All Episodes

174: Chad Everett: "Medical Center"

173: Cynthia Morris: "Chasing Sylvia Beach"

172: James H. Cone: "Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare"

171: Malcolm X and Alex Haley: "The Autobiography of Malcolm X"

170: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

169: Susan Glaspell: "Trifles"

168: Elizabeth Strout: "Olive Kitteridge"

167: Emily Dickinson: Poem 372, "After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes"

166: James Joyce: "The Dead"

165: Richard Thompson: "1952 Vincent Black Lightning"

164: Robert Frost: "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"

163: Rick Nelson: "Garden Party"

162: The Coen Brothers: "Fargo"

161: Theodore Roethke: "My Papa's Waltz"

160: Lydia Maria Child: "Over the River and Through the Web"

159: Lee Smith: "Dimestore"

158: Jill Ker Conway: "The Road from Coorain"

157: Edgar Allan Poe: "The Raven"

156: Frida Kahlo: "The Two Fridas"

155: The Partridge Family: "I Think I Love You"

154: Geoffrey Chaucer: "The Canterbury Tales"

153: Dolly Parton: "Coat of Many Colors"

152: Alex Haley: "Roots"

151: Elizabeth Bishop: "In the Waiting Room"

150: Oscar Wilde: "The Importance of Being Earnest"

149: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: "Americanah"

148: Langston Hughes: "Theme for English B"

147: Langston Hughes: "Montage of a Dream Deferred"

146: Herman Melville: "Billy Budd, Sailor"

145: Allen Ginsberg: "A Supermarket in California"

144: Gloria Anzaldúa: "I Had To Go Down"

143: E.M. Forster: "A Passage to India"

142: Derek Bowman: "Tam: The Life and Death of a Dog"

141: Lin-Manuel Miranda: "Hamilton"

140: John Hiatt: "Feels Like Rain" and "Drive South"

139: Edith Wharton: "The House of Mirth"

138: Theodore Dreiser: "Sister Carrie"

137: Stephen Crane: "An Experiment in Misery"

136: Alfred Stieglitz: "The Terminal" and "Winter, Fifth Avenue"

135: Jacob Riis: "How the Other Half Lives"

134: Steve Nelson and Jack Rollins: "Here Comes Peter Cottontail"

133: Martin Sexton: "Happy"

132: Kent Haruf: "Plainsong"

131: Hod Pharis: "I Heard the Bluebirds Sing"

130: Colin Higgins and Hal Ashby: "Harold and Maude"

129: Helen Matthews Lewis: "Living Social Justice in Appalachia"

128: James Baldwin and Raoul Peck: "I Am Not Your Negro"

127: Beyonce: "Lemonade"

126: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: "Colored People"

125: Solomon Northup: "Twelve Years a Slave"

124: "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"

123: Elton John and Bernie Taupin: "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy"

122: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream"

121: Jean Ritchie: "Singing Family of the Cumberlands"

120: Neil Young: "Comes a Time"

119: James Holman: "The Narrative of a Journey"

118: David Sedaris: "The Santaland Diaries"

117: Albert and David Maysles: "Grey Gardens"

116: Leonard Cohen: "Hallelujah"

115: Maya Angelou: "Still I Rise"

114: Joseph Brackett, Jr.: "Simple Gifts"

113: Rainer Maria Rilke: "Sunset"

112: E.E. Cummings: "The Enormous Room"

111: Ann McGovern: "The Velvet Ribbon"

110: T.S. Eliot: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

109: Arthur Miller: "The Crucible"

108: Kathleen Kent: "The Heretic's Daughter"

107: Allen Ginsberg: "Howl"

106: Richard Attenborough: "Shadowlands"

105: Michael Cunningham: "The Hours"

104: Virginia Woolf: "Mrs. Dalloway"

103: Rebecca Harding Davis: "Life in the Iron Mills"

102: Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights

101: Tim Burton: "Big Fish"

100: Ernest Gaines: "The Sky Is Gray"

099: Anzia Yezierska: "America and I"

098: June Carter and Johnny Cash: "Ring of Fire"

097: Jimmy Santiago Baca: "A Place to Stand"

096: Muriel Barbery: "The Elegance of the Hedgehog"

095: Jane Austen: "Pride and Prejudice"

094: Elizabeth Bishop: "The Moose"

093: Mary Oliver: "The Summer Day"

092: Willa Cather: "O Pioneers!"

091: Laird Hunt: "Neverhome"

090: "Mary Chesnut's Civil War"

089: Sherman Alexie: "Smoke Signals"

088: Herman Melville: "Moby-Dick"

087: Carson McCullers: "The Member of the Wedding"

086: Nathaniel Hawthorne: "The Scarlet Letter"

085: "Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me"

084: Prince: "Raspberry Beret"

083: Adrienne Rich: "Diving into the Wreck"

082: Leo Tolstoy: "The Death of Ivan Ilyich"

081: Bernard Rose: "Immortal Beloved"

080: Earl Hamner, Jr.: "The Waltons"

079: Kate Chopin: "The Awakening"

078: Bill Pohlad: "Love and Mercy"

077: Janet Frame: "An Angel at My Table"

076: Zora Neale Hurston: "Their Eyes Were Watching God"

075: Lorraine Hansberry: "A Raisin in the Sun"