Podcasts
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The author of Ghost World and David Boring, Daniel Clowes is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant cartoonists of his generation. His ongoing comic, Eightball, was one of the most talked-about series of the 1990s, and the film version of… more
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Inspired by Virginia Woolf and her novel, Mrs. Dalloway, Michael Cunningham's best-selling novel, The Hours, won both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and became the Academy Award-winning film starring Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman,… more
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Nick Hornby is the author of three previous novels , High Fidelity, About a Boy, and How to be Good, and two works of non-fiction, Fever Pitch and 31 Songs, and has edited two anthologies, My Favourite Year and Speaking With the Angel. His… more
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• Recorded Jun 7, 2005When Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for treason in 1953, their family's destiny was forever changed. Join their sons, Robert Meeropol ( An Execution in the Family: One Son's Journey ) and Michael Meeropol ( Heir to an Execution ) for a… more
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The concluding volume of Newt Gingrich and William Forstschen's best-selling, alternative civil war trilogy opens with Grant's army pursuing Robert E. Lee's confederates deep into Maryland territory after a surprising rebel victory near… more
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Molly Ivins has called Thomas Frank's New York Times bestseller What's the Matter with Kansas ? " hilariously funny . . . the only way to understand why so many Americans have decided to vote against their own economic and political interests."… more
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A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and National Book Award recipient, historian David McCullough has chronicled the greats of American history from John Adams to Harry Truman. In 1776, McCullough tackles the story of America's tumultuous beginning,… more
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The sparkling memoir of a movie icon's life in the footlights and on camera, The Good, the Bad, and Me tells the extraordinary story of Eli Wallach's many years dedicated to his craft. Beginning with his early days in Brooklyn and his college… more
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Chilean author Isabel Allende has written many books, including Portrait in Sepia, Eva Luna, the memoir Paula, and a new novel on the legend of Zorro. Her novel, Daughter of Fortune, was an Oprah book club selection, and The House of the Spirits… more
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Walter Mosley is the best-selling author of Little Scarlet , Fear Itself , and Bad Boy Brawley Brown ; the acclaimed Easy Rawlins series of mysteries; and other works of fiction and nonfiction in nearly every genre. His latest book and first… more
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With his regular contributions to Sports Illustrated (where his by-line first appeared in 1962) and NPR's Morning Edition, Frank Deford is one of the most influential voices in the American sports media. The author of fourteen books and a Hall of… more
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Peter D. Kramer, a practicing psychiatrist and professor of psychiatry at Brown University, is the author of the international bestseller Listening to Prozac: A Psychiatrist Explores Mood-altering Drugs and the Meaning of the Self. The book was a… more
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• Recorded May 10, 2005Jonathan Eig, Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig - Jonathan Eig is a senior special writer for The Wall Street Journal, has written for Esquire, The New Republic , and other major magazines, and has appeared on CNN, FOX, MSNBC, and… more
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• Recorded May 6, 2005Grammy Award winner Jill Scott grew up in North Philadelphia. She was discovered by The Root's drummer Amir, who invited her to perform with the band on "You Got Me," a Top 40 pop hit in 1999. Her platinum debut, Who is Jill Scott?, wowed the… more
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• Recorded May 5, 2005Shalom Auslander was raised as an Orthodox Jew in Spring Valley, NY. Nominated for the prestigious Koret Award for writers under thirty-five, he has published articles in Esquire and stories for This American Life. Beware of God is a surreal… more
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• Recorded Apr 28, 2005Always a joy and an education to read (even if you don't care about proper behavior), Miss Manners is known for her down-to-earth wisdom and pithy wit. Judith Martin, the Miss behind the manners, writes a syndicated advice column for the… more
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• Recorded Apr 26, 2005Joseph D. Pistone served in the FBI for 28 years, including six years under cover infiltrating the New York Mafia where he posed as a jewel thief under the name Donnie Brasco. During the 70s, Pistone began collecting evidence against members of… more
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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, 2005
Activist 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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