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Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Features a conversation with August Wilson scholar Jeannie Zeck about Wilson’s plays and the many influences on his work; the show also features pe...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 00:29:03
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Quiddity explores Lincoln through poetry with guest - professor & poet, Dan Guillory, whose works include Living with Lincoln and The Lincoln Poems.

  • Added: Mar 15, 2012
  • Length: 00:29:00
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Abraham Lincoln through Fiction—a conversation with professor and novelist Adam Braver, whose work includes Mr. Lincoln's Wars; also, poetry from D...

Bought by KUCB


  • Added: Mar 14, 2012
  • Length: 00:29:02
  • Purchases: 1
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Are colleges and universities ready for the influx of veterans returning from military service?

  • Added: Jan 31, 2012
  • Length: 00:29:00
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Today on Art Beat we examine the author. MN author Eric Dregni is here to talk about his new book "Vikings in the Attic: In search of Nordic Americ...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 00:32:34
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This edition of Art Beat is the first of a two part interview and lecture from Minnesota author Ashley Shelby. In this segment, Ashley will talk ab...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 00:31:18
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Peter Geye is a Minnesota author based out of the Twin Cities. His book "Safe From the Sea" was a 2010 Indie Lit Award Winner for ?Best Literary Fi...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 00:22:04
Caption: Neil Gaiman waits backstage, Credit: David J. Murray, Clear Eyed Photo
Multimedia sensation reads from the new edition of "American Gods," and talks Twitter, Dr. Who, and the power of librarians with host Virginia Pres...

Bought by WNPR and WCAI / WNAN


  • Added: Jun 29, 2011
  • Length: 00:49:27
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Author Ann Patchett
An hour long reading and interview with Ann Patchett recorded in front of a live audience at the Portsmouth Music Hall in June, 2011.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN


  • Added: Jun 29, 2011
  • Length: 00:53:30
  • Purchases: 1
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News and features on the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and more.

  • Added: Jun 13, 2011
  • Length: 00:08:30
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Randy Kearse grew up in the Farragut housing projects in what is now the trendy DUMBO section of Brooklyn, New York. In the late 1980’s crack cocai...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: May 19, 2011
  • Length: 00:05:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Today on Art Beat we feature Murder Mystery Novelist and Architectural Writer Larry Millet of St. Paul Minnesota. Millet gave a reading and talk on...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 00:48:08
Caption: Jonathan Green, author of "Murder in the High Himalaya", Credit: jonathangreenonline.com
Chinese troops shot and killed a 17-year-old Buddhist nun trying to flee Tibet. Foreign mountaineers got the whole thing on video. (Q&A with Jonath...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2011
  • Length: 00:06:40
Caption: John Reimringer, Credit: http://www.johnreimringer.com
On this edition of "Art Beat" we feature a new personification of an artist - The Writer. John Reimriner is the author of the newly released book e...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2010
  • Length: 00:24:21
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A Grand Rapids man recently wrote and illustrated a picture book about a cowboy… a cowboy who finds himself a pawn in a parlor game between God a...

Bought by mnartists.org


  • Added: Oct 07, 2010
  • Length: 00:11:27
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Lizzie Velasquez, Credit: Tyler Coe
Lizzie Velasquez has a syndrome so rare, it doesn't even have a name, and only 2 others in the world have it. No matter what or how much she eats, ...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2010
  • Length: 00:25:31
Caption: Jane Lindholm and John Irving, Credit: Sarah Ashworth
Vermont Public Radio's Jane Lindholm sits down for a wide-ranging interview with novelist John Irving at his home in Vermont. Short and long versio...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2010
  • Length: 00:46:43
Caption: NPR's Deb Amos, Credit: NPR.org
NPR's Deborah Amos talks about the importance of foreign correspondents, her hopes for political reconciliation in Iraq, and her nightmares.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2010
  • Length: 00:10:43
Caption: Author and food advocate Michael Pollan speaking at the Indiana University Auditorium on February 26, 2009., Credit: Andrew Olanoff/WFIU
Earth Eats' Annie Corrigan sat down with author, activist and professor Michael Pollan to talk about his new book "Food Rules"

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and KZYX


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 00:16:49
  • Purchases: 2
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Christopher Lydon in conversation with author Pico Iyer. In the first half from the beaches of Jamaica at the Calabash literary festival, Pico Iye...

Bought by WEOS, KUOW, KXOT Public Radio, and WCAI / WNAN


  • Added: Oct 26, 2009
  • Length: 00:58:55
  • Purchases: 4
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Christopher Lydon in conversation with James Carroll, whose "Americanist" Catholicism is a vision of a church to match the dream of a country: plur...

Bought by WEOS, KUOW, and WCAI / WNAN


  • Added: Oct 26, 2009
  • Length: 00:58:55
  • Purchases: 3