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Welcome to this week’s melodically challenged, when we will shop till we drop in shops, stores, malls, and every possible place to blow your payche...
- Added: Feb 04, 2020
- Length: 01:07:16
Each year during the holidays, longtime World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses", a poem by Elizabeth Bishop. This is a perenni...
- Added: Dec 30, 2019
- Length: 04:38
A periodic podcast featuring performances of short stories that hint us toward living together better as humans and as humans with nature. This epi...
- Added: Aug 10, 2019
- Length: 20:46
Rita Sommers-Flanagan discusses her novel, Boomers. She also reads two short passages.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Dec 28, 2018
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcome one half of the best-selling duo of all time John Oates.
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WLIW, WOUB, WLPR , RadioFreePalmer and more
- Added: Nov 21, 2018
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 8
Historian of Religion, Stephen Patterson, reconstructs one of the earliest Christian Creeds that Emphasized Radical Egalitarianism.
- Added: Nov 19, 2018
- Length: 53:58
Carrie La Seur discusses her sophomore novel, The Weight of An Infinite Sky. She also reads a short selection from the book.
Bought by KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Feb 12, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Think about the many stories you’ve heard or read over the years. Some of those stories may have had a major impact on your life, or maybe even the...
- Added: Jan 04, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
On this segment Michael Goldberg gives us animal stories; a wolf, a donkey, a dog, animals teaching us something on how to stay human.
- Added: Aug 09, 2017
- Length: 01:00:02
- Purchases: 3
Alexandra Teague discusses her debut novel, a quirky coming-of-age story. She reads both from the book as well as selected poem from her previous c...
Bought by KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Aug 03, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
The Verse Like Water program started by Central Lakes College instructor Jeff Johnson has been bringing world class American poets to the Brainerd ...
- Added: Mar 29, 2017
- Length: 07:36
Here's Gerald's audio book review of A Curious Mind by Brian Grazer.
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 04:43
GetPublished! Radio co-host and sci-fi author Thomas Page gives us an oddball history lesson about how an angry Ike came off the golf course to kic...
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 03:46
Anthony Swann has been many things. A chef on a travel train, owner and operator of a jazz infused coffee shop, an art enthusiast, an avid world t...
- Added: Mar 03, 2017
- Length: 07:19
Speeches on writing and peace from the winners of the 2016 Dayton Literary Peace Prize: Susan Southard, Viet Thanh Nguyen and Marilynne Robinson- w...
Bought by KVNF
- Added: Jan 04, 2017
- Length: 51:25
- Purchases: 1
Dramatist Anna Deavere Smith discusses her technique of interviewing real people to use their stories on stage. She talks about the School to Priso...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WNJR
- Added: Dec 01, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Gary Ferguson speaks about wilderness, loss, grief, and the symbolism of loons as reads from his memoir, THE CARRY HOME: LESSONS FROM THE AMERICAN ...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Nov 09, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
From his philosophy on editing to the best advice for aspiring writers, Chuck Klosterman brings us into his creative process.
Bought by KGUA
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 08:41
- Purchases: 1
Anyone who's ever been an awkward adolescent knows that for decades now, dog-eared copies of Judy Blume's books have been passed around school play...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 08, 2016
- Length: 07:08
- Purchases: 1
Donald Hall is now 87 and no longer writing poetry, a pursuit he calls "a young man's game" which takes "too much testosterone." But Hall, former P...
- Added: Aug 08, 2016
- Length: 06:57
As a writer, Joe Hill's family name could have given him a leg up. Instead, he chose to create his own. In this episode of the 10-Minute Writer's W...
- Added: Aug 08, 2016
- Length: 12:19
The bestselling author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - and bonafide Charming British Lady - Helen Simonson lets us in on her writing process, her...
- Added: Aug 08, 2016
- Length: 09:31
Aaron Mahnke is creator of the spooky folktale podcast Lore which quickly shot up the iTunes charts and landed him a television deal. He's also a n...
- Added: Aug 08, 2016
- Length: 11:36
Richard Russo is the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Empire Falls and Nobody’s Fool - both adapted into films starring Paul Newman. He returns to ...
- Added: Aug 08, 2016
- Length: 07:41
"Kill 'em and leave" was James Brown's commandment to his band before every show...it's also the title of a biography of the soul legend, the lates...
- Added: Aug 08, 2016
- Length: 09:52
