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Joe Lee, FORGIVENESS & Valerie Martin, I GIVE IT TO YOU
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with graphic artist Joe Lee about his stunningly illustrated book, Forgiveness: The Story of Eva Kor, Survivor of The Auschwitz Twin Experi...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2021
  • Length: 58:57
Ruth Ozeki, THE BOOK OF FORM AND EMPTINESS & Hilma Wolitzer, TODAY A WOMAN WENT MAD IN THE SUPERMARKET
From: Francesca Rheannon
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We talk with Ruth Ozeki about her wonderful new novel, The Book of Form and Emptiness. It’s a coming-of-age/Hero’s Journey that is heart-wrenching,...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2021
  • Length: 58:37
The Write Question - Mara Panich
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Poet and owner of Fact and Fiction bookstore Mara Panich discusses her debut poetry collection, "Blood is Not the Water."

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 13, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Top of Mind - A Memoir About Autism, Cascatelli's Invention, and Family Dialects
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: A memoir about autism written by a mother and daughter. Topic 2: The Story of Cascatelli's Invention. Topic 3: Familylect; the dialect you...

Bought by KSTK, WYAP, KOWS, RADIOLEX, and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Oct 06, 2021
  • Length: 51:38
  • Purchases: 5
623: Finding Meaning In Desperate Times / 624: Pick Your Poison, 9/25/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Finding Meaning In Desperate Times" - The pandemic isn't just a health crisis, it's an x-ray into our psyches. This hour, how COVID-19 i...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:59
The Write Question - Annie Connole
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Montana author Annie Connole discusses her new book, "The Spring: A Mythic Memoir," and reads from the book.

Bought by KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Sep 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers THE LOVE SONGS OF W.E.B. DuBOIS & The And I Thought Ladies
From: Francesca Rheannon
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We talk with Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, award-winning poet and now novelist, about The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois, just out from Harper Collins. Th...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2021
  • Length: 58:38
'Funeral Diva' poet Pamela Sneed: "We can heal"
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Pamela Sneed's poetic memoir "Funeral Diva" is described as a “coming of age in New York City during the late 1980s.”, Credit: Patricia Silva
Pamela Sneed’s prose and poetry can reach out and grab you. She reads selections from her memoir, Funeral Diva, and shares some of her life story. ...

Bought by KALW and WORT


  • Added: Aug 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
597: Eye-To-Eye With Animals / 598: Books We Can't Forget, 6/26/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Eye-To-Eye With Animals" - Have you ever locked eyes with an animal in the wild? It can be a shattering experience. HOUR TWO: "Books W...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:01
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Jericho Brown
From: New Letters on the Air
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For National Pride Month, we'll hear from 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winner Jericho Brown, who describes the joy he finds in writing poetry and how his wo...

Bought by WNMU-FM and WNJR


  • Added: Jun 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
A Murder, a Wedding, and 4 Meddling Aunties in Jesse Q. Sutanto's Debut Novel
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
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A hilariously quirky novel that is equal parts murder mystery, rom-com, and a celebration of mothers and daughters as well as a deep dive into Chin...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2021
  • Length: 09:13
A Deeply Moving Collection of Personal Essays From Writer John Green
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
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John Green is the award-winning, bestselling author of novels including Looking for Alaska, The Fault in Our Stars, and Turtles All the Way Down. H...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2021
  • Length: 12:04
593: The Resilient Brain / 594: Difficult Summer Reads, 6/12/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "The Resilient Brain" - In 1848, an explosion drove an iron rod through the skull of a railroad foreman. Find out how it changed science ...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
USAF Veteran Lauren Hough: ‘Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing’
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Essayist Lauren Hough in 2018, Credit: Karl Poss IV / Vintage Books
In our queer nod to Veterans Day, we bring you writer Lauren Hough, who grew up in the infamous Christian free-love cult The Family. At 18, she joi...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Jun 08, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Rebecca Salazar
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Canadian Poet Rebecca Salazar talks about her new collection, "Sulphurtongue."

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, WCNY, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 20, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Legacy of Mothers and Daughters in Gabriela Garcia's Debut "Of Women and Salt"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
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"Of Women and Salt" takes us from present day to Miami to a family detention center in Texas, to Mexico and then back to a 19th century cigar facto...

  • Added: May 14, 2021
  • Length: 11:54
A Vivid and Poignant Memoir: Michelle Zauner's "Crying in H Mart"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
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What We're Reading producer and Staff Librarian Tammy Bobrowsky talks with Michelle Zauner, writer and indie rock star known as Japanese Breakfast...

  • Added: May 14, 2021
  • Length: 14:25
Jasmine Mans writes to call herself—and us—home
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
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In celebration of National Poetry month we talk with black American poet and artist Jasmine Mans. Jasmine is from Newark, New Jersey. She graduated...

  • Added: May 14, 2021
  • Length: 11:49
The Write Question - Allison Cobb
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Author Allison Cobb talks about her new book, "Plastic: an Autobiography."

Bought by WETS, WCNY, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
More with Lawyer turned Poet Monica Youn
From: New Letters on the Air
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We begin Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with a conversation with lawyer-turned-poet Monica Youn. Though both her parents were born in Korea,...

Bought by KWMR, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Write Question - Raymond Antrobus
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Raymond Antrobus discusses his collection, "The Perseverance," and his experience as a deaf poet.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KWMR, WCNY, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: May 05, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Write Question - Hoa Nguyen
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Poet Hoa Nguyen discusses her new poetry collection, "A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure."

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Apr 21, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Poet and Editor Kwame Dawes
From: New Letters on the Air
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Born in Ghana and raised in Jamaica, the poet Kwame Dawes is the editor of Nebraska's literary magazine, PRAIRIE SCHOONER, and the 2021 successor t...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WNJR


  • Added: Apr 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Write Question - Hanif Abdurraquib
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Poet and culture critic Hanif Abdurraquib discusses his new book, "A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance."

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, Spokane Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Apr 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Write Question - Kristin Knight Pace RERUN
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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This is a rerun of Sarah Aronson's interview with Kristin Knight Pace, one of thirty-one women in the world to have completed both the Iditarod and...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 06, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3

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