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Psychiatrist, philosopher, writer, activist and insurgent, Frantz Fanon influenced such revolutionary leaders as Malcolm X and Che Guevara. Fanon ...
- Added: Feb 09, 2016
- Length: 57:30
In this archive program, Ben Lerner, who was recently named a 2015 MacArthur "Genius" Fellow, discusses his first two books, THE LICHTENBERG FIGURE...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Jan 27, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Before anyone foresaw a time when a television celebrity could become president, Norman Mailer wrote in Esquire that John F. Kennedy was a mythical...
- Added: Jan 25, 2016
- Length: 24:38
What do acting, literature and philosophy have in common with branding, fascism and incarceration? How can the humanities confront the problem of t...
- Added: Jan 19, 2016
- Length: 58:22
KGNU's Claudia Cragg speaks here with the delightful Philip Weinstein about his latest work Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage.
- Added: Dec 09, 2015
- Length: 25:50
According to or my guest, Alan Wald, the aim of the literary radical is “to endow history with meaning.” We track three “subversives” in our progra...
- Added: Nov 03, 2015
- Length: 57:14
The writing of Joshua Clover blends the worlds of poetry and economic crisis. We discuss his latest book of poetry, Red Epic, and his forthcoming w...
- Added: Sep 29, 2015
- Length: 59:55
Progressive events in California and America threaten liberty, sovereignty and the Constitution...
- Added: Sep 02, 2015
- Length: 02:50:47
The dystopian novel, "Nineteen Eighty Four" describes a future society martialed by constant surveillance, tyranny, and torture...
- Added: Aug 22, 2015
- Length: 02:20:44
The Cutting Edge presents Mary Helen Washington, author of “ The Other Blacklist” which shows how the government targeted African- American as wel...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 01:02:17
He used to be one of the many thousands of child soldiers, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s, in dozens of conflicts around the world. Ishmael...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Apr 23, 2015
- Length: 09:49
- Purchases: 2
Author Jonah Kruvant reads a compelling highlight from his forthcoming futuristic novel, The Last Book Ever Written.... Are we heading into a socie...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Apr 20, 2015
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
A tribute to Eduardo Galeano , he passed on April 13, 2015, this interview originally aired Sep 2009 but still relevant today.
Eduardo Hughes Gale...
- Added: Apr 16, 2015
- Length: 27:57
Two short plays about political operatives by Pulitzer Prize Winner David Auburn. In the comic DAMAGE CONTROL, a political aide has a public relati...
Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), KZYX, Connecticut Public (WNPR), Oregon Public Broadcasting, KUNM and more
- Added: Mar 26, 2015
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 6
Tom H. Swain's long career spanned the spheres of politics, education, and business. But for decades, even long past retirement, he has also serve...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 12, 2015
- Length: 06:14
- Purchases: 1
You’ve heard of Hip-Hop, but what about Krip-Hop? That’s the name for the international movement of disabled artists, poets, musicians, and MCs. On...
- Added: Jan 25, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
In All Our Names Dinaw Mengestu explores unlikely love in the midst of conflict.
- Added: Jan 09, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 2
This week we examine the legacy of The Work of Art in the Age of Technological Reproducibility by Walter Benjamin.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 31, 2014
- Length: 20:45
- Purchases: 1
Andrew Rubin opens up his Archives of Authority to tell us the story of how George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984 became global phenomenons. Melissa...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 31, 2014
- Length: 24:09
- Purchases: 1
Gary Phillips is a writer, teacher, and activist who lives in Los Angeles.
- Added: Dec 22, 2014
- Length: 26:52
Kwame Ture, once known as Stokely Carmichael was born in Trinadad, later moving to the United States at the age of eleven. He would become a lead...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Nov 21, 2014
- Length: 01:00:35
- Purchases: 1
"A Mayor's Life: Governing New York's Gorgeous Mosaic" is the autobiography of New York City's 106th mayor, David Dinkins. The book recounts the li...
- Added: Nov 07, 2014
- Length: 01:00:24
Author Ammon Shea weighs in, from his new book, Bad English: What do you think of such words as "irregardless" or "decimate" or "hopefully"? Anothe...
- Added: Oct 22, 2014
- Length: 01:40
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf on misconceptions about Islam; Katy Scrogin on The Man Who Quit Money.
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 38:24
Hosts Doug Storm and Trish Kerle' are joined by historian Jim Madison to discuss the Hoosier through history. Madison has just published a new book...
- Added: Sep 23, 2014
- Length: 01:01:02
