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Poet, Writer and Spoken-Word Performer David Mura uses his considerable talents as a poet, novelist, memoirist and performer to explore what it me...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Apr 16, 2014
- Length: 27:29
- Purchases: 1
With a trunk full of her mother’s saris, Kenyan author and performer Shaija Patel reclaims a lost history.
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Apr 11, 2014
- Length: 29:28
- Purchases: 1
Making sense of the most talked about book of all time.
Bought by WJCT, WFHB, WTJU, WLIW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more
- Added: Apr 11, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 6
Making sense of the most talked about book of all time.
- Added: Apr 11, 2014
- Length: 53:51
- Purchases: 2
A spread of new books about food: from evil sugar to wonderful wine.
- Added: Apr 04, 2014
- Length: 54:10
With seven unpublished novels wasting away on his hard drive, Tony Vanderwarker was astonished when world-renowned author John Grisham offered to t...
Bought by WJCT, WTJU, WMNF, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WLIW
- Added: Mar 21, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
With seven unpublished novels wasting away on his hard drive, Tony Vanderwarker was astonished when world-renowned author John Grisham offered to t...
Bought by WCNY
- Added: Mar 21, 2014
- Length: 53:51
- Purchases: 1
Tope Folarin becomes the first writer born outside of Africa to win the Caine Prize with his short story set in Texas in an evangelical Nigerian ch...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Mar 20, 2014
- Length: 28:24
- Purchases: 1
During the 1910s and 1920s, the question of whether one was “highbrow” or “lowbrow” became a concern in the minds of modernist Americans. Brooks He...
- Added: Feb 12, 2014
- Length: 53:54
- Purchases: 2
During the 1910s and 1920s, the question of whether one was “highbrow” or “lowbrow” became a concern in the minds of modernist Americans. Brooks He...
Bought by WJCT, WFHB, WLIW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WMNF
- Added: Feb 12, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 5
You've heard of Robin Hood, King Arthur, and even Beowulf. But Bevis of Hampton?
- Added: Oct 28, 2013
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
You've heard of Robin Hood, King Arthur, and even Beowulf. But Bevis of Hampton?
Bought by WCNY, KWMR, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KPIP-LP
- Added: Oct 28, 2013
- Length: 53:50
- Purchases: 4
Filmmaker Stephen Silha talks serendipity, flow charts, and why the motto “adventure not predicament” are words to live by
- Added: Oct 01, 2013
- Length: 13:54
On this episode of Art Beat, we feature a MN based writer that creates his art in coffee shops. William Kent Kruger has written over 15 novels, 13 ...
- Added: Aug 16, 2013
- Length: 37:44
- Purchases: 2
Director James Ponsoldt talks dignity, Geiger counters of honesty, and where to get a great piece of pie.
- Added: Aug 04, 2013
- Length: 13:54
A tornado that devastated Fayetteville, Tennessee the week author Clint McCown was born is the setting for his latest award-winning novel, Haints.
- Added: Jul 12, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Ruth Ozeki talks about her acclaimed new novel, A Tale For The Time Being. It’s about a Japanese-American teenager, an American-Japanese writer, an...
- Added: Jun 13, 2013
- Length: 59:02
A Confederacy of Dunces, by New Orleans-born John Kennedy Toole, is one of the great stories of American literature. A new biography of Toole tells...
- Added: May 10, 2013
- Length: 53:54
- Purchases: 4
First published in 1947, Goodnight Moon has become one of the most popular books for young children. Yet the book’s author, Margaret Wise Brown, al...
- Added: Mar 25, 2013
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 4
Walter Salles talks searching for freedom, finding the story behind the book, and bicycling with Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
- Added: Mar 24, 2013
- Length: 14:56
Be it a curmudgeonly Galwegian on the West coast of Ireland, an erudite scholar in Dublin or a literary motorcyclist 'flower child' of San Francisc...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Dec 20, 2012
- Length: 56:24
- Purchases: 1
1619 was the year the first Africans arrived on the North American continent. There were at least 20 of them and they came as slaves from Angola. B...
- Added: Oct 12, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Joseph Gordon-Levitt talks prosthetics, connections, and why he is moved by the poetry of French snails.
- Added: Sep 30, 2012
- Length: 11:47
Commentator Michael Goldberg on the Dakota War.
- Added: Sep 06, 2012
- Length: 02:34
On this episode of Wordy Birds we interview author and filmmaker Carson Mell about his lastest book, The Blue Bourbon Orchestra, and its themes of ...
- Added: Jul 17, 2012
- Length: 26:39
