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GPV29 Book Review - A Delicate Truth
From: Gerald Jones
Series: GetPublished! Radio Book Review Featurettes
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
Here's Gerald's audio book review of A Delicate Truth by John Le Carré.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2017
  • Length: 03:08
Jon Meacham / Doris Kearns Goodwin
From: Colleen Nelson
Series: Overheard with Evan Smith
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On this episode of Overheard, two Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historians. First Doris Kearns Goodwin on Teddy Roosevelt followed by Jon Me...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Feb 21, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
GPV19 Book Review - Griftopia
From: Gerald Jones
Series: GetPublished! Radio Book Review Featurettes
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
Here's Gerald's audio book review of Griftopia by Matt Tiaibi

  • Added: Jan 25, 2017
  • Length: 02:18
The Muse on the Inside
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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Our topic this week is creativity behind bars. We showcase poetry from prisoners working with the Indiana Prisoners' Writing Project, a piece by Sh...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2017
  • Length: 28:19
GPV12 Book Review - Sweet Tooth
From: Gerald Jones
Series: GetPublished! Radio Book Review Featurettes
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
Here's Gerald's audio book review of Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:19
GPV08 Book Review - The Prague Cemetery
From: Gerald Jones
Series: GetPublished! Radio Book Review Featurettes
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
Here's Gerald's audio book review of The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco about the roots of fascism in Europe.

  • Added: Jan 12, 2017
  • Length: 03:14
Speeches from the 2016 Dayton Literary Peace Prize
From: WYSO
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Speeches on writing and peace from the winners of the 2016 Dayton Literary Peace Prize: Susan Southard, Viet Thanh Nguyen and Marilynne Robinson- w...

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: Jan 04, 2017
  • Length: 51:25
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Seth Kantner - 269
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Seth Kantner talks about growing up in rural Alaska -- 100 miles above the Arctic Circle -- and the essays in his collection 'Swallowed by the Grea...

Bought by KWMR, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KGLT, Spokane Public Radio, KSJD and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Interchange - Love and Activism in the Bicentennial
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Andy Piascik is a radical activist and author who’s written for many publications including Jacobin, Counterpunch, and ZMagazine. He is the author ...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2016
  • Length: 59:43
The Write Question - Keth McCafferty - 265
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Keith McCafferty talks about and reads from the fifth book in his Sean Stranahan mystery series, Buffalo Jump Blues. He also talks about real-life ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Yellowstone Public Radio, KSJD, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 19, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
JK Rowling on Donald Trump and the Right to Offend
From: PEN America
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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
Jeffrey Toobin Reads Award-Winning Prison Essay
From: PEN America
Series: The Freedom to Write
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Author Jeffrey Toobin of the New Yorker reads "The Colfax Crew” an essay from the PEN Prison Writing Contest by Tim Boland of Minnesota Correctiona...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2016
  • Length: 10:55
Obligations of a Freeman
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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'Obligations of a freeman', a serious sermon by a humorous and anti-religious Mark Twain...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:35:32
Life and Freedom for Ashraf Fayadh
From: PEN America
Series: The Freedom to Write
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Natalie Diaz reads the poetry of Ashraf Fayadh, a Palestinian poet and art curator who was sentenced to life in prison for "apostasy" in Saudi Arabia.

  • Added: Jul 12, 2016
  • Length: 07:46
Dr. Anton Treuer touring state answering questions, dispelling myths about Indian people & culture
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Dr. Anton Treuer is professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji State University, and author of 14 books, including "Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians...

  • Added: May 27, 2016
  • Length: 14:58
Ideas Books: Will Atkinson, Class
From: Craig Barfoot
Series: Ideas Books
Caption: Ideas Books: Will Atkinson
Interview with author Will Atkinson about his book, Class. The topic of class is not only amongst the oldest and most controversial of all concepts...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2016
  • Length: 29:59
Safe as Houses, Part Two: An Anthology
From: WFHB
Series: Books Unbound
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Our strange and surprising relationships with house and household objects are explored in an early story by Virginia Woolf, a modern adaptation of ...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 14, 2016
  • Length: 58:34
  • Purchases: 2
Safe as Houses, Part One: ‘The House of Cobwebs’ by George Gissing
From: WFHB
Series: Books Unbound
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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
Nation of Nations (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-With immigration rising, the U.S. will no longer have a white, Anglo ethnic profiles. -A Cuban exile in America discovers the Andy Griffith show.

Bought by WJCT, KWMR, WFHB, KVSC, KRZA and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Not Light, But Fire: Readings from African-American Abolitionists
From: WFHB
Series: Books Unbound
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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
Books Unbound - “The Mulatto” by Victor Séjour
From: WFHB
Series: Books Unbound
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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
W.E.B. Du Bois’s ‘Darkwater’: Two Stories
From: WFHB
Series: Books Unbound
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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
‘Hospital Sketches’ by Louisa May Alcott, Conclusion
From: WFHB
Series: Books Unbound
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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
Allen Ginsberg
From: Facts About Fiction
Caption: Allen Ginsberg reading poetry, Credit: The New York Public Library Digital Collections
One of Allen Ginsberg's first publishers was taken to court for a book that an undercover police officer deemed "not fit for children to read."

  • Added: Feb 03, 2016
  • Length: :59
Hospital Sketches’ by Louisa May Alcott, Part Three
From: WFHB
Series: Books Unbound
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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

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