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We speak with Jenny Odell, author of "Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock," about how the ways we think about time shapes our lives. A...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Have you ever wished there was a different way to read – or hear - the news? For generations, through wars and political upheaval, poets have been ...
Bought by WRKF, Boise State Public Radio, KUOW, WKSU, and KECG
- Added: Jan 18, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
HOUR ONE: "Docupoetry" - Have you ever wished there was a different way to read – or hear - the news? For generations, through wars and political u...
- Added: Jan 12, 2024
- Length: 01:59:00
Multi-award winning short story writer, Amina Gautier, shares excerpts from her 2018 PEN/Malamud Award-winning, THE LOSS OF ALL LOST THINGS, as par...
- Added: Feb 10, 2022
- Length: 29:00
Though Americans don’t know her like they do Dr. Seuss, Enid Blyton wrote some 700 books for kids and teens. But now she, like Seuss, is coming und...
- Added: Jul 06, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Over a decade ago Sandip Roy was called to service…. By Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
- Added: Mar 02, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Dr. Synnika's Topical Poem of the Week is a weekly show that uses poetry to explore the social, political, and racial conditions in America. Each e...
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 03:30
How can we possibly dream of a better future in the middle of a pandemic? One way is with the help of literature.
- Added: Jul 13, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Samantha Dwyer from Humanities Montana interviews acclaimed science journalist David Quammen about his book, "Spillover: Animal Infections and the ...
- Added: Apr 13, 2020
- Length: 23:00
This week is focused on words from prisoners sent or smuggled from inside. From the jail in Evansville, Indiana, to letters from participants in Op...
- Added: Feb 17, 2020
- Length: 30:04
On today's special edition of Big Talk!, Michael Glab speaks with Indiana State Poet Laureate Adrian Matejka about his poetry and the inspiration h...
- Added: Jan 08, 2018
- Length: 08:23
A struggling writer finds unexpected kindness and friendship from his poor landlord in this short story by George Gissing, whom George Orwell ranke...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WMUU-LP
- Added: Mar 07, 2016
- Length: 57:55
- Purchases: 2
To close Black History Month, words that inspired hope and incited action in the struggle for the abolition of slavery and for the empowerment of p...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WMUU-LP
- Added: Feb 29, 2016
- Length: 59:20
- Purchases: 2
A Bloomington artist who has altered a single poem for years, all the while performing it for live audiences.
- Added: Feb 22, 2016
- Length: 07:38
The first published short story by an African American, “The Mulatto” appeared in 1837 in an anti-slavery magazine in France. Its author was the 19...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WMUU-LP
- Added: Feb 22, 2016
- Length: 58:22
- Purchases: 2
A black man and a white woman might be the last two people on earth in the post-apocalyptic tale “The Comet,” an early example of African-American ...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WMUU-LP
- Added: Feb 15, 2016
- Length: 58:38
- Purchases: 2
Illness cuts short Nurse Periwinkle’s service for the Union Army as Hospital Sketches concludes. In the last chapters of her thinly fictionalized m...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WMUU-LP
- Added: Feb 08, 2016
- Length: 58:07
- Purchases: 2
Both Louisa May Alcott and Walt Whitman were profoundly affected by the aftermath of the Battle of Fredericksburg during the American Civil War. In...
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Feb 01, 2016
- Length: 58:40
- Purchases: 1
Stories about how our need for redemption from our disappointment expresses itself in the holiday season marked by the solstice and the turn of the...
- Added: Dec 23, 2015
- Length: 58:12
- Purchases: 3
Christmas is the setting as sly women turn the tables on their menfolk in a pair of overlooked short stories from the classic era of magazine fiction.
- Added: Dec 21, 2015
- Length: 58:01
- Purchases: 3
Contemporary women poets reimagine fairy tales and the cultural icon of the ballerina—especially of the black swan school—along with two unsettling...
- Added: Dec 07, 2015
- Length: 57:59
- Purchases: 2
The protagonist of "The Massacre of Yangzhou" is the southern Chinese city of Yangzhou, a rich and beautiful center of the failing Ming Dynasty as ...
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Nov 09, 2015
- Length: 59:28
- Purchases: 1
“Berenice” by Edgar Allan Poe is the featured story for the Halloween finale of “American Girls Horror Stories.” One of Poe’s lesser-known tales, “...
- Added: Nov 02, 2015
- Length: 56:01
Male fears of female domination form one of the strands of horror in “The Thing on the Doorstep” by H.P. Lovecraft, with marriage both transforming...
- Added: Oct 27, 2015
- Length: 58:25
A hallucinatory, apocalyptic fervor pervades the 1860 short story “Circumstance” by Harriet Prescott Spofford, about a woman held all night by a my...
- Added: Oct 19, 2015
- Length: 58:03
