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  • Added: Feb 23, 2007
  • Length: 29:54
  • Purchases: 29

  • Added: Feb 23, 2007
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 12
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Jane Austen's _Pride and Prejudice_ continues to be popular nearly two hundred years after it was first published.

Bought by WLIW, WNMU-FM, WLIW, CHSR-FM 97.9, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2007
  • Length: 29:46
  • Purchases: 14
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This documentary is about two men who, at mid-life, re-read Kerouac's book and get behind the wheel for a 4000 mile road trip of reflection and di...

Bought by WUSM, WGBH Radio Boston, WVPE, KZYX, WKSU and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2007
  • Length: 57:05
  • Purchases: 7
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Some people prefer clarity and closure but Father Richard Rohr finds belief and comfort in mystery.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and KJZZ


  • Added: Feb 01, 2007
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 3
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A short ride on the "poetry bus"

Bought by KSFR, PRX Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio, KZSC, and KLCC


  • Added: Jan 28, 2007
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 5
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Profile of Trina Robbins, who literally wrote the book on women in comics.

Bought by WJAB, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2007
  • Length: 06:04
  • Purchases: 4
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Actors, storytellers and poets express their hope for peace with the spoken word.

Bought by WVTF, WXXI Rochester, KNCT FM, KWMR, Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 05, 2007
  • Length: 57:46
  • Purchases: 20
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an award-winning author of 5 novels tells what it takes to write one

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 12, 2006
  • Length: 03:07
  • Purchases: 1
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Books inspire musicians - music inspires authors.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 11, 2006
  • Length: 05:31
  • Purchases: 2
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A stamp auction in Frankfurt leads an author to a war-time love story

Bought by The PRX Podcast


  • Added: Dec 07, 2006
  • Length: 11:45
  • Purchases: 1
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A newcomer to Los Angeles discovers the city's past -- and future -- through the books of noir master Raymond Chandler.

  • Added: Nov 08, 2006
  • Length: 13:28
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First comes trust. Then comes control.

Bought by KUNM and WMNF


  • Added: Jul 13, 2006
  • Length: 05:11
  • Purchases: 2
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Feel free to get up and move about the cabin...or you might want to pay attention to the man in the window seat next to you; he has a story he'd li...

Bought by KUNM and WMNF


  • Added: Jul 13, 2006
  • Length: 06:43
  • Purchases: 2
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The world is a dangerous place. Fortunately there are people willing to do anything to protect us. Absolutely anything.

Bought by KUNM and WMNF


  • Added: Jul 13, 2006
  • Length: 07:37
  • Purchases: 2
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Can the memories evoked by a forgotten perfume change a life?

Bought by KUNM and WMNF


  • Added: Jul 13, 2006
  • Length: 03:20
  • Purchases: 2
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From Huck Finn, Iranian-born writer and teacher Azar Nafisi learns to believe in the power of empathy.

  • Added: Jun 12, 2006
  • Length: 04:39
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93-year-old Clive Haswell is a poet who spent his youth riding the rails and playing poker

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 28, 2006
  • Length: 05:33
  • Purchases: 1
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In this 25th episode of Memoir Cafe, women write about reacting to the events around them.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2006
  • Length: 30:33
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A one hour interview with internationally acclaimed author Walter Mosley

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Apr 14, 2006
  • Length: 58:43
  • Purchases: 2
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A one hour interview with internationally acclaimed author James Ellroy

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Apr 14, 2006
  • Length: 57:30
  • Purchases: 2
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A one hour interview with internationally acclaimed author Umberto Eco

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Apr 14, 2006
  • Length: 56:40
  • Purchases: 3
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A one hour interview with internationally acclaimed author Margaret Drabble

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Apr 14, 2006
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 2
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A one hour interview with internationally acclaimed author Joan Didion

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 14, 2006
  • Length: 56:13
  • Purchases: 3
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A one hour interview with internationally acclaimed author Bret Easton Ellis

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 14, 2006
  • Length: 57:22
  • Purchases: 1