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On this episode, we talked about the new book "High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape," which explores the many ways that the humble...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Dec 02, 2023
- Length: 28:12
- Purchases: 1
On this episode, we talked about Cosey Fanni Tutti's new book Re-Sisters, which intertwines her own life and work with that of electronic music pio...
Bought by Raven Radio and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Nov 18, 2023
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 2
Campbell Library (East Grand Forks, MN) news on tap! Everything from glass etching to birds! Director Charlotte Helgeson has the spicy details!
- Added: Nov 01, 2023
- Length: 14:46
On this episode, we talked about "Beneath Missouri Skies," a biography of jazz guitarist Pat Metheny's early years growing up in Lee's Summit, Miss...
- Added: Oct 28, 2023
- Length: 28:31
Charlotte Helgeson, Director of the Campbell Public Library of east Grand Forks, MN, has the sometimes "spooky" details of activities and events at...
- Added: Oct 25, 2023
- Length: 12:44
Welcome to melodically challenged, where this week’s show is She’s a Maneater!—a collection of poems featuring history’s most dangerous and misunde...
- Added: Sep 26, 2023
- Length: 01:00:06
Book artist Felicia Rice on a lifetime of creating letterpress art and confronting the issues of our time.
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Sep 25, 2023
- Length: 57:00
- Purchases: 1
HOUR ONE: "Reframing The Portrait" - Have you ever stood in front of a portrait at a museum and wondered what was that person thinking? Portraits h...
- Added: Sep 22, 2023
- Length: 01:59:01
Stories by Reverend Robert B. Jones and Andy Offutt Irwin
Bought by KTXK, KSJE, KECG, Angelica Community Radio, KKRN and more
- Added: Sep 20, 2023
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 8
On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we talked about a couple of recent books that explore the ways that the black metal genre has evo...
- Added: Sep 16, 2023
- Length: 27:19
Poet Dara Barrois/Dixon (née Dara Wier) discusses her most recent collection, "Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina."
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WETS, and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Sep 15, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Leah Johnson writes romance novels. But not THAT kind. She writes award-winning YA books for queer Black kids and others. We talked about drag show...
- Added: Sep 07, 2023
- Length: 52:30
Tess Gunty about why she set her National Book Award winning novel in Indiana. Austin Davis reflects on houselessness in his poetry. And Chapter 3 ...
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 52:29
Welcome to another edition of melodically challenged, where this week, we feature poems addressing the United Nation’s thirteenth goal of sustainab...
- Added: Aug 29, 2023
- Length: 01:00:06
Author and Illustrator Chris Monroe talks about her new book "Sasquatch and Squirrel"
- Added: Aug 17, 2023
- Length: 08:30
'Hidden in Plain Sight: The San Francisco Poet's Street-Corner Oasis’ (2017) documents the underground (yet overground) poetry happening ’The Corne...
- Added: Aug 14, 2023
- Length: 09:06
On this episode, we talked about "Switched On," the great new biography of Bob Moog that documents his life and work. We would have a very differen...
- Added: Aug 12, 2023
- Length: 28:30
On this episode, we talked about "The Names of Minimalism," a new music history book that approaches the genre from the perspective of rivalries an...
- Added: Aug 05, 2023
- Length: 28:00
Charlotte Helgeson, Director of the Campbell Public Library in East Grand Forks, MN, shares details of hot summertime fun at Campbell!
- Added: Aug 02, 2023
- Length: 15:27
On this episode, we talked about the music of Toby Driver, and his essay in the book Arcana Volume IV, which you can borrow from the library. Drive...
- Added: Jul 29, 2023
- Length: 28:19
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost
Welcome to another edition of melodically challenged whe...
- Added: Jul 27, 2023
- Length: 01:00:06
The creators of How to Write a Novel in 20 Pies talk with Earth Eats about their book.
- Added: Jul 27, 2023
- Length: 54:02
On this episode of the Polley Music Library show, we talked about the book "Recombo DNA," an in-depth biography of the band Devo that focuses on th...
- Added: Jul 15, 2023
- Length: 28:31
Director Charlotte Helgeson of the Campbell Public Library of East Grand Forks "serves up" the latest Campbell events and services!
- Added: Jul 12, 2023
- Length: 14:34
Together we can change the world, just one random act of kindness at a time. Ron Hall
Welcome to this week’s melodically challenged when we will ...
- Added: Jun 26, 2023
- Length: 01:00:04
