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This is A-State Connections on KASU. I'm Johnathan Reaves. Arkansas State University and the Little Rock District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers...

NPR's Jacki Lyden grew up with the Bark River in her backyard. She left the Wisconsin waterway unexplored, until recently. Floating down the river in a canoe with a historian, Lyden discovered a story that stretches from the Ice Age and the Black Hawk War to churning 19th-century mills.

Kyle Kellams' weekly conversation with Michael Tilley of Talk Business & Politics turns to the impacts the coronavirus is having on the way the Fort Smith…

Alan Cheuse reviews a collection of science fiction short stories by Kij Johnson, "At the Mouth of the River of Bees."

For comedienne Joan Rivers, almost everything is fair game: race, sex, death and, of course, her life. That's the subject on her new autobiographical play, Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress by a Life in Progress.

Book critic Alan Cheuse reviews Jim Harrison's new collection of novellas, The River Swimmer.

NPR's Scott Simon and cultural commentator Murray Horowitz reflect on the impact of "Ol' Man River." It's the 75th anniversary of Paul Robeson's powerful recording of the hauntingly beautiful song from Show Boat.

Flip Putthoff has worked with the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for 37 years. He is currently the Outdoors Reporter for the paper. Puthoff is set to…

This week, we're listening back to some favorite Fresh Air interviews from the past decade. Rivers, who died in 2014, spoke to Terry Gross in 2010 about the sacrifices she made as a female comedian.