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Pashmina by Nidhi Chanani

Airs at: Mon, 12/18/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
  Sarika Mehta talks to Nidhi Chanani about her celebrated graphic novel Pashmina Priyanka Das has so many unanswered questions: Why did her mother abandon her home in India years ago? What was it like there? And most importantly, who is her father, and why did her mom le... Read more

When You Never Said Goodbye by Meg Kearney

Airs at: Thu, 12/14/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Between The Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with Meg Kearney, author of the new book When You Never Said Goodbye, a novel in poems and journal entries. When You Never Said Goodbye is the final book in a trilogy following the teen years of Lizzie McLane, an adopted daughter searching for her birth... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for December 11, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 12/11/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
The Republican Tax Plan: Bill Resnick talks to Hunter Blair of The Economic Policy Institute about the potential impacts of the Republican tax plan. Understanding Trump Supporters: Clayton Morgareidge recommends that leftists try to rein in their moral outrage at Trump supp... Read more

The Ninth Hour

Airs at: Mon, 12/11/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Larry Bowlden reviews the new novel by Alice McDermott “The Ninth Hour.” Spanning the twentieth century, The Ninth Hour is the story of a widow and her daughter and the nuns who serve their Irish-American community in Brooklyn. Photo by Julius Wilcox - Brooklyn Museum Read more

A Radio Geekly: Episode 16 - Storytelling Karaoke

Airs at: Fri, 12/01/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for A Radio Geekly
It's karaoke time! We're talking to Matt Haynes about 'Storytelling Karaoke' and the ARG collective will be doing a live exerpt on air! More info about storytelling karaoke: http://thepulpstage.weebly.com/ Read more

Late in the Day: Poems 2010-2014 by Ursula K. Le Guin

Airs at: Thu, 11/30/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for Between The Covers
  Late in the Day, Ursula K. Le Guin’s collection of poems (2010–2014) seeks meaning in an ever-connected world. In part evocative of Neruda’s Odes to Common Things and Mary Oliver’s poetic guides to the natural world, Le Guin’s latest give voice to objects that may not sp... Read more

The Man From the Place of Clay: Ric Leonetti

Airs at: Thu, 12/07/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Between The Covers
  If you heard the voice of God, would you answer? Cormick Proffitt has it all—a prestigious position as head of psychiatric medicine, an uptown office, a sleek Mercedes Benz. But when a patient miraculously survives a fatal accident, and asks for Cormick by name, his perf... Read more

Women of Color Navigating Motherhood: Celeste Ng & Shanthi Sekaran

Airs at: Wed, 11/29/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
  Sarika Mehta talks to two powerful writers about the intersections of parenting, gender and race.  Both Celeste Ng and Shanthi Sekaran write about the weight and potential of motherhood. Celeste Ng was a recipient of a Pushcart Prize in 2012 for her story Girls, At Pla... Read more

The Night Run Of The Overland by Elmore Elliot Peake

Airs at: Mon, 11/20/2017 at 11:00pm - Tue, 11/21/2017 at 12:00am
Produced for Gremlin Time
Tonight, stories set in the Golden Age Of American Railroading. Featuring our 3D Radio Players in The Night Run Of The Overland. A look at the Railway Guides and an episode of the rare, classic rail road drama The Green Valley Line Read more

Is Mickey Mouse a Minstrel?

Airs at: Mon, 11/27/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for More Talk Radio
  Cecil & Celeste are joined by Kirby McCurtis to discuss the images our children consume in pop culture and where those images come from.  What are the modern alternatives to these established and harmful depictions?  The diversity gap in children's publishing is overwhel... Read more