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Sasha Frere-Jones

From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library

On this episode, we talked about "Earlier," the new memoir by music journalist and musician Sasha Frere-Jones. We listened to some of his music, too.

903: Avian obsessions / 904: As read by the author, 6/1/2024

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "Avian obsessions" - It’s summer and the birds are singing. Building nests, eating worms. Watching them makes a lot of people happy – but...

Smooshed-up Words

From: KMUW
Series: You're Saying It Wrong

We're looking at words that were made by smooshing together other words, but it all happened so long ago that we completely forgot about it.

Bought by KRPS and KECG

MN Reads: "Oskar's Voyage" by Laura Purdie Salas

From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads

Author Laura Purdie Salas talks about her book "Oskar's Voyage"

Shelf Discovery: Everything We Never Said by Sloan Harlow

From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery

On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows a grieving teenage girl as she begins to question everything that happened before her best friend’s...

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

Lit-Rock

From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library

On this episode, we talked about the new book "Lit-Rock," a collection of essays that explore the many ways that literature and pop/rock music have...

IGF Book Club - The Bhagavad Gita with Ravi Gupta

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: In Good Faith

IGF Book Club—we're reading the Bhagavad Gita, as translated by Laurie Patton.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida

The Rheturn of Rhetoric

From: KMUW
Series: You're Saying It Wrong

We're dipping back into common rhetorical devices today, and talking about how they can be used to win people to your side... or at least make them...

Bought by KRPS

MN Reads: "A Family Tree" by Staci Lola Druillard

From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads

Author Staci Lola Druillard talks about her new book "A Family Tree"

Shelf Discovery: Mind Games by Nora Roberts

From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery

On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows a girl with a gift in her ongoing battle against the man who killed her parents in Mind Games by No...

Bought by WUTC, WCNY, RADIOLEX, and GCR (Global Community Radio)

Jack Wright

From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library

On this episode, we talked about the book "The Free Musics" by Jack Wright," one of America's foundational free improvisation artists who is still ...

MN Reads: "Boxed Out" by Lisa M. Bolt Simons

From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads

Author Lisa M. Bolt Simons gives readers a choice in her latest book "Boxed Out"

Drugging France (half)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

In the 19th century, French doctors were finally on the cusp of treating pain. It was a new horizon in the history of medicine.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KIYU-FM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KECG, RadioStPete Florida and more

Drugging France (hour/no bb or bed)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

In the 19th century, French doctors were finally on the cusp of treating pain. It was a new horizon in the history of medicine.

Bought by KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Royalton Community Radio

Drugging France (hour)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

In the 19th century, French doctors were finally on the cusp of treating pain. It was a new horizon in the history of medicine.

Bought by WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WTJU, KEDT, and WRGY

Drugging France (promo)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo

In the 19th century, French doctors were finally on the cusp of treating pain. It was a new horizon in the history of medicine. Sara Black says the...

Bought by KIYU-FM and WNMU-FM

Happy Birthday Mr. Bond

From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata

Caption: Ruskin Bond signing a book for a fan., Credit: Sandip Roy

An Indian institution turns 90 at the end of this week. It’s not a bricks and mortar institution. It’s one of India’s most prolific writers - Bond,...

Shelf Discovery: The New Bad Thing by Michael Ebner

From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery

On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows a desperate woman’s quest to hunt down a criminal to save her family in the audio edition of The Ne...

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

Neue Detsche Welle

From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library

On this episode, we talked about a new installment of the 33 1/3 Genre series that explores the short-lived but influential German musical style Ne...

If I Were To Talk About The Subjunctive

From: KMUW
Series: You're Saying It Wrong

Some of us (Fletcher) can never keep straight what, exactly, the subjunctive is, so fortunately Kathy and Ross are here to remind us.

Bought by KECG and KRPS

MN Reads: "Grace & Grit: A History of Ballet in Minnesota" by Georgia Finnegan

From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads

Author and dancer Georgia Finnegan talks about her new book "Grace & Grit: A History of Ballet in Minnesota"

Shelf Discovery: The Heirloom by Jessie Rosen

From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery

On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin travels the world to explore the history of a bride-to-be’s engagement ring in The Heirloom by Jessie Rosen.

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

Living Space

From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library

On this episode, we talked about the new book "Living Space" by Michael E. Veal, which is a thorough and creative examination of John Coltrane's fr...

We Are All Rhetoricians Now

From: KMUW
Series: You're Saying It Wrong

We have fun with rhetoric and some commonly used rhetorical devices, including how we might be using them even when we don't realize it.

Bought by KECG and KRPS

MN Reads: "The Breeding Birds of Minnesota" with Dr. Gerald Niemi

From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads

Author Gerald Niemi talks about the new book "The Breeding Birds of Minnesota"

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