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Claudia Rankine discusses her play The Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KPVL, WNJR, and KPIP-LP
- Added: Aug 14, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 4
Here's how a writer created the music magazine he wanted to read.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KPIP-LP, WNJR, KPVL, and WABE
- Added: Aug 14, 2015
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 5
From beautifully-crafted short fiction to page-turning gothic novels, Rebecca Makkai puts art at the heart of her work.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNJR, WABE, KPIP-LP, and KPVL
- Added: Jul 21, 2015
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 5
Twenty four hours or so have passed since a portrait of the older Atticus Finch as a bigot, complaining about the integration of “Negroes” into th...
- Added: Jul 16, 2015
- Length: 04:07
In this conversation, Edwidge explores the writing of her powerful memoir, Brother, I’m Dying.
- Added: Jun 09, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
In his recent book, Speaking Wiri Wiri, poet Dan Vera brings light and often laughter to the immigrant experience.
- Added: May 05, 2015
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 3
From: Sandburg Media
Series: Things Not Seen: Conversations about Culture and Faith [Standard Clock]
Series: Things Not Seen: Conversations about Culture and Faith [Standard Clock]
We're revisiting our 2012 interview with cartoonist, filmmaker, and copyright activist Nina Paley, creator of the feature-length animated film, Sit...
- Added: Apr 22, 2015
- Length: 59:00
Four-time National Poetry Slam champion Taylor Mali connects stage and page.
- Added: Apr 14, 2015
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 3
Doris Stengel grew up on the North Dakota prairie, and then moved to the woods and lakes of Minnesota. She's been a high school teacher and has men...
- Added: Mar 26, 2015
- Length: 02:33
Novelist Tayari Jones is one writer who loves writng.
- Added: Mar 06, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 2
Never one to shy away from controversial topics, Joyce’s latest novel is based on the true story of Tawana Brawley of upstate New York who made hea...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Mar 04, 2015
- Length: 09:58
- Purchases: 1
Jason’s first novel was inspired by a dream in which his late mother visited him. He goes on to describe his day job while he was writing the book ...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Feb 19, 2015
- Length: 09:55
- Purchases: 2
Teresa Evangeline spends her days on a little piece of land along the Pine River observing and experiencing the beauty of the world. Then, through...
- Added: Jan 30, 2015
- Length: 01:21
Ryan Kutter lives near Grey Eagle, Minnesota where he gardens and makes wooden furniture and writes. An english major, he graduated from St John's ...
- Added: Jan 22, 2015
- Length: 01:40
In All Our Names Dinaw Mengestu explores unlikely love in the midst of conflict.
- Added: Jan 09, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 2
Kevin Zepper is an Associate Professor of English at Minnesota State University - Moorehead. He was recently awarded a writing residency at Starry ...
- Added: Dec 31, 2014
- Length: 01:25
January 2015 marks the 150th anniversary of the first publication of Tolstoy’s War and Peace. A new book offers Tolstoyan wisdom for troubled times...
Bought by WCNY, KPVL, CHSR-FM 97.9, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WFHB and more
- Added: Dec 12, 2014
- Length: 53:56
- Purchases: 8
January 2015 marks the 150th anniversary of the first publication of Tolstoy’s War and Peace. A new book offers Tolstoyan wisdom for troubled times...
- Added: Dec 12, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 4
In his slim, lucid and compulsively readable book Why Read Moby-Dick, Nathaniel Philbrick makes an enthusiastic case for taking a look at Melville...
Bought by Prairie Public, KPIP-LP, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, and WNJR
- Added: Nov 21, 2014
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 4
The World War Z author Max Brooks isn't kidding when it comes to zombies.
- Added: Oct 30, 2014
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
Teresa Evangeline spends her days on a little piece of land along the Pine River observing and experiencing the beauty of the world. Then, through...
- Added: Oct 30, 2014
- Length: 01:20
In her memoir Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward attempts to understand the links in the untimely deaths of her brother and four friends.
- Added: Oct 23, 2014
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
Susan Carol Hauser is a poet, essayist, and natural history writer who recently retired from her position at Bemidji State University. She's won th...
- Added: Oct 22, 2014
- Length: 01:37
Reza Aslan on Zealot and academia; Maxwell Grant on Lev Grossman's Magicians series.
- Added: Oct 13, 2014
- Length: 44:08
- Added: Oct 07, 2014
- Length: 33:35
- Purchases: 1
