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The author discusses the latest Big Read pick, The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears, his novel about an Ethiopian exile in a gentrifying Washingt...
- Added: May 29, 2014
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 2
Professor Lynne Tatlock shares her insights into the art of translation and reveals the many lives of Jane Eyre in Germany.
- Added: May 08, 2014
- Length: 11:40
First Draft highlights the voices of writers as they discuss their work, their craft and the literary arts. This week's show features an interview...
- Added: May 03, 2014
- Length: 28:59
100-second module, from our daily readings for May. A difficult assignment.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Apr 24, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
With a trunk full of her mother’s saris, Kenyan author and performer Shaija Patel reclaims a lost history.
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Apr 11, 2014
- Length: 29:28
- Purchases: 1
India just lost its grand old man of letters. Khushwant Singh was 99 and still writing when he died in Delhi last week.
- Added: Mar 25, 2014
- Length: 04:30
The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!!
Featuring International Bestselling Author Jack Engelhard, and Notes from the Internet Apo...
- Added: Mar 20, 2014
- Length: 58:01
For Women's History Month with a nod to St.Patty's Day, we revisit Irish author Anne Enright, who discusses her dark but humorous approach to writi...
- Added: Mar 19, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Jacob Saenz, Erika Sanchez, and Celeste Mendoza sit down with Quiddity‘s Amy Sayre Baptista in Part II discussion of Latin@ poetics in regards to t...
- Added: Mar 04, 2014
- Length: 14:57
Ruben Quesada and Norma Cantu sit down with Quiddity‘s Amy Sayre Baptista in Part I discussion of Latin@ poetics in regards to their place in The A...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Mar 04, 2014
- Length: 17:35
- Purchases: 1
Dora Zaidenweber is a survivor. She and her family survived a Nazi death camp in Auschwitz during World War II. Decades later she set to work on tr...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KPVL, KKWE Niijii Radio, KVSC, and KSRQ
- Added: Feb 20, 2014
- Length: 27:19
- Purchases: 5
The City of Devi, an apocalyptic sex comedy and love story, is the third book in Manil Suri’s trilogy centered on Mumbai. [26:08]
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Feb 19, 2014
- Length: 26:07
- Purchases: 1
2010 NEA Literature Fellow Adam Johnson talks the challenges of setting a novel in North Korea. [29:00]
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Feb 18, 2014
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
NAOMI BENARON is a trained scientist, marathon runner, and massage therapist. She is also the author of two award-winning fiction books, LOVE LETTE...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Nov 07, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
China is everywhere in American news, but we seem to hear the same stories over and over. A new book set in Shanghai seeks to tell a less familiar ...
- Added: Aug 05, 2013
- Length: 02:32
In his new novel, Kirk Kjeldsen tells the story of an ex-con who is trying to reinvent himself in a new place. The backdrop for the story is Shangh...
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 53:54
- Purchases: 2
In his new novel, Kirk Kjeldsen tells the story of an ex-con who is trying to reinvent himself in a new place. The backdrop for the story is Shangh...
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 3
The U.S. State Department has estimated that 1 million children each year are exploited by the global sex industry. Through a new novel, one author...
Bought by KENW and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 2
Carmignano is an invitation to pause and reflect on the limits of our taste, and learn to surpass them.
It explores how taste is simultaneously th...
- Added: Jun 15, 2013
- Length: 45:00
Reporter, Alison Turner, talks to cast members from the production of Antigone, coming up at the end of June (2013) in Brussels, Belgium. Antigone...
- Added: Jun 10, 2013
- Length: 19:36
Host Erik Redix, an assistant professor of American Indian Studies at UMD, talks with Michael McNamara, Orla Kearns, and Louise Gibbons about the c...
Bought by Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, WMUU-LP, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KSRQ, and KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
- Added: Apr 20, 2013
- Length: 29:24
- Purchases: 5
First published in 1947, Goodnight Moon has become one of the most popular books for young children. Yet the book’s author, Margaret Wise Brown, al...
- Added: Mar 25, 2013
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 4
The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!!
Featuring Artists David Phillips and Amara Kopakova.
- Added: Feb 21, 2013
- Length: 27:55
In this episode we explore beast bridegroom tales and other stories where pigs marry peasants and men fall for snakes. It's a mad fairy tale world ...
- Added: Feb 05, 2013
- Length: 27:22
Robert Moulton the singing cab driver drops in with ... oh it's too goofy to write about but he had me laughing at his audacity. Also songs with d...
- Added: Feb 04, 2013
- Length: 03:03:04
