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Jackie, a journalist in the 1920s, thought she'd seen it all when she boarded a ship headed where few ships dare sail.
- Added: Sep 08, 2015
- Length: 30:27
Reader's Corner host Bob Kustra talks with the Washington Post's Peter Finn about his fascinating book.
- Added: Sep 04, 2015
- Length: 30:10
Here's how a writer created the music magazine he wanted to read.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KPIP-LP, WNJR, KPVL, and WABE
- Added: Aug 14, 2015
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 5
It’s the rare writer who can pick up where Albert Camus — master of midcentury philosophy and fiction — left off in the modern classic, The Outside...
- Added: Jun 26, 2015
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 2
In this conversation, Edwidge explores the writing of her powerful memoir, Brother, I’m Dying.
- Added: Jun 09, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
Best known for her books about the joys of life in Italy, Frances Mayes has published a new memoir. But this time, she takes her readers back to he...
Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KKRN
- Added: May 29, 2015
- Length: 03:43
- Purchases: 3
When Frances Mayes moved to Tuscany, Italy she left behind her family and roots in Fitzgerald, Georgia. In her new memoir Under Magnolia, the renow...
- Added: May 29, 2015
- Length: 53:55
- Purchases: 6
Based on a time-traveling English nurse in the 20th century who is married to an 18th century Scotsman, Diana’s eight books in The Outlander series...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: May 01, 2015
- Length: 09:58
- Purchases: 2
In a remote corner of Tel Aviv's grimy, labyrinthine central bus station, Mendy Cahan has built a home for Israel's rejected Yiddish books, and it'...
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 16:05
Chaya Gilboa falls deeply in love with a library book, and becomes convinced that her soulmate will have felt the same connection to the text. She ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 12:51
Today’s episode explores the significance of a sacred Hindu text—the Bhagavad Gita.
Bought by KFOI Radio and KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Mar 02, 2015
- Length: 03:25
- Purchases: 2
A funny blog on the site Publishing Perspectives came up with a checklist for the must have ingredients of a bad South Asian diasporan novel. Arran...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
An amusing passage from one of 2014's Ten Best Books (New York Times Book Review), Family Life is a novel by Akhil Sharma who grew up in Delhi, Ind...
- Added: Feb 13, 2015
- Length: 01:40
The Japanese word "Mottainai" refers to the essence of things, and suggests that objects do not exist in isolation, rather that they are intrinsica...
- Added: Feb 02, 2015
- Length: 05:31
Once if you wanted to be an Indian city of any standing, you were measured by flyovers, speciality hospitals or multiplexes. These days you are mea...
- Added: Jan 27, 2015
- Length: 06:00
Sandip Roy is at the Jaipur Literary festival in Kolkata, India's old capital, speaking with Rana Dasgupta about Delhi, India's new capital...
- Added: Jan 20, 2015
- Length: 06:00
Guest interviewer Mimmu Salmela talks with author Mark Munger about his "prequel" novel; a story of Finnish immigration to the United States and Ca...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Dec 31, 2014
- Length: 06:41
- Purchases: 1
We give thanks for transformative writers in this episode entitled UNDERSTANDING OTHERS, a show that features excerpts from six programs that highl...
- Added: Dec 04, 2014
- Length: 29:00
A historian raises questions about the morality of the archival process and reveals how the NSA may change the future of history research.
- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 12:39
Features an in depth conversation with Akashic Books Senior Editor Ibrahim Ahmad discussing the independent press’ evolution over the last two deca...
- Added: Oct 21, 2014
- Length: 16:26
Theodore Bikel talks not doing the tango, the responsibility of the artist, and why singing a song is never naive.
- Added: Sep 02, 2014
- Length: 12:53
We remember the Nobel Prize-winning South African writer Nadine Gordimer, who passed away on July 13, 2014. In this 1994 interview with former NEW ...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Aug 13, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In Japan, insects (or "mushi") are pets, medicine, and even vehicles for spirits. Plus: A robot that kills ticks. And more...
- Added: Jul 11, 2014
- Length: 53:57
- Purchases: 4
In Japan, insects (or "mushi") are pets, medicine, and even vehicles for spirits. Plus: A robot that kills ticks. And: A poem about the insect know...
Bought by WJCT, WDBM, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WLIW, WMNF and more
- Added: Jul 11, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 6
James R. Hannibal is a novelist and a pilot.
- Added: Jul 08, 2014
- Length: 19:09
