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Episode Twenty – You’ve auditioned for a part, and you’ve won the role.
Agent John Gage tells D’laska everything he wants to know and more about t...
- Added: Aug 26, 2022
- Length: 16:20
Written by Mark Fleischman, with Denise Chatman and Mimi Fleischman
Chapter Two: The Raid on Studio 54
Studio 54 first opened in April 1977 and b...
- Added: Aug 05, 2022
- Length: 27:38
Filipino-American poet Rick Barot started writing nonfiction. Now a poet with four award-winning books to his name, he discusses how the writing pr...
Bought by KRBD, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WJCU
- Added: May 20, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
In this episode of Incoming, we’re speaking with playwright Delia Knight, whose relationship with her best friend and Marine brother suffered – and...
- Added: Jan 12, 2021
- Length: 52:08
We’re spending this hour with our friend, writer, performer, and veteran Navy officer, James Seddon. James is one of the founding members of So Say...
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 58:02
“Everything Is A War,” focuses on stories about how serving in a war zone can stick to a person, so deeply that traces of it will magically appear ...
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 56:23
Navigating the present, alongside past and future.
Today’s show, “Unstuck in Time,” is titled after the opening line in Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Slau...
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 58:01
“I was much further out than you thought, And not waving but drowning.” –Stevie Smith.
Today’s episode is titled “Lost At Sea,” for two reasons: f...
- Added: Jan 10, 2021
- Length: 58:01
“Tell me a Story!” He said. “I’ll tell you a story.”
Invasion can be both psychological and literal. We’re very lucky to be able pair up two contr...
- Added: Jan 10, 2021
- Length: 58:01
In this episode, Laura interviews British comedian and activist Jess Thom, TourettesHero, about her performance of Samuel Beckett’s play “Not I”. T...
Bought by KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, and WRIR
- Added: Jan 29, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 3
After watching “Tales of the City” on Netflix, Sandip reflects on his own tale of the city.
- Added: Jan 21, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Tracey reads her first place poem for the Fall Poetry Contest in 2017 and 2nd place poem for the Winter Poetry contest in 2017/18.
- Added: Dec 18, 2018
- Length: 04:49
Antonya Nelson is the author of eleven books of fiction. She talks about her most recent books: the novel BOUND which covers growing up in Wichita,...
- Added: Jul 19, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
A National Book Critics Circle Award winner, Rodney Jones reads from and talks about the shaping of his book of selected poetry, SALVATION BLUES: O...
- Added: Jul 12, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
We’ll feature four modern masterpieces for string quartet by Walter Mays, John Adams, Andrzej Panufnik, and John Corigliano on this episode of What...
- Added: Jun 22, 2017
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 7
Interviews with Entertainment Attorney Neville Johnson and Actor, Model Ricky Ryba, Plus music by Whitney Tai.
- Added: Aug 15, 2016
- Length: 59:52
Georgia State Poet Laureate Judson Mitcham shares stories about some of his influences, including the late poets Richard Hugo, William Stafford and...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Apr 13, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Author Kelly Link discusses the archetypes of magical realism and William McKelvy explains the hallmarks and legacy of Gothic literature.
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 20:52
In the age of texts, twitter and email, do people still write fan letters? What compels us to do so?
- Added: Dec 24, 2014
- Length: 29:40
William Jackson Harper is a lascivious bee swarming a young woman’s Upper West Side apartment. Two vultures have a bone to pick with Saint Francis....
Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), New Hampshire Public Radio, Oregon Public Broadcasting, KZYX, and KUNM
- Added: Sep 04, 2014
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 5
100-second module, from our readings for May. The setting may remind you of Hitchcock's Rear Window.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Apr 25, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
Mike Forbes is a Bemidji area writer. He's been published in Fire Ring, The Talking Stick, The Poet's Touch Stone, Voices For the Land, among other...
- Added: Feb 28, 2013
- Length: 01:40
Emily St. John Mandel, author of The Lola Quartet, talks about her unique upbringing, moving to New York with no money, and whether social media he...
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 47:08
Songwriter Vince Martinez talks about writing songs inspired by Stephen King's The Shining. Written and performed for the monthly showcase The Bus...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Apr 26, 2012
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
Songwriter Tai Shan talks about her approach to writing songs inspired by Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns. Written and performed for the mo...
- Added: Apr 19, 2012
- Length: 05:00
