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In 1940s Winchester, England, a woman tries to find her place in the world after great loss in the aftermath of the Great War.
- Added: Oct 27, 2019
- Length: 12:13
Contributor Andrew Dziengel talks with movie expert Brian Raftery about his new book Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen.
- Added: Oct 27, 2019
- Length: 12:09
Children’s book writer and illustrator Andrew Joyner has written and illustrated over 40 children's books including The Pink Hat, and The Duck & th...
- Added: Oct 27, 2019
- Length: 09:39
Rucha Ambikar is a professor of sociology at Bemidji State University. Hear our talk about books and reading, what a childhood in India filled with...
- Added: Oct 27, 2019
- Length: 13:51
For Halloween! Stories of ghostly women who wield supernatural powers and lure men to their deaths. And: We're in a new age of horror films like...
Bought by WJCT, Kansas Public Radio, KRZA, KRDP, WLIW and more
- Added: Oct 23, 2019
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 13
The story of the African men and women who carried the body of the famous explorer Dr. Livingstone across Africa so that his remains could be retur...
Bought by WOUB
- Added: Sep 22, 2019
- Length: 08:44
- Purchases: 1
In a not-too distant time, where public gatherings are illegal, making concerts impossible, two women are willing to break the law for their love o...
- Added: Sep 22, 2019
- Length: 13:14
Carl Sewall gives us his review on Don DeLillo’s latest novel, Zero K.
- Added: Sep 22, 2019
- Length: 10:41
E.R. Ramzipoor's The Ventriloquists; Sarah Pinsker's A Song for a New Day; Brad Meltzer children’s book series Ordinary People Change the World, hi...
- Added: Sep 22, 2019
- Length: 59:59
Alex Kotlowitz is a writer, author, and movie and radio producer. He joined The Roadhouse to talk with Brian about a number of topics, from his ne...
- Added: Sep 20, 2019
- Length: 15:57
Interviews: Freedom's Detective, by Charles Lane; The Mars Room, by Rachel Kushner, Words No Bars Can Hold, by Deborah Appleman; Reviews: Robert Ca...
- Added: Jun 10, 2019
- Length: 59:51
We'll hear from Bev Thomas, her new book is a thriller, "A Good Enough Mother".. Pauli Meinecke from Harmony Natural Foods Coop in Bemidji will giv...
- Added: May 13, 2019
- Length: 01:00:04
Anissa Gray's "The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls," "Early Riser" by Jasper Fforde, Pam Jenoff's new historical novel, "The Lost Girls...
- Added: Mar 24, 2019
- Length: 01:00:01
Interviews with Joseph Finder, his new thriller is called Judgment, author Sophie Hannah, "How to Hold a Grudge: from resentment to contentment—the...
- Added: Feb 17, 2019
- Length: 59:53
Featuring the books: The Paragon Hotel, by Lindsay Faye, The Gryphon Chronicles, by E.G. Foley, Never Home Alone, by Rob Dunn, and Barkskins, by An...
- Added: Jan 22, 2019
- Length: 59:50
Book discussions and interviews on: Jill Lepore's These Truths: A history of the United States (2:20); Lake Agassiz Regional Library's new Native A...
- Added: Dec 17, 2018
- Length: 59:58
KAXE/KBXE music director Kari Hedlund, Centerstage MN host and producer Brett Carter, and What We're Reading's Tammy Bobrowsky discuss the book Let...
- Added: Dec 14, 2018
- Length: 27:46
Author interviews: Lisa Unger on Under My Skin, tammy lynne stoner on Sugar Land, Sarah St. Vincent on Ways to Hide in Winter, Gabrielle Moss on Pa...
- Added: Nov 21, 2018
- Length: 59:47
Interviews with Deborah Harkness, Ellen Keith, and Nathaniel Philbrick, audio excerpt of Markus Zusak's Bridge of Clay, and book conversation with ...
- Added: Oct 22, 2018
- Length: 01:00:00
We talk about James Patterson & Bill Clinton's "The President is Missing," Jill Santopolo's "The Light We Lost," Richard Ratay's "Don't Make Me Pul...
- Added: Oct 16, 2018
- Length: 01:00:16
In the end, we wrap up our series at the beginning. Host Marcos Nájera reports on what he’s learned about Oscar Zeta Acosta. And the contributions ...
- Added: Jun 08, 2018
- Length: 17:24
The men in Zeta’s life. From family to friends to former lovers? You never know—some say Zeta was a constant chameleon in life, love, and the law. ...
- Added: Jun 08, 2018
- Length: 16:59
John Lennox summons the presence of a friend who died suddenly and at a young age.
- Added: May 11, 2018
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb describes how her grandfather rewrote verses of the Qur’an using only the @ sign on his typewriter.
- Added: May 07, 2018
- Length: 03:59
- Purchases: 5
Nick Twemlow navigates the often bizarre and alienating world of the modern office.
- Added: Apr 30, 2018
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
