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Author Kent Haruf
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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A National Book Award finalist, Kent writes about the residents of a small town in fictional Holt County on the plains of eastern Colorado. His new...

  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 09:59
Author Andre Dubus
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Andre Dubus III, a much decorated author, wrote “Townie” initially in an attempt to answer a question about baseball. That answer evolved into a me...

  • Added: May 03, 2013
  • Length: 09:58
Racial Innocence (Pledge Drive)
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Robin Bernstein
Professor Robin Bernstein: Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 19:59
  • Purchases: 1
Independent Book Stores Speak Up for the Written Word - on ThoughtCast!
From: Jenny Attiyeh
Caption: Kate Rosenberger@Dog Eared Books, Credit: Jenny Attiyeh
Be it a curmudgeonly Galwegian on the West coast of Ireland, an erudite scholar in Dublin or a literary motorcyclist 'flower child' of San Francisc...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Dec 20, 2012
  • Length: 56:24
  • Purchases: 1
Colin Fischer
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Colin Fischer, Credit: Jacket cover design by Emily Osborne
This is the story of an exceptional 14-year-old boy with Asperger’s syndrome. He hates the color blue, keeps a very detailed notebook, needs flash...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2012
  • Length: 14:42
The Art Forger
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: B.A. Shapiro
The New York Times estimates that nearly forty percent of museum and gallery art is forged. Keep that in mind as you read the new book by B.A. Sha...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2012
  • Length: 20:24
National Writers Series: Lee Child and Doug Stanton
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series
Caption: International Best Seller thriller writer Lee Child
International bestselling author and thriller writer Lee Child talks about his career after being run out of television and the secret to writing s...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
National Writers Series: Sebastian Junger and Doug Stanton
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series
Caption: Journalist, author and filmmaker Sebastian Junger, Credit: John Russell
Journalist, author and filmmaker Sebastian Junger, who’s traveled to some of the most dangerous places on earth, reflects on the art of storytellin...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Oct 18, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
What's What: What is Poetry?
From: Paul McCarthy
Series: What's What Radio
Caption: Ashley Bryan, Credit: Rama Hughes
Perhaps Rick Benjamin was nominated to host the show because he has just has this unmistakable GLOW...perhaps it's because of the way this energy i...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 44:14
National Writers Series: Jodi Picoult and Paula McLain
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series
Caption: Best-selling authors Jodi Picoult and Paula McLain, Credit: John Russell
Best-selling authors Jodi Picoult (Lone Wolf) and Paula McLain (The Paris Wife) talk about the craft of writing, their inspiration, and the challen...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Jul 03, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Interfaith Alternative
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: New Society Publishers jacket, Credit: cover design by Diane McIntosh
Whatever your spiritual path, chances are that the primary tenets of your faith include universal love, acceptance and compassion. Yet three thousa...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2012
  • Length: 28:55
Judith Jones interview by Marion Kane
From: Marion Kane
Caption: Judith Jones
Judith Jones, Julia Child's editor, discusses her favorite author with Canada's food sleuth, Marion Kane.

  • Added: Jun 25, 2012
  • Length: 09:12
The Possibility of You
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Pamela Redmond
Can we ever atone for the sins of the past? Or does each generation of women invent itself anew? In THE POSSIBILITY OF YOU, bestselling author Pam...

  • Added: May 09, 2012
  • Length: 13:39
Kitty Cornered
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Bob Tarte
In the feline follow-up to Enslaved by Ducks, bird-loving author Bob Tarte tells the story of surviving a household run by six fiercely independent...

  • Added: May 01, 2012
  • Length: 12:56
There is No Dog
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: G.P. Putnam's Sons jacket cover, Credit: Natalie C. Sousa, cover design
Meg Rosoff, a Printz Award-winning author, returns to the young adult marketplace with "There is No Dog," a provocative and imaginative novel starr...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2012
  • Length: 21:06
OPEN SOURCE: History's Tragic Irony with Teju Cole and Simon Schama
From: Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
Caption: Teju Cole
Nigerian-American writer Teju Cole is our idea of a post-imperial global mind in motion. His celebrated first novel, "Open City," is about a solita...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WCAI / WNAN


  • Added: May 20, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
OPEN SOURCE: The Great America in Writing - Arnold Weinstein and Jimmy Breslin
From: Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
Caption: Jimmy Breslin in his Manhattan home.
This week we're delving into the world of American letters with Arnold Weinstein and Jimmy Breslin. Veteran journalist Jimmy Breslin might be the l...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCAI / WNAN, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 29, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
OPEN SOURCE: Moral Maps and Geographies of Conflict - Melani McAlister & Téa Obreht
From: Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
Caption: Melani McAlister's book jacket for Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and US Interests, 1945-2000
How do war stories work, and where do we find them? Our guests this week are mapping out terrains of conflict and confusion in our lifetimes, from ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN


  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
OPEN SOURCE: Cultural Capital - Hamid Dabashi & Andre Aciman
From: Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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In the cultural crossroads of Manhattan's West Side, we found two standard-bearers for our most promising American tradition -- the literary and in...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN


  • Added: Apr 07, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
OPEN SOURCE: Talking Poetry in Our Time with Nicholson Baker and Franz Wright
From: Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
Caption: Nicholson Baker
Part of "Whose Words These Are," our look at poetry in our time: first Christopher Lydon in conversation with novelist Nicholson Baker, whose novel...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUT, WCAI / WNAN, WEOS, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 04, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 5
OPEN SOURCE: On The Margins of Music - Alan Lomax & Anthony Burgess
From: Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
Caption: Anthony Burgess by David Levine, from The New York Review of Books
First, we join biographer John Szwed in thanking the eccentric musical anthropologist Alan Lomax for his rare recordings of early twentieth century...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KXOT Public Radio, and WCAI / WNAN


  • Added: Mar 17, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
OPEN SOURCE: Eyesore Opulence - Peter Hessler & Christian Wiman
From: Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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New Yorker correspondent Peter Hessler reports from the road in China on the human side of miracle growth and epic migration. Then, we meet poet Ch...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCAI / WNAN, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 10, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
OPEN SOURCE: Poets of the Moment - Elliott Colla & Jaimy Gordon
From: Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Elliott Colla talks about the poetry of revolution and its role for transformation in Egypt. Then, we're with Jaimy Gordon, whose novel The Lord of...

Bought by KWMR-FM, KUNM, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 18, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
OPEN SOURCE: Voices of India - Namita Gokhale & Ashis Nandy
From: Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
Series: Winter 2010: Featured Shows
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Open Source is in New Delhi with two stars of the writing class. Namita Gokhale is a novelist, publisher, and sparkplug of the Indian literary boom...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 13, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
OPEN SOURCE: Death of the Liberal Class, Life of Our Inner Sky - Chris Hedges & Damion Searls
From: Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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This hour brings politics with Chris Hedges and poetry with Damion Searls. Chris Hedges' new book recounts The Death of the Liberal Class. And the ...

Bought by Moab Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 23, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3