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Author Lorna Landvik on her latest novel, "Best to Laugh," and her own career in comedy
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Ann Possis had the chance to speak with best-selling Minnesota author Lorna Landvik recently about her new book, "Best to Laugh." It's loos...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2014
  • Length: 18:38
Terri Falsani's Dreams
From: WDSE
Series: Women's Words
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Featuring Terry Falsani of Duluth, reading two poems, "Into this bent night" and "In Which, Dreams."

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 16, 2014
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 1
The Most Dangerous Book
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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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
Tramping Around the Ruins of Olympia
From: WDSE
Series: Women's Words
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This Women's Words from KUMD features Terry Falsani of Duluth, reading her poem, "Olympia."

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 10, 2014
  • Length: 02:26
  • Purchases: 1
Sex Lives of Wives
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation about women's sexuality with Holly Hollenbeck, author of “Sex Lives of Wives, Reigniting the Passion, True Co...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 29:01
Isolation in the Storm
From: WDSE
Series: Women's Words
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This Women's Words from KUMD features Duluth novelist Danielle Sosin reading an excerpt from her award winning book, The Long-Shining Waters, publi...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 22, 2014
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 1
Boy, Snow, Bird
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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Novelist Helen Oyeyemi reads from her dreamy, fairy-tale-inspired novel and reflects on themes of beauty and race.

Bought by KPIP-LP and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 18, 2014
  • Length: 07:21
  • Purchases: 2
"Memory of Trees: A Daughter's Story of a Family Farm" by Gayla Marty
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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MN Reads talks with Gayla Marty about her book, Memory of Trees: A Daughter's Story of a Family Farm, published by the University of Minnesota Pres...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 14, 2014
  • Length: 08:51
  • Purchases: 1
A Proust Questionnaire with Helen Oyeyemi
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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When and where were you happiest? Novelist Helen Oyeyemi answers a modified version of the Proust Questionnaire, a set of questions made famous by ...

Bought by KPIP-LP and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 04:03
  • Purchases: 2
Always the River, But Never the Same
From: WDSE
Series: Women's Words
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This Women's Words from KUMD features Duluth novelist Danielle Sosin reading an excerpt from her award winning book, The Long-Shining Waters, publi...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 07, 2014
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 1
A Goddess of the Milky Way
From: WDSE
Series: Women's Words
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This Women's Words features Esther Marcella Hoffmann from Mankato, Minnesota reading two poems, "For the Males," and "Mama Gaia."

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 30, 2014
  • Length: 02:21
  • Purchases: 1
Poetry for the changing seasons
From: WDSE
Series: Women's Words
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This Women's Words from KUMD features Minnesota poet Kathleen Jesme reading three poems, "I Didn't Go Back for a Long Time," "Gravity," and "Then I...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 22, 2014
  • Length: 03:39
  • Purchases: 1
Who Needs Health Insurance? (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Our healthcare system is in a state of transition, with both doctors and patients anxious about where we’re heading. Many doctors are exploring new...

Bought by WJCT, WCSU-FM, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WMNF, WLIW and more


  • Added: Jul 18, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 6
Who Needs Health Insurance?
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Our healthcare system is in a state of transition, with both doctors and patients anxious about where we’re heading. Many doctors are exploring new...

Bought by WCNY, KVNF, WTJU, and KKRN


  • Added: Jul 18, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 4
A Poem Called, "awakening."
From: WDSE
Series: Women's Words
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This Women's Words from KUMD-FM features Duluthian Kathleen Roberts reading her poem, "awakening."

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 15, 2014
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 1
Novelist Debra Brenegan
From: New Letters on the Air
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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
Returning to Del Lago
From: WDSE
Series: Women's Words
Caption: Dianna Hunter, at Del Lago in the 1970s.
This Women's Words from KUMD-FM in Duluth, Minnesota features Duluthian Dianna Hunter reading her short story, "Del Lago," about a Minnesota farm s...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 07, 2014
  • Length: 03:41
  • Purchases: 1
Poet, Novelist, and Non-Fiction Writer Janet Burroway
From: New Letters on the Air
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Short Description: MEMOIR about her soldier son who committed suicide. She talks about writing non-fiction and her earlier elegiac book, EMBALMING...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
Nerdette S02-E03 (06/23/14): Freakonomics' Stephen Dubner tells us how to Think Like a Freak
From: WBEZ
Caption: Freakonomics' Stephen J. Dubner
Freaks and nerds unite! Freakonomics' Stephen Dubner teaches Tricia and Greta how to think like a freak. Plus a portrait of astronaut Sally Ride on...

Bought by KUAC, WRIR, and KMXT


  • Added: Jun 24, 2014
  • Length: 26:59
  • Purchases: 3
The Forgotten Fiction of Ann Petry
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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All around the country, summer reading lists will feature the same familiar authors of the literary canon. In recent decades, that canon has come t...

Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KKRN


  • Added: Jun 20, 2014
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 3
Nice Day for a White Wedding
From: WDSE
Series: Women's Words
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This Women's Words from KUMD features Duluthian Jocelyn Pihlaja reading her short story, "Nice Day for a White Wedding."

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 17, 2014
  • Length: 05:37
  • Purchases: 1
Beneath the Summer Sun
From: WDSE
Series: Women's Words
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This Women's Words from KUMD features P.A. Pashibin of Cotton, MN reading two poems, "The Murderous Crows of London Road," and "Translating Clover."

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 09, 2014
  • Length: 02:48
  • Purchases: 1
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
A Burnable Book (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Murder, mystery, and poetry come together in medieval scholar Bruce Holsinger’s new novel set in Chaucer’s London.

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, and KKRN


  • Added: May 30, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 3
"Ready for Air: A Journey Through Premature Motherhood" by Kate Hopper
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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KUMD spotlights Minnesota Author Kate Hopper and her book "Ready for Air: A Journey Through Premature Motherhood;" a personal story of the heart-wr...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 24, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 1

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