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Alexandra Teague discusses her debut novel, a quirky coming-of-age story. She reads both from the book as well as selected poem from her previous c...
Bought by KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Aug 03, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Sara Deniz Akant considers the virtues and meaning of one’s name.
- Added: Aug 03, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Nikki Wallschlaeger meditates on issues of accountability.
- Added: Jul 28, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Sunnylyn Thibodeaux mediates on the anxieties and ambitions of adult life.
- Added: Jul 17, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Amanda Nadelberg reflects on life accomplishments and what has been left unachieved.
- Added: Jul 10, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
What is the position of acne-picking in contemporary literature? Otessa Moshfegh, author of Eileen and most recently the collection Homesick for An...
- Added: Jun 15, 2017
- Length: 26:19
All the origin myths of Rome are rape narratives. Dr. Celene Lillie has found resistance to Rome's culture of rape and domination in Gnostic texts...
- Added: Jun 02, 2017
- Length: 57:57
- Purchases: 2
How women's friendships sustained the British Empire - Getting aggressive in the job market in the digital age - How memoirs tackle motherhood and ...
Bought by WNMU-FM
- Added: Jun 02, 2017
- Length: :30
- Purchases: 1
How women's friendships sustained the British Empire - Getting aggressive in the job market in the digital age - How memoirs tackle motherhood and ...
Bought by WCNY, WCWP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan and more
- Added: Jun 02, 2017
- Length: 53:57
- Purchases: 8
Melissa Broder writes about self-realization and survival.
- Added: May 31, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Kate Millett’s 1970 book, Sexual Politics, is a classic text of Second Wave Feminism, finding sexism and subjection inherent in the institutions of...
- Added: May 30, 2017
- Length: 58:00
Poet and visual artist Bianca Stone talks about her various projects, from her first full length book SOMEONE ELSE'S WEDDING VOWS to her 2016 illus...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: May 18, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
This mother’s Day I was thinking about a very particular mother. Not mine but a woman named Leila Seth.
Leila Seth was the first woman to top th...
- Added: May 17, 2017
- Length: 06:00
Joyelle McSweeney thinks about various forms of infection and contagion facing the human
race.
- Added: May 11, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Margaret Atwood’s response to those who might object to the assertion that the dystopian catastrophe of The Handmaid’s Tale cannot happen here. “Wa...
- Added: May 10, 2017
- Length: 57:38
Simone White documents a mother’s life with her infant son.
- Added: May 03, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 5
In an era of fake news and alternative facts, what is the role of literature that blurs the line between fiction and non-fiction? Novelist Lynne Ti...
- Added: Apr 20, 2017
- Length: 30:55
Camille Guthrie discusses the virtues of living like Icelandic popstar Björk.
- Added: Apr 17, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 5
By 1995, Cheryl Strayed had married, divorced and lost her mother to cancer. Britt Aamodt reports how the writer left home and found a new directio...
Bought by KSRQ, KVSC, WDSE, WTIP, KFAI Minneapolis and more
- Added: Apr 12, 2017
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 22
Caitlin Doyle thinks about romance novels at the end of a relationship.
- Added: Apr 11, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
We cover a lot of territory in our conversation with Kate White. She's the New York Times bestselling author of 11 works of fiction - six of whic...
- Added: Apr 08, 2017
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 2
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
With Another Brooklyn, acclaimed children’s author Jacqueline Woodson creates an adult novel that reads like poetry
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Mar 08, 2017
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
Here's Gerald's audio book review of A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler.
- Added: Mar 05, 2017
- Length: 03:07
Hannah Brooks-Motl reflects on the course of a life and its future
- Added: Feb 17, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
