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A Confederacy of Dunces, by New Orleans-born John Kennedy Toole, is one of the great stories of American literature. A new biography of Toole tells...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: May 10, 2013
- Length: 53:54
- Purchases: 1
Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs—all names you might recognize as poets of the Beat Generation. But a friend and inspiration to ...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 02:27
Can you really trust your first impression of someone…especially if it’s a bad first impression?
Bought by KHNS, Nevada Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KMUN and more
- Added: Jan 07, 2013
- Length: 01:57:58
- Purchases: 11
Literary critic and pop culture enthusiast Ursula Heise dissects environmental storytelling and its relation to science… both real and fiction. [Se...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 34:06
As part of a series marking Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of the First World War, reporter, Alison Turner, talked to Dr Kate Macdonald ...
- Added: Nov 01, 2012
- Length: 54:00
In 1993, Toni Morrison became only the second American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Joanne Gabbin, executive director of the Furiou...
- Added: Oct 26, 2012
- Length: 02:39
1619 was the year the first Africans arrived on the North American continent. There were at least 20 of them and they came as slaves from Angola. B...
- Added: Oct 12, 2012
- Length: 29:00
When naming the most important stories of the 20th century, gossip writer Liz Smith rattled off the assassination of JFK, the Lindbergh kidnapping,...
- Added: Sep 24, 2012
- Length: 02:34
Ron Capps helps returning service members write their way home. [27:06]
Bought by WRVO
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 27:38
- Purchases: 1
A new edition restores Oscar Wilde's famous novel to its original form.
- Added: Jul 17, 2012
- Length: 28:59
Charles Dickens turns 200 this year, and two new films based on his books are in the works. But one scholar says there’s more to Dickens than his m...
- Added: May 31, 2012
- Length: 02:27
Southern Gothic writer Harry Crews died in March of this year. Although many people have never heard of him, Crews’ stories about outcasts inspired...
- Added: May 24, 2012
- Length: 02:26
Radio Curious discusses the close relationship we humans have with other primates, with Dario Maestriprieri, author of “Games Primate Play: An Unde...
- Added: Apr 30, 2012
- Length: 29:02
Radio Curious speaks with Elizabeth Holtzman, a former congresswoman, former District Attorney of Brooklyn, New York and author of Cheating Justic...
- Added: Apr 30, 2012
- Length: 29:02
The Kentucky poet who coined the term “Affrilachian” has a new collection of poetry. Allison Quantz reports he takes on historical and current racism.
- Added: Apr 09, 2012
- Length: 02:27
Wendy Welch has written a memoir about what it means to open an independent bookstore at a time when physical books seem to be disappearing. Alliso...
- Added: Apr 09, 2012
- Length: 02:31
Appalachia is often imagined as rural and white, but a new wave of African-American writers is challenging the notion of a single Appalachian regio...
Bought by 90.5 WSNC, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, and KWMR-FM
- Added: Apr 09, 2012
- Length: 28:57
- Purchases: 3
With the end of the War in Iraq, tens of thousands of soldiers have returned home, and many of them are going to college. Two writing professors ha...
Bought by KUOW, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 31, 2012
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 3
Are colleges and universities ready for the influx of veterans returning from military service?
- Added: Jan 31, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Literary biographer Brenda Wineapple discusses her book, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Added: Dec 02, 2011
- Length: 28:55
Meet Sam Spade, detective, lady-killer. Before it became a classic film, it was first an incredible moral tale of crime and deception. Find out why.
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Aug 12, 2011
- Length: 29:17
- Purchases: 1
a weekly podcast for curious readers about forgotten books
- Added: Aug 07, 2011
- Length: 01:21:44
Poet Kevin Young talks about his book, Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels.
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 23:45
A physician and the author of fourteen novels, Tess Gerritsen lives in Maine.
- Added: Jul 20, 2011
- Length: 28:22
David Clewell, the second poet laureate of Missouri, draws upon a mix of high and low culture in his poetry, incorporating his varied interests wit...
- Added: Jun 16, 2011
- Length: 29:00
