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When I was a little boy I once lost my parents in a busy market in Kolkata. I cannot begin to imagine what it means to be lost for 25 YEARS. Like S...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 14, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Michael Meuers has worked in public relations for the Red Lake Band of Ojibwe for 20+ years. His friendship with native elder Larry Stillday taugh...
- Added: Feb 03, 2017
- Length: 10:03
We'll hear music by Steven Stucky, Elena Ruehr, Osvaldo Golijov, Jennifer Higdon, Paul Moravec, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, and Elliott Carter on this ep...
Bought by KMUN, KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), 'The Sea', WETS and more
- Added: Jan 19, 2017
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 9
Alice Friman reads from her most recent of her six poetry collections THE VIEW FROM SATURN, VINCULUM, and THE BOOK OF THE ROTTEN DAUGHTER. She talk...
- Added: Jan 11, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
J. Todd Scott is a lawman and a novelist who lives in the American southwest.
- Added: Nov 10, 2016
- Length: 10:50
Joe Ide grew up in South Central Los Angeles. This is his first novel.
- Added: Oct 27, 2016
- Length: 08:54
- Added: Aug 29, 2016
- Length: 18:43
Did you know that a mountain lion, known as P-22, lives in the middle of Los Angeles, that the Facebook campus in Silicon Valley provided a home fo...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 01:00:01
- Purchases: 1
Winner of the 2012 Bellday Poetry Prize for his fourth book, PIE 8, Dennis Finnell discusses his unique approach to composing this work and how it ...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Aug 03, 2016
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
Conversation about the unique sci-fi, large scale puppet play "Four Garys" written by Jeremiah T.S. Liend
- Added: Aug 03, 2016
- Length: 11:56
National Magazine Award winning essayist Thomas E. Kennedy discusses his approach to essay writing, particularly in his collection RIDING THE DOG: ...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Jul 28, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
W. L. Ripley lives in western Missouri.
- Added: May 26, 2016
- Length: 13:36
Hear our conversation with William Finnegan, author of Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life. William is the 2016 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biograp...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: May 24, 2016
- Length: 10:38
- Purchases: 1
Kids from Illinois and California share their favorite titles. Kitty Felde is host.
- Added: May 18, 2016
- Length: 07:29
Melody loves words, but she can't speak or write or even walk across a room. Until a new computer opens up her life. Students from St. Lucy School ...
- Added: Feb 23, 2016
- Length: 19:48
The largest attempted slave escape on U.S. soil happened in SouthWest Washington, DC. That's the tale in "Passenger on the Pearl." Young readers d...
- Added: Feb 17, 2016
- Length: 39:45
We’re told intelligent machines and big data will free us from work, educate our children, transform our environment, and even make religion more u...
- Added: Jan 26, 2016
- Length: 58:34
Anton Treuer wrote the book “Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians but Were Afraid to Ask.” People have questions, he says, but feel uncomfor...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and WGZS
- Added: Dec 23, 2015
- Length: 03:40
- Purchases: 2
Arlo returns to Big Top to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the event that inspired his seminal song, ‘Alice’s Restaurant Massacree’. We’re pleas...
Bought by KRCB 104.9, KMXT, WPCA-LP, KALH, KPIP-LP and more
- Added: Dec 22, 2015
- Length: 59:20
- Purchases: 12
Jim Gallagher interviews author and biologist Sue Leaf on her new book, "Portage: A Family, a Canoe, and the Search for the Good Life."
- Added: Dec 09, 2015
- Length: 12:27
Author of "1968: A Story As Relevant Today As It Was Then", Bill Natale sits down to discuss race relations in Chicago and his new book with Elysab...
- Added: Dec 07, 2015
- Length: 47:02
Teresa Evangeline spends her days on a little piece of land along the Pine River observing and experiencing the beauty of the world, then through p...
- Added: Dec 02, 2015
- Length: :59
Gwen Nell Westerman, an enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, is professor in english and director of humanities at Minnesota State Unive...
- Added: Nov 25, 2015
- Length: 01:28
Jennifer Sporcich lives in Minneapolis with her two dogs and two parakeets. She received a BFA from the school of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2...
- Added: Nov 19, 2015
- Length: :51
Annick Smith talks about and reads from her memoir 'Crossing the Plains with Bruno.' She also comments on the importance of story during life trans...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KGLT, Spokane Public Radio, KSJD, Yellowstone Public Radio and more
- Added: Nov 13, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 6
