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In the mid-1900’s, a man moves to northern Michigan to escape the hustle and bustle of city life. He starts having religious visions and builds big...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 12:04
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The emergence of the crime fiction genre is linked to the growth of the modern legal system. In Germany, there were the true crime stories of Augus...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2024
  • Length: 39:50
Caption: Film music you remember, even if you've forgotten the film.
Quinn Riley explores the music from films based on the stories of Stephen King.

  • Added: Oct 30, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
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Tonight we are talking about hidden things: secret societies, international conspiracies. Joining us by telephone from New York is the author Colin...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jul 07, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Father and daughter Kurt and Ellie Johnson talk about their Minnesota Book Award winning novel "The Barrens"

  • Added: Jun 29, 2023
  • Length: 10:06
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“A Jury of Her Peers” is a short story version of her famous play, “Trifles”. Glaspell won the Pulitzer Prize for her play, “Alison’s House”.

  • Added: May 08, 2023
  • Length: 56:33
Caption: The Open Boat, Credit: Robert Quakenbush
Based on Crane's real-life experience while serving as a journalist corresponding from the Cuban War of Independence. The steamship on which he was...

  • Added: May 04, 2023
  • Length: 57:01
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"What could it be? There was no balloon and there were no aeronauts. Some strange phenomenon had occurred in the higher zones of the atmosphere, a ...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 03, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Episode Twenty – You’ve auditioned for a part, and you’ve won the role. Agent John Gage tells D’laska everything he wants to know and more about t...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2022
  • Length: 16:20
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Episode Nineteen – I’ll give the girls a bag for the powder room. D’laska goes to Juan’s Caribbean Club pretending he’s a drug dealer and befriend...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2022
  • Length: 17:42
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NEW AUDIO: SHORT STORY DISPENSARY POSTED The Last Professional by Ed Davis A four-lane highway passed over the Sparks yard at its eastern limit....

  • Added: Jul 24, 2022
  • Length: 11:35
Caption: Lola on Fire
Rio Youers is the British Fantasy and Sunburst Award-nominated author of Westlake Soul and Halcyon.

  • Added: Mar 04, 2021
  • Length: 28:06
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On today’s show we’re talking about, “Aftershocks,” both literal and figurative, related to events that came back to shake us after their initial d...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2021
  • Length: 58:01
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Part mystery and part historical fiction, but the best part?: It’s set in the New York Public Library.

  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 11:12
Caption: Simon Calder Part-I, Credit: Kirk Klocke
An adjunct professor from England changes his life course after nearly dying in a brutal assault and robbery.

  • Added: Nov 27, 2019
  • Length: 39:47
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Bob Kustra interviews Lauren Wilkinson about her debut novel "American Spy"

  • Added: Nov 26, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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Thriller writer Nelson DeMille and his son Alex talk with Ron Jolly.

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Nov 12, 2019
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Bob Kustra interviews Esi Edugyan about her novel "Washington Black"

  • Added: Sep 16, 2019
  • Length: 30:16
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A novel about the Dakota Sioux people and their lifestyle prior to the arrival of the settlers.

  • Added: May 22, 2019
  • Length: 12:06:02
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Bob Kustra speaks with James A. McLaughlin about his debut novel "Bearskin"

  • Added: Apr 22, 2019
  • Length: 30:05
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Bob Kustra interviews novelist Chris Bohjalian about his latest best-seller "The Flight Attendant"

  • Added: Apr 06, 2019
  • Length: 30:01
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A fictional novel about a horse that gets lost/stolen and a young boy's journey to recover it. Along the way finding a medicine bundle that was lef...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2019
  • Length: 02:15:01
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Susan Purvis discusses her memoir, "Go Find: My Journey to Find the Lost and Myself." She also reads a short passage.

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


  • Added: Mar 14, 2019
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 4
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"Gone Girl" author Gillian Flynn talks with National Writers Series co-founder Doug Stanton.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WKAR, Michigan Radio, and WKAR


  • Added: Jan 27, 2019
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 4
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Author Benjamin Percy talks about his writing and his novel "Red Moon" with friend and fellow writer Jeremy Chamberlin.

Bought by WKAR and WDET Detroit Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 09, 2018
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 2