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Alice Friman reads from her most recent of her six poetry collections THE VIEW FROM SATURN, VINCULUM, and THE BOOK OF THE ROTTEN DAUGHTER. She talk...
- Added: Jan 11, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
The delightful creative troupe that is Rubber Chicken Theater does not disappoint with their holiday offering this month. Showing at Spirit of the ...
- Added: Dec 23, 2016
- Length: 06:57
Felicia Schneiderhan is an award-winning author who lives in Duluth. WTIP's Dave TerSteeg read her memoir, "Newlyweds Afloat: Married Bliss and Mec...
- Added: Nov 09, 2016
- Length: 19:16
William Shakespeare famously said “ all the worlds a stage” and Jonathan Crocker has taken those words to heart. For the past 26 seasons, this Yell...
Bought by WOUB
- Added: Oct 17, 2016
- Length: 05:59
- Purchases: 1
Interview with Author and screenwriter Michaelbrent Collings.
- Added: Oct 01, 2016
- Length: 59:39
Pirates and their deeds become legend. Blackbeard, Lester’s personal favorite, did this thing with canon fuses, or so the legend goes. Just as his...
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 26:15
We spoke to YouTube superstar Grace Helbig after the publication of her second tongue-in-cheek guide, Grace & Style: The Art of Pretending You Have...
- Added: Aug 08, 2016
- Length: 06:00
Tom Perrotta is the author behind, among others, Little Children, The Abstinence Teacher, and The Leftovers, now a hit HBO drama which he co-writes...
- Added: Aug 08, 2016
- Length: 12:45
Satirist Christopher Buckley, author of "Thank You For Smoking", "The White House Mess", and "The Relic Master", takes us into his writing process.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 08, 2016
- Length: 08:33
- Purchases: 1
The prolific author of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series talks about his writing process.
- Added: Aug 08, 2016
- Length: 09:57
National Magazine Award winning essayist Thomas E. Kennedy discusses his approach to essay writing, particularly in his collection RIDING THE DOG: ...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Jul 28, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Interviews with Author Kevin Hall and Dark Shadows Actor and Author Kathryn Leigh Scott. Plus various musical artists.
- Added: Jul 13, 2016
- Length: 59:50
Garrison Keillor, reading an excerpt from Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 09, 2016
- Length: 02:35
- Purchases: 2
Four hundred years after the death of William Shakespeare and during the Folger Library's year long nationwide tour of The Bard's first folio in 20...
- Added: Jun 06, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
"Recalculating" is Charles Bernstein's first new book of poetry since his daughter, Emma Bee Bernstein, died in December of 2008, and is in large m...
- Added: May 31, 2016
- Length: 57:19
Philip Armand gets repeatedly bitten by a spider and a famous artist dangles the carrot of fame.
- Added: Mar 21, 2016
- Length: 06:22
Being a roofer was never sold to Philip Armand as a safe profession. When he nearly falls to his death, he is left thinking about his childhood di...
- Added: Mar 12, 2016
- Length: 04:19
Kite fighting on the National Mall - it's all part of the Cherry Blossom Festival. It's also at the center of Natalie Dias Lorenzi's novel "Flying ...
- Added: Feb 16, 2016
- Length: 18:27
Heidi Holtan speaks with Minnesota young adult novelist, Pete Hautman about his new book, "The Flinkwater Factor."
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Feb 15, 2016
- Length: 09:55
- Purchases: 1
The Wailin’ Jennys are Nicky Mehta, Ruth Moody and Heather Masse – three distinct voices that together make an achingly perfect vocal sound. Starti...
- Added: Feb 15, 2016
- Length: 59:31
- Purchases: 12
An unusual and irreverent comic strip about a misfit cat served as inspiration to 20th century poet e e cummings.
- Added: Feb 08, 2016
- Length: :58
Imagine you are children's literature publisher R. A. Montgomery...
- Added: Feb 08, 2016
- Length: 01:00
Children's author Maurice Sendak was a big collector of Disney paraphenalia
- Added: Feb 08, 2016
- Length: :59
One of Allen Ginsberg's first publishers was taken to court for a book that an undercover police officer deemed "not fit for children to read."
- Added: Feb 03, 2016
- Length: :59
American poet Frank O'Hara got into trouble with his overbearing mother.
- Added: Feb 03, 2016
- Length: :58