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The Age of Innocence: A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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Actor Alfred Molina shines with masterful readings of excerpts from Edith Wharton's masterpiece. The screenwriter of Scorsese's film adaptation, Ja...

Bought by KMUN, KPIP-LP, KQED, KRZA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 17, 2011
  • Length: 29:03
  • Purchases: 5
The Call of the Wild: A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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Actor Robert Redford reads passages from Jack London's great American novel. The program also features Patagonia founder, Yvon Chouinard, and many ...

Bought by KMUN, KPIP-LP, KQED, KRZA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 16, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Grapes of Wrath: A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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Actor Ed Harris reads from one of his favorite novels, John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath---an epic story about the Great Depression told through...

Bought by KMUN, KQED, KRZA, KUCB, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 16, 2011
  • Length: 28:44
  • Purchases: 5
To Kill A Mockingbird: A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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Featuring commentary by actor Robert Duvall, playwright Horton Foote, NEA Jazz Master David Baker, and Former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, among ot...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Prairie Public, KMUN, KPIP-LP, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Aug 12, 2011
  • Length: 29:17
  • Purchases: 19
A Conversation with Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Poet Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz talks about slam poetry and community.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 22:05
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Azar Nafisi
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Author of two memoirs about her life in Iran, Reading Lolita in Tehran and Things I've Been Silent About, Azar Nafisi talks about her books, her li...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 25:05
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Amy Tan
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Author Amy Tan talks about her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, her relationship with her mother, and the art of writing.

  • Added: Jul 26, 2011
  • Length: 27:50
The poet Sonia Sanchez
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Sonia Sanchez broke literary ground during the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s.

Bought by KENW, KISA Digital Studios, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 18, 2011
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 3
Interview with Author Wayne Quist
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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Interview about Quist's novel God's Angry Man, the true story of a Minnesota boy orphaned at age seven during te Greaat Depression and indentured a...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 02, 2011
  • Length: 17:57
  • Purchases: 1
The Literary Art of John Reimringer: Part 2
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
Caption: John Reimringer, Credit: http://www.johnreimringer.com
On this edition of "Art Beat" we feature a new personification of an artist - The Writer. John Reimriner is the author of the newly released book e...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2010
  • Length: 24:21
JULIA CHILD Presents "Lunch with Edna O'Brien"
From: Leet and Litwin
Series: HUNGRY: The Literary Julia Child
Caption: Edna O'Brien
Julia Child introduces the Irish writer, Edna O'Brien, who gives a magnificent performance of VIOLETS, a story about fixing lunch for an important ...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2010
  • Length: 26:52
Talking With The Wind: The Mystery of Opal Whiteley
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Caption: Opal Whiteley, Credit: Cottage Grove Historical Society
"Talking With The Wind: The Mystery of Opal Whiteley," a half-hour documentary about Opal Whiteley who caused an international scandal in 1920 whe...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, XRAY.fm, Prairie Public, KSUT and more


  • Added: May 06, 2010
  • Length: 28:21
  • Purchases: 10
Poetry in a Recession
From: With Good Reason
Caption: Book Cover
Award-winning poets reflect on creativity in crisis and read from their work.

Bought by KFCF FM and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Apr 15, 2010
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Lucinda Roy Tragedy at Virginia Tech
From: Liz Humes
Series: Wordy Birds
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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
Duluth Author Wendy Webb and "The Tale of Halcyon Crane"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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Duluth journalist Wendy K. Webb her debut creepy novel "The Tale of Halcyon Crane," ("creepy" in a good way)

  • Added: Apr 05, 2010
  • Length: 18:15
Cat Lady
From: Joseph Keckler
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A short story in which a young man narrates a particular afternoon in the home of his mother, who has created a theater, of sorts, in which cats ar...

  • Added: Dec 24, 2009
  • Length: 22:19
Raymond Carver Reads What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
From: Leet and Litwin
Series: Tell Me A Story
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
Beyond Forgetting
From: Jeannie Yandel
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Colleen Lindsay Hughes was one of the 5 million people in the US with Alzheimer's Disease. Her daughter Holly Hughes helped care for her until 200...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2009
  • Length: 13:45
Poet Linda Rodriguez
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Linda Rodriguez, Credit: Mike Ransdell
We continue our celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month with Linda Rodriguez, author of the debut poetry collection HEART'S MIGRATION from ...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: :00
  • Purchases: 1
Interview with Poet Yusef Komunyakaa
From: Elizabeth Austen
Caption: PRX default Piece image
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
Sea Fever
From: Clearwater Moment
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Short Poem on the wonders of sailing

  • Added: Feb 08, 2009
  • Length: 01:46
The Meaning of 'Drash'
From: KUOW
Series: Sound Focus
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Author Wendy Marcus reflects on a storytelling tradition that goes back to Wendy's childhood. KRAK

  • Added: Jul 30, 2008
  • Length: 09:00
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
the River Witch
From: Voices of Youth - Moab
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A rural-legend from the Colorado River.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA


  • Added: Jun 29, 2008
  • Length: 08:18
  • Purchases: 2
Conundrum
From: Voices of Youth - Moab
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Using a favorite word to explore personal insights.

  • Added: Jun 29, 2008
  • Length: 02:50

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