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This Classic NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR features a look back at the importance of poetry after 9/11 with readings by Arab-American Naomi Shihab Nye, no...
Bought by WGCU, WDCB, and GCR (Global Community Radio)
- Added: Sep 17, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Peter Balakian talks about his 2010 book, ZIGGURAT-- a contemplation on architecture, visual arts, his personal experi...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Sep 15, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Sandip Roy remembers his boyhood fascination with Hergé's famous comic, Tintin
- Added: Jan 22, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Author Kiersten White's retelling of the Mary Shelley's classic novel from the point of view of Mrs. Frankenstein.
- Added: Oct 30, 2018
- Length: 29:36
2018 marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. On this episode of Don't Cha Know we discuss the importance of ...
- Added: Jan 26, 2018
- Length: 26:23
On this occasion of the birth of Thoreau we are forced to confront the vexed nature of our reception of his genius. So many of us hate Thoreau, whi...
- Added: Jul 18, 2017
- Length: 58:05
January 2015 marks the 150th anniversary of the first publication of Tolstoy’s War and Peace. A new book offers Tolstoyan wisdom for troubled times...
Bought by WCNY, KPVL, CHSR-FM 97.9, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WFHB and more
- Added: Dec 12, 2014
- Length: 53:56
- Purchases: 8
January 2015 marks the 150th anniversary of the first publication of Tolstoy’s War and Peace. A new book offers Tolstoyan wisdom for troubled times...
- Added: Dec 12, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 4
Hear fascinating facts about Montana's 150 years as a territory and a state during this interview with Aaron Parrett, author of MONTANA THEN AND NOW.
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KSJD
- Added: Jul 11, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Tim O'Brien, who served in Vietnam, talks his novel (and Big Read selection) The Things They Carried and how fiction can often tell a deeper trut...
Bought by KPIP-LP, RadioFreePalmer, and KBBI Alaska
- Added: Nov 10, 2011
- Length: 29:35
- Purchases: 3
This show features the work of younger poets whose first books were published as a result of winning the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, including Natasha...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 29:00
On a trip to see his brother, Walt Whitman was so struck by the violence of the Civil War that he stayed to help heal wounded soldiers. He hoped hi...
Bought by KVNF, WHFR, WRKF, RadioFreePalmer, KVSC and more
- Added: Jul 13, 2009
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 13
Look both ways before crossing into January. This week: how to greet the New Year.
- Added: Dec 30, 2007
- Length: 08:30
