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As a writer, Joe Hill's family name could have given him a leg up. Instead, he chose to create his own. In this episode of the 10-Minute Writer's W...
- Added: Aug 08, 2016
- Length: 12:19
The bestselling author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - and bonafide Charming British Lady - Helen Simonson lets us in on her writing process, her...
- Added: Aug 08, 2016
- Length: 09:31
Aaron Mahnke is creator of the spooky folktale podcast Lore which quickly shot up the iTunes charts and landed him a television deal. He's also a n...
- Added: Aug 08, 2016
- Length: 11:36
Richard Russo is the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Empire Falls and Nobody’s Fool - both adapted into films starring Paul Newman. He returns to ...
- Added: Aug 08, 2016
- Length: 07:41
Alexander Chee is a careful craftsman of language. As we came to find out, when we talked to him from Argot Studios in NYC, he is as measured, unas...
- Added: Aug 08, 2016
- Length: 10:05
Marianne Williamson has written six New York Times best sellers, including The Age Of Miracles and A Return To Love. Known in some circles as Holly...
- Added: Aug 08, 2016
- Length: 07:56
Tom Perrotta is the author behind, among others, Little Children, The Abstinence Teacher, and The Leftovers, now a hit HBO drama which he co-writes...
- Added: Aug 08, 2016
- Length: 12:45
Megan Abbott has been called "David Lynch for teenagers". Her 2014 novel "The Fever" landed on best books of the year lists from The School Library...
- Added: Aug 08, 2016
- Length: 06:38
Satirist Christopher Buckley, author of "Thank You For Smoking", "The White House Mess", and "The Relic Master", takes us into his writing process.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 08, 2016
- Length: 08:33
- Purchases: 1
The prolific author of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series talks about his writing process.
- Added: Aug 08, 2016
- Length: 09:57
National Book Award winner Patti Smith, also known as "the godmother of punk", dishes on what inspires her writing, what her editing process entail...
- Added: Aug 05, 2016
- Length: 10:47
Salman Rushdie is a Booker-Award-winning novelist and the prolific author of a number of non-fiction works, children's books, and essays. He joined...
- Added: Aug 05, 2016
- Length: 10:08
Conversation about the unique sci-fi, large scale puppet play "Four Garys" written by Jeremiah T.S. Liend
- Added: Aug 03, 2016
- Length: 11:56
Michael Witmore, Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, talks about the reasons Shakespeare still resonates with us.
Bought by Harford Community Radio, WNJR, and WMUU-LP
- Added: May 04, 2016
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 3
Jan Beatty's poetry is unsentimental and clear-eyed about blue-collar work and the people who do it.
Bought by Harford Community Radio, WNJR, and WMUU-LP
- Added: Apr 15, 2016
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 3
Novelist Belinda McKeon: Writing 21st century Ireland
Bought by KBRP Community Radio, WNJR, and WMUU-LP
- Added: Mar 17, 2016
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
Henry Schvey discusses the inspiration for his play on the life of painter Oskar Kokoschka,
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 12:16
Poets and social workers, Nnamdi Chukwuocha and Albert Mills' primary audience have been Wilmington’s under served children.
Bought by WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNJR
- Added: Feb 19, 2016
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 3
When the hurly burly’s done, fair is foul and foul is fair, by the pricking of my thumbs something wicked this way comes, screw your courage to the...
- Added: Feb 02, 2016
- Length: 01:01:00
Two short plays. In Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn’s Fifth Planet, a professional astronomer played by Amy Ryan (Birdman; Gone, Baby, Gone) an...
Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), WHRV, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and KUNM
- Added: Jan 15, 2016
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 4
As a poet, teacher, and heart transplant recipient, Dean Young realizes that mankind's greatest achievements are the intangible ones. Young, the a...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Jan 14, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Robert Wiltenbug surveys the great moments of mercy, both granted and withheld, in Shakespeare's many plays.
- Added: Jan 04, 2016
- Length: 15:07
At the close of each year, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This poem was chosen not only for its ...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Dec 29, 2015
- Length: 04:57
- Purchases: 1
Area Voices producer Alauna Yust got the chance to interview one of her favorite children’s book authors last week. She sat down with Betsy Bowen, ...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Dec 18, 2015
- Length: 11:41
- Purchases: 1
Claudia Rankine discusses her play The Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KPVL, WNJR, and KPIP-LP
- Added: Aug 14, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 4
