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Jonathan Ashley is the author of Out of Mercy and The Cost of Doing Business. His work has appeared in Crime Factory, Out of the Gutter, A Twist of...
- Added: Aug 21, 2017
- Length: 08:32
When disaster strikes, will we descend into dystopia — or cooperate?
We talk with Cory Doctorow about his new work of speculative fiction, Walkaw...
- Added: Aug 17, 2017
- Length: 59:02
In the voice of her mother, Eileen Tabios reflects on the accomplishments and tragedies of her mother’s children.
- Added: Aug 17, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Kimberly Lyons interrogates the purchase of second-hand clothes and the writing of poetry.
- Added: Aug 14, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Sara Deniz Akant considers the virtues and meaning of one’s name.
- Added: Aug 03, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Francisco Aragón describes a threatening incident against a college student after the 2016 election.
- Added: Jul 25, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Sunnylyn Thibodeaux mediates on the anxieties and ambitions of adult life.
- Added: Jul 17, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Amanda Nadelberg reflects on life accomplishments and what has been left unachieved.
- Added: Jul 10, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
What will New York City look like in 2140? Scifi author Kim Stanley Robinson’s latest novel explores a possible future in which NYC is partly subme...
- Added: Jul 05, 2017
- Length: 40:50
Douglas Kearney pays tribute to the late music icon Prince.
- Added: Jun 29, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Minneapolis performance artist Patrick Scully has created a one-man show about the life and times of Walt Whitman. It's called "Leaves of Grass--Il...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Jun 27, 2017
- Length: 31:02
- Purchases: 1
Juan Delgado describes a dangerous journey by a series of freight trains that migrants from Central America use to reach the U.S. border.
- Added: Jun 26, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
John Tipton looks at the Rosetta Spacecraft’s September 2016 landing on a comet orbiting Jupiter.
- Added: Jun 20, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Atsuro Riley imagines the life of a young runaway from the south.
- Added: Jun 12, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
Andrew Zawacki meditates on the difficulty of writing a personal poem after the birth of his daughter.
- Added: Jun 06, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
All the origin myths of Rome are rape narratives. Dr. Celene Lillie has found resistance to Rome's culture of rape and domination in Gnostic texts...
- Added: Jun 02, 2017
- Length: 57:57
- Purchases: 2
Melissa Broder writes about self-realization and survival.
- Added: May 31, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Kate Millett’s 1970 book, Sexual Politics, is a classic text of Second Wave Feminism, finding sexism and subjection inherent in the institutions of...
- Added: May 30, 2017
- Length: 58:00
Hayan Charara considers how the world would be different today if certain historically significant events had not taken place in the late 1990s.
- Added: May 25, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Poet and visual artist Bianca Stone talks about her various projects, from her first full length book SOMEONE ELSE'S WEDDING VOWS to her 2016 illus...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: May 18, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Hai-Dang Phan examines archival documents concerning the abduction of a young Vietnamese woman by Thai pirates in the 1980s.
Bought by KALW, KHSU, KENW, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: May 18, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
Joyelle McSweeney thinks about various forms of infection and contagion facing the human
race.
- Added: May 11, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Simone White documents a mother’s life with her infant son.
- Added: May 03, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 5
Timothy Yu meditates on perceptions of race, on television and in social media.
- Added: Apr 24, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Caitlin Doyle thinks about romance novels at the end of a relationship.
- Added: Apr 11, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4