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Does a life demand a narrative, or is life just one damn thing after another?
- Added: Apr 08, 2013
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 3
What can we come to know through poetry that we couldn't through other forms of thinking and talking?
- Added: Mar 18, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 5
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
“First Year” is a 2011 novel by retired teacher, J.O. Salls. It’s the story of 23 year old English teacher, Robert Baker. The story takes us throug...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Sep 10, 2012
- Length: 11:23
- Purchases: 1
What books should thoughtful people be reading this summer?
- Added: May 26, 2012
- Length: 54:01
- Purchases: 2
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: 29:00
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
Former inmates and activist Mary McAnally read "Stringtown Prison Blues" and discuss their experiences with the penal system. Full transcript of po...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Dec 23, 2011
- Length: 03:37
- Purchases: 1
September is National Library Card Sign-Up Month and to honor that, we present this audio anthology of poets, novelists, and memoirists, including ...
- Added: Sep 15, 2011
- Length: 29:00
A half-hour audio program that explores Amy Tan's gripping, The Joy Luck Club. It features Amy Tan and readings by actress Ming-Na from the film ad...
- Added: Aug 12, 2011
- Length: 28:55
Everybody's recommending books for summer reading -- so we will too.
But, we're sure you won't find these books on anybody else's reading list!
Y...
- Added: Jul 07, 2011
- Length: 02:27
Host Phalana Tiller interviews authors Roger Martin and James Quigley. And Bloomberg Businessweek online columnist Rick Wartzman delivers a piece ...
Bought by KFOK-LP
- Added: May 12, 2011
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
Children's Rights are sometimes completely overlooked in our society. But things are changing Children are slowly getting the respect they deserve ...
- Added: Jun 04, 2010
- Length: 30:00
Brynie's latest book is the focus of this program: BRAIN SENSE: THE SCIENCE OF THE SENSES AND HOW WE PROCESS THE WORLD AROUND US.
Bought by WFIU and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Apr 29, 2010
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
Poet, Scholar and Artist Tomas Q. Morin talks about his life and career, and reads a few of his own works.
- Added: Mar 17, 2010
- Length: 10:59
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
Writers associated with the Southwest United States - Denise Chavez, Michael McGarrity, and Simon Ortiz - talk about the major themes in their work...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Feb 05, 2009
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 1
Scott Russell Sanders, a Distinguished Professor of English at Indiana University, is the author of twenty books of fiction and nonfiction, includi...
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 14:02
Novelist and former detective, Joe Gores, disucsses the "hardboiled" nature of Dashiell Hammett's timeless thriller, "The Maltese Falcon."
- Added: Mar 25, 2008
- Length: 01:29
Garrison Keillor reads from Willa Cather's Midwestern classic, "My Antonia."
- Added: Mar 25, 2008
- Length: 01:00
Rhyme in Arabic, English, and French poetry
Bought by KHNS, WFIU, 90.5 WSNC, and Marfa Public Radio
- Added: Mar 14, 2008
- Length: 29:45
- Purchases: 4
Three poets share their work and discuss contemporary language poetry.
Bought by 90.5 WSNC and Marfa Public Radio
- Added: Mar 14, 2008
- Length: 29:45
- Purchases: 2
Reaction to controversy at a Texas high school over teaching of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn".
- Added: Nov 30, 2007
- Length: 03:07
THE PLANETS is Dava Sobel's historic and scientific tour of our solar system.
- Added: Jun 28, 2007
- Length: 13:21
