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Writer and radio producer Jonathan Goldstein talks about starting out in radio, working at This American Life, and blurring the line between fact &...
- Added: Jan 17, 2016
- Length: 09:53
Twenty four hours or so have passed since a portrait of the older Atticus Finch as a bigot, complaining about the integration of “Negroes” into th...
- Added: Jul 16, 2015
- Length: 04:07
Marjorie Sturm talks victimhood, context, and seeing what we want to see.
- Added: Mar 14, 2015
- Length: 21:31
In the age of texts, twitter and email, do people still write fan letters? What compels us to do so?
- Added: Dec 24, 2014
- Length: 29:40
NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR celebrates libraries with this audio anthology of poets, novelists, and memoirists who talk about how they found inspiration...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Oct 13, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Reza Aslan on Zealot and academia; Maxwell Grant on Lev Grossman's Magicians series.
- Added: Oct 13, 2014
- Length: 44:08
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
Pratibha Parmar discusses making the recent documentary about an iconic American writer, Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth, which can be seen on the Am...
- Added: Feb 20, 2014
- Length: 27:59
- Purchases: 3
When the publishers Penguin and Random House merged, it called itself The world's first truly global book publishing company". Sounds powerful. But...
- Added: Feb 17, 2014
- Length: 04:30
Herbert Huncke's line "I'm beat, man" gave Jack Kerouac the label for a generation seeking spiritual sustenance and "kicks" in post-war America.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WJCT, KRZA, and KPIP-LP
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 4
Poet and fiction writer Sapphire, best-known for her novel PUSH, which became the award-winning film PRECIOUS, reads from her 2011 novel, THE KID, ...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Nov 16, 2011
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
A conversation with the author of a new book about the literary history of Brooklyn.
- Added: Nov 11, 2011
- Length: 08:00
With Good Reason brings you highlights from the 2011 Virginia Festival of the Book
- Added: Mar 29, 2011
- Length: 28:57
Every day, politicians publish books telling the stories of their lives and their political views. But more often than not these “autobiographies” ...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Mar 17, 2011
- Length: 53:56
- Purchases: 1
From Guarding Heritage March 19, 2010. War News Radio speaks with writer Claudia Roth-Pierpont about her readings of Arabic novels.
- Added: Mar 19, 2010
- Length: 07:24
A conversation with founder Anthony Rotolo
- Added: Jun 15, 2009
- Length: 24:44
This ThoughtCast hour discusses the American "empire" and the American elite, in two back-to-back interviews. The first is with Niall Ferguson, the...
Bought by WGBH Radio Boston and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Mar 17, 2009
- Length: 55:00
- Purchases: 2
Actor from Terminator: Sara Conner Chronicles discusses the series and his film work in No Country For Old Men and The Assassination Of Jesse James...
- Added: Jan 26, 2009
- Length: 42:20
His sixth year in the competition, Nate says this piece is about poetry, the Slam, and the positive impact it can have on youth. Nate Marshall is ...
- Added: Apr 02, 2008
- Length: 02:26
an award-winning author of 5 novels tells what it takes to write one
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Dec 12, 2006
- Length: 03:07
- Purchases: 1
Episode 1 features poet laureates Mark Strand, Gwendolyn Brooks and Ted Kooser discussing the art and craft of writing poetry and reading some of t...
Bought by WETS, WCPN, WFHB, North Country Public Radio, Kansas Public Radio and more
- Added: Mar 02, 2006
- Length: 01:04:02
- Purchases: 13
