PRX - Pieces for Topic: Literature
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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
Dawn Powell wrote novels about people like herself: outsiders who’d come to New York City in the early twentieth century to make a name for themsel...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 22:02
- Purchases: 1
In 1969, a white journalist named Grace Halsell, published a book called Soul Sister. It was her account of living as a “black woman” in the United...
- Added: Oct 15, 2021
- Length: 12:18
In 1936, just as the Spanish Civil War was beginning, an instantly successful and highly controversial children’s book arrived on the bookshelves. ...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Jan 27, 2017
- Length: 03:48
- Purchases: 1
We tend to remember Maya Angelou for her activism in the United States. But a recent tribute at James Madison University showed her poetry’s global...
Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Dec 09, 2016
- Length: 03:12
- Purchases: 3
In a remote corner of Tel Aviv's grimy, labyrinthine central bus station, Mendy Cahan has built a home for Israel's rejected Yiddish books, and it'...
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 16:05
Hosts Doug Storm and Trish Kerle' are joined by historian Jim Madison to discuss the Hoosier through history. Madison has just published a new book...
- Added: Sep 23, 2014
- Length: 01:01:02
Asa Carter was a speechwriter for Alabama Governor George Wallace. He penned one of the most infamous speeches of the era… Wallace’s “Segregation N...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 14, 2014
- Length: 15:54
- Purchases: 1
Professor Daniel Shea shares the story of Pearl Curran, who, beginning in 1913, used a Ouija board to transcribe novels, plays, essays, and poetry ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 30, 2013
- Length: 13:35
- Purchases: 1
Homer's 23rd chapter in the 2800-year-old poem The Iliad has no rival. As the western world's oldest sports-writing, it set the standard for the t...
Bought by KSLU
- Added: Jul 02, 2012
- Length: 02:43
- Purchases: 1
Marks was a British code maker in World War II. While still in his early twenties, in charge of wireless communication codes to espionage agents an...
- Added: Jan 04, 2012
- Length: 04:00
Actress Mary-Louise Parker said this is one her favorite novels of all time and so she jumped at the chance to read excerpts. There's commentary by...
Bought by Room Tone Selects, KMUN, KPIP-LP, KQED, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more
- Added: Aug 18, 2011
- Length: 29:07
- Purchases: 7
