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Kim Hines’ Young Adult Novella Wingo Fly (2020) revolves around Christy Wingo, a 10 year old Black girl in 1965 Minneapolis, Minnesota. The book is...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Oct 21, 2020
- Length: 05:31
- Purchases: 1
The final episode of this series. Spoon and Matthew perform an excerpt from a play by Spoon. Spoon and his brother Abe talk about their dad, Matthe...
- Added: Apr 27, 2020
- Length: 20:00
Rodrigo Torres is searching for the truth about creativity.
- Added: Jan 02, 2020
- Length: 03:46
In this episode, we share an interview with Mahogany Browne and Brooklyn poet laureate Tina Chang, plus a story about the classic novel A Tree Grow...
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 31:58
On this episode of Art Beat we enter a fantasy realm of magic, swords and dragons with Minnesota author James Petrillo. Petrillo’s most recent nove...
- Added: Jul 30, 2019
- Length: 44:44
Mike Olson is a Minneapolis based composer who loves creating and performing music with vintage analogue electronic instruments. His fragment-based...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 06, 2019
- Length: 04:05
- Purchases: 1
Our wars abroad and our wars at home. This week on the show, acclaimed graphic artist Molly Crabapple and Syrian journalist Marwan Hisham join Laur...
Bought by KDNK
- Added: Jul 11, 2018
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
200 years ago, she created one of the most famous monsters of all time, Frankenstein. On this episode of Art Beat we take you to Frankenfest, where...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Apr 19, 2018
- Length: 25:56
- Purchases: 1
On this episode of Art Beat, we take you to Paperbacks and Pieces in Winona, MN to talk to Deb Cumberland. Deb Cumberland, Professor of English at ...
- Added: Nov 13, 2017
- Length: 17:40
This week on Art Beat, we catch up with performer Patrick Scully, to talk about his show, Leaves of Grass – Illuminated. The production is a one ma...
- Added: Nov 03, 2017
- Length: 18:00
Alaska's own, Maeva Ordaz, on winning the 2015 Poetry Out Loud national title;
- Added: Oct 20, 2016
- Length: 06:59
Pirates love the water. It’s their sustenance, it’s their highway, it’s their haven. Lester Blackiston loved the water. As a matter of fact, I didn...
- Added: Aug 25, 2016
- Length: 27:08
Blackbeard the pirate may have had as many as 14 wives, the last one being a 16 year old girl who he gave to his crew after he deflowered her. It w...
- Added: Aug 18, 2016
- Length: 25:45
Pirates and their deeds become legend. Blackbeard, Lester’s personal favorite, did this thing with canon fuses, or so the legend goes. Just as his...
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 26:15
- Added: Aug 03, 2016
- Length: 24:46
This is the story of a dead man. He gave up the ghost a few years ago. And some who knew him might say he never had a ghost to give up in the first...
- Added: Jul 22, 2016
- Length: 26:09
Audiences will be treated to King Lear the way it sounded in 1606 at its first performance at the Court of Saint James. Director and IU associate p...
- Added: May 05, 2016
- Length: 23:27
Hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of rare books have been disappearing across America since the late 90s, and haven’t resurfaced in the marke...
- Added: Jun 30, 2015
- Length: 21:34
- Purchases: 2
Melvin McCosh was a poet, musician and bookstore owner who sold out of his home, and later in Dinkytown and the West Bank. KFAI producer Britt Aamo...
Bought by WDSE
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 06:02
- Purchases: 1
A newly updated piece on NaNoWriMo. November is National Novel Writing Month, sometimes known as NaNoWriMo. In a studio loft on the Chicago's North...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 05:12
- Purchases: 2
Why do books so often turn to music? Richard Powers, author of a new, music-filled novel Orfeo, speaks to the strength of songs and symphonies, inc...
Bought by KICI Iowa City, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 12:57
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Feb 21, 2014
- Length: 01:30
Eudora Welty was one of the South’s most beloved writers, and her fiction is still a study in detail and dialogue and wit. Her settings were often ...
Bought by Troy Public Radio and Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Jan 17, 2014
- Length: 13:47
- Purchases: 2
Bestselling novelist Cassandra King talks about her new book Moonrise as well as her writing relationship with her husband, famous author Pat Conro...
Bought by Troy Public Radio and Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Jan 07, 2014
- Length: 20:07
- Purchases: 2
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Featuring South African Flutist Wouter Kellerman, International Fusion Music Star Ricky Kej...
- Added: Sep 25, 2013
- Length: 58:20
