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Our show is Presenting Fernando Pessoa with translator and biographer Richard Zenith. This first of two episodes focuses on Pessoa’s “breakout” yea...
- Added: Dec 07, 2021
- Length: 58:35
Time now to check in again with Tracy Kampa. She is the Children's Librarian at the Grand Rapids Area Library. Tracy is also our Children’s Books C...
- Added: Nov 27, 2021
- Length: 11:23
Lecia Cornwall is the acclaimed Canadian author of 15 historical romance novels. Her newest story is a WWI-set historical fiction about a female do...
- Added: Nov 27, 2021
- Length: 08:06
Today we’ll hear about an #OwnVoices psychological thriller from newcomer Amanda Jayatissa; Canadian writer Lecia Cornwall has a new work of histor...
- Added: Nov 27, 2021
- Length: 01:00:00
Topic 1: Before we had encrypted emails and security envelopes, people would protect their correspondence with fancy folding. Topic 2: How have J.R...
Bought by KSTK, RADIOLEX, KOWS, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WYAP
- Added: Nov 23, 2021
- Length: 51:39
- Purchases: 5
We hear from writer Ruth Ozeki-- her new novel is called The Book of Form and Emptiness. Historian Nathaniel Philbrick’s new travel memoir is Trave...
- Added: Nov 21, 2021
- Length: 01:00:00
We'll hear from Paula Hawkins, Leila Slimani, Freya Sampson, and Children's Librarian Tracy Kampa.
- Added: Nov 21, 2021
- Length: 59:55
Alice Henderson’s love of wild places inspired her new thriller series, which begins with A Solitude of Wolverines, as well as her novel Voracious,...
- Added: Nov 15, 2021
- Length: 25:47
In 2018 historian and writer Nathaniel Philbrick, his wife Melissa, and their dog Dora took off on a road trip to trace George Washington’s route a...
- Added: Nov 06, 2021
- Length: 11:48
On today's programme: Assault on democracy: a brutal attack claims the life of a British parliamentarian. Food for thought: Frankfurt plays host to...
- Added: Oct 21, 2021
- Length: 59:00
David Hill is a writer from Hot Springs, Arkansas. His work has appeared regularly in Grantland and The Ringer, and has been featured in The New Yo...
- Added: Oct 18, 2021
- Length: 14:16
KBFT Native Writing Fest Series is a Live Community Writers Event & Interview with the world's most notable writers! In this segment we meet with B...
- Added: Oct 11, 2021
- Length: 05:39
Topic 1: A memoir about autism written by a mother and daughter. Topic 2: The Story of Cascatelli's Invention. Topic 3: Familylect; the dialect you...
Bought by KSTK, WYAP, KOWS, RADIOLEX, and GCR (Global Community Radio)
- Added: Oct 06, 2021
- Length: 51:38
- Purchases: 5
Children's Librarian Tracy Kampa Talks New Books!
- Added: Oct 01, 2021
- Length: 15:24
In the middle of the 20th century, a ten square block area in North Gowanus was home to the largest Mohawk settlement outside of Canada. We hear ab...
- Added: Sep 30, 2021
- Length: 28:17
This week on the show: Geopolitical realignment - AUKUS and the fallout from France’s nuclear snub-marine. Digging for trouble: we get to the botto...
- Added: Sep 23, 2021
- Length: 59:00
Historian Anthony W. Wood discusses his new book, "Black Montana
Settler Colonialism and the Erosion of the Racial Frontier, 1877-1930."
Bought by KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Sep 15, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
You’ll hear from authors Megan Abbott, Grady Hendrix, Maggie Smith, Jeffrey Kluger, and also Children’s Librarian Tracy Kampa will tell us about so...
- Added: Aug 29, 2021
- Length: 59:59
This week on the show: we often talk about all the greenhouse gas emissions people put into the atmosphere. But this week, we’re looking at ways ...
Bought by WXDU and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]
- Added: Jul 10, 2021
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 2
Author Michael Punke discusses his new novel, "Ridgeline," about the Fetterman Massacre of 1866.
Bought by Wyoming Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Jun 30, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
John Green is the award-winning, bestselling author of novels including Looking for Alaska, The Fault in Our Stars, and Turtles All the Way Down. H...
- Added: Jun 11, 2021
- Length: 12:04
Max, a data whiz at the social media company Wren, has gotten a firsthand glimpse of the dark side of big tech. When he questions what his company ...
- Added: Jun 03, 2021
- Length: 12:52
After a rough mission in Rome involving the discovery of a devastating bioweapon, Company spy Ben Calix returns to Paris to find his perfectly orde...
- Added: Jun 02, 2021
- Length: 14:20
Author Allison Cobb talks about her new book, "Plastic: an Autobiography."
Bought by WETS, WCNY, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: May 12, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
Janice Kaplan celebrates women geniuses of the past and present, and tells us ways to foster change for women geniuses of the future.
- Added: Feb 28, 2021
- Length: 14:24
