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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
Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.
- Added: Nov 07, 2012
- Length: 01:55:25
"It’s easier to deal with a woman who is compliant and sweet and sunny and nice and non-confrontational."
Interview by Jason Feifer // NYC hotel i...
Bought by KFAI and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Sep 19, 2012
- Length: 06:46
- Purchases: 2
Francine Sterle is the author of 2006 book "Nude In Winter," which was a finalist for the LA Times Book of the Year. She has also published two oth...
- Added: Sep 12, 2012
- Length: 02:16
CarolAnn Russell is Professor of English at Bemidji State University. She has published four full-length books of poetry. Russell has also been a r...
- Added: Aug 27, 2012
- Length: 02:26
Erin Lynn Marsh has been published in Sugarhouse Review, Post Road Magazine, and Paper Darts. She holds an MFA from Lesley University in Boston, is...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 01:32
Mary Finch is an essayist, Newspaper Columnist, and a poet living in Deer River, Minnesota.
The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:44
The editor of My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, Vol 1 discusses the relationship of the two artists. [29:32]
- Added: Mar 22, 2012
- Length: 29:33
Laura Lippman talks about crime fiction, journalism and the social novel. [30:30]
- Added: Mar 09, 2012
- Length: 30:12
Literary biographer Brenda Wineapple discusses her book, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Added: Dec 02, 2011
- Length: 28:55
Actress Mary-Louise Parker said this is one her favorite novels of all time and so she jumped at the chance to read excerpts. There's commentary by...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Aug 18, 2011
- Length: 29:07
- Purchases: 1
Celebrity chef, agony aunt, novelist and the author of Ireland's first television soap Tolka Row: the remarkable life story of Maura Laverty who wa...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Jun 20, 2011
- Length: 40:00
- Purchases: 1
Marcia Camp parks her unique ride, Joanna Siebert searches for a bird and a connection, Bob Donaldson witnesses the birth of rock and roll, and Ken...
- Added: Apr 25, 2011
- Length: 29:01
It's a New England poetry hour, starting with Amherst's Emily Dickinson by way of Helen Vendler, the closest of close readers of poetry, and ending...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Oct 14, 2010
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
Julia Child introduces the Irish writer, Edna O'Brien, who gives a magnificent performance of VIOLETS, a story about fixing lunch for an important ...
- Added: Sep 21, 2010
- Length: 26:52
First-time novelist Emma Rathbone discusses her coming-of-age novel THE PATTERNS OF PAPER MONSTERS, and how she came to publish this, her first wor...
- Added: Sep 16, 2010
- Length: 29:00
Former celebrity journalist Jeannette Walls discusses her hardscrabble childhood which she depicted in her memoir THE GLASS CASTLE, as well as her ...
Bought by WFIU
- Added: Mar 24, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Deb Dunn’s second love, after her husband, was teaching marine biology. But about five years ago, she had to give it up.
- Added: Jan 19, 2010
- Length: 05:30
We continue our celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month with Linda Rodriguez, author of the debut poetry collection HEART'S MIGRATION from ...
Bought by WGBH Radio Boston
- Added: Sep 30, 2009
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 1
Natalie Goldberg, the writer, painter and writing teacher, speaks with ThoughtCast in Santa Fe, NM!
Bought by Moab Public Radio and WFIU
- Added: Sep 06, 2009
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 2
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: Sep 02, 2009
- Length: 28:56
Erin Malone’s poem “Suspect” explores how one new mother feels about her body, leading literary producer Elizabeth Austen to consider some assumpti...
- Added: Aug 24, 2009
- Length: 05:21
Poet Erin Malone reads “Hush,” a poem sparked by watching her son discover the power of naming what he sees. The poem prompts KUOW’s literary produ...
- Added: Aug 17, 2009
- Length: 06:13
Poet Lucille Clifton is widely acclaimed for her powerful explorations of race, womanhood, and spirituality.
- Added: Jul 13, 2009
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 3
Her first year in the competition, Annie says this piece is about a boy who thought he deserved a story. Annie Kahane is 19 years old and a member...
- Added: Apr 02, 2008
- Length: 03:04
