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Jill Lepore joins us to talk about three books: The Story of America; The Secret History of Wonder Woman; and Joe Gould's Teeth.
- Added: Mar 29, 2016
- Length: 01:03:04
March is Women's History Month. A new book, "Women of Mayo Clinic:The Founding Generation," explores the significant contributions women made to th...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Mar 22, 2016
- Length: 17:51
- Purchases: 1
For Women's History Month, we revisit a novel that's built around real life West Virginia murders of a widow and her three children during the Grea...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Mar 11, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Anton Disclafani discusses the writing process behind her acclaimed debut novel, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls.
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 13:33
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
This is a series of quotations from women who were passionate about their politics, power and immortality. They sought justice, equality, knowledge...
- Added: Mar 02, 2016
- Length: 29:28
- Purchases: 2
Jami Ake questions the role of marriage in Shakespeare's plays and whether the famous playwright qualifies as a feminist.
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: Jan 04, 2016
- Length: 15:11
- Purchases: 1
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
In this Popcast, hear about the surprising podcast-like feel of a 1972 radio documentary about Sylvia Plath.
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 04:38
Mollie Evelyn Moore Davis was one of the most important Texas writers of the 19th century.
- Added: Jun 11, 2015
- Length: 01:59
- Purchases: 2
Alice Sheldon served in the OSS and the CIA. And then she went deep undercover posing as a male science fiction writer. It wasn't an assignment, it...
- Added: Mar 12, 2015
- Length: 23:44
- Purchases: 2
A new online archive of Grimm’s fairy tales reveals the evolution of these iconic stories, whose earlier versions were often violent and sexually s...
- Added: Feb 27, 2015
- Length: 53:55
- Purchases: 5
We talk with acclaimed biographer James McGrath Morris about his just-released biography, Ethel Payne, First Lady Of The Black Press. Few Americans...
Bought by WJAB, WJCT, KMUN, KAZU Seaside, Calif., WFDD and more
- Added: Feb 17, 2015
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 7
Katharine Weber discusses her historical novel TRIANGLE, about the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.
- Added: Jan 29, 2015
- Length: 27:20
Feminist poet Honor Moore talks about the anthology she edited, Poems From The Women’s Movement.
Bought by WABE
- Added: Jan 29, 2015
- Length: 19:37
- Purchases: 1
Historian and writer Eve LaPlante talks about her book, MARMEE AND LOUISA. It’s about the powerful relationship between Louisa May Alcott and her m...
- Added: Jan 29, 2015
- Length: 28:57
Susan Cheever talks about her acclaimed 2010 biography, LOUISA MAY ALCOTT and about her 2007 book, AMERICAN BLOOMSBURY, Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Wa...
- Added: Jan 29, 2015
- Length: 59:07
How magic and law shaped the witch trials of early modern Europe
- Added: Oct 28, 2014
- Length: 29:33
What in James Joyce's Ulysses was so dangerously obscene? And why were the novel's greatest champions women? Chris Lydon talks with Kevin Birmingha...
Bought by KICI Iowa City, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KPIP-LP, WABE, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more
- Added: Sep 10, 2014
- Length: 11:54
- Purchases: 6
For the holiday weekend, we look back in history at Sara Payson Willis, a novelist, journalist, and feminist who wrote under the pseudonym "Fanny F...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Jul 09, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Groundbreaking Texas poet and author.
- Added: May 22, 2014
- Length: 01:59
- Purchases: 3
Author of short stories about the Texas Oil Boom of the 1920s.
- Added: May 22, 2014
- Length: 01:59
- Purchases: 3
A legendary Texas author.
- Added: May 22, 2014
- Length: 01:59
- Purchases: 3
The first Anglo-American to author a book about Texas.
- Added: May 22, 2014
- Length: 01:59
- Purchases: 3
She was a pioneering and award winning author and poet.
- Added: May 22, 2014
- Length: 01:59
- Purchases: 3
