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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.
- Added: Jun 04, 2012
- Length: 01:54:56
Fiction writer Jaimy Gordon spent over a decade working on her National Book Award-winning novel, LORD OF MISRULE. Gordon reads from the book, set...
- Added: Sep 29, 2011
- Length: 29:01
Poet, critic, and scholar, Evie Shockley, reads from her two poetry collections, A HALF-RED SEA and THE NEW BLACK. She discusses how her work pays ...
- Added: Sep 22, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Poet, translator, and nonfiction writer Peter Balakian talks with former NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR host, Rebekah Presson Mosby, about his 2010 book, Z...
- Added: Sep 07, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Novelist Arthur Phillips is always tackling new and different subject matter. In this interview he discusses his fifth novel, THE TRAGEDY OF ARTHU...
- Added: Aug 31, 2011
- Length: 29:01
Anne Fortier takes on the tradition of Romeo and Juliet, updated for the 21st century, in her novel JULIET. She talks about writing this, her firs...
- Added: Aug 24, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Marilynne Robinson discusses her novel HOUSEKEEPING, in front of an audience participating in the NEA's Big Read program. She also talks about her...
- Added: Aug 11, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Whether it’s Nazis, mental illness, or severe weather, novelist Jenna Blum creates situations that allow her to explore characters who overcome gre...
- Added: Jul 18, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Terrance Hayes reads from his 2010 National Book Award-winning poetry collection LIGHTHEAD, and discusses how true-life escapades inspire his poetr...
- Added: May 19, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Independent bookstores struggle to survive -- and reinvent themselves -- in the age of Amazon and the Kindle.
- Added: Mar 27, 2011
- Length: 06:46
- Purchases: 2
Philosopher, translator, and teacher, Clancy Martin discusses his debut novel, HOW TO SELL, a coming-of-age story about a Canadian boy, who makes i...
- Added: May 19, 2010
- Length: 29:00
Poet and editor of PRAIRIE SCHOONER literary magazine Hilda Raz discusses the dual acts of writing and editing. Raz also talks about coming to ter...
- Added: May 12, 2010
- Length: 29:00
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky reads poetry from his new collection GULF MUSIC, and talks about the role the sound of words plays in his w...
Bought by Marfa Public Radio
- Added: Apr 15, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
From Guarding Heritage March 19, 2010. War News Radio speaks with writer Claudia Roth-Pierpont about her readings of Arabic novels.
- Added: Mar 19, 2010
- Length: 07:24
Popular literary novelist John Irving, author of THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP, reads from his highly autobiographical 2005 novel UNTIL I FIND YOU, a...
Bought by CKMO
- Added: Oct 31, 2006
- Length: 38:18
- Purchases: 1
Episode 1 features poet laureates Mark Strand, Gwendolyn Brooks and Ted Kooser discussing the art and craft of writing poetry and reading some of t...
Bought by North Country Public Radio, Kansas Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KRUA, WGBH Radio Boston and more
- Added: Mar 02, 2006
- Length: 01:04:02
- Purchases: 10
