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Join author, folklorist and storyteller Gerald Hausman for his monthly series A Good Day For A Story. Sit back, listen and enjoy some fun stories o...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2013
  • Length: 18:08
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A year after a barbaric childbirth, complete with a near-death experience and an encounter with her guardian angel, Angie Edmonds is just happy she...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2013
  • Length: 19:15
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What if you could live in a world where everyone had enough? Where financial struggle would not exist, and where involuntary unemployment and pover...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2013
  • Length: 16:42
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Despite the threat of a lawsuit by his former company, Mr. Lester publishes a daring unauthorized tell-all about the company known as the "granddad...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2013
  • Length: 15:40
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Enter an upside-down world where Soviet henchmen botched their mission to eliminate John F. Kennedy fifty years ago, slaying his wife Jackie instea...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2013
  • Length: 19:46
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When her engagement was broken off just days before her wedding, Mona was forced to deal with the heartache, embarrassment and financial ramificati...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2013
  • Length: 18:36
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‘The Voices Never Stopped’ deals with Jennifer's personal journey and road to recovery from mental illness and gives insight into what someone with...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2013
  • Length: 15:00
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Douglas Lain work has regularly appeared in nationally distributed literary magazines and journals such as Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet and Am...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2013
  • Length: 22:52
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“Some days I am overwhelmed by the amount of thoughts and ideas circling through my mind. I reach in to grab one so I can mull it over, feel it, t...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Aug 21, 2013
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 1
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Are you looking for an advantage in life? Learning how to use your memory will give you that advantage. Most people who succeed in life have an abo...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2013
  • Length: 17:42
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Some stories are meant to be written, other stories are meant to be told. Gary Springer’s story is emotionally uplifting, but heart wrenching to t...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2013
  • Length: 21:02
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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 ...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 16, 2013
  • Length: 37:44
  • Purchases: 2
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The selection of stories on this anthology comes mostly from the book of the same title, now in its fourth printing, and as popular today as when i...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2013
  • Length: 27:30
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Michael Hattam, a PhD student in early American history at Yale University. He never graduated high school and only received a GED when he was 17....

  • Added: Aug 12, 2013
  • Length: 14:45
Caption: Lana Straub and Don Piper
Interview with Don Piper on the trials, tribulations and joys of being a bestselling author

  • Added: Aug 06, 2013
  • Length: 22:26
Caption: James Ponsoldt, San Francisco, CA 5/6/13 , Credit: Andrea Chase
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
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A tornado that devastated Fayetteville, Tennessee the week author Clint McCown was born is the setting for his latest award-winning novel, Haints.

Bought by WJCT and KVLU


  • Added: Jul 12, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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We enlist the aid of noted scholar of autobiography, John Eakin, as we seek to answer Andrew Bird's question: where exactly does the self reside, i...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2013
  • Length: 28:26
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The Squaw Valley writers workshops are annual events organized by the “Community of Writers at Squaw Valley.” Novelist Oakley Hall and writer Blai...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2013
  • Length: 16:06
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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
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David writes both histories and biographies and has narrated many a broadcast program. His latest book is "The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris....

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 12, 2013
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 1
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Memorial Day can be tough for veterans - especially those who've served in combat. For some, the tributes and ceremonies exacerbate their struggle ...

Bought by PRX Remix and KUT


  • Added: May 19, 2013
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 2
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A National Book Award finalist, Kent writes about the residents of a small town in fictional Holt County on the plains of eastern Colorado. His new...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 1
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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...

Bought by WCNY, WCWP, WABE, and WTJU


  • Added: May 10, 2013
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 4
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Although Andre is perhaps best known for his novel, "House of Sand and Fog," this is a memoir about tough times growing up in Massachusetts. This i...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: May 03, 2013
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 1