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The Pawn chronicles a meth addict’s transformative journey to the river and back.

  • Added: Apr 27, 2012
  • Length: 21:47
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During the Civil War a southern civilian is to be executed by being hung from a bridge. What happens or doesn't happen next we won't know until the...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 25:32
  • Purchases: 1
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David Vann's latest work. The true story of Steve Kazmierszak. On Valentine's Day, 2008, Kazmierszak killed five and wounded 18 at Northern Illinoi...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2011
  • Length: 23:01
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Part 2 of two programs funded by the upcoming 5-part PBS series "Women, War & Peace," which will air on consecutive Tuesday evenings beginning on O...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 30, 2011
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 1
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It's not dark yet. Well, actually it is. But actor Alfred Molina makes a book with Death in the title an absolute thrill to listen to. The program ...

Bought by KMUN, KPIP-LP, KQED, KRZA, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Aug 18, 2011
  • Length: 28:39
  • Purchases: 6
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Today we hear stories by two giants of Mexican literature, Octavio Paz and Carlos Fuentes. The former is read by actor Tony Plana; the latter by th...

Bought by KUPR low power FM, KPIP-LP, WABE, and KQED


  • Added: Aug 17, 2011
  • Length: 52:59
  • Purchases: 4
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Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried (1990) is considered one of the finest books about the Vietnam War. But it's almost less about the war and m...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WKMS, KMUN, KUER, KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 16, 2011
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 8
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A tale of the imps, goblins, and other demons said to reside on Thunder Mountain and raise squalls on the waters below.

  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 02:40
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A tale of ghost ships sailing up the Hudson or seen just before a storm.

  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 03:06
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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
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This true gothic story was told by author Randy Osborne in which he recounts life with his eccentric grandmother, her 35 cats, and a retribution th...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2010
  • Length: 10:24
Caption: Lightsey Darst, Credit: Terese Tenseth
On this edition of Art Beat we feature Minnesota poet Lightsey Darst. Darst was visiting Winona State University Professor James Armstrong's class ...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2010
  • Length: 31:07
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Deborah Schupack is a novelist living New York.

  • Added: Jul 11, 2010
  • Length: 28:15
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Darker stories of love and coming of age by Providence's most exciting new writers.

  • Added: Jul 05, 2010
  • Length: 18:26
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Samuel Ligon is the author of DRIFT AND SWERVE, a collection of stories (2009), and SAFE IN HEAVEN DEAD, a novel (2003).

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 07, 2010
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
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This is an interview with the head of the English Dept. at Virginia Tech. Her book is the back story to the Seung -Hui Cho murders which occurred o...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2010
  • Length: 27:44
Caption: Cover, Times Book Review 11/22/09, Credit: Ruth Gwili
The 2015 Best Picture has drawn from Raymond Carver's WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE, his most famous story; he reads it in his own voi...

Bought by WRGY, KRCB 104.9, KUER, PRX Remix, KUT and more


  • Added: Nov 23, 2009
  • Length: 29:43
  • Purchases: 8
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Poet Yusef Komunyakaa reads from and discusses his latest collection, WARHORSES (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2008).

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 17, 2009
  • Length: 16:51
  • Purchases: 1
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A priest, a minister, and a rabbi step into a bar . . .

  • Added: Oct 16, 2008
  • Length: 45:39
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A young lion's hapless father aspires to be King of the Jungle.

  • Added: Oct 16, 2008
  • Length: 48:30
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A GERMAN REQUIEM -audiobook review

  • Added: Oct 13, 2008
  • Length: 03:47
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If you've only seen the movies, you do NOT know this tale of love, death, and obsession...

Bought by Raven Radio, KUNM, KFAI Minneapolis, WRGY, KHNS and more


  • Added: Oct 07, 2008
  • Length: 55:32
  • Purchases: 10
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A CLOCKWORK ORANGE-audiobook review

  • Added: Aug 24, 2008
  • Length: 04:09
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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
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Interview with writer Bill Floyd

  • Added: May 29, 2008
  • Length: 02:53