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Host Erik Redix, an assistant professor of American Indian Studies at UMD, talks with Michael McNamara, Orla Kearns, and Louise Gibbons about the c...
Bought by Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, WMUU-LP, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KSRQ, and KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
- Added: Apr 20, 2013
- Length: 29:24
- Purchases: 5
First published in 1947, Goodnight Moon has become one of the most popular books for young children. Yet the book’s author, Margaret Wise Brown, al...
- Added: Mar 25, 2013
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 4
Walter Salles talks searching for freedom, finding the story behind the book, and bicycling with Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
- Added: Mar 24, 2013
- Length: 14:56
The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!!
Featuring Artists David Phillips and Amara Kopakova.
- Added: Feb 21, 2013
- Length: 27:55
The innovative comics creator Chris Ware talks about his instant classic, Building Stories -- a complex set of books, pamphlets, posters, and ephem...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 03, 2013
- Length: 05:10
- Purchases: 1
Features a conversation about American Troubador and Chicago Renaissance Poet Vachel Lindsay, who achieved national prominence as the "Prairie Poet...
- Added: Jan 22, 2013
- Length: 20:27
In Amsterdam, Cathy Byrd meets Dutch novelist Rashid Novaire, of Moroccan and Dutch descent. The writer's heritage is embedded in his imagination.
- Added: Jan 21, 2013
- Length: 16:15
Herbert Huncke's line "I'm beat, man" gave Jack Kerouac the label for a generation seeking spiritual sustenance and "kicks" in post-war America.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WJCT, KRZA, and KPIP-LP
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 4
On Skype, Cathy Byrd talks to poet Khadijah Queen about her creative practice and shares poems from her latest book, "Black Peculiar."
- Added: Jan 04, 2013
- Length: 15:03
Be it a curmudgeonly Galwegian on the West coast of Ireland, an erudite scholar in Dublin or a literary motorcyclist 'flower child' of San Francisc...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Dec 20, 2012
- Length: 56:24
- Purchases: 1
1619 was the year the first Africans arrived on the North American continent. There were at least 20 of them and they came as slaves from Angola. B...
- Added: Oct 12, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Joseph Gordon-Levitt talks prosthetics, connections, and why he is moved by the poetry of French snails.
- Added: Sep 30, 2012
- Length: 11:47
Commentator Michael Goldberg on the Dakota War.
- Added: Sep 06, 2012
- Length: 02:34
In this episode, Cathy Byrd meets Sarah Lewis, a scholar, writer and curator. Sarah talks about the artists she selected for the 12.2 International...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Aug 28, 2012
- Length: 14:18
- Purchases: 1
On this episode of Wordy Birds we interview author and filmmaker Carson Mell about his lastest book, The Blue Bourbon Orchestra, and its themes of ...
- Added: Jul 17, 2012
- Length: 26:39
A new edition restores Oscar Wilde's famous novel to its original form.
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Jul 17, 2012
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
In the “Great Golf Marathon of 1938,” an eccentric Chicago stockbroker attracted international attention by wagering he could play 33 rounds of gol...
Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, and KMXT
- Added: May 31, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
The stories behind two giants of Southern Gothic literature.
Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, and KWMR
- Added: May 24, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Can we ever atone for the sins of the past? Or does each generation of women invent itself anew?
In THE POSSIBILITY OF YOU, bestselling author Pam...
- Added: May 09, 2012
- Length: 13:39
Radio Curious speaks with Elizabeth Holtzman, a former congresswoman, former District Attorney of Brooklyn, New York and author of Cheating Justic...
- Added: Apr 30, 2012
- Length: 29:02
Library expert Matthew Battles asks David Weinberger, "When the smartest person in the room is the room, how do we design the room?"
- Added: Apr 25, 2012
- Length: 26:55
Nicholas Sparks talks romance, editing, and why dogs are an author's best friend.
- Added: Apr 18, 2012
- Length: 12:21
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove talks about her writing with a focus on her most recent book of poems, Sonata Mullatica. [30:44]
- Added: Feb 29, 2012
- Length: 30:45
- Purchases: 2
In this interview author Angie Abdou brings to her latest book themes from an ancient English text first made popular in the middle ages to put a m...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 14, 2012
- Length: 12:29
- Purchases: 1
Are colleges and universities ready for the influx of veterans returning from military service?
- Added: Jan 31, 2012
- Length: 29:00
