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Fixing the Stars: Sylvia Plath at the Edge of Sight

From: WFHB
Series: Interchange

She worked with intense dedication to be heard in a world that has no ears to hear women. But, Plath was a woman who wrote many times of her disdai...

Bought by WKMS and RADIOLEX

Added: Mar 09, 2021
Length: 59:02
Purchases: 2

National Book Award-winning Poet Nikky Finney: Part 2

From: New Letters on the Air

Affrilachian and Cave Canem poet Nikky Finney talks about her father, the first African American Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court,...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)

Added: Mar 04, 2021
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

563: Going Underground / 564: New Voices in Native American Writing, 2/27/2021

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: 'Going Underground' - Scientists and explorers have found a whole new world under our feet. It's an exciting place, and it's changing wha...

Added: Feb 26, 2021
Length: 01:58:58

Novelist Anthony Grooms

From: New Letters on the Air

Anthony Grooms, author of the novel BOMBINGHAM, reads from his recent novel, THE VAIN CONVERSATION, based on a 1946 lynching of two black couples i...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)

Added: Jan 21, 2021
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

Novelist and Non-Fiction Author Stewart O'Nan: Part Two

From: New Letters on the Air

Stewart O'Nan, the author of 20 plus books including EMILY, ALONE and LAST NIGHT AT THE LOBSTER, reads from his later novel, CITY OF SECRETS, and d...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)

Added: Jan 14, 2021
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

Virginia Brackett

From: New Letters on the Air

Virginia Brackett, the author of 15 books, discusses her 2019 family memoir, IN THE COMPANY OF PATRIOTS. She reveals how she used family stories, s...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)

Added: Dec 31, 2020
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson

From: New Letters on the Air

NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR's Classic Series revisits Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Isabel Wilkerson, whose 2020 book, CASTE, is now a bestseller. ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WDCB, and WRKF

Added: Aug 25, 2020
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 3

10 Minutes with Rudolfo Anaya

From: Paul Ingles

Highlights from a 2002 writer's forum in Jemez Springs, New Mexico that featured beloved New Mexico author Rudolfo Anaya. FROM ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL...

Bought by KRZA

Added: Jun 30, 2020
Length: 10:00
Purchases: 1

2020-06-21 Jean-Paul Sartre

From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk

What exactly is existentialism? How are we condemned to be free? And what’s so hellish about other people?

Bought by KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMUN, KSKQ, KNVC Carson City Community Radio and more

Added: Jun 19, 2020
Length: 53:58
Purchases: 8

The Poet Laureate of the United States Joy Harjo

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

The Poet Laureate of the United States Joy Harjo talks about poetry and music

Bought by Harford Community Radio

Added: May 12, 2020
Length: 29:09
Purchases: 1

The Past American Voice of Ernest Gaines

From: New Letters on the Air

Caption: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GNU_Free_Documentation_License,_version_1.2, Credit: S L O W K I N G

Black History Month continues with a tribute to one of America's best fiction writers, Ernest Gaines (1933-2019.This Past American Voices episode f...

Bought by WDCB

Added: Feb 20, 2020
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Tyehimba Jess

From: New Letters on the Air

Pulitzer Prize winner Tyehimba Jess reads from his multi-award winning poetry book, OLIO, delving into the voices of African American creatives in ...

Added: Feb 04, 2020
Length: 29:00

Wilde Roses

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed

We place some focus on some stories that are inspired by famous literature.

Added: Jan 22, 2020
Length: 58:02

Books Are Not Dead

From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library

Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman

Books on conveyor belts, book vacuums and books in the mail. This episode of “Borrowed” will take you behind the scenes to see how books travel aro...

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Dec 26, 2019
Length: 16:48
Purchases: 1

Blocks and Brownstones

From: Brooklyn Public Library

In this episode, we tell the story of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood through the lives of three women who set down roots there in diffe...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.

Added: Dec 26, 2019
Length: 26:22
Purchases: 1

National Writers Series: Susan Orlean

From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Two

Author Susan Orlean talks with To the Best of Our Knowledge host Anne Strainchamps.

Bought by Michigan Radio and WKAR

Added: Oct 29, 2019
Length: 54:29
Purchases: 2

National Writers Series: Jeffrey Eugenides

From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Two

Author Jeffrey Eugenides talks with Jeremy Chamberlin.

Bought by WKAR

Added: Oct 05, 2019
Length: 54:29
Purchases: 1

Kansas Poets Laureate: Part 1

From: New Letters on the Air

Our celebration of State Poets Laureate continues with a look back at previous holders of the title in Kansas. Part one of this public reading feat...

Bought by WNJR

Added: Sep 04, 2019
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

The Write Question - Virginia Reeves - 430

From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question

Virginia Reeves discusses her novel, The Behavior of Love. She also reads a short passage.

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

Added: Aug 20, 2019
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 3

National Writers Series: Elizabeth Berg, Elizabeth Letts and Lynne Olson

From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Two

National Writers Series co-founder Doug Stanton talks with authors Elizabeth Berg, Elizabeth Letts, and Lynne Olson.

Bought by WKAR

Added: Jun 14, 2019
Length: 54:31
Purchases: 1

Poet and MacArthur "Genius" Edward Hirsch

From: New Letters on the Air

NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR begins National Poetry Month with Edward Hirsch, a poet and "MacArthur genius" who was the editor of THE BEST AMERICAN POETR...

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP

Added: Apr 10, 2019
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 2

Ariel Burger, WITNESS & Ani Tuzman, THE TREMBLE OF LOVE

From: Francesca Rheannon

Ariel Burger talks about his book WITNESS: Lessons from Elie Wiesels Classroom. And later in the show, we re-air our 2016 interview with Ani Tuzman...

Added: Dec 13, 2018
Length: 59:00

The Ghost in the MP3 (hour)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

-Making musical pieces with the sounds that got stripped out of MP3s. -There is a rich sonic landscape that defines New York City. -Andrew Kaufman'...

Bought by WCNY, WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan, WTJU, WRGY and more

Added: Jul 06, 2018
Length: 53:55
Purchases: 12

The Triumph of Christianity: A Conversation with Bart Ehrman

From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit

Caption: Bart Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity

Bart Ehrman asks how did a religion that began with a small group of illiterate day laborers become the dominant religion of the Roman Empire in ju...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KPIP-LP, and WETS