Podcasts
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Joseph J. Ellis is a best-selling author and distinguished chronicler of early American history. His book The Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and American Sphinx: The Character of… more
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An international authority and researcher on mood disorders, Kay Redfield Jamison has unique insight into the world of mental illness. In 1995, as Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University, she shocked her colleagues by going public with… more
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Edward P. Jones is the winner of the 2004 Pulitzer and the National Book Critics Circle prizes for fiction for his first novel, The Known World, a tale of African-American slave owners in the antebellum south. In reviews, Newsweek compared Jones's… more
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Stephen Mitchell is a poet, translator, and scholar celebrated for his ability to impart new life to literary masterpieces and ancient texts. His translations of Tao Te Ching, Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, and the Bhagavad Gita have become… more
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Co-sponsored by WHYY Tickets $15 (215) 569-9700 All I Did Was Ask is a fascinating collection of revealing interviews by Terry Gross, the award-winning host of National Public Radio's premier interview program, Fresh Air. Over the last twenty… more
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• Recorded Oct 14, 2004Seymour Hersh is among the foremost investigative reporters of our time. His reputation was established thirty-five years ago, with his Pulitzer Prize-winning exposé of the massacre in My Lai, Vietnam. A regular contributor to The New Yorker,… more
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• Recorded Oct 13, 2004Jacob Levenson has written about AIDS for Vibe, The Oxford American, and Mother Jones. In The Secret Epidemic, Levenson interweaves personal stories, national policy, the legacy of discrimination, the battle for civil rights, and the role of the… more
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In his readable, nonsectarian bestsellers, Rabbi Harold Kushner makes a case for God's role in modern life using arguments from a variety of faiths. W hen Bad Things Happen to Good People and When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough address the… more
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Maureen Dowd, nicknamed "the Cobra" by George W. Bush, joined the New York Times as a metropolitan reporter in 1983 and became a columnist on the Op-Ed page in 1995. She previously served as a correspondent in the paper's Washington bureau. In… more
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• Recorded Oct 7, 2004Cornel West is one of America's most provocative public intellectuals and Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Princeton University. West's writing, including the 1993 bestseller Race Matters, has changed the course of America's… more
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Harvey Pekar shifted the culture of American comics in 1976 with the publication of American Splendor --a chronicle of his annoyance with co-workers, old ladies in grocery lines, and women who wouldn't date him. In American Splendor, Pekar has… more
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One of the nation's wittiest political pundits and three-time Pulitzer finalist, Molly Ivins says that politics is great entertainment: "better than the zoo, better than the circus, rougher than football, and even more aesthetically satisfying… more
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• Recorded Sep 29, 2004Director, actor, and journalist, Peter Bogdanovich studied under Stella Adler and had bit parts in some 1950s television dramas. In the 1960s, he began publishing interviews and essays on movies in Esquire and other magazines. 1971's The Last… more
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Born in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Alexander McCall Smith has led a distinguished career as a legal scholar, and more recently, as the best-selling author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novels. The series received two Booker Judge's… more
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Acclaimed for both her fiction and criticism, Cynthia Ozick was a finalist for the National Book Award for her penultimate novel The Puttermesser Papers, and her recent essay collection, Quarrel & Quandary, won the National Book Critics Circle… more
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• Recorded Sep 17, 2004Declared "a national treasure" by Susan Sontag, Paul Loeb is a scholar at Seattle's Center for Ethical Leadership and the best-selling author of Soul of a Citizen. The Impossible Will Take a Little While includes essays by Nelson Mandela, Václav… more
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An experienced combat reporter and expert on terrorism, Christopher Dickey is Newsweek magazine's Paris bureau chief and Middle East regional editor. His "Shadowland" column, dealing with terrorism, appears weekly on Newsweek Online. He is the… more
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Award-winning Irish writer Emma Donoghue has published five books of fiction, two works of literary history, two anthologies, and drama for both stage and radio. Her novel Slammerkin won the 2002 Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction. The… more
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• Recorded Sep 9, 2004Dr. William F. Schulz is the Executive Director of Amnesty International USA. An ordained Unitarian Universalist minister, Dr. Schulz has been outspoken in his opposition to the death penalty and his support for women's rights, gay and lesbian… more
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America's longest-serving Middle East envoy and former U.S. Ambassador, Dennis Ross was the point person on the peace process in both the George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations. For twelve years, he shaped U.S. involvement and dealt… more
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