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The selection of stories on this anthology comes mostly from the book of the same title, now in its fourth printing, and as popular today as when i...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2013
  • Length: 27:30
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Take a trip to the future in a very unique manner-environmental science fiction. Maureen Dudley grew up in Butte, Montana and it was there that she...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2013
  • Length: 18:53
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Alex Jansen and her father moved in with her grandmother and grandfather when she was five, her mother died the next year, followed by her grandfat...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2013
  • Length: 21:07
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Danny and I were good friends, check that, Danny was a good friend to me. We grew up neighbors and by virtue of being a neighbor, I associated with...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2013
  • Length: 22:24
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Michael Hattam, a PhD student in early American history at Yale University. He never graduated high school and only received a GED when he was 17....

  • Added: Aug 12, 2013
  • Length: 14:45
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Florida Frenz is the pen name of a 16 year old girl with autism. As How to Be Human describes, she has worked hard to be an "empowered autistic." A...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2013
  • Length: 21:34
Caption: Lana Straub and Don Piper
Interview with Don Piper on the trials, tribulations and joys of being a bestselling author

  • Added: Aug 06, 2013
  • Length: 22:26
Caption: A recent reading at 851: The Squat
Given the high demand for living space in San Francisco, it may be hard to believe that any apartment is sitting around empty. But there's at least...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 20, 2013
  • Length: 07:02
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Radio K - Culture Queue - the art show that rocks., Credit: KUOM
This week on Culture Queue, we explore identity, including how it changes over time and how it stays the same.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 18, 2013
  • Length: 01:28:12
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Amy Acker & Alexis Denisoff, San Francisco, CA 4/28/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Amy Acker and Alexis Denisof talk having no fear, short shooting schedules, and staircase soliloquies.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2013
  • Length: 09:03
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Stephen Chbosky talks being reborn, taking notes, and the mysteries of the grilled sticky.

  • Added: Sep 30, 2012
  • Length: 13:16
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We all know a bad translation when we see one… or do we? I spoke with Jay Rubin, translator for the best-selling author Haruki Murakami, among othe...

  • Added: May 11, 2012
  • Length: 11:35
Caption: Geoffrey Fletcher with The Script for the Imagination Series
Academy Award Winner, Geoffrey Fletcher sits down with Artsy Fartsy Show's Barika Taheer Edwards to chat about screenwriting and the his launch of ...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2012
  • Length: 17:06
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Stephen Manes discusses his book Where Snowflakes Dance and Swear, his inside look at a full season of Seattle's Pacific Northwest Ballet. [24:58]

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 25:35
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ursula K. Le Guin, Credit: Photo Credit: Richard Jensen
Dmae Roberts features author Ursula K. Le Guin.

Bought by Room Tone Selects and KLCC


  • Added: Nov 05, 2010
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Lovejoy Brook Farm, Credit: Jenny Attiyeh
From Thoreau's rural journal to the science of the mind to 36 arguments for the existence of God to classical music to the future of farming (whew!...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Feb 11, 2010
  • Length: 57:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Bob Schieffer of CBS's "Face the Nation" pokes fun at his friend Thomas Friedman during the 2009 Fourth Estate Awards Dinner., Credit: Noel St. John
Thomas Friedman, the ground-breaking New York Times foreign affairs columnist and author, will receive the 2009 Fourth Estate Award, the National P...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2009
  • Length: 01:02:03
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Dealers of Americana talk about the allure of old books.

Bought by Remix Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, and WBHM


  • Added: Apr 20, 2009
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 4
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A commentary on lost items

  • Added: Oct 20, 2008
  • Length: 02:17
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The Count of Monte Cristo made Exxon oil executives look like bottle pickers

  • Added: Aug 01, 2008
  • Length: 02:17
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At a recent event put on by first book hundreds of kids were given books as part of the 5 million books project.

  • Added: Sep 27, 2007
  • Length: 09:11
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Michael Bloomberg in conversation with Sheryl Sandberg.

  • Added: Jul 27, 2007
  • Length: 59:29

  • Added: Feb 13, 2007
  • Length: 07:27
  • Purchases: 4
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Chamberlain spent almost five years at Horsethief ranch and published a memoir ? Desert of the Heart, Soujourn in a Community of Solitude.

Bought by KSUT


  • Added: Oct 03, 2006
  • Length: 04:05
  • Purchases: 1
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An interview with Joni Cole, author, "This Day: Diaries from Women Across America"

  • Added: Apr 23, 2006
  • Length: 30:03