PRX - Pieces for Topic: Literature
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In the middle of the 20th century, a ten square block area in North Gowanus was home to the largest Mohawk settlement outside of Canada. We hear ab...
- Added: Sep 30, 2021
- Length: 28:17
Books on conveyor belts, book vacuums and books in the mail. This episode of “Borrowed” will take you behind the scenes to see how books travel aro...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 16:48
- Purchases: 1
NPR's Fresh Air book critic Maureen Corrigan discusses her book about the enduring appeal of "The Great Gatsby"
- Added: Jun 07, 2016
- Length: 30:50
What can America learn for today from the Wright brothers? Don’t miss this fascinating interview with David McCullough on The Public Square®.
- Added: Jul 09, 2015
- Length: 57:26
The best of American poets and the worst of American wars met head-on 150 years ago this summer in Walt Whitman’s Drum-Taps, his reflections on nur...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WABE
- Added: Jun 07, 2015
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 5
In 1964, Southern man-of-letters Robert Penn Warren traveled the country with an old reel-to-reel tape recorder and spoke with dozens of men and wo...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Apr 19, 2013
- Length: 08:50
- Purchases: 1
Four centuries ago... did people listen
in a different way than we do now?
How different were the sounds they heard?
And can we tune into their aud...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, HowSound, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KFAI Minneapolis and more
- Added: Sep 18, 2009
- Length: 52:24
- Purchases: 8
Fifty year's after the publication of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" and its subsequent obscenity trial, poets and friends look back at its origins, ...
Bought by KICI Iowa City, KPIP-LP, KRZA, KSFR, New Hampshire Public Radio and more
- Added: Jun 05, 2007
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 6
A newcomer to Los Angeles discovers the city's past -- and future -- through the books of noir master Raymond Chandler.
- Added: Nov 08, 2006
- Length: 13:28
