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- Added: May 01, 2014
- Length: 04:10
- Added: May 01, 2014
- Length: 04:17
100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. Science fiction drama.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Apr 24, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
The writer that so many other writers are talking about is the Indian-born New Yorker, Akhil Sharma. His novel is “Family Life,” a faithful recount...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Apr 23, 2014
- Length: 27:46
- Purchases: 1
This is a remembrance of Peter Matthiessen. He invited us to his house in Sagaponack, to hear a story. He gave his characters' accents, fun for him...
- Added: Apr 15, 2014
- Length: 28:33
- Purchases: 2
We’re reading and gabbing about a story called “The Teacher of Literature,” published in 1894; Chekhov was 34 years old. It’s a story about a young...
- Added: Apr 11, 2014
- Length: 01:21:57
A spread of new books about food: from evil sugar to wonderful wine.
- Added: Apr 04, 2014
- Length: 54:10
Richard Powers is indulging us in a runaway riff on music, in a little room in the Boston Athenaeum, on the top of Beacon Hill, overlooking the Old...
Bought by WABE
- Added: Apr 03, 2014
- Length: 47:52
- Purchases: 1
We’re reading a famous story called “The Student.” It’s a late winter, early spring night in the 1890s, Easter weekend. A student is coming home f...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and KWMR
- Added: Mar 27, 2014
- Length: 20:08
- Purchases: 2
Chekhov wrote “Gusev” on shipboard, returning from his stark study mission to the prison island of Sakhalin in 1890. He was 30 years old, ten years...
- Added: Mar 27, 2014
- Length: 52:19
The story this time is called “Dreams.” It’s a dense 7-page fantasy of the good life in the far wilds of Eastern Siberia. It’s a dream of freedom t...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Mar 27, 2014
- Length: 41:36
- Purchases: 1
My Dad never wanted to be a hero. Survival was the only option.
- Added: Mar 26, 2014
- Length: 11:01
Featuring some totally pretty literature by Mike Young, Montreux Rotholtz, Ted Berrigan, Jeff Hipsher, Josephine Rowe, Eric Baus, and Elizabeth Bis...
- Added: Mar 24, 2014
- Length: 21:37
Features selections from past issues of Quiddity which include poems read by Andrew Kozma, Kate Mohler, and Susana Lang.
- Added: Mar 04, 2014
- Length: 16:51
Features selections from recent issues of Quiddity, including “Sympathy for the Wendigo” by Tim Kahl, two poems from Kate Asche, as well as “A Leg ...
- Added: Mar 04, 2014
- Length: 17:24
Ben Westlie graduated from Bemidji State University in 2006 with a BFA in creative and professional writing. He's published three chapbooks of poe...
- Added: Feb 14, 2014
- Length: 02:18
A radio drama adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart.'
- Added: Feb 06, 2014
- Length: 36:05
Imagination is the seed of empathy – a centrally important function – and both the gift and burden of the writer. Here The Gift series producer St...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 04:35
- Purchases: 1
Do we really understand metaphor? How much do we really engage with our world metaphorically? We all have days when a cup is just a cup, a tree is ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 05:59
- Purchases: 1
In an interview with The Gift series producer Stanzi Vaubel, writer Lois Lowry talked about memory. In her novel, The Giver, one person holds the m...
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 06:13
Chicago is home to many organizations that help young people to express themsleves, including Young Chicago Authors, After School Matters, Street-L...
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 03:33
We finish National Novel Writing Month with the Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Richard Ford, who sees fiction as a vehicle to provide renewal and ...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Nov 27, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
A crime novelist and poet talks about where in England her books are set, why she chose a hypnotherapist as a character in this novel, "Kind of Cru...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Nov 24, 2013
- Length: 09:56
- Purchases: 1
We continue our celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month with Linda Rodriguez, author of the poetry collection HEART'S MIGRATION. A winner o...
- Added: Oct 11, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Thomas Fox Averill's novel RODE was named the 2012 Outstanding Western Novel by the National Cowboy Museum, Based on the American song "Tennessee ...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Sep 11, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
