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Author Kiersten White's retelling of the Mary Shelley's classic novel from the point of view of Mrs. Frankenstein.
- Added: Oct 30, 2018
- Length: 29:36
A conversation with Kiran Singh Sirah--head of the International Storytelling Center which builds community one story at a time.
- Added: Jun 08, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Jennifer Haigh's novel Heat and Light takes a hard look at fracking in an Appalchian town
- Added: May 03, 2018
- Length: 28:18
Melissa Range's poetry collection Scriptorium illuminates her Appalachian Roots
- Added: Apr 13, 2018
- Length: 29:29
- Purchases: 2
Emily St John Mandel's post-apocalyptic novel Station Eleven looks at what endures when civilization ends.
- Added: Mar 23, 2018
- Length: 29:28
Actor Dion has narrated hundreds of audio books and is an aural shape-shifter.
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Mar 02, 2018
- Length: 29:40
- Purchases: 1
Richard Wilbur passed away on October 14, 2017. We remember him with a re-broadcast of our 2009 conversation with him at his home in Cummington, MA...
- Added: Oct 18, 2017
- Length: 58:56
The National Book Award winner talks about author Julia Alvarez, Oscar Wao, and the wonder of reading.
- Added: Oct 12, 2017
- Length: 24:59
From: Out of Bounds
Karen Joy Fowler talks about her compelling and heart breaking novel "We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves."
- Added: Sep 13, 2017
- Length: 28:00
When disaster strikes, will we descend into dystopia — or cooperate?
We talk with Cory Doctorow about his new work of speculative fiction, Walkaw...
- Added: Aug 17, 2017
- Length: 59:02
Krista Tippett is probably best known as the host & creator of the public radio program On Being. But she's also the author of three books that pul...
- Added: Aug 10, 2017
- Length: 07:36
Ian Rankin is best known for two characters: Inspector John Rebus, the protagonist of now 21 mystery novels, and the city of Edinburgh, whose dark ...
- Added: Aug 10, 2017
- Length: 10:30
Author, outspoken vegetarian, social media abstainer and writing teacher Jonathan Safran Foer is author of three novels: Everything Is Illuminated,...
- Added: Aug 10, 2017
- Length: 08:09
Michael Cunningham is best known as the author of The Hours, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in fiction, which imagines a fateful day in the life of V...
- Added: Aug 10, 2017
- Length: 11:04
Johnson's novel Welcome to Braggsville puts four kids from Berkeley in Georgia to protest a Civil War reenactment with a pretend lynching. What co...
- Added: Jul 14, 2017
- Length: 26:31
- Purchases: 2
The award-winning novelist, blogger, and advocate talks about science fiction and technology.
- Added: May 11, 2017
- Length: 26:59
- Purchases: 2
Kim Roberts brings a poet’s eye to The Scientific Method
Bought by WNJR
- Added: May 04, 2017
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
Thomas Dooley's collection of poetry Trespass shines a light in dark places.
- Added: Apr 27, 2017
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
With her character Lou Norton, Hall creates one of the few African American female detectives.
Bought by KISA Digital Studios, KPIP-LP, WTJU, WMUU-LP, and WNJR
- Added: Feb 17, 2017
- Length: 27:59
- Purchases: 5
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
English is a remarkable language. It's an incredibly flexible, rich, diverse, beautifully fluid language that’s been influenced by many other langu...
- Added: Jan 25, 2017
- Length: 21:12
In her memoir Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward attempts to understand the links in the untimely deaths of her brother and four friends
Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WNJR, Public Radio for All, WMUU-LP, and 91.7 WHUS Storrs
- Added: Jan 03, 2017
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 5
Ani Tuzman talks about her novel based on the life of the 18th century Jewish mystic, the Baal Shem Tov. Its called The Tremble of Love. Then, we r...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Dec 23, 2016
- Length: 01:38:32
- Purchases: 1
In a slim, lucid and compulsively readable book, Nathaniel Philbrick makes an enthusiastic case for taking a look at Melville’s classic Moby-Dick.
- Added: Nov 30, 2016
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 2
Vaddey Ratner's novel, In the Shadow of the Banyan honors her lost family
- Added: Nov 22, 2016
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 3
Kelly Link combines the ordinary and the magical—with flair.
- Added: Oct 28, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
