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Among the criminal celebrities of Prohibition-era Chicago, not even Al Capone was more notorious than two well-educated and highly intelligent Jewi...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2024
  • Length: 29:28
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American novelist William Kotzwinkle is a two-time recipient of the National Magazine Award for Fiction, a Book Critics Circle award nominee, a win...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2021
  • Length: 28:04
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J Todd Scott idscusses his new novel "Lost River"

  • Added: Aug 12, 2020
  • Length: 16:44
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Samantha Dwyer from Humanities Montana interviews acclaimed science journalist David Quammen about his book, "Spillover: Animal Infections and the ...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2020
  • Length: 23:00
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What does the Italian mob have to do with the world's most rare bear population? Roger Thompson discusses his nonfiction book, "No Word for Wildern...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 23, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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David Swinson is a former D.C. detective. Check him out at http://davidswinson.com/bio.

  • Added: Aug 16, 2017
  • Length: 10:44
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Ace Atkins is an American journalist and author. Atkins worked as a crime reporter in the newsroom of The Tampa Tribune before he published his fir...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2017
  • Length: 07:39
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Duane Swierczynski is an Edgar-nominated novelist.

  • Added: Aug 22, 2016
  • Length: 09:54
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Bill Schutt is a zoologist, professor of biologist, and author.

  • Added: Jun 29, 2016
  • Length: 13:39
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Thomas O'Malley and Douglas Graham Purdy are writers in the Boston area.

  • Added: Jun 24, 2016
  • Length: 16:52
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Steve Hamilton is a two-time Edgar-winning mystery writer.He lives in upstate New York.

  • Added: Jun 01, 2016
  • Length: 13:01
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Matthew Quirk is a widely published journalist.

  • Added: May 23, 2016
  • Length: 16:00
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Charles Ardai is an American entrepreneur, writer, editor, and television producer. He is best known as founder and CEO of Juno, an Internet compan...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2016
  • Length: 16:51
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Chris Holm is an award-winning short-story writer whose work has appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies, including Ellery Queen's Myster...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2015
  • Length: 19:12
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Terrence P. McCauley is an award-winning writer of crime fiction. He has published two novels and his short stories have been featured in Thuglit, ...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2015
  • Length: 09:19
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Thomas O'Malley was raised in Ireland and England, and emigrated to the U.S. from Ireland at the age of sixteen. Douglas Graham Purdy grew up in Bo...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2015
  • Length: 11:38
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Eric Beetner is an award-winning fiction writer. He was voted Most Criminally Underrated Author by the Stalker Awards, which he takes as a complime...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2015
  • Length: 13:43

  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 23:31
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Andrew Kaplan is a journalist, novelist, and screenwriter.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2013
  • Length: 25:22
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Literary critic and pop culture enthusiast Ursula Heise dissects environmental storytelling and its relation to science… both real and fiction. [Se...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 34:06
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Southern Gothic writer Harry Crews died in March of this year. Although many people have never heard of him, Crews’ stories about outcasts inspired...

  • Added: May 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:26
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Appalachia is often imagined as rural and white, but a new wave of African-American writers is challenging the notion of a single Appalachian regio...

Bought by WJCT, WMMT, KUER, KRZA, XRAY.fm and more


  • Added: Apr 09, 2012
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 9
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a weekly podcast for curious readers about forgotten books

  • Added: Aug 07, 2011
  • Length: 01:21:44
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Poet Kevin Young talks about his book, Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 23:45
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Teju Cole
Nigerian-American writer Teju Cole is our idea of a post-imperial global mind in motion. His celebrated first novel, "Open City," is about a solita...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 20, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2