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A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell
From: Jennifer March
Series: Not Your Mother's Storytime
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“A Jury of Her Peers” is a short story version of her famous play, “Trifles”. Glaspell won the Pulitzer Prize for her play, “Alison’s House”.

  • Added: May 08, 2023
  • Length: 56:33
Writing Through (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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What do the mythological Chimera and motherhood have in common?

Bought by KHEN-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WCNY, and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 10, 2020
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
Writing Through (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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What do the mythological Chimera and motherhood have in common?

Bought by Ohm Radio , WRST-FM Oshkosh, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP, WTJU and more


  • Added: Dec 10, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 12
Writing Through (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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What do the mythological Chimera and motherhood have in common?

Bought by KPBS, KMUN, Kansas Public Radio, KRDP, KVSC and more


  • Added: Dec 10, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Writing Through (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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What do the mythological Chimera and motherhood have in common?

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNED Buffalo, KXCV, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Dec 10, 2020
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 5
Experimental Fiction Writer Diane Williams
From: New Letters on the Air
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Diane Williams, a three-time winner of the Pushcart Prize for Fiction is the author of eight books, and the editor of the acclaimed literary journa...

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 10, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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
Crime Novelist Linda Rodriguez
From: New Letters on the Air
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National Novel Writing Month and Native American Heritage month come together again in the work of Linda Rodriguez. She talks about how her mystery...

Bought by WNMU-FM, WNJR, and KRZA


  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Yellow Wallpaper
From: Rachel Liu
Series: Anthology
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Forced to ‘rest’ for months in an old Victorian estate, a woman begins to realize something strange about the horrendous wallpaper in the nursery.

  • Added: Sep 07, 2015
  • Length: 38:06
"All the Lights On: Reimagining Theater with Ten Thousand Things" by Michelle Hensley
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Michelle Hensley is the author of "All The Lights On: Reimagining Theater with Ten Thousand Things." It's a book about a theater company that wante...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 22, 2015
  • Length: 12:07
  • Purchases: 1
Julia Dahl reads from Invisible City: A Novel (5/9)
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2014
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100-second module, from our weekday readings for May; a daughter observes.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation about Edgar Allan Poe with Laura Lippman
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Mystery writer Laura Lippman talks about the terrifying brilliance of Edgar Allan Poe and his classic short story, "The Fall of the House of Usher"...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KMXT, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 26, 2012
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 3
A Conversation with Crime Writer, Laura Lippman
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Laura Lippman talks about crime fiction, journalism and the social novel. [30:30]

Bought by KPIP-LP and KVSC


  • Added: Mar 09, 2012
  • Length: 30:12
  • Purchases: 2
The Age of Innocence: A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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Actor Alfred Molina shines with masterful readings of excerpts from Edith Wharton's masterpiece. The screenwriter of Scorsese's film adaptation, Ja...

Bought by KMUN, KPIP-LP, KQED, KRZA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 17, 2011
  • Length: 29:03
  • Purchases: 5
What's the Word? Pride and Prejudice
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What' s the Word? - A series of half-hour programs to celebrate Women's History Month in March
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Jane Austen's _Pride and Prejudice_ continues to be popular nearly two hundred years after it was first published.

Bought by WLIW, WNMU-FM, WLIW, CHSR-FM 97.9, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2007
  • Length: 29:46
  • Purchases: 14
Memoir Cafe: Episode 26
From: Gary Smith
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Episode 26: A pot pourri of stories by women about men!

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Apr 14, 2006
  • Length: 25:56
  • Purchases: 1
Memoir Cafe: Episode 27
From: Gary Smith
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This week's stories are about failure and success, often entwined.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2006
  • Length: 30:04
Memoir Cafe: Episode 25
From: Gary Smith
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In this 25th episode of Memoir Cafe, women write about reacting to the events around them.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2006
  • Length: 30:33
Jan 25: English - Alona on Virginia Woolf
From: Alona Suvórova
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Birthday piece

  • Added: Jan 25, 2006
  • Length: 01:55
Jan 25: Russian - Alona on Virginia Woolf
From: Alona Suvórova
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Birthday piece

  • Added: Jan 24, 2006
  • Length: 01:53