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Novelist Whitney Terrell
From: New Letters on the Air
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Novelist Whitney Terrell talks about his third novel, THE GOOD LIEUTENANT. Terrell was embedded with the military in Iraq, writing non-fiction for ...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: May 29, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Past American Voice of novelist E.L. Doctorow
From: New Letters on the Air
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E.L. Doctorow passed away in July 2015, but left behind twelve novels, three volumes of short fiction, and a stage drama, winning most of the major...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KAAD-LP, WNJR, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jul 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Shelf Discovery: The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle by Jennifer Ryan
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin joins the women of a small town as they work together to help the wartime effort in author Jennifer Ryan’s ...

Bought by RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: May 30, 2022
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Tangled Roots Of War And Peace
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: The Tangled Roots Of War And Peace
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Ghosts from the past stalk Europe again today in the wake of Russian tanks and missiles. To find a path forward, we might need to look back.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WHFR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WLPR , KUNM and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 8
Ukrainian Tales
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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While the Russian army fills the news hour, Sandip remembers his childhood exposure to the folk tales of Ukraine.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 07, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
669: The Tangled Roots Of War And Peace / 670: Jazz Migrations, 3/5/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "The Tangled Roots Of War And Peace" - 1936 was an ominous year. A young George Orwell was headed to battle in Spain. But first, he plant...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:59
Vonnegut on Tralfamadore: Billy Pilgrim and PTSD
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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In today's show we explore the history of recognizing the trauma experienced by soldiers in war - PTSD is only the most recent iteration of this di...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KNCT FM, RADIOLEX, and KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Jan 04, 2022
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 4
Poet, editor, and translator, Wayne Miller
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Wayne Miller
Poet and editor Wayne Miller reads from his book, THE CITY, OUR CITY, a 2012 finalist for the William Carlos Williams Poetry Award. He also discus...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Novelist and Non-Fiction Author Stewart O'Nan: Part Two
From: New Letters on the Air
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Stewart O'Nan, the author of 20 plus books including EMILY, ALONE and LAST NIGHT AT THE LOBSTER, reads from his later novel, CITY OF SECRETS, and d...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Virginia Brackett
From: New Letters on the Air
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Virginia Brackett, the author of 15 books, discusses her 2019 family memoir, IN THE COMPANY OF PATRIOTS. She reveals how she used family stories, s...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Dec 31, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Five Days in Spain: Muriel Rukeyser and the Revolutionary Muse
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Barcelona - July 1936, Credit: Muriel Rukeyser, permission of William L. Rukeyser
Rowena Kennedy-Epstein describes Savage Coast as a young woman’s political and sexual awakening imbued with the anarchist spirit of the moment; it’...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 13, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Tell It Slant: The Truth of the Bombs Bursting in Air
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: B-24J Liberators of the 579th Bomb Squadron drop incendiary bombs made from fighter plane drop tanks filled with napalm on targets near Royan, France, Apr 15 1945.
H. Bruce Franklin (Crash Course) returns to help us connect lots of dots. He’ll argue, among other things, that we need to learn what three particu...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Dec 18, 2019
  • Length: 58:53
  • Purchases: 1
Novelist and Non-Fiction Author Stewart O'Nan: Part One
From: New Letters on the Air
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Stewart O'Nan has written over 20 books as varied as the best-selling novel, SNOW ANGELS (now a film) to the non-fiction book co-written with Steph...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Novelist, Poet, & Memoirist Alan Proctor
From: New Letters on the Air
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We mark Veteran's Day with two interviews featuring Alan Proctor. His book, THE SWEDEN FILE: MEMOIR OF AN AMERICAN EX-PATRIATE, was named one of th...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
The Write Question - Juliane Okot Bitek - 407
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Poet Juliane Okot Bitek discusses her award-winning collection of poems, "100 Days," written in response to the Rwandan genocide in 1994.

Bought by KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 27, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Fiction Writer and Vietnam Veteran Tim O'Brien
From: New Letters on the Air
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Listen to Vietnam veteran Tim O'Brien at the Kansas City Public Library, as he discusses experiences that fueled his collection of short stories, T...

  • Added: May 23, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
The Write Question - Ray McPadden - 363
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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An interview with Ray McPadden, author of the war novel, "And the Whole Mountain Burned." He also reads a short passage.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 14, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Telling Stories of the Syrian Civil War: Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Our wars abroad and our wars at home. This week on the show, acclaimed graphic artist Molly Crabapple and Syrian journalist Marwan Hisham join Laur...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Jul 11, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Novelist and Former U.S. Army Captain Matt Gallagher
From: New Letters on the Air
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The Iraq War ended in December 2011, a dramatic setting for former U.S. Army Captain Matt Gallagher, who discusses his novel, YOUNGBLOOD, which dra...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 25, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Poet John Balaban
From: New Letters on the Air
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Inspired by the documentary THE VIETNAM WAR, we return to an archive interview with the poet John Balaban, who served as a conscientious objector i...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Oct 04, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
José Martí: The Whole Revolution
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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José Martí, who would die in the Cuban Revolution against Spain at the age of 42, believed that knowledge and understanding was a collective constr...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
189: Empathy for Monsters / 190: Telling a Life, 7/29/2017
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Empathy for Monsters" - The American soldiers who guarded Saddam Hussein came to like and care about him. This hour: Should we feel empa...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:58
Big Talk! w/ Michael Glab: Annette Oppenlander
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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Bloomington author Annette Oppenlander discusses her books, including a coming of age novel set in World War II Germany, with Michael Glab on this ...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2017
  • Length: 08:38
Shelf Discovery: The Girl in Green by Derek B. Miller
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin journeys into the desert with a couple of haunted heroes in Derek B. Miller's The Girl in Green.

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


  • Added: Jan 17, 2017
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Missouri Poets of the Midwest Poets Series
From: New Letters on the Air
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Discover the poetic variety of Missouri in this special program featuring readings from the Midwest Poets Series by three very different Missouri p...

Bought by WNJR and WJCU


  • Added: Sep 14, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2