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Natasha Trethewey is currently serving as both the Poet Laureate of the United States and of her home state of Mississippi. Trethewey discusses he...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Apr 03, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
2012 Ernest J. Gaines Award Winner Stephanie Powell Watts knows what it's like to be an African American Jehovah's Witness in the South. She talks ...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Feb 28, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
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"...
- Added: Oct 26, 2012
- Length: 29:32
Mary Finch on books.
- Added: Sep 06, 2012
- Length: 02:56
Songwriter Sean Storts discusses writing songs inspired by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' graphic novel Watchmen. Written and performed for the mon...
- Added: May 09, 2012
- Length: 05:00
A new chapter in the Godfather will be published later this year. The author speaks with us about the experience, what's in store for the Corleone...
- Added: Mar 19, 2012
- Length: 29:01
Reality and illusion are often hard to sort out; especially when someone from India is adept at infusing others with illusions.
- Added: Mar 02, 2012
- Length: 15:21
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove talks about her writing with a focus on her most recent book of poems, Sonata Mullatica. [30:44]
- Added: Feb 29, 2012
- Length: 30:45
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
Not commonly known, John Wilkes Booth had been part of a long-standing conspiracy to kidnap Lincoln before he shot the president in Ford's Theater.
- Added: Sep 12, 2011
- Length: 28:59
Today we hear stories by two giants of Mexican literature, Octavio Paz and Carlos Fuentes. The former is read by actor Tony Plana; the latter by th...
Bought by KQED
- Added: Aug 17, 2011
- Length: 52:59
- Purchases: 1
Writer Julia Alvarez discusses how her life as a reader led to her life as a writer and the rich source material she finds in her family's immigran...
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 22:05
Imagine living in one of the quietest places possible, a place where you can hear a pin drop. A place where no one else is living but you. A mortua...
- Added: Aug 03, 2011
- Length: 07:42
More of what listeners want to know about the British novelist who produced six classic novels in a lifespan of just 47 years. She's been dead for ...
- Added: Jul 11, 2011
- Length: 03:00
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: 53:30
- Purchases: 1
Interview about Quist's novel God's Angry Man, the true story of a Minnesota boy orphaned at age seven during te Greaat Depression and indentured a...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jun 02, 2011
- Length: 17:57
- Purchases: 1
For the final word on grammar, many writers turn to the Associated Press Stylebook. But if you find that stylebook too stuffy, you’ll love Fake AP ...
Bought by WCNP-FM, KREV-LP, WCAI / WNAN, and WRVO
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 4
Ask people why they write and you'll hear many reasons. Here are some I hadn't expected.
- Added: Feb 03, 2010
- Length: 03:00
Judge Olly Neal tells his daughter, Karama, how he discovered African American author Frank Yerby while cutting class and hiding out in the school ...
Bought by KFOK-LP, KUOW, and Remix Radio
- Added: Dec 21, 2009
- Length: 02:16
- Purchases: 3
Sandra Cisneros, author of the now-classic novel THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET, reflects on the 25th anniversary of the book's publication, as well as ...
Bought by KHNS, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KRZA
- Added: Sep 23, 2009
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Why you've never heard of the Wright Brothers' sister, Katharine.
- Added: Apr 14, 2009
- Length: 29:00
Contestants rip their shirts, fall to their knees and cry for Stella in the annual Stanley and Stella Shouting Contest in New Orleans Jackson Square.
- Added: Mar 22, 2009
- Length: 05:36
Contemporary short stories, performed by two prize-winning young women writers. ZZ Packer has "Brownies," about violence that brews when white girl...
- Added: Mar 19, 2009
- Length: 56:17
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 59:09
- Purchases: 1
The inner secrets of a comma, a writer, a teacher.
- Added: Nov 13, 2008
- Length: 03:24
