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On this episode of "Art Beat" we visit with Waseca native Rachael Hanel. Rachael's memoir "We'll Be The Last Ones To Let You Down" explores her mem...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 14, 2013
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Terrance Hayes and Yona Harvey
African-American poet and National Book Award-winning author of LIGHTHEAD, Terrance Hayes and his wife, Yona Harvey, author of the 2013 release, HE...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Apr 19, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Natasha Trethewey
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
Caption: Naomi Benaron
NAOMI BENARON is a trained scientist, marathon runner, and massage therapist. She is also the author of two award-winning fiction books, LOVE LETTE...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Mar 22, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "The Fall of Alice K." by Jim Heynen
Dan Sinykin brings us a review of Jim Heynen's new book "The Fall of Alice K."

  • Added: Nov 27, 2012
  • Length: 04:19
Caption: "Y" by Leslie Adrienne Miller
Leslie Adrienne Miller is author of six collections of poetry including "Y," "The Resurrection Trade" and "Eat Quite Everything You See" from Grayw...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2012
  • Length: 05:14
Caption: Leonard Pitts Jr.
Writer Leonard Pitts Jr. talks about race, family, and the process of writing his syndicated column which won him a Pulitzer Prize in 2004. Pitts a...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Nov 20, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "Half In Shade: Family, Photography, and Fate" by Judith Kitchen
Judith Kitchen is the author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction. Here Dan Sinkyn reviews "Half In Shade: Family, Photography, and Fate" a ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "The Last Hunter: An American Family Album." by Will Weaver
Will Weaver is a highly successful writer who has published mainly in the area of young-adult fiction. Here though we have an adult non-fiction mem...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2012
  • Length: 02:54
Caption: Michael Forbes
Bemidji area writer Michael Forbes recites his essay written in contemplation of Aurora Borealis, family, and home.

  • Added: Oct 09, 2012
  • Length: 04:51
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Dean Bakopoulos discusses his first novel about fathers and sons in middle America's working class. [30:40]

  • Added: Jun 29, 2012
  • Length: 30:40
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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
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During this program, Debra Gwartney reads from 'Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters' and talks about the challenges she faced...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 27, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Peggy Shumaker
Peggy Shumaker, Alaska's State Writer Laureate, 2010-2012, is adept at capturing the beauty of landscapes, both internal and external. She reads fr...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
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Storytelling, like radio, brings pictures to the mind of the listener and allows each one of us to imagine what we hear. Radio Curious visits with ...

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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First-time novelist Heidi Durrow talks about her prize-winning book, THE GIRL WHO FELL FROM THE SKY, and how she intertwined a newspaper story with...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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Father and daughter poets Willis and Aliki Barnstone share their recent work, talk about how they influence each other, and read from work old and ...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
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During the first half of this program, Marc Hendrix talks about his book, 'Geology Underfoot in Yellowstone Country.' In the second half, KC Glaste...

Bought by KREV-LP and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 07, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Christie Hodgen
Christie Hodgen reads from her third book, the 2010 novel ELEGIES FOR THE BROKENHEARTED, and talks about how she was pushed from writing short stor...

  • Added: May 26, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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Lee Cowan goes for a walk in the woods with her furry children, Jillian Burgess returns to her small, childhood school with her own young boys, and...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
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Lisa Brandom, Rich Adams, and Lynn Ramage Shafer share about the transition to new perceptions: of God, of familiar places, and of humiliation. Sou...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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Travel offers new experiences; some more pleasant than others. Dottie Lou Norwood shares an unusual nightly ritual, Brittany Edwardes escapes schoo...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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Hispanic Heritage Month continues with Chilean-American author Marjorie Agosin, who discusses the feeling of displacement with her family's move fr...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2011
  • Length: 30:01
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Last week, Aaron's oldest son signed up for his first Library card... to them, the library is spoken about like a mythical place.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2011
  • Length: 02:41
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In an effort to make sense of the deaths of several loved ones, Kathleen Dean Moore turned to the comfort of the wild, making a series of excursion...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 21, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1