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Lysley Tenorio talks with author Anthony Doerr.
Bought by WNMU-FM, Michigan Radio, and WKAR
- Added: Nov 11, 2021
- Length: 54:30
- Purchases: 3
In 2018 historian and writer Nathaniel Philbrick, his wife Melissa, and their dog Dora took off on a road trip to trace George Washington’s route a...
- Added: Nov 06, 2021
- Length: 11:48
We talk with graphic artist Joe Lee about his stunningly illustrated book, Forgiveness: The Story of Eva Kor, Survivor of The Auschwitz Twin Experi...
- Added: Nov 04, 2021
- Length: 58:57
Poet and editor Wayne Miller reads from his book, THE CITY, OUR CITY, a 2012 finalist for the William Carlos Williams Poetry Award. He also discus...
- Added: Oct 28, 2021
- Length: 29:00
David Hill is a writer from Hot Springs, Arkansas. His work has appeared regularly in Grantland and The Ringer, and has been featured in The New Yo...
- Added: Oct 18, 2021
- Length: 14:16
In 1969, a white journalist named Grace Halsell, published a book called Soul Sister. It was her account of living as a “black woman” in the United...
- Added: Oct 15, 2021
- Length: 12:18
Marisel Vera talks about unpacking the history of late 19th century Puerto Rico for her novel “The Taste of Sugar.”
- Added: Oct 12, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
From: Francesca Rheannon
This week: two novels exploring love, trauma and the legacies of war. Both are based on true stories from World War II.
First, Jai Chakrabarti tel...
- Added: Oct 09, 2021
- Length: 59:00
Shakespeare on the brain! We talk with Nuyorican playwright Migdalia Cruz about her adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth for modern audiences.
Then...
- Added: Oct 09, 2021
- Length: 58:36
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
HOUR ONE: "Finding Meaning In Desperate Times" - The pandemic isn't just a health crisis, it's an x-ray into our psyches. This hour, how COVID-19 i...
- Added: Sep 24, 2021
- Length: 01:58:59
Historian Anthony W. Wood discusses his new book, "Black Montana
Settler Colonialism and the Erosion of the Racial Frontier, 1877-1930."
Bought by KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Sep 15, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Poet Kazim Ali discusses ways portrayals of biblical characters vary in Islam, and the similarity between the Persian poet Rumi and Emily Dickinson...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)
- Added: Aug 26, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Dylan Thomas' unique "play for voices."
Bought by KFCF FM, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMUN and more
- Added: Aug 25, 2021
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 26
NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR features the Past American Voice of Conger Beasley Jr. whose last book, ON BECOMING APACHE, was published posthumously at th...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)
- Added: Aug 19, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Ted Olson, a professor of Appalachian Studies at East Tennessee State University, discusses how his writing has been impacted by the region's histo...
- Added: Jul 06, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Author Michael Punke discusses his new novel, "Ridgeline," about the Fetterman Massacre of 1866.
Bought by Wyoming Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Jun 30, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Today we revisit the great novella of Herman Melville, “Benito Cereno,” serialized in 1855 in Putnam’s Magazine. Written with the US Civil War on t...
Bought by RADIOLEX
- Added: Jun 23, 2021
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Kaitlyn Greenidge whose historical novel Libertie explores the possibilities and limitations for 19th century Black women.
- Added: Jun 18, 2021
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 2
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Jenna Soleo Shanks, Assistant Professor of Theater History at UMD, grew up surrounded by her Italian American family on Long Island. Later in life ...
- Added: Jun 17, 2021
- Length: 08:37
Our guest is author Thalia Field and our show is about the way normative stories, whether told as fiction or science or religion or history, work t...
- Added: May 25, 2021
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 3
Topic 1 - Electric Woman; Topic 2 - Sensory History; Topic 3 - Mycelium Coffins
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KOWS, and WYAP
- Added: Apr 20, 2021
- Length: 51:46
- Purchases: 3
Alan Wald's Literary Left Trilogy investigates aspects of intellectual, literary, and cultural movements and figures associated with left-wing poli...
- Added: Mar 23, 2021
- Length: 59:03
She worked with intense dedication to be heard in a world that has no ears to hear women. But, Plath was a woman who wrote many times of her disdai...
- Added: Mar 09, 2021
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 2
Affrilachian and Cave Canem poet Nikky Finney talks about her father, the first African American Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court,...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)
- Added: Mar 04, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
