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David Trinidad describes a movie set for a cop film set in 1970s San Francisco.
- Added: Sep 29, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Farnoosh Fathi reads a poem on the occasion of poet John Ashbery’s 87th birthday.
- Added: Sep 09, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
"Recalculating" is Charles Bernstein's first new book of poetry since his daughter, Emma Bee Bernstein, died in December of 2008, and is in large m...
- Added: May 31, 2016
- Length: 57:19
Poet Carl Phillips explores how life influences the creation of his poetry. Professor Timothy Moore then takes us back to ancient Greece and how an...
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 20:05
We’re told intelligent machines and big data will free us from work, educate our children, transform our environment, and even make religion more u...
- Added: Jan 26, 2016
- Length: 58:34
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
We begin National Poetry Month by remembering the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Philip Levine, who died on February 14, 2015 at the age of 87 at his...
- Added: Apr 09, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Duane Swierczynski is the author of several crime thrillers including the Shamus Award-winning Charlie Hardie series (Fun & Games, Hell & Gone, Poi...
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 11:35
Gary Phillips is a writer, teacher, and activist who lives in Los Angeles.
- Added: Dec 22, 2014
- Length: 26:52
Jonathan Ashely is a novelist living in Kentucky.
- Added: Oct 23, 2014
- Length: 17:29
Jon Bassoff was born in 1974 in New York City and currently lives in a ghost town somewhere in Colorado. His mountain gothic novel, Corrosion, was ...
- Added: Oct 19, 2014
- Length: 15:50
Hosts Doug Storm and Trish Kerle' are joined by historian Jim Madison to discuss the Hoosier through history. Madison has just published a new book...
- Added: Sep 23, 2014
- Length: 01:01:02
Frank Wheeler, Jr. is a novelist living in Wisconsin.
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 13:47
Yannick Murphy is an author living in Vermont.
- Added: Sep 04, 2014
- Length: 18:36
Ed Kurtz is the author of A WIND OF KNIVES, CONTROL, and DEAD TRASH, as well as numerous short stories. His work has appeared in Needle: A Magazine...
- Added: Aug 18, 2014
- Length: 16:42
Ace Atkins is a journalist and novelist.
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 17:01
Set in the luxurious homes and clubs of New York, Hobe Sound, Dark Harbor, the Hamptons and Europe, Mike Offit’s debut novel is a story about comin...
- Added: Mar 05, 2014
- Length: 22:34
In this compilation of archive interviews from 1988 and 1996 along with part of a previously unaired 2004 recording, we look back at the life of Am...
- Added: Jan 23, 2014
- Length: 29:00
Author and feminist pop cultural critic Roxane Gay talks about her upcoming novel, her approach to telling Haitian stories, and what writers can le...
- Added: Jun 11, 2013
- Length: 39:22
Ruben Martinez discusses his latest book, "Desert America," as well as the desert at large. In this dense non-fiction work, the author fraternizes ...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 29:01
Philip Levine talks about his relationship to New York City as well as Detroit's Diego Rivera murals and their impact on his youth and poetry.
He...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 29:01
Dorianne Laux discusses the deconstruction of the alphabet as part of her creative process.
"What the Body can Say," is read as the poem of the we...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 29:05
Arthur Sze and hosts discuss the Santa Fe and Chihuahuan desert and how vastness comes through in the pace of poems.
Sze reads the Poem of the Wee...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 29:01
What happens when a female shock jock from Hackensack, New Jersey finds herself working at a radio station near a polygamist enclave in Utah?
- Added: Feb 21, 2013
- Length: 14:22
Comics creator Charles Burns talks about his latest graphic novel, The Hive, the Tintin comics as inspiration and influence, and the new frontiers ...
- Added: Feb 04, 2013
- Length: 04:45
