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With Good Reason brings you highlights from the 2011 Virginia Festival of the Book

  • Added: Mar 29, 2011
  • Length: 28:57
Caption: Deborah Brandt
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
Caption: An Iraqi official displays a recovered stolen artifact., Credit: Associated Press
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
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The Life and Legend of Louis Armstrong and “Live a Little!” Learning to Live “A Pretty Healthy Life” … this week on Prime Time Radio.

Bought by WVTF, Prairie Public, WLRH, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WEMU and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2010
  • Length: 59:55
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Joseph O'Neill
NETHERLAND, the 2009 novel by Joseph O'Neill, won the PEN/Faulkner award. He discusses the arduous process of writing the book, which is set in hi...

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  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Simple storytelling has become complicated.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2009
  • Length: 01:43
Caption: Bob Schieffer of CBS's "Face the Nation" pokes fun at his friend Thomas Friedman during the 2009 Fourth Estate Awards Dinner., Credit: Noel St. John
Thomas Friedman, the ground-breaking New York Times foreign affairs columnist and author, will receive the 2009 Fourth Estate Award, the National P...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2009
  • Length: 01:02:03
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A conversation with founder Anthony Rotolo

  • Added: Jun 15, 2009
  • Length: 24:44
Caption: Niall Ferguson
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
Caption: Robert Silvers
What were they thinking?? A talk with MIT economist James Poterba about the motivations behind the economic crisis -- followed by an in-depth inter...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2009
  • Length: 55:00
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Stories of setting out to do something.

Bought by WUFT


  • Added: Jan 30, 2009
  • Length: 01:00:16
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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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
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confessions of a Colin Firth groupie

  • Added: Feb 15, 2008
  • Length: 05:25
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Author Irvine Welsh talks about his latest book "The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs".

  • Added: Jul 19, 2007
  • Length: 23:53
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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
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An 'in dialect' and audio narrative of rural poems from the Annapolis Valley, in Nova Scotia, Canada

  • Added: May 02, 2006
  • Length: 02:36
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Commentary on the Oprah Winfrey/James Frey controversy

  • Added: Mar 14, 2006
  • Length: 04:27
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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

  • Added: Feb 06, 2006
  • Length: 02:17

  • Added: Feb 06, 2006
  • Length: 02:18
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Stories and poems about a personal relationship with words.

Bought by PRX to iTunes


  • Added: Nov 20, 2005
  • Length: 08:22
  • Purchases: 1
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I have one month in which to write a 50,000-word novel--and this is the month.

Bought by WSCS-FM


  • Added: Nov 15, 2005
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 1
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The story of how a poet inspired a painter to draw a picture about a poem that had, in turn, been inspired by a piece of the painter's work.

Bought by KUCB, Connecticut Public (WNPR), WHQR, and WZBC


  • Added: Mar 27, 2005
  • Length: 05:20
  • Purchases: 4