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Sounds in a Cowboy's Head
From: Claes Andreasson
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Cowboy Poetry in Elko, Nevada

Bought by KUNM and WZBC


  • Added: Nov 18, 2004
  • Length: 10:23
  • Purchases: 2
The Changing (and Ghoulish) Faces of Halloween
From: Jackson Braider
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How Halloween has -- and hasn't -- changed over the years.

Bought by WTJU, KKWE Niijii Radio, KSRQ, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Oct 28, 2004
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 9
What's the Word? Cookbooks as Literature
From: Modern Language Association
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Cookbooks can be more than just a source of recipes.

Bought by WVTF, WNMU-FM, WRGY, WLIW, WLIW and more


  • Added: Oct 19, 2004
  • Length: 30:02
  • Purchases: 29
What's the Word? Literary Feasts
From: Modern Language Association
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In literature, feasts often serve as central events in telling a story.

Bought by Raven Radio, WVTF, WDCB, WNMU-FM, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 19, 2004
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 40
SubwayLand
From: WFUV
Series: Subculture Series
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New York Times columnist Randy Kennedy finds his writing muse underground

Bought by KALW and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 24, 2004
  • Length: 04:18
  • Purchases: 2
Norman Mailer Interview
From: Lydon McGrath Productions
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Novelist Norman Mailer talks politics on the eve of the Republican Convention

Bought by PRX, WUAL, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Aug 23, 2004
  • Length: 20:00
  • Purchases: 3
Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship Documentary
From: M. Travis DiNicola
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A documentary about Indianapolis' Creative Renewal Arts Fellowships which has granted 150 "artistic sabbaticals" since 1999.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2004
  • Length: 29:55
The Writers Studio, featuring Maxing Hong Kingston
From: Abby Goldstein
Series: The Writers Studio
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A one-hour interview with internationally acclaimed author Maxine Hing Kingston

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and WFIU


  • Added: Aug 18, 2004
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
The Writers Studio, featuring Alice Walker
From: Abby Goldstein
Series: The Writers Studio
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A one-hour interview with internationally acclaimed, award winning author Alice Walker.

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


  • Added: Aug 18, 2004
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 3
The Writers Studio, featuring Julia Alvarez
From: Abby Goldstein
Series: The Writers Studio
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A one-hour interview with accomplished author Julia ALvarez

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


  • Added: Aug 18, 2004
  • Length: 59:04
  • Purchases: 3
The Writers Studio, featuring Nicholson Baker
From: Abby Goldstein
Series: The Writers Studio
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A one-hour interview with award winning author Nicholson Baker

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


  • Added: Aug 18, 2004
  • Length: 59:04
  • Purchases: 4
Elsewhere
From: Hillary Frank
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Hillary Frank talks to Lois Lowry about her novel THE GIVER -- and finds out why the author's visit to Hillary's hometown makes a group of Russian ...

Bought by PRX Remix, The Story, Remix Radio, and WYSO


  • Added: Aug 18, 2004
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 4
The Writers Studio, featuring Tracy Kidder
From: Abby Goldstein
Series: The Writers Studio
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A one-hour interview with Pulizer Prize winning author Tracy Kidder

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


  • Added: Aug 18, 2004
  • Length: 59:04
  • Purchases: 3
The Writers Studio, featuring T.C. Boyle
From: Abby Goldstein
Series: The Writers Studio
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A one-hour interview with award winning author T.C. Boyle

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


  • Added: Aug 18, 2004
  • Length: 01:18:57
  • Purchases: 3
Reclaiming Islam: A Woman's Perspective
From: Laura Jackson
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Muslim scholar Leila Ahmed argues for an alternative to fundamentalist Islam, for an oral, ethical tradition, passed down from mothers and grandmot...

Bought by KXOT Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WFUV, and KZYX


  • Added: Jun 30, 2004
  • Length: 17:40
  • Purchases: 4
Queeriosity
From: outLoud Radio at Youth Radio
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Amazing young poets explore attraction and identity through the spoken word.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KGNU Community Radio, WFHB, WGDR, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2004
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 11
Short List 1
From: Tahj Condra
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A short list is sort of like a poem or story with the title at the end.

  • Added: Jun 21, 2004
  • Length: 01:22
Spalding Gray and Sedge Thomson radio conversations: "I'm Beginning to Doubt My Doubt"
From: Sedge Thomson
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The late, great monologist in retro-talkfest about his art, life, laughs, and hopes for the future.

Bought by WZBC


  • Added: Jun 03, 2004
  • Length: 50:05
  • Purchases: 1
2003 National Audio Theatre Festivals' Live Performance
From: The National Audio Theatre Festivals
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New audio plays from the National Audio Theater Festivals starring Simon Jones. 2003 workshop week.

Bought by KUNM, WCBE, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and WMNF


  • Added: May 10, 2004
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
9/11 Rewrite: Memoir in a Time of Violence
From: Laura Jackson
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"What does it mean to fashion a self in the midst of a violent world"?

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 20, 2004
  • Length: 14:30
  • Purchases: 1
Lolita Unveiled: Muslim Women's Take on a Scandalous Classic
From: Laura Jackson
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Confronting the tyrannies of our times through the transformative power of the novel.

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, WETA, WFUV, KZYX and more


  • Added: Feb 28, 2004
  • Length: 22:40
  • Purchases: 6
Present Progressive
From: Marjorie Van Halteren
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Intimate, documentary-style radio play about the author's experiences as an English teacher in the North of France - never broadcast in the US.

  • Added: Jan 18, 2004
  • Length: 29:21
Hoot, by Carl Hiaasen
From: Vermont Public
Series: Camel's Hump Radio
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Twelve-year-old Roy Eberhardt investigates "the running boy" and lands in the middle of a full blown ecological mystery!

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, KZYX, KTNA, and KUT


  • Added: Jan 12, 2004
  • Length: 29:09
  • Purchases: 5
The Thief Lord, by Cornelia Funke
From: Vermont Public
Series: Camel's Hump Radio
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Runaways find themselves on a magical adventure amid a long-forgotten mystery.

Bought by KZYX and KTNA


  • Added: Jan 12, 2004
  • Length: 27:53
  • Purchases: 2
The Same Stuff as Stars, by Katherine Paterson
From: Vermont Public
Series: Camel's Hump Radio
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Abandoned, Angel struggles to care for her brother and finds her only peace with a mysterious man who shares with her the wonder of the stars.

Bought by KZYX, KTNA, and KUT


  • Added: Jan 12, 2004
  • Length: 28:52
  • Purchases: 3

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