 1894; Chekhov was 34 years old. It’s a story about a young...
- Added: Apr 11, 2014
- Length: 01:21:57
We’re reading a famous story called “The Student.” It’s a late winter, early spring night in the 1890s, Easter weekend. A student is coming home f...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and KWMR
- Added: Mar 27, 2014
- Length: 20:08
- Purchases: 2
Chekhov wrote “Gusev” on shipboard, returning from his stark study mission to the prison island of Sakhalin in 1890. He was 30 years old, ten years...
- Added: Mar 27, 2014
- Length: 52:19
Features selections from past issues of Quiddity which include poems read by Andrew Kozma, Kate Mohler, and Susana Lang.
- Added: Mar 04, 2014
- Length: 16:51
