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Author Peter Matthiessen talks with National Writers Series co-founder Doug Stanton.
Bought by WKAR
- Added: Nov 13, 2019
- Length: 54:29
- Purchases: 1
Thriller writer Nelson DeMille and his son Alex talk with Ron Jolly.
Bought by WKAR
- Added: Nov 12, 2019
- Length: 54:30
- Purchases: 1
Sophia Shalmiyev discusses her lyric, immigrant memoir "Mother Winter."
She also reads a short passage.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Nov 12, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Rucha Ambikar is a professor of sociology at Bemidji State University. Hear our talk about books and reading, what a childhood in India filled with...
- Added: Oct 27, 2019
- Length: 13:51
While Spanish painter and printmaker Francisco de Goya and Russian writer Leo Tolstoy were separated by time and space, the two created incomparabl...
- Added: Oct 10, 2019
- Length: 34:24
While Spanish painter and printmaker Francisco de Goya and Russian writer Leo Tolstoy were separated by time and space, the two created incomparabl...
- Added: Oct 10, 2019
- Length: 26:51
While Spanish painter and printmaker Francisco de Goya and Russian writer Leo Tolstoy were separated by time and space, the two created incomparabl...
- Added: Oct 10, 2019
- Length: 31:19
NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR continues National Hispanic Heritage Month with a public poetry reading at The Writer's Place in Kansas City with poets Mia ...
- Added: Oct 09, 2019
- Length: 29:00
We continue our month-long series that features current State Poets Laureate with Alberto Ríos, named Arizona's inaugural Poet Laureate in 2013. In...
- Added: Aug 14, 2019
- Length: 29:00
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
Poet Juliane Okot Bitek discusses her award-winning collection of poems, "100 Days," written in response to the Rwandan genocide in 1994.
Bought by KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Jun 27, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Arab-American writer Naomi Shihab Nye was born in St. Louis and is now a long-time resident of San Antonio and the 2018 winner of the Texas Institu...
- Added: Jun 19, 2019
- Length: 29:00
The 85 year old Ruskin Bond is a bit of an accidental Indian, but he is also one of the most loved Indian writers. Sandip Roy met him at the Tata S...
- Added: Jun 18, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Listen to Vietnam veteran Tim O'Brien at the Kansas City Public Library, as he discusses experiences that fueled his collection of short stories, T...
- Added: May 23, 2019
- Length: 29:00
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
WorldCanvass guests address questions about the power and indispensability of strong, imaginative, and critical reading in today’s complex world. ...
- Added: Apr 03, 2019
- Length: 51:57
WorldCanvass guests address questions about the power and indispensability of strong, imaginative, and critical reading in today’s complex world. ...
- Added: Apr 03, 2019
- Length: 25:45
WorldCanvass guests address questions about the power and indispensability of strong, imaginative, and critical reading in today’s complex world. S...
- Added: Apr 03, 2019
- Length: 27:27
The Kolkata Book Fair is one of the largest in the world. But it also has space for the smallest of publishers.
- Added: Feb 11, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Sandip Roy remembers his boyhood fascination with Hergé's famous comic, Tintin
- Added: Jan 22, 2019
- Length: 06:00
The idea that art, literature and music in particular, might work as a sort of “Marshall Plan of the Mind” is our topic tonight. At the end of Worl...
- Added: Dec 11, 2018
- Length: 59:02
Gretel Ehrlich and Christopher Merrill discuss the anthology, "Hearth: A Global Conversation on Community, Identity, and Place." They participated ...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Oct 29, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
In 2006, Robin Robertson's collection, SWITHERING, won the prestigious Forward Poetry Prize for best book. Now selections from that and his other f...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Aug 29, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
This audio anthology features readings by six poets, including a few who are part of the book co-edited by Cherokee writers Diane Glancy and Linda ...
- Added: Aug 23, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
It is an experimental radio piece based on the poem by the Argentine poet Oliverio Girondo. 25 seconds of life was created in the context of the ne...
- Added: Aug 14, 2018
- Length: 15:11
