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A Conversation with Sarah Greenough about O'Keeffe and Stieglitz
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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The editor of My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, Vol 1 discusses the relationship of the two artists. [29:32]

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 29:33
  • Purchases: 1
The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents!: Aaron Zig on Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland
From: Geoff Larson
Series: The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents!
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Songwriter Aaron Zig talks about his approach to writing songs inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Written and performed for the mont...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 16, 2012
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents!: Wes Weddell inspired by Stephen King's The Shining
From: Geoff Larson
Series: The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents!
Caption: Wes Weddell, Credit: Mark Blasco
Songwriter Wes Weddell discusses writing songs inspired by Stephen King's The Shining. Written and performed for the monthly showcase, The Bushwic...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2012
  • Length: 05:00
Rick Bass and Stellarondo
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Caption: Travis Yost, Caroline Keys, Gibson Hartwell, Bethany Joyce, Rick Bass
This hour-long program from Montana Public Radio features award-winning author Rick Bass reading with the Missoula-based band Stellarondo, which ha...

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Jan 22, 2012
  • Length: 59:12
  • Purchases: 1
Hungry in Winter: The Literary Julia Child
From: Leet and Litwin
Series: HUNGRY: The Literary Julia Child
Caption: Julia Child
Julia Child wanted to be a novelist, or to write for The New Yorker. "They weren't interested in me, for some reason." So she just kept reading. An...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2011
  • Length: 49:35
Lean & Hungry Theater Presents: Romeo And Juliet
From: Lean & Hungry Theater
Caption: Original Broadcast Promotional Art, Credit: Aaron Hansen
A radio drama adaptation of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," set in modern-day “Verona, California,” with live sound effects and some of the fines...

Bought by KUNM, WNMU-FM, KRPS, KREV-LP, KGOU and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2011
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 8
The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents!: Mark Blasco discussing The Outsiders and his musical approach to the book
From: Geoff Larson
Series: The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents!
Caption: Mark Blasco, Credit: MJ
Mark Blasco talks about his approach to writing songs inspired by S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
E.A. Poe and the Krautrock Connection
From: Iain Wilson
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The latest audio story from FOTW Audio Productions; featuring the music of The Fascination Movement, Carlos Perón, and Olmec Head.

  • Added: Sep 11, 2011
  • Length: 08:10
Jane Austen, July 18, 1817
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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More of what listeners want to know about the British novelist who produced six classic novels in a lifespan of just 47 years. She's been dead for ...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Author Sharon Chmielarz on "Calling" and "The Sky is Great the Sky is Blue"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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Sharon Chmielarz has had poems published in several literary magazines including The Laurel Review, The Iowa Review, Water~Stone, Kalliope, Ascent,...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 16, 2011
  • Length: 23:45
  • Purchases: 1
Jim Proebstle on Fatal Incident
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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Every Wednesday night on Real Good Words, Heidi talks with authors about their writings. Heard that phrase before? Want to take it on as your own?...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 09, 2011
  • Length: 23:43
  • Purchases: 1
Interview with Author Wayne Quist
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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Interview about Quist's novel God's Angry Man, the true story of a Minnesota boy orphaned at age seven during te Greaat Depression and indentured a...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 02, 2011
  • Length: 17:57
  • Purchases: 1
"Christmas Eve at the Mermaid" by David Dodge and Loyall McLaren
From: Camino Real Productions, LLC
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Christmas Eve, 1597, in the favorite haunt of impecunious Elizabethan playwrights and actors, The Mermaid Tavern.

Bought by KUPR low power FM, KUNM, and KUNM


  • Added: Dec 19, 2010
  • Length: 41:01
  • Purchases: 3
Tim Kehoe on "The Unusual Mind of Vincent Shadow"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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Our conversation with Tim Kehoe.

  • Added: Jul 22, 2010
  • Length: 16:26
The Dead Celebrity Space Corps
From: William Hrdina
Series: Simple Journeys to Odd Destinations
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It sucks we lose so many talented people so young, perhaps they're not gone after all...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2010
  • Length: 09:18
Acute Bibliophobia
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Colin McEnroe Show: Fresh Voices
Caption: There's too many books!, Credit: Flickr Creative Commons, chrisrobinsonphotography
How does a lifelong passion for books transform itself into an acute fear?

  • Added: Jan 18, 2010
  • Length: 06:30
Cat Lady
From: Joseph Keckler
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A short story in which a young man narrates a particular afternoon in the home of his mother, who has created a theater, of sorts, in which cats ar...

  • Added: Dec 24, 2009
  • Length: 22:19
Native American Poet Heid E. Erdrich
From: New Letters on the Air
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Poet Heid E. Erdrich comes from a family of writers, including sisters Louise AND Lise. She talks about her talented family, as well as issues of ...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
This Poem
From: Ken Cormier
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A poet introduces his work.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2009
  • Length: 03:06
THE LACE READER-audiobook review
From: AudioFile Magazine
Series: Audiopolis
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THE LACE READER-audiobook review

  • Added: Aug 24, 2008
  • Length: 03:57
Show 8: Myths
From: Bill King
Series: Shakespeare in the Alley: Bob Dylan's Poetics
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Dylan Debunks False Myths

Bought by KPIP-LP, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WMNF, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and more


  • Added: Aug 13, 2008
  • Length: 01:01:55
  • Purchases: 6
A Mind of Winter
From: Benjamin Winter
Caption: PRX default Piece image
One must have a mind of winter to ride the bus in January.

  • Added: Jun 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:41
Five Stories Chronicling the Wisdom of Items Found in a Convenience Store
From: William Hrdina
Series: Simple Journeys to Odd Destinations
Caption: www.williamhrdina.com
A series of 5 very short stories from the POV of soda, water, corn chips, cigarettes, and a can of potted meat

  • Added: Jun 13, 2008
  • Length: 09:18
Vietnam Visits Uncle Bill
From: Vose Productions
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"Vietnam Visits Uncle Bill" is a story in which a Vietnam veteran confronts his past through a dialogue with the ghost of the My Lai massacre.

Bought by The PRX Podcast


  • Added: May 11, 2008
  • Length: 19:31
  • Purchases: 1
Smallest Gallery in Town
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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Take an audio tour of a crawl space turned gallery.

Bought by WFIU


  • Added: Apr 19, 2008
  • Length: 08:16
  • Purchases: 1