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Culturology: Minnesota Author Peter Geye talks to Heidi Holtan in this Real Good Words interview
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Author: Peter Geye
Minnesota author Peter Geye's newest book is called "The Lighthouse Road." Around the turn of the last century Thea Eide left Norway for America, s...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KSRQ, and KVSC


  • Added: Aug 05, 2013
  • Length: 18:40
  • Purchases: 3
Culturology: A Real Good Words Interview between William Kent Krueger and Heidi Holtan About "Ordinary Grace," Krueger's Latest Novel.
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "Ordinary Grace" by Willian Kent Krueger
In this Real Good Words interview Heidi Holtan talks with William Kent Krueger about his latest novel, "Ordinary Grace." "Ordinary Grace" is a depa...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 14:54
  • Purchases: 2
Culturology: Dan Sinykin reviews "Silhouette of a Sparrow" by Molly Beth Griffin
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "Silhouette of a Sparrow" by Molly Beth Griffin
Dan Sinykin gives us a succinct, clear, and intriguing synopsis of Molly Beth Griffin's coming of age novel.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jan 07, 2013
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: Dan Sinykin reviews "The Fall of Alice K." by Jim Heynen
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "The Fall of Alice K." by Jim Heynen
Dan Sinykin brings us a review of Jim Heynen's new book "The Fall of Alice K."

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Nov 27, 2012
  • Length: 04:19
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: Kevin McColley
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "Praying To A Laughing God" by Kevin McColley
In this Real Good Words interview Maggie Montgomery and Robert Saxton were joined in the studios of Northern Community Radio by northern Minnesota ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 09, 2012
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 2
The Outcasts of Poker Flat by Bret Harte
From: Roy Trumbull
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Those expelled from a gold mining camp are trapped by an early snowfall.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2012
  • Length: 24:18
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
Bullhead
From: Rachel Yoder
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A short story by Leigh Allison Wilson about love, longing, and memory

  • Added: Jan 13, 2010
  • Length: 03:59
Master Zacharius
From: Chatterbox Audio Theater
Caption: Master Zacharius #1, 2008, Credit: Erica McCarrens
As his creations inexplicably malfunction, an aging clockmaker feels his heart winding down toward death. How far will he go to restore his clocks'...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2009
  • Length: 53:40
Bozo and the Storyteller
From: Tom Thumb
Caption: Available from www.bozoandthestoryteller.com
Chapter one of the book for anyone who never really grew up

  • Added: Jan 12, 2009
  • Length: 18:31
The Pride
From: Matt Gajewski
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A young lion's hapless father aspires to be King of the Jungle.

  • Added: Oct 16, 2008
  • Length: 48:30
Virtuoso Voices - Eugene Drucker (Reads from THE SAVIOR)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Violinist Eugene Drucker reads an excerpt from his debut novel, THE SAVIOR (reissued in Paperback on July 8, 2008).

Bought by WFIU


  • Added: Jun 30, 2008
  • Length: 02:16
  • Purchases: 1
"Leo speeds up when he sees a yard sale."(B)
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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Sometimes we look for secrets, sometimes the secrets find us.

  • Added: Apr 17, 2008
  • Length: 17:22
"He changed his mind..."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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Welcome to that place that stands between us and sleep.

Bought by KUT and KUNM


  • Added: Mar 03, 2008
  • Length: 08:26
  • Purchases: 2
"Pick up."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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The light is flashing on your answering machine. Pick up.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 03, 2008
  • Length: 10:54
  • Purchases: 1
Table For Two (Empty Chairs)
From: ken girardey
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A non existent relationship between a famous father and his daughter.

  • Added: Jun 23, 2007
  • Length: 15:36
"One side is windy, the other is not."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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The thoughts of two women traveling on the same ferry...but very much alone.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Apr 09, 2007
  • Length: 11:40
  • Purchases: 1
"I think it went well."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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The meeting went well. Didn't it?

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 1
"I saw the obituary while I was recycling the newspapers."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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A cold, rainy, winter night in Los Angeles and a friend comes over late to see you. There's something she needs to talk about. You give her a gla...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 16:37
  • Purchases: 1
"This is how the story was told to me." (V2.0)
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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Feel free to get up and move about the cabin...or you might want to pay attention to the man in the window seat next to you; he has a story he'd li...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 05:11
  • Purchases: 1
"Note the relationship between the two seated figures in the booth."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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Life is a work of art. All you need is an observer at your side, someone to explain the living canvases all around you.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 09:41
  • Purchases: 1
"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
RN Documentary: A Conversation with James Meek
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A conversation with novelist and journalist James Meek about his latest novel, ?A People?s Act of Love.?

  • Added: Aug 03, 2006
  • Length: 29:29
"What's your opinion of memory?"
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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Have you ever been crossing the street and felt the hand of memory close around the back of your head?

Bought by KUNM and WMNF


  • Added: Jul 13, 2006
  • Length: 05:16
  • Purchases: 2
"I asked her to sing a song."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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First comes trust. Then comes control.

Bought by KUNM and WMNF


  • Added: Jul 13, 2006
  • Length: 05:11
  • Purchases: 2