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James Reiss has written six books of poetry. His critically acclaimed work has appeared in The New York Times, Esquire Magazine, The New Yorker, Th...
- Added: May 01, 2015
- Length: 30:01
Marjorie Sturm talks victimhood, context, and seeing what we want to see.
- Added: Mar 14, 2015
- Length: 21:31
A new online archive of Grimm’s fairy tales reveals the evolution of these iconic stories, whose earlier versions were often violent and sexually s...
- Added: Feb 27, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 6
Tonight’s show, Shadows are Black: Slavery’s Long Setting, features a discussion on the text and context of Herman Melville’s 1855 novella “Benito ...
- Added: Feb 10, 2015
- Length: 57:12
The mystery over what the falcon really is, whether it even existed, and why it has any value has remained so compelling, in fact, that over the ye...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 05, 2015
- Length: 09:15
- Purchases: 1
You’ve heard of Hip-Hop, but what about Krip-Hop? That’s the name for the international movement of disabled artists, poets, musicians, and MCs. On...
- Added: Jan 25, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Prøve Gallery brings their literary magazine to the gallery with a publishing party, an art exhibition and public reading all in one. Prøve Gallery...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
The long awaited get together – William Burroughs and Iggy Pop. Two icons and iconoclasts in one radio program Burroughs at 100. The documentary wo...
- Added: Jan 13, 2015
- Length: 33:32
We don’t have metrics to measure what happens when we read something that changes our life. So this episode is an attempt to deal with that.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 31, 2014
- Length: 18:12
- Purchases: 2
This week we examine the legacy of The Work of Art in the Age of Technological Reproducibility by Walter Benjamin.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 31, 2014
- Length: 20:45
- Purchases: 1
The January show at Prøve Gallery is "Vestiges," a live version of the upcoming issue of "Proof" their literary publication. The opening reception ...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Dec 31, 2014
- Length: 04:37
- Purchases: 1
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
Jeff Nunokawa is a professor of Victorian Literature at Princeton University. Nunokawa is known for his unique literary essays on his Facebook page...
- Added: Oct 23, 2014
- Length: 27:58
With Halloween on the way, it’s scary movie season. That means isolated cabins, psychopathic hillbillies, and evil in the woods. One scholar believ...
- Added: Oct 17, 2014
- Length: 02:45
- Purchases: 3
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
What does it mean when people can get rich without political freedom? New Yorker writer Evan Osnos spent eight years in China covering the nation's...
Bought by KICI Iowa City, KPIP-LP, Radio Newark, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 08, 2014
- Length: 08:57
- Purchases: 5
The Provincetown Public Library, a tiny library at the end of Cape Cod, has become the first public library in the country to create its own digita...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: May 25, 2014
- Length: 04:20
- Purchases: 2
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
It's easy to forget that we are all going to die someday. Then death jumps right out at you.
- Added: Mar 04, 2014
- Length: 08:51
Linda Stasi is a Sunday New York Daily News columnist who specializes in skewering celebrities and politicians. Stasi has won a prestigious Mystery...
- Added: Feb 22, 2014
- Length: 30:06
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
Author and reality TV producer Anne Swan (The Real World, Real Housewives of Atlanta) talks about how reality TV is changing the way we write our n...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Jul 09, 2013
- Length: 48:10
- Purchases: 1
A look at that DIY mainstay, known as the zine, through the lens of a long-running publication called Factsheet Five.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 02, 2013
- Length: 07:18
- Purchases: 1
