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A struggling writer finds unexpected kindness and friendship from his poor landlord in this short story by George Gissing, whom George Orwell ranke...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WMUU-LP
- Added: Mar 07, 2016
- Length: 57:55
- Purchases: 2
Illness cuts short Nurse Periwinkle’s service for the Union Army as Hospital Sketches concludes. In the last chapters of her thinly fictionalized m...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WMUU-LP
- Added: Feb 08, 2016
- Length: 58:07
- Purchases: 2
Both Louisa May Alcott and Walt Whitman were profoundly affected by the aftermath of the Battle of Fredericksburg during the American Civil War. In...
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Feb 01, 2016
- Length: 58:40
- Purchases: 1
Two Men, the second novel by Elizabeth Stoddard (1823–1902), is a family saga published in 1865, in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, but i...
- Added: Aug 11, 2015
- Length: 58:19
Robert McAlmon was a ubiquitous presence among the “Lost Generation” of American expatriate writers during the 1920s and ’30s in Paris. Bisexual, h...
- Added: May 18, 2015
- Length: 58:25
“Exploring with Robert McAlmon” is a three-episode series of fiction and poetry by one of the lesser-known Modernists. McAlmon has been called a le...
- Added: May 11, 2015
- Length: 01:03:45
“Exploring with Robert McAlmon” is a three-episode series of fiction and poetry by one of the lesser-known Modernists. Born in 1895, McAlmon grew u...
- Added: May 04, 2015
- Length: 55:54
The interconnected story cycle “Lost Borders” by Mary Hunter Austin concludes. Austin’s character types and settings are in many ways familiar from...
- Added: Apr 14, 2015
- Length: 59:51
The interconnected stories of ‘’Lost Borders’’ are set in the desert landscape of southern California, where author Mary Hunter Austin moved with h...
- Added: Apr 06, 2015
- Length: 01:08:57
Mary Hunter Austin was born in Illinois in 1868 and died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1934. Her father encouraged her interest in writing, but died ...
- Added: Mar 16, 2015
- Length: 58:06
A four-part presentation of Herman Melville’s classic and problematic historical fiction “Benito Cereno” concludes. In the final episode, Captain A...
- Added: Feb 23, 2015
- Length: 01:01:33
Near Grand Marais, Minn., in 2003, a small plane crashed in the forest, taking the lives of the pilot and his sister-in-law, but sparing the two li...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 17, 2015
- Length: 24:22
- Purchases: 1
The second in a four-part program on Herman Melville’s novella “Benito Cereno,” based on the memoir of the real-life sea captain Amasa Delano. Melv...
- Added: Feb 02, 2015
- Length: 58:35
"Killing Voltaire: An Observance for Charlie Hebdo" is a collaborative response by the Books Unbound community to the deadly attack on the offices ...
- Added: Jan 19, 2015
- Length: 57:58
The protagonist of "The Massacre of Yangzhou" is the southern Chinese city of Yangzhou, a rich and beautiful center of the failing Ming Dynasty as ...
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Jan 12, 2015
- Length: 59:38
- Purchases: 1
Tonight’s program is one half of a collaboration with WFHB’s Books Unbound centered around a memoir of a first-person eyewitness account written by...
- Added: Jan 06, 2015
- Length: 53:05
“The Queen of Spades” is a mock fairy tale about debt, gambling, guilt and the supernatural—and the deadening effect of money on love. An aging, on...
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 58:40
- Purchases: 1
"Heaven's Café" is a seasonal episode of Books Unbound featuring poetry from China, Germany, Mexico, Palestine, Cuba and England, with a tribute to...
- Added: Dec 22, 2014
- Length: 58:38
Poet and artist Mina Loy (1882–1966) was at the center of avant-garde movements of the early 20th century, but the difficulty of her poetry and her...
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Nov 24, 2014
- Length: 59:39
- Purchases: 1
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was 18 when she and her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, visited some literary friends and got involved in a challenge, t...
- Added: Sep 05, 2014
- Length: 58:01
WFHB correspondent Michael Glab speaks with juvenile fiction author Julia Carr about writing and adolescent issues for today’s WFHB feature report.
- Added: Jun 17, 2014
- Length: 08:20
Host Doug Storm is joined by three professors of literature at Indiana University, Jennifer Fleissner, Jonathan Elmer, and Christoph Irmscher, to e...
- Added: Jun 03, 2014
- Length: 56:38
Host Doug Storm ends our three-part series on Bloomington author Ross Lockridge, Jr. and his bestselling novel of 1948 with an interview with Ernes...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 01:01:01
The exhibit “Raintree County: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Ross Lockridge, Jr.” currently on display at Indiana University’s Lilly Library...
- Added: May 14, 2014
- Length: 09:46
Host Doug Storm continues the three-part series on the bestselling 1948 novel Raintree County with excerpts from a conversation with Larry Lockridg...
- Added: May 13, 2014
- Length: 57:28
