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Francine Prose talks about her new novel about the immigrant experience in America, MY NEW AMERICAN LIFE. And David Vann talks about CARIBOU ISLAND...
- Added: May 12, 2011
- Length: 59:01
Sci Fi author Paolo Bacigalupi talks about his latest novel for young adults, SHIPBREAKER. And in honor of Poetry Month, we talk to literary critic...
- Added: Apr 12, 2011
- Length: 59:00
Tom Perrotta, the author of "Little Children", "Election" and the upcoming novel "The Leftovers", speaks with ThoughtCast about a writer who fascin...
- Added: Apr 11, 2011
- Length: 30:00
Part of "Whose Words These Are," our look at poetry in our time: first Christopher Lydon in conversation with novelist Nicholson Baker, whose novel...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUT, WCAI / WNAN, WEOS, and KXOT Public Radio
- Added: Apr 04, 2011
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 5
Filmmaker Todd Haynes talks mother love, class distinction, and authenticity.
- Added: Mar 27, 2011
- Length: 16:43
Director Cary Fukunaga and star Mia Wasikowska talk classics, cold, and control.
- Added: Mar 20, 2011
- Length: 06:17
Oakland resident Jeff Greenwald has set foot in over 90 countries, give or take. Greenwald, a self-described “career traveler,” says that traveling...
Bought by KUOW and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Mar 06, 2011
- Length: 06:47
- Purchases: 2
Cartoonist and author Ted Rall talks about his book, THE ANTI-AMERICAN MANIFESTO. And poet Martin Espada reads a poem about the nonviolent people’s...
- Added: Feb 16, 2011
- Length: 58:57
A rare interview with the American man of letters, advocate of sustainability and local agriculture, economic critic, and farmer Wendell Berry. Gre...
Bought by Moab Public Radio, WTIP, WEKU, and WRIR
- Added: Feb 15, 2011
- Length: 58:12
- Purchases: 4
Tatjana Soli talks about her debut novel of Vietnam, THE LOTUS EATERS. And David Rabe’s unconventional love story about the Vietnam War is GIRL BY ...
- Added: Feb 07, 2011
- Length: 59:00
Translator Peter Filkins talks about H.G. Adler’s PANORAMA. Set in the vanished world of pre-war Bohemia, it follows the young Joseph from childhoo...
- Added: Jan 30, 2011
- Length: 59:00
Excerpts from 7 of the top 10 Writers Voice shows of 2010, including journalists David Grann, Hampton Sides, and Eric Pooley; novelists Isabel Alle...
- Added: Jan 14, 2011
- Length: 58:59
Novelist Margot Livesey talks to an audience at the Kansas City Public Library about her novel THE HOUSE ON FORTUNE STREET, set in contemporary Lon...
- Added: Jan 12, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Dmae Roberts features an in-depth and lively interview with Northwest Writer Ivan Doig.
- Added: Dec 02, 2010
- Length: 28:02
- Added: Nov 05, 2010
- Length: 28:57
- Purchases: 1
An influential Latino poet and founder of Tia Chucacha Press, Luis J. Rodriguez shares poetry and fiction that celebrates the indigenous North Amer...
- Added: Oct 06, 2010
- Length: 29:00
Award-winning novelist Chang-rae Lee, who won six awards for his 1995 debut novel, NATIVE SPEAKER, discusses his 2010 novel, THE SURRENDERED. Set ...
- Added: Sep 09, 2010
- Length: 29:00
Kurt Andersen, who gained distinction as a journalist, then co-editor of SPY magazine, and now host of public radio's STUDIO 360, talks about a rel...
Bought by WEKU
- Added: Aug 18, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Interview with author and TV personality Anthony Bourdain on the state of American food and being a celebrity chef.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Jul 06, 2010
- Length: 28:43
- Purchases: 1
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon turned to essay writing with his two books, MAPS AND LEGENDS and MANHOOD FOR AMATEURS. He discusses w...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN
- Added: Jun 24, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
A conversation about the Bible's universality and relevance in pop culture, with the author who aims to give "people what they don't get in church ...
Bought by WFIU
- Added: Jun 09, 2010
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
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: 46:43
Award-winning poets reflect on creativity in crisis and read from their work.
- Added: Apr 15, 2010
- Length: 29:01
This is an interview with the head of the English Dept. at Virginia Tech. Her book is the back story to the Seung -Hui Cho murders which occurred o...
- Added: Apr 13, 2010
- Length: 27:44
From Thoreau's rural journal to the science of the mind to 36 arguments for the existence of God to classical music to the future of farming (whew!...
Bought by WGBH Radio Boston
- Added: Feb 11, 2010
- Length: 57:30
- Purchases: 1
