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During the Nazi regime, many German artists, scientists, and other intellectuals found refuge in Southern California. The authors Lion Feuchtwanger...

  • Added: Aug 07, 2019
  • Length: 34:48
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In her biography, Henry David Thoreau: A Life, Laura Walls shows us a man deeply engaged with friends, relatives and neighbors, a man thoroughly of...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2019
  • Length: 58:55
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Canadian historian and author Edward Chamberlin discusses his book "The Baker and the Blackfoot: An Untold Story of Friendship, Trust, and Broken P...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 23, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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HOUR ONE: "Writing Truth And Lies" - How close to reality were the "Little House" books? Does it matter? This hour, we'll talk morality in memoirs....

  • Added: Jul 19, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:58
Caption: Jennifer Weiner
The times, they are a’changin’. This week on Inflection Point, Lauren Schiller talks to author Jennifer Weiner, about her newest bestselling book “...

Bought by KKRN, Louisville Public Media, KWIT, WNIN, KSJD and more


  • Added: Jul 02, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: David Jepsen
Interview by Mike Dumovich: David discusses his new history book called Contested Boundaries.

  • Added: Jun 21, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
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Journalist and director of arts and culture for the city of Detroit Rochelle Riley interviews author Marie Benedict.

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Jun 15, 2019
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 1
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National Writers Series co-founder Doug Stanton talks with authors Elizabeth Berg, Elizabeth Letts, and Lynne Olson.

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Jun 14, 2019
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 1
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Author Erik Davis takes us on a weird, wild ride through the gnostic/network experiences of Philip K. Dick and Robert Anton Wilson in the early 197...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jun 07, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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With Walt Whitman's 200th birthday on May 31st, we're revisiting the time just before the Civil War with Justin Martin's book, REBEL SOULS: WALT WH...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: May 31, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A novel about the Dakota Sioux people and their lifestyle prior to the arrival of the settlers.

  • Added: May 22, 2019
  • Length: 12:06:02
Caption: Author Tim Wheeler
Interview by Ken Winkes: Tim describes his career as a reporter, talks about his politics, and reveals he has a new book.

  • Added: May 17, 2019
  • Length: 28:01
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In this presentation at the Kansas City Public Library, Scottish-born writer Margot Livesey talks about her evolution as a reader and writer, and s...

  • Added: May 08, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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We kick off National Preservation Week and continue our celebration of National Poetry Month by pulling from our audio archives to look back on the...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR begins National Poetry Month with Edward Hirsch, a poet and "MacArthur genius" who was the editor of THE BEST AMERICAN POETR...

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Apr 10, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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A poet with Cook County Connections was recently selected by The New York Times as having published one of the ten best poetry books of 2018. Mic...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2019
  • Length: 15:19
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“The stories of the Bongas, all of them, are so compelling and they’re so intertwined with early Minnesota history…at nearly every treaty that was ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2019
  • Length: 12:59
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet host Alan Wartes spoke with author Sean Prentiss.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Feb 22, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Author Greg Iles talks with National Writers Series co-founder Doug Stanton.

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Jan 26, 2019
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Told in full for the first time, “Camelot’s End: Kennedy vs. Carter and the Fight that Broke the Democratic Party” is a carefully threaded narrativ...

Bought by WYPL


  • Added: Jan 25, 2019
  • Length: 25:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A story that began its life under a cloud of controversy.

Bought by KKRN, KCHW, Spokane Public Radio, KKRN, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jan 16, 2019
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 16
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Wilde's facility with words contributes to his undoing.

Bought by KKRN, WCPN, KKRN, KMUN, KWMR and more


  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 17
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We talk with the great cartoonist Jules Feiffer about the third graphic novel in his noir trilogy about the Hollywood blacklist of the 1940s and 50...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
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MN Reads has a conversation with Dave Page, the author of "F. Scott Fitzgerald in Minnesota: The Writer and His Friends at Home," published by Fitz...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2019
  • Length: 10:23
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Casey Charles discusses his book, The Monkey Cages, a novel inspired by the 1955 Bosie, ID homosexuality scandal. He also reads a poem from his boo...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KWMR


  • Added: Dec 28, 2018
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 5