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This Black History Month Special features 22nd Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, writer and poet Saeed Jones, and music from singer-songwriter Meklit.
- Added: Feb 01, 2024
- Length: 59:01
his is much more than just a straight interview. This is Krystal’s journey from being molested at the age of 10, how she tried to manage it, what h...
- Added: Jan 20, 2024
- Length: 10:51
Herman Wouk, a literary giant renowned for his profound engagement with historical themes, is influential in World War II literature. His magnum op...
- Added: Jan 19, 2024
- Length: 08:38
Humans are the only animal to produce emotional tears. Asking questions about this behavior can help us better understand how we live our lives.
- Added: Jan 18, 2024
- Length: 58:23
By all appearances, John Lennon was working on a tell-all memoir in the final years of his life. Every day, he poured into diaries his raw thoughts...
- Added: Jan 06, 2024
- Length: 15:02
Brain surgeon and unlikely war hero Ryan Brenan has everything: a booming practice, a beautiful home in an idyllic setting, and a happy, loving fam...
- Added: Jan 05, 2024
- Length: 12:55
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
This episode features journalist Ari Shapiro (All Things Considered) and comedian and TV writer Demi Adejuyigbe.
- Added: Jan 03, 2024
- Length: 58:59
Why does a young man abandon everything to head out on the highway? Where will it take him? Using the road metaphor, the author reveals the discove...
- Added: Dec 31, 2023
- Length: 10:15
Rich LaMonica, a 22-year U.S. Army veteran and leader in the Global War on Terrorism, retired in 2015, and wrote Out of The Darkness, recounting hi...
- Added: Dec 28, 2023
- Length: 12:05
Erosion and evolution. Shadow and light. Death and rebirth. These are some of the strands that the acclaimed author, naturalist and activist Terry ...
- Added: Dec 18, 2023
- Length: 28:30
George M. Johnson talks about their debut Young Adult memoir All Boys Aren't Blue, the support of their family, their love of Toni Morrison, and th...
- Added: Nov 30, 2023
- Length: 15:31
Mike Curato talks about his award-winning graphic novel Flamer, his writing practice, and how it feels to have his story vaulted into national head...
- Added: Nov 02, 2023
- Length: 16:39
The timeless novel, adapted for the stage.
Bought by KMUN, KCHW, Harford Community Radio, Spokane Public Radio, WPCA-LP and more
- Added: Nov 01, 2023
- Length: 01:58:02
- Purchases: 19
In this episode, Emily speaks with author Dolen Perkins-Valdez about her recent novel Take My Hand, based on the 1973 case of the Relf sisters who ...
- Added: Aug 28, 2023
- Length: 40:06
We are trying to help save the world! The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (UNSDG) #4 is Quality Education. The goal is to ensure inclus...
Bought by KECG
- Added: Aug 25, 2023
- Length: 01:00:06
- Purchases: 1
As a backlash against LGBTQ rights escalates into an authoritarian crusade, acclaimed author and queer activist Taylor Brorby asks how we can still...
- Added: Aug 01, 2023
- Length: 28:30
The worst U.S. mass murder of homosexuals in the 20th century was by a gruesome fire in a New Orleans French Quarter nightclub. Yet, the Upstairs L...
- Added: Jun 27, 2023
- Length: 19:45
“A Jury of Her Peers” is a short story version of her famous play, “Trifles”. Glaspell won the Pulitzer Prize for her play, “Alison’s House”.
- Added: May 08, 2023
- Length: 56:33
Based on Crane's real-life experience while serving as a journalist corresponding from the Cuban War of Independence. The steamship on which he was...
- Added: May 04, 2023
- Length: 57:01
Alfred, Lord Tennyson famously wrote “’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” All of Cupid’s victims might beg to diff...
- Added: May 03, 2023
- Length: 01:00:06
What makes someone impossible to forget?
- Added: Apr 13, 2023
- Length: 59:08
This week on World Ocean Radio we have a special seasonal reading of "Christmas at Sea", an evocative poem by Robert Louis Stevenson written in 188...
- Added: Dec 21, 2022
- Length: 04:02
Poet Michelle Boisseau died November 15, 2017 from cancer at age 62. In this interview conducted earlier this year at the Kansas City Public Libra...
- Added: Dec 01, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
In today's Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with SCSU alumna and author Candace Cahill about...
- Added: Nov 24, 2022
- Length: 27:19
