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The Write Question - Ana Maria Spagna - 428
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Ana Maria Spagna discusses her book, "Uplake: Restless Essays of Coming and Going." She also reads a short passage.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Write Question - Kisha Schlegel - 380
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Kisha Schlegel discusses her collection of essays, "Fear Icons." She also reads short passages from the book.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 05, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Write Question - Jeremy Smith - 372
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Jeremy Smith discusses his nonfiction novel, "Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien." He also reads a short pass...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 02, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Sandra Cisneros, Latina author of the classic "The House on Mango Street"
From: New Letters on the Air
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR continues National Hispanic Heritage Month with a look back at Latina author Sandra Cisneros, who received the National Med...

Bought by KFCF FM, WNJR, KRZA, XRAY.fm, KHNS and more


  • Added: Sep 26, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Poet Susan Aizenberg
From: New Letters on the Air
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Poet Susan Aizenberg discusses the use of fiction within poetry, admitting that she draws from real life, but notes that there is a distinction bet...

Bought by KFCF FM and WNJR


  • Added: Jul 18, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Mysterious James Tiptree
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
Caption: Alice Sheldon, Credit: Eric Molinsky
Alice Sheldon served in the OSS and the CIA. And then she went deep undercover posing as a male science fiction writer. It wasn't an assignment, it...

Bought by WABE and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 12, 2015
  • Length: 23:44
  • Purchases: 2
Herland is Our Land
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Kristen Egan walks us through a creepy utopian novel from 1915, and explains why environmentalism and eugenics went hand in hand in the early 20th ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Radio Newark, PRX Remix, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Oct 07, 2013
  • Length: 06:50
  • Purchases: 4
A Conversation about Edgar Allan Poe with Laura Lippman
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Mystery writer Laura Lippman talks about the terrifying brilliance of Edgar Allan Poe and his classic short story, "The Fall of the House of Usher"...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KMXT, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 26, 2012
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 3
The Wright Brothers' Sister
From: With Good Reason
Caption: Orville, Katharine and Wilbur Wright, Credit: Library of Congress
Why you've never heard of the Wright Brothers' sister, Katharine.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2009
  • Length: 29:00