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The Art of Ashley Shelby, Part 2
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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On this episode of Art Beat, we continue our two part interview and lecture series of Minnesota author Ashley Shelby. Ashley's book "Red River Risi...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 35:32
The Art of Ashley Shelby, Part 1
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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This edition of Art Beat is the first of a two part interview and lecture from Minnesota author Ashley Shelby. In this segment, Ashley will talk ab...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 31:18
  • Purchases: 1
The Art of Peter Geye
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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Peter Geye is a Minnesota author based out of the Twin Cities. His book "Safe From the Sea" was a 2010 Indie Lit Award Winner for ?Best Literary Fi...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 22:04
  • Purchases: 1
The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents!: Michael Denvir discussing The Outsiders
From: Geoff Larson
Series: The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents!
Caption: Michael Denvir
Songwriter Michael Denvir discusses his approach to writing songs inspired by S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 19, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mary Clearman Blew, author of 'This Is Not The Ivy League'
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During this program, Mary Clearman Blew talks about the challenges of writing memoir that includes living people. She also reads passages from her ...

Bought by KREV-LP and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 30, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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Actor Sam Elliott perfectly reads passages from Twain's tribute to American boyhood. The program also includes commentary by Ken Burns, P.J. O'Rour...

Bought by KMUN, KREV-LP, KPIP-LP, KQED, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Aug 18, 2011
  • Length: 29:16
  • Purchases: 6
A Lesson Before Dying: A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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Ernest J. Gaines poses one of the most universal questions a novel can ask: Knowing we're going to die, how should we live? This program features G...

Bought by Room Tone Selects, KMUN, KPIP-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KQED


  • Added: Aug 16, 2011
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 5
To Kill A Mockingbird: A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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Featuring commentary by actor Robert Duvall, playwright Horton Foote, NEA Jazz Master David Baker, and Former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, among ot...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Prairie Public, KMUN, KPIP-LP, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Aug 12, 2011
  • Length: 29:17
  • Purchases: 19
A Conversation with Sean Wilentz about Bob Dylan, Part Two
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Part two of our conversation with Sean Wilentz, author of Bob Dylan in America.

Bought by Prairie Public, KMUN, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 08, 2011
  • Length: 29:46
  • Purchases: 3
A Conversation with Luis Alberto Urrea
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Author Luis Alberto Urrea talks about the inspiration for and writing of his novel Into the Beautiful North, which takes place from Sinaloa, Mexico...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 25:54
  • Purchases: 1
Tales from the South 002 with Grif Stockley
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Fall 2010 Season
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Author Grif Stockley on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in front of a live a...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Janet Skeslien Charles, author of Moonlight In Odessa
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During this program, Janet Skeslin Charles talks about, and reads from 'Moonlight In Odessa', a darkly humorous novel about eastern European women ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 23, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Mark Seal discusses "The Man in the Rockefeller Suit"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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A journalist for thirty-five years, Mark Seal is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair.

  • Added: Jun 01, 2011
  • Length: 29:17
Northern Minnesota author K.L. Malmquist
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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Heidi Holtan talks with K.L. Malmquist about his latest novel "The Unraveling" a story set in northern Minnesota it's part adventure, part mystery ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 18, 2011
  • Length: 13:34
  • Purchases: 1
Kim Barker, author of The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During the program, Kim Barker talks about her addiction to living in and reporting from war zones in Afghanistan while working as the South Asia b...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 17, 2011
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Tales from the South 001
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Fall 2010 Season
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Travel offers new experiences; some more pleasant than others. Dottie Lou Norwood shares an unusual nightly ritual, Brittany Edwardes escapes schoo...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Bound Like Grass: A Memoir from the Western High Plains, by Ruth McLaughlin
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During this program, Ruth McLaughlin talks with The Write Question producer Chérie Newman about growing up near Culbertson, Montana, and the legacy...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 16, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ripley Hugo
From: Chérie Newman
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Ripley Hugo talks about and reads several of the poems in her collection, 'On The Right Wind.' The program also includes interviews with a few of h...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2011
  • Length: 52:35
War correspondent Anna Badkhen finds kindness in conflict zones
From: KALW
Caption: Cover of "Peace Meals" by Anna Badkhen
When reporters are sent to cover conflict zones, they focus on doing their job, and getting the story. As any reporter will tell you, it’s never ab...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 06, 2011
  • Length: 08:16
  • Purchases: 1
The Art of Ken McCullough
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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Poetry is an art form in itself and today we have a local authority on it. Ken McCullough is Winona's Poet Laureate. Throughout Ken's career he ha...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 24:29
Jenni Fallein, poet and painter
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During this program, TWQ producer Chérie Newman talks with Jenni Fallein about her new collection of poetry, IF BEAUTY WERE A SPY. The conversation...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 17, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Poets of the Tabloid Murder Talks with Gary Phillips
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Gary Phillips is an author and political activist living in Los Angeles.

  • Added: Jan 25, 2011
  • Length: 28:45
Robert Wrigley's new collection, Beautiful Country
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During this program Robert Wrigley talks with Chérie Newman about the poems in his new collection, BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY. He also reads "American Fear"...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 22, 2010
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Art of Ryan Witt
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
Caption: Ryan Witt
What if you were a superhero that had a completely undesirable power? Today on Art Beat we visit with a Winona local who is creating a character th...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2010
  • Length: 32:24
The Literary Art of John Reimringer: Part 2
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
Caption: John Reimringer, Credit: http://www.johnreimringer.com
On this edition of "Art Beat" we feature a new personification of an artist - The Writer. John Reimriner is the author of the newly released book e...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2010
  • Length: 24:21

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