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Pulitzer 100: Shifting the Spotlight (hour)

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

-Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel has tackled traditionally taboo subjects. Vogel has also distinguished herself as an exceptional tea...

Bought by WCNY, KEDT, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more

Added: May 13, 2016
Length: 53:56
Purchases: 6

Nation of Nations (hour)

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

-Tom Gjelton NPR Correspondent and author of "A Nation of Nations" speaks about the changing demographics of America. -A Cuban exile feels at home ...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KEDT and more

Added: Mar 04, 2016
Length: 53:59
Purchases: 7

The Write Question - Saif Alsaegh - 220

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

An Iraqi Poet In Montana. Saif Alsaegh was a young boy living in Baghdad, Iraq, on September 11, 2001. At the time, he and the other members of his...

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

Added: Oct 26, 2015
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 4

A discussion with Peter Finn about "The Zhivago Affair"

From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra

Reader's Corner host Bob Kustra talks with the Washington Post's Peter Finn about his fascinating book.

Added: Sep 04, 2015
Length: 30:10

Vicente Gutierrez, the publisher and editor of Highway: Making it Work

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Here's how a writer created the music magazine he wanted to read.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KPIP-LP, WNJR, KPVL, and WABE

Added: Aug 14, 2015
Length: 28:29
Purchases: 5

Under The Algerian Sun: Camus and Daoud

From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon

It’s the rare writer who can pick up where Albert Camus — master of midcentury philosophy and fiction — left off in the modern classic, The Outside...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KMUN

Added: Jun 26, 2015
Length: 58:37
Purchases: 2

Author and MacArthur Fellow Edwidge Danticat talks about her memoir

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Edwidge Danticat, Credit: Jonathan Demme

In this conversation, Edwidge explores the writing of her powerful memoir, Brother, I’m Dying.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR

Added: Jun 09, 2015
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 3

Under Magnolia (Feature)

From: With Good Reason
Series: news features

Best known for her books about the joys of life in Italy, Frances Mayes has published a new memoir. But this time, she takes her readers back to he...

Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KKRN

Added: May 29, 2015
Length: 03:43
Purchases: 3

Gabbard & the Gita

From: Victoria Davis
Series: Humanities Minutes

Today’s episode explores the significance of a sacred Hindu text—the Bhagavad Gita.

Bought by KFOI Radio and KCMJ Community Radio

Added: Mar 02, 2015
Length: 03:25
Purchases: 2

Mottainai

From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio

The Japanese word "Mottainai" refers to the essence of things, and suggests that objects do not exist in isolation, rather that they are intrinsica...

Added: Feb 02, 2015
Length: 05:31

Understanding Others: Transformative Writers

From: New Letters on the Air

We give thanks for transformative writers in this episode entitled UNDERSTANDING OTHERS, a show that features excerpts from six programs that highl...

Added: Dec 04, 2014
Length: 29:00

IN THE SHOES OF SHOLOM ALEICHEM -- Theodore Bikel Interview

From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes

Caption: Thedore Bikel, San Francisco, CA 7/31/14 , Credit: Andrea Chase

Theodore Bikel talks not doing the tango, the responsibility of the artist, and why singing a song is never naive.

Added: Sep 02, 2014
Length: 12:53

Mushi, Ticks, and Walking Sticks (Hour Long Version)

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

In Japan, insects (or "mushi") are pets, medicine, and even vehicles for spirits. Plus: A robot that kills ticks. And more...

Bought by WCNY, WABE, WTJU, and KKRN

Added: Jul 11, 2014
Length: 53:57
Purchases: 4

Mushi, Ticks, and Walking Sticks

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

In Japan, insects (or "mushi") are pets, medicine, and even vehicles for spirits. Plus: A robot that kills ticks. And: A poem about the insect know...

Bought by WJCT, WDBM, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WLIW, WMNF and more

Added: Jul 11, 2014
Length: 28:59
Purchases: 6

A Conversation with Dinaw Mengestu

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Dinaw Mengestu, Credit: Michael Lionstar

The author discusses the latest Big Read pick, The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears, his novel about an Ethiopian exile in a gentrifying Washingt...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WABE

Added: May 29, 2014
Length: 28:29
Purchases: 2

A Conversation with poet, theater artist and activist Shailja Patel

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Shailja Patel, Credit: D. Ross Cameron

With a trunk full of her mother’s saris, Kenyan author and performer Shaija Patel reclaims a lost history.

Bought by KPIP-LP

Added: Apr 11, 2014
Length: 29:28
Purchases: 1

The Dirty Old Man of Delhi

From: KALW

Caption: Khushwant Singh at his home in Delhi

India just lost its grand old man of letters. Khushwant Singh was 99 and still writing when he died in Delhi last week.

Added: Mar 25, 2014
Length: 04:30

Latin@ Poetics and The Academy Part II

From: NPR Illinois
Series: Quiddity

Jacob Saenz, Erika Sanchez, and Celeste Mendoza sit down with Quiddity‘s Amy Sayre Baptista in Part II discussion of Latin@ poetics in regards to t...

Added: Mar 04, 2014
Length: 14:57

Latin@ Poetics and The Academy

From: NPR Illinois
Series: Quiddity

Ruben Quesada and Norma Cantu sit down with Quiddity‘s Amy Sayre Baptista in Part I discussion of Latin@ poetics in regards to their place in The A...

Bought by KPIP-LP

Added: Mar 04, 2014
Length: 17:35
Purchases: 1

Bellwether prize-winning author Naomi Benaron

From: New Letters on the Air

NAOMI BENARON is a trained scientist, marathon runner, and massage therapist. She is also the author of two award-winning fiction books, LOVE LETTE...

Bought by WJCU

Added: Nov 07, 2013
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

The Rapidly Changing City of Shanghai (Feature)

From: With Good Reason

China is everywhere in American news, but we seem to hear the same stories over and over. A new book set in Shanghai seeks to tell a less familiar ...

Added: Aug 05, 2013
Length: 02:32

Gaelic language with Michael McNamara, Orla Kearns, and Louise Gibbons

From: WDSE
Series: Ojibwe Stories: Gaganoonididaa

Caption: Louise Gibbons, Orla Kearns, and Michael McNamara.

Host Erik Redix, an assistant professor of American Indian Studies at UMD, talks with Michael McNamara, Orla Kearns, and Louise Gibbons about the c...

Bought by Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, WMUU-LP, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KSRQ, and KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle

Added: Apr 20, 2013
Length: 29:24
Purchases: 5

A Conversation with Translator, Natasha Wimmer

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Natasha Wimmer was awarded an NEA Literature Fellowship in 2007 to translate Roberto Bolaño's epic novel 2666. In this interview, she discusses the...

Bought by WABE