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What if the curse that ruined your life could be turned into a money making proposition? “Everyone I have ever spent New Year’s Eve with has died ...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2013
  • Length: 07:28
Caption: Trish Reeves
Poet Trish Reeves draws inspiration from family history, human resilience, and a series of glass negatives which are featured in NEW LETTERS magazi...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Nov 16, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jeff Adams
An Icebox Radio Short! The famous story of the headless horseman is re-imagined with a Northland twist - and this time in verse!

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Oct 29, 2012
  • Length: 10:39
  • Purchases: 1
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Charlie Pulkrabek is a writer and visual artist living in the Bemidji area. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry matters, and Min...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 01:27
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A lyric poem written when Millay was 20 that is best associated with her.

  • Added: Sep 12, 2012
  • Length: 09:44
Caption: Soila Sayialel saves elephants , Credit: Soila Sayialel
After the release of the second book 'Owen and Mzee: the Language of Friendship,' a letter from a young girl was received which explained how the b...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2012
  • Length: 02:16
Caption: Katrina Kope, Credit: Ken Lapworth
Songwriter Katrina Kope discusses writing songs inspired by Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow. Written and performed for the monthly showcase The B...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 05:00
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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
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Songwriter Aaron Zig talks about his approach to writing songs inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Written and performed for the mont...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Feb 16, 2012
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Wes Weddell, Credit: Mark Blasco
Songwriter Wes Weddell discusses writing songs inspired by Stephen King's The Shining. Written and performed for the monthly showcase, The Bushwic...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2012
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Travis Yost, Caroline Keys, Gibson Hartwell, Bethany Joyce, Rick Bass
This hour-long program from Montana Public Radio features award-winning author Rick Bass reading with the Missoula-based band Stellarondo, which ha...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2012
  • Length: 59:12
Caption: Julia Child
Julia Child wanted to be a novelist, or to write for The New Yorker. "They weren't interested in me, for some reason." So she just kept reading. An...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2011
  • Length: 49:35

  • Added: Sep 13, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
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The latest audio story from FOTW Audio Productions; featuring the music of The Fascination Movement, Carlos Perón, and Olmec Head.

  • Added: Sep 11, 2011
  • Length: 08:10
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More of what listeners want to know about the British novelist who produced six classic novels in a lifespan of just 47 years. She's been dead for ...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
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Sharon Chmielarz has had poems published in several literary magazines including The Laurel Review, The Iowa Review, Water~Stone, Kalliope, Ascent,...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 16, 2011
  • Length: 23:45
  • Purchases: 1
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Every Wednesday night on Real Good Words, Heidi talks with authors about their writings. Heard that phrase before? Want to take it on as your own?...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 09, 2011
  • Length: 23:43
  • Purchases: 1
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Interview about Quist's novel God's Angry Man, the true story of a Minnesota boy orphaned at age seven during te Greaat Depression and indentured a...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 02, 2011
  • Length: 17:57
  • Purchases: 1
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Christmas Eve, 1597, in the favorite haunt of impecunious Elizabethan playwrights and actors, The Mermaid Tavern.

  • Added: Dec 19, 2010
  • Length: 41:01

  • Added: Jul 22, 2010
  • Length: 16:26
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It sucks we lose so many talented people so young, perhaps they're not gone after all...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2010
  • Length: 09:18
Caption: There's too many books!, Credit: Flickr Creative Commons, chrisrobinsonphotography
How does a lifelong passion for books transform itself into an acute fear?

  • Added: Jan 18, 2010
  • Length: 06:30
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The conclusion of Tom Stoppard's crash course in landscape gardening, literature, and chaos theory. Plus, a special BBC play about a heart transpla...

Bought by WCPN, WRVO, Nevada Public Radio, KUOW, KRCB-FM and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2010
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 6
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A crash course in mathematics, landscape gardening, literature, and chaos theory, courtesy of Tom Stoppard.

Bought by WCPN, WRVO, Nevada Public Radio, KUOW, WBEZ and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2010
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 6
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A short story in which a young man narrates a particular afternoon in the home of his mother, who has created a theater, of sorts, in which cats ar...

  • Added: Dec 24, 2009
  • Length: 22:19