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The award-winning teacher and novelist discusses her latest novel "Innocents and Others"

  • Added: Sep 13, 2017
  • Length: 27:00
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Take note: On this episode we're following the "Race Beat." We talk with Hank Klibanoff who's book "The Race Beat" tells the story of journalists c...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 25:00
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We cover a lot of territory in our conversation with Kate White. She's the New York Times bestselling author of 11 works of fiction - six of whic...

Bought by WCNY and WRIR


  • Added: Apr 08, 2017
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
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On this episode of Overheard, two authors. First Cokie Roberts tells us about her book Capital Dames. Later, Lawrence Wright on his book Thirteen D...

Bought by Radio Catskill, WLPR , and KUT


  • Added: Feb 21, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 3
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How gratuitous violence is increasingly turning off viewers - Why German detectives are pacifists - Godzilla's hidden messages - The lasting wisdom...

Bought by WNMU-FM and WLIW


  • Added: Jan 06, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
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How gratuitous violence is increasingly turning off viewers - Why German detectives are pacifists - Godzilla's hidden messages - The lasting wisdom...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WEZU, WTJU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jan 06, 2017
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 9
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How gratuitous violence is increasingly turning off viewers - Why German detectives are pacifists - Godzilla's hidden messages

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, KKRN, WUGA (part of GPB), WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Jan 06, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Music writers, musicians and Bob Dylan fans were invited to write to music host Paul Ingles with a choice of a Dylan track since mid-1975 that they...

Bought by WNCW, KMSU, KRCU Public Radio, Radio Catskill, WRGY and more


  • Added: Oct 14, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 14
Caption: "Perhaps the most famous rhinoceros who ever lived..." Portrait of Clara in Paris in 1749, by Jean-Baptiste Oudry.
Eliot Weinberger joins us by phone from New York City.

  • Added: Oct 11, 2016
  • Length: 57:24
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This episode will explore the role of brevity in society today.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 05, 2016
  • Length: 04:47
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Author and Publlisher Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
Millennial-with-attitude and recent journalism graduate Cheyenne Cockrell challenges Gerald with a dozen questions from wannabes who wake up wantin...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2016
  • Length: 54:53
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This episode considers how book to film adaptations are adapting to changes in the publishing industry.

Bought by KFOI Radio


  • Added: Aug 03, 2016
  • Length: 04:19
  • Purchases: 1
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In an address at the 2016 PEN Literary Gala, JK Rowling reflects on the state of free speech around the world. "I find almost everything that Mr. T...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2016
  • Length: 07:19
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This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Leaked Documents Reveal TTIP Free Trade Agreement Would Undermine Climate,...

Bought by WRIR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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NPR's Fresh Air book critic Maureen Corrigan discusses her book about the enduring appeal of "The Great Gatsby"

  • Added: Jun 07, 2016
  • Length: 30:50
Caption: Arthur Phillips
Four hundred years after the death of William Shakespeare and during the Folger Library's year long nationwide tour of The Bard's first folio in 20...

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jun 06, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Join bloomingOUT hosts Janae and Jeff as they host a special 3-part interview with native southern Indiana author, J Patrick Redmond.

  • Added: May 26, 2016
  • Length: 56:59
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A mystery writer, a philosopher, a poet and a filmmaker, each give us some insights about ourselves through talking about their own work

  • Added: Apr 29, 2016
  • Length: 01:58:59
Caption: Ramsey Kanaan, PM Press
Interview by Gary Kanter: Ramsey discusses publishing, PM Press, and that ideas matter. PM Press seeks to create radical and stimulating fiction a...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 28:06
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-Pulitzer Prize winner journalist and historian Rick Atkinson on his work and career. -New York street photographer left behind more than 300,000 i...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, WXDU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Mar 11, 2016
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 8
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How well does any nonfiction writer capture "The Truth?" Essayist Edward McPherson explores truth and memory in nonfiction.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 14:17
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We’re told intelligent machines and big data will free us from work, educate our children, transform our environment, and even make religion more u...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2016
  • Length: 58:34
Caption: Jonathan Goldstein, Credit: Shane Epping
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
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
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
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The Point Reyes Light, a weekly newspaper in West Marin, is known for a lot of things. It won a Pulitzer Prize, it’s done muckraking reporting on a...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 05, 2015
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 1