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When he was 18 years old, Joe McCrossen up and left Cape Cod. Now, at 23, he’s back home and saving up money for his next big adventure. But instea...

Bought by PRX Remix and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 07:54
  • Purchases: 2
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Literature and explicit sexuality collide in Believer Book Award winner Tamara Faith Berger's haunting novel, Maidenhead.

  • Added: Aug 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:04:41
Caption: Jay Jennings on Tales from the South
Our second-annual Shakespeare in the South, with stories by writers Jay Jennings and Hope Coulter.

  • Added: Jul 03, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: A recent reading at 851: The Squat
Given the high demand for living space in San Francisco, it may be hard to believe that any apartment is sitting around empty. But there's at least...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 20, 2013
  • Length: 07:02
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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by Alex Mehrtens: The mind of the writer is filled with words. But not every writer can concentrate with another person's voice bumping out of thei...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2013
  • Length: 01:40
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Censorship never works for long. People power prevails, eventually. No matter how much dictators, or religions, try to control the spread of inform...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 17, 2013
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Awareness is the first step to freedom. You won't leave a relationship, confront an abuser or change a habit until you become aware of the problem....

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 11, 2013
  • Length: 27:06
  • Purchases: 1
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The Icebox Radio Theater has been creating great stories about life in the Far-North since 2004. Award-winning, mind bending, spine chilling, laugh...

Bought by KRUA


  • Added: Mar 02, 2013
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ruben Martinez
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
Caption: Philip Levine
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
Caption: Dorianne Laux
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
Caption: Arthur Sze
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
Caption: Adele Park, Credit: http://www.jittersaudiobook.com/
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
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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
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This episode discusses the sweet and gory and seriously disturbing story of Hansel and Gretel. Special thanks to Professor Maria Tatar for analyzin...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Nov 03, 2012
  • Length: 20:41
  • Purchases: 1
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Jonathan Woods is a writer living in Key West.

  • Added: Sep 29, 2012
  • Length: 16:12
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By Mark Sheely. Culture Queue brings you Part Two and the conclusion of our radio play adaptation, The Immortal Ms. Sherlock Holmes. Will Holmes ou...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2012
  • Length: 01:56
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This week from Culture Queue, we're keen as mustard to bring you the thrilling conclusion of our play from across the pond. Join Sherlock, Moriarty...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2012
  • Length: 24:28
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Radio Curious brings you an archived, 2-part conversation about death and forensics, with Dr. Michael Baden, the Chief Medical Examiner for the New...

  • Added: Jul 04, 2012
  • Length: 58:02
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This week on Culture Queue, we "honor" the memories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Orson Welles alike with our lastest radio play. It's "The Immorta...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2012
  • Length: 33:22
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By Brianna Hanson. This week, Culture Queue once again steps into the world of old timey radio drama. Because the University of Minnesota is home t...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 22, 2012
  • Length: :40
  • Purchases: 1
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Booking the Trend, by Mitch Skinner: If print is dead, you wouldn't know it by talking to people in the business. Physical books are still selling.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 06, 2012
  • Length: 01:28
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Randy Ross writes from the Loneliest Planet
Marlins, dead cats, beagles, and red wine make for an interesting evening.

  • Added: May 10, 2012
  • Length: 04:12
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Radio Curious speaks with Elizabeth Holtzman, a former congresswoman, former District Attorney of Brooklyn, New York and author of Cheating Justic...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 29:02