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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

January 17, 2022 - 11:00pm

Monday, January 17, 2022. Read by Melvin Hinton.

At the time of the award was given, Dr. King was the youngest person ever to get that particular honor, and said that he would dedicate all of the $54,000 that accompanied it toward the cause of equal rights. When he appeared in...

'Detransition, Baby' author Torrey Peters on life, love, gender and parenthood

January 15, 2022 - 7:15am

The book delves into the lives of several women and men as they navigate gender roles and becoming parents, including a transgender character who detransitions.

Driftless by David Rhodes

December 27, 2021 - 12:30pm

Monday, December 27 through Thursday, January 27, 2022. Read by Karl Schmidt.

A story from the "driftless" area of Wisconsin, about a town apparently left out of time. It's an unforgettable slice of life in rural America.

Christmas at Thompson Hall by Anthony Trollope

December 22, 2021 - 12:30pm

Wednesday, December 22 through Friday, December 24, 2021. Read by Karl Schmidt.

Anthony Trollope’s Victorian “comedy of errors” "Christmas at Thompson Hall" was a holiday tradition for many years on Chapter A Day. Not quite a “Christmas story”, it nonetheless is filled with the festivity and anxiety that accompanies the...

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum

December 13, 2021 - 12:30pm

Monday, December 13 through Wednesday, December 21, 2021. Read by Jim Fleming.

Every child knows about Santa Claus, the jolly man who brings gifts to all on Christmas. There are many stories that tell of his life, but this delightful version filled with fairies, immortals and a kidnapped human baby...

New book chronicles the history of Foxconn and similar failed business ventures

November 29, 2021 - 5:00am

Author Lawrence Tabak writes a definitive history of the Foxconn project in Wisconsin, and looks at how the economic incentive infrastructure across the country is broken, leading to waste, cronyism, and the steady transfer of tax revenue to corporations.

The Eye of Edna from Essays of E.B. White

November 25, 2021 - 11:00pm

Thursday, November 25, 2021 – 11 pm only. Read by Jim Fleming.

"The Eye of Edna" is an essay from the collection "The Essays of E.B. White." The author, one of the founders of The New Yorker magazine, lived in Maine at the time and writes of spending a day...

Little Hawk and the Lone Wolf by Raymond C. Kaquatosh

November 22, 2021 - 12:30pm

Monday, November 22 through Friday, December 10, 2021. Read by Jim Fleming.

Raymond Kaquatosh was born in 1924 on Wisconsin’s Menominee Reservation. The son of a medicine woman, he spent his boyhood immersed in the beauty of the natural world and the traditions of his tribe and his family. When...

Horror author Stephen Graham Jones on what our monsters say about us

November 21, 2021 - 6:15am

Horror writer Stephen Graham Jones loves werewolves. He redefined the genre with his 2016 novel "Mongrels," about a family of werewolves on the run in a hostile American landscape — a story drawn from his own background.

Perestroika in Paris by Jane Smiley

November 1, 2021 - 12:30pm

Monday, November 1 through Friday, November 19, 2021. Read by Jim Fleming.

Paras, short for "Perestroika," is a spirited racehorse at a racetrack west of Paris. One afternoon at dusk, she finds the door of her stall open and wanders all the way to the City of Light. Soon she...

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

'Detransition, Baby' author Torrey Peters on life, love, gender and parenthood

Driftless by David Rhodes

Christmas at Thompson Hall by Anthony Trollope

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum

New book chronicles the history of Foxconn and similar failed business ventures

The Eye of Edna from Essays of E.B. White

Little Hawk and the Lone Wolf by Raymond C. Kaquatosh

Horror author Stephen Graham Jones on what our monsters say about us

Perestroika in Paris by Jane Smiley

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