Podcasts
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A best-selling cultural critic and frequent radio commentator, Sarah Vowell is a contributing editor for NPR's This American Life and the author of The Partly Cloudy Patriot and Take the Cannoli. Known for her witty and irreverent exposés of the… more
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• Recorded Apr 20, 2005Activist Loung Ung spoke to students about her experiences during the Cambodian genocide as recounted in her book, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
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Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain in 1960. He is the celebrated author of A Pale View of the Hills; An Artist of the Floating World ( 1986 Whitbread Award ); The Remains of the Day, the Booker Prize winner… more
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Sue Monk Kidd's fiction debut, The Secret Life of Bees, transformed the acclaimed memoirist into a literary superstar. With more than 3 million copies in print, The Secret Life of Bees has remained on the New York Times bestseller list for more… more
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• Recorded Apr 7, 2005Liz Smith knows everyone and she dishes with style in her syndicated gossip column published in more than seventy newspapers. Her new book, Dishing, is a memoir-in-recipies - including Elizabeth Taylor's Chipped Beef à la Krupp Diamond, Richard… more
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• Recorded Apr 5, 2005Camille Paglia is University Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and the author of several best-selling books including Sexual Personae; Sex, Art, and American Culture; and Vamps and Tramps. In… more
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• Recorded Mar 31, 2005With the publication of his first novel, Jonathan Safran Foer became a certified literary wunderkind at the age of 25. The assured and hilarious prose of Everything Is Illuminated tells the story of a young man's search for the woman who saved… more
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Mary Gordon is the author of the acclaimed novels Final Payments , The Other Side, and Spending . Her most recent work includes a biography of Joan of Arc and a collection of autobiographical essays, Seeing Through Places . She has received a… more
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James B. Stewart is the best-selling author of Blind Eye and Blood Sport , and the blockbuster Den of Thieves. A former Page-One editor at the Wall Street Journal, he is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and an editor-at-large for Smart… more
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Orson Scott Card is the author of the sci-fi classic Ender's Game (1985), "the science fiction novel for people who don't think they like science fiction." He was the first author ever to win both the Nebula Award for Best Novel and the Hugo… more
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• Recorded Mar 10, 2005Lewis Lapham began his long, distinguished tenure as editor of Harper's Magazine in 1971, having worked previously for the San Francisco Examiner and New York Herald Tribune . His books include Money and Class in America , Hotel America , and… more
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• Recorded Mar 7, 2005Ari Fleischer was the press secretary for President George W. Bush from January 2001 to July 2003, the culmination of a 21-year career in government and politics. Fleisher previously served as the Senior Communications Advisor and Spokesman for… more
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• Recorded Mar 2, 2005Sir Roger Penrose is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and is the best-selling author of The Emperor's New Mind. He is the recipient of numerous prizes and awards, most notably the Wolf Prize in physics,… more
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• Recorded Feb 24, 2005Michael Scheuer, former chief of the Counterterrorist Center's Bin Laden unit, resigned from the CIA in November 2004 after 22 years of federal service devoted to national security issues related to South Asia and Islamic extremism. Because of… more
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Malcolm Gladwell's bestseller The Tipping Point, introduced the thesis that ideas, products, and behaviors spread like viruses throughout culture, effecting paradigm shifts and mass behavioral change. His new book Blink, reveals how we can become… more
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Tired of ideological battles in Washington and ready for some R & R at home in New Jersey, Christine Todd Whitman retired as a member of the Bush administration in June 2003. In It's My Party, Too, Whitman reveals that the Republican Party is… more
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The gravest decision in a democracy is the one to go to war. In a book that brings a magisterial command of history to the most urgent of contemporary questions, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., explores the… more
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Arthur Schlesinger is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and the author of more than 20 books, including A Thousand Days: john Kennedy in the White House .
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• Recorded Jan 25, 2005Steve Coll, winner of a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism, was managing editor of the Washington Post from 1998-2004, and covered Afghanistan as the Post's South Asia bureau chief from 1989 to 1992. Ghost Wars gives details of the CIA's… more
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Robert MacNeil and William Crann co-authored The Story of English, and have collaborated again for Do You Speak American?, a companion to the PBS special of the same name airing on January 5th. They take us on a winding journey from east coast to… more
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