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Conversations: Dolen Perkins-Valdez
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
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In this episode, Emily speaks with author Dolen Perkins-Valdez about her recent novel Take My Hand, based on the 1973 case of the Relf sisters who ...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2023
  • Length: 40:06
Feminist Poets: Past American Voices
From: New Letters on the Air
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For Women's History Month, we feature a special program about four important feminist poets who led the the next generations into the 21st century....

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WNMU-FM, KBIA, WNMU-FM, WDCB and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 19
National Writers Series: Anna Quindlen
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Four
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Anne-Marie Oomen talks with author Anna Quindlen

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WNMU-FM, Michigan Radio, and WKAR


  • Added: Jan 13, 2023
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 4
The Write Question - Anne Helen Petersen Part 2
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Writer Anne Helen Petersen discusses her new book, "Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation." This is part two of a two-part conv...

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


  • Added: Dec 18, 2020
  • Length: 28:44
  • Purchases: 2
The Write Question - Anne Helen Petersen Part 1
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Writer Anne Helen Petersen discusses her new book, "Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation." This is part one of a two-part conv...

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


  • Added: Dec 11, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Audio Portrait: Author Renee Beauregard Lute
From: Diana Opong
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One author's journey to becoming published and how she balances life as a mom, wife and writer since COVID-19. (There is no internal narration).

  • Added: May 17, 2020
  • Length: 10:17
129: Candace Bushnell, Is There Still Sex in the City? Live On Stage
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
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Candace Bushnell gave us a reason to sit on our couch every week to soak in the stories of the women--and men--of the 90s television culture-chang...

Bought by WCNY, KWIT, Louisville Public Media, KWIT, WNIN and more


  • Added: Oct 17, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
121: Author Jennifer Weiner Writes a Radical "Beach Read"
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Jennifer Weiner
The times, they are a’changin’. This week on Inflection Point, Lauren Schiller talks to author Jennifer Weiner, about her newest bestselling book “...

Bought by KKRN, Louisville Public Media, KWIT, WNIN, KSJD and more


  • Added: Jul 02, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
Bemidji's First Story Slam
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
Caption: Tricia Andrews
Bemidji hosted its first Story Slam Thursday, November 1st.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2018
  • Length: 14:06
The Write Question - Henrietta Goodman - 331
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Award-winning poet Henritetta Goodman discusses her collection of 48 linked Italian sonnets, "All That Held Us." She also reads a handful of poems ...

Bought by KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 28, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Barbara Schlichting: Author
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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Barbara Schlichting writes mystery novels with First Ladies at the center of them. We spoke to her about it!

  • Added: Jun 27, 2018
  • Length: 12:12
Cynthia Booth, Writer
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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Cynthia Booth has been writing dark fiction for decades. She recently won an international writing award and has a new novella coming out this sum...

  • Added: May 30, 2018
  • Length: 10:35
93: How to age without apology - Nina Collins, author of "What Would Virginia Woolf Do?"
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Nina Collins
What's so monumental about turning 40 for women and why do we need our own Facebook group? Turns out--pretty much everything. Nina Collins has crea...

Bought by KCSB-FM, KSJD, KWIT, KUT, KNVC Carson City Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 17, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
Chekhov’s Three Sisters: Where There’s a Will…
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Olga Knipper and Anton Chekhov
Three Sisters is being performed by the Indiana University Theatre Department at the Wells-Metz Theatre on campus beginning this Friday, October 13...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2017
  • Length: 34:55
Kate White, New York Times Bestselling Author
From: The Hangar Studios
Series: Sandi Klein's Conversations with Creative Women
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We cover a lot of territory in our conversation with Kate White. She's the New York Times bestselling author of 11 works of fiction - six of whic...

Bought by WCNY and WRIR


  • Added: Apr 08, 2017
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
How We Talk About Our Dying: Susan Gubar On Living with Cancer
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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On page 148 of Gubar’s latest book, Reading & Writing Cancer: How Words Heal, published this May by W. W. Norton, she writes: “It seems unlikely th...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Aug 02, 2016
  • Length: 58:47
  • Purchases: 1
A Room of One's Own
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Retellings
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Publisher and fiction writer, Danielle Dutton, discusses the poetics of suburbia and the roadblocks of women in publishing. In the second half Prof...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 20:51
Marching the Alcotts: "We Really Lived Most of It"
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our guest is Pulitzer Prize winning biographer John Matteson whose The Annotated Little Women was published last month. Alcott’s often autobiograph...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Dec 22, 2015
  • Length: 58:31
  • Purchases: 1
BFFs, Girlfriends, and Besties (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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As the British Empire expanded, the fabric of society depended upon women’s friendships. One letter from a “BFF” back home could save a colonist fr...

Bought by WCNY, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KEDT, WTJU and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2015
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 6
The Write Question - Margaret Grundstein - 243
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Margaret Grundstein talks about and reads from her memoir NAKED IN THE WOODS: My Unexpected Years In A Hippie Commune. She also comments on why fem...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KGLT, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KCMJ Community Radio, KSJD and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 7
Novel Explores the Meaning of Home
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Megan Kruse talks about and reads from her debut novel, Call Me Home

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KSJD, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 27, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
Story of an African childhood: Author Robyn Scott
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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The author of “Twenty Chickens for a Saddle” is a social entrepreneur who works in southern Africa. But back when she was 7 she moved from England ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Feb 08, 2015
  • Length: 08:50
  • Purchases: 2
The Write Question - Molly Caro May - 228
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Molly Caro May talks about and reads from 'The Map of Enough' -- a memoir about her search for home.

Bought by KGLT, Spokane Public Radio, KSJD, Yellowstone Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 02, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
The Write Question - Adrianne Harun - 233
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Adrianne Harun explains why she chose the color white to represent evil in her novel 'A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain.' And she talks abou...

Bought by KWMR, KGLT, KSJD, Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 29, 2014
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 10
The Write Question - Christine Byl - 283
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During this program, Christine Byl talks about her memoir, Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods, which describes her experiences working on trail c...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KSJD, WCWP and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9