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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
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
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
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
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
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
‘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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
Interview with Don Piper on the trials, tribulations and joys of being a bestselling author
- Added: Aug 06, 2013
- Length: 22:26
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
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
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
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
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
Memorial Day can be tough for veterans - especially those who've served in combat. For some, the tributes and ceremonies exacerbate their struggle ...
- Added: May 19, 2013
- Length: 03:32
- Purchases: 2
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
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
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