Podcasts
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John James Audubon's lifework, The Birds of America, an astonishing collection of life-size and lifelike portraits of birds, stands as a glorious union of science and art. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, Richard Rhodes chronicles Audubon's… more
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• Recorded Jan 15, 2005In Collapse, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel considers the collapse of some of history's greatest civilizations, including Viking, Anasazi, and Mayan, in the context of contemporary crises of cultural survival,… more
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The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Dead Man Walking returns to the moral edge of the death-penalty debate with her new book chronicling two cases in which she believes the executed men were innocent.
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• Recorded Jan 7, 2005Martin Luther King, III joins Maestro Christoph Eschenbach for a discussion of how Dr. King's life experience and beliefs were crystallized in his later writings and speeches. The evening includes live music with members of The Philadelphia… more
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Martin Luther King's son discusses peace in America.
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Born of ethnic Italian parentage in Pula on the Istrian peninsula in northern Italy (now Croatia), Lidia Bastianich came to America at age twelve, and opened her first restaurant in Queens, NY at twenty-four. Today Lidia, a world-renowned chef, is… more
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• Recorded Dec 10, 2004Daniel Libeskind is an international figure in architecture and urban design. In February 2003, Daniel Libeskind was chosen as the Master Plan Architect for the World Trade Center reconstruction. A virtuoso musician before studying architecture,… more
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Ada Louise Huxtable, the doyenne of American architecture critics, became the first newspaper architecture critic when she joined the New York Times in 1964. In 1970, she won the first Pulitzer Prize awarded for distinguished criticism. A three… more
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British artist Alan Lee is a renowned illustrator of J. R. R. Tolkien's books and a conceptual designer on The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, for which he received an Academy Award. Lee's watercolor illustrations adorn the centenary edition of… more
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Born in Stroud, England, Alan Hollinghurst's debut novel, The Swimming-Pool Library, was lauded for its startling conflation of high literary style and low-rent sex, presenting an eye-popping trawl through London's pre-AIDS gay culture.… more
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Jerry Spinelli discusses his book Stargirl with teens as part of the Field Family Teen Author Series.
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• Recorded Nov 23, 2004William T. Vollmann's body of work derives as much from his experiences - such as participating in the Afghan-Soviet war and associating with prostitutes in Thailand and San Francisco's Tenderloin district - as from an ever-innovative literary… more
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• Recorded Nov 18, 2004Bring your sister and a story to share. In 1994, co-authors Carol Saline and Sharon J. Wohlmuth launched a literary genre that pays tribute to personal relationships through photographs and essays with the publication of their remarkable… more
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• Recorded Nov 17, 2004Trudy Rubin is the foreign affairs columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer, and a member of the Inquirer's editorial board. Her column appears twice weekly in the Inquirer and runs regularly in many newspapers around the U.S. A foreign policy… more
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• Recorded Nov 16, 2004John Dominic Crossan burst into the public eye in 1991 with the publication of The Historical Jesus. In this and subsequent books, Crossan's research incorporates detailed cross-cultural anthropology and literary analysis to demonstrate the… more
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Irish author Roddy Doyle writes rowdy novels rooted in the working-class experience, replete with colloquial vulgarisms and vibrant slang. In Doyle's tales, from The Commitments (his debut) to Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (the 1993 Booker Prize winner),… more
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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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