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In the second half of the nineteenth century, American and Russian traveled to each other's countries and wrote about their experiences and observa...
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Nov 21, 2011
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
Nick Bilton, The New York Times BITS blog's lead technology writer, talks about his book, "I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works."
- Added: Nov 20, 2011
- Length: 41:07
Roland Emmerich talks art, politics, and why we need a new word for conspiracy.
- Added: Oct 26, 2011
- Length: 13:16
An interview with writer and climber Jennifer Jordan on her book that recounts the events surrounding the first American to die on K2 the second hi...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 04, 2011
- Length: 15:39
- Purchases: 1
Sometimes stories are told in the privacy of a booth, like the StoryCorps booth in the Contemporary Jewish Museum. And sometimes they’re told on st...
- Added: Aug 03, 2011
- Length: 08:32
This new ThoughtCast series explores the impact of the written word. It examines a specific piece of writing — be it a poem, play, novel, short sto...
Bought by KUT and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Jul 18, 2011
- Length: 57:55
- Purchases: 2
KALW News has been covering the potential closure of most of Oakland’s 18 public libraries in the coming weeks. Well, Oakland libraries aren’t alon...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 23, 2011
- Length: 05:28
- Purchases: 1
Host Phalana Tiller interviews Geoffrey Brewer of the Gallup Press and novelist Richard Ford. And Bloomberg Businessweek online columnist Rick Wart...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Jun 10, 2011
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
A lot of people these days hold down multiple jobs just to make ends meet. San Francisco resident Aaron Novik is a musician, a composer, an illustr...
- Added: Jun 06, 2011
- Length: 05:50
Host Phalana Tiller interviews authors Roger Martin and James Quigley. And Bloomberg Businessweek online columnist Rick Wartzman delivers a piece ...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: May 12, 2011
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
Tom Perrotta, the author of "Little Children", "Election" and the upcoming novel "The Leftovers", speaks with ThoughtCast about a writer who fascin...
- Added: Apr 11, 2011
- Length: 30:00
Part of "Whose Words These Are," our look at poetry in our time: first Christopher Lydon in conversation with novelist Nicholson Baker, whose novel...
Bought by KALW, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WEOS and more
- Added: Apr 04, 2011
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 6
Filmmaker Todd Haynes talks mother love, class distinction, and authenticity.
- Added: Mar 27, 2011
- Length: 16:43
Director Cary Fukunaga and star Mia Wasikowska talk classics, cold, and control.
- Added: Mar 20, 2011
- Length: 06:17
Oakland resident Jeff Greenwald has set foot in over 90 countries, give or take. Greenwald, a self-described “career traveler,” says that traveling...
- Added: Mar 06, 2011
- Length: 06:47
- Purchases: 2
Dmae Roberts features an in-depth and lively interview with Northwest Writer Ivan Doig.
- Added: Dec 02, 2010
- Length: 28:02
- Added: Nov 05, 2010
- Length: 28:57
- Purchases: 2
Interview with author and TV personality Anthony Bourdain on the state of American food and being a celebrity chef.
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KICI Iowa City, and WLPR
- Added: Jul 06, 2010
- Length: 28:43
- Purchases: 3
A conversation about the Bible's universality and relevance in pop culture, with the author who aims to give "people what they don't get in church ...
Bought by WFIU
- Added: Jun 09, 2010
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Vermont Public Radio's Jane Lindholm sits down for a wide-ranging interview with novelist John Irving at his home in Vermont. Short and long versio...
Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio
- Added: Apr 16, 2010
- Length: 46:43
- Purchases: 1
Award-winning poets reflect on creativity in crisis and read from their work.
- Added: Apr 15, 2010
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
This is an interview with the head of the English Dept. at Virginia Tech. Her book is the back story to the Seung -Hui Cho murders which occurred o...
- Added: Apr 13, 2010
- Length: 27:44
From Thoreau's rural journal to the science of the mind to 36 arguments for the existence of God to classical music to the future of farming (whew!...
Bought by WGBH Radio Boston
- Added: Feb 11, 2010
- Length: 57:30
- Purchases: 1
NETHERLAND, the 2009 novel by Joseph O'Neill, won the PEN/Faulkner award. He discusses the arduous process of writing the book, which is set in hi...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 29:00
THE LAST STATION -- Writer/director Michael Hoffman talks with Andrea Chase about using Chekhov to get to Tolstoy, why love is as wondrous and infu...
- Added: Jan 07, 2010
- Length: 16:04
