Podcasts
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Perhaps best known for his work The Professor and the Madman, Simon Winchester now focuses his attention on the devastating volcanic eruption of Krakatoa. The explosion, heard almost 3,000 miles a way, resulted in the deaths of nearly 40,000… more
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Lawyer turned writer, Louis Begley first appeared on the literary landscape in 1991 with his loosely autobiographical holocaust fiction, Wartime Lies, for which he received a National Book Award nomination and a PEN/Ernest Hemingway First Fiction… more
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For her journalism Cokie Roberts has garnered both an Emmy and the Edward R. Murrow Award. She is co-anchor of the ABC's This Week and serves as a news analyst for National Public Radio. She has earned Mother of the Year awards from both the… more
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Dave Eggers is the bestselling author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius . Neal Pollack is a major contributor to McSweeney's .
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• Recorded Apr 8, 2004County Dublin-born Nuala O'Faolain joins the ranks of the "serial memoirists" with her most recent memoir, Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman. According to the Library Journal this memoir "picks up where O'Faolain's celebrated Are… more
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Acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley's book chronicles more than four decades of John Kerry's journey in the Vietnam War.
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Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Edwidge Danticat spent most of early years with her aunt and uncle and then at the age of 12 moved to Brooklyn to be with her parents. She began writing not long after, and since then her essays and stories have… more
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Ellen Goodman established a name for herself by making serious work of what have traditionally been considered "soft subjects." Her nationally syndicated newspaper columns, nestled among politically hard-hitting editorials, deal with topics such… more
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Considered to be one of the most important writers of the modern postwar era, Doris Lessing has enjoyed a long and successful career as a novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She has traveled widely in geographical, social, political,… more
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Emerging in the late 1960s from the Society of the Holy Child Jesus after seven years as a nun, Karen Armstrong became an academic and historian, freelance writer and broadcaster. She has been called nothing short of a genius, and The New York… more
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Knit Happens! And it's not just for grannies anymore… Debbie Stoller, co-Founder and Editorial Director of femme-forward Bust magazine, will discuss the techniques and stories from her book, Stitch 'n Bitch: The Knitter's Handbook, and show off… more
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After graduating high school at the age of 15 Christopher Paolini needed something to do. So, he sat down to write his debut novel, Eragon, the first of an emerging three-part fantasy series about dragons and their riders. His parents, owners of a… more
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• Recorded Mar 2, 2004Former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill offers a remarkably frank and revealing account of the Bush White House in The Price of Loyalty by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Ron Suskind. Working with the full cooperation of O’Neill and… more
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In Fabric of the Cosmos, physicist Brian Greene reveals the strange and stunning layers of reality uncovered by modern physics and lying just beneath the surface of the everyday world. Fabric of the Cosmos, an artful mélange of analogy and popular… more
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Few authors can be credited with birthing a genre, but with his remarkable science fiction novel, Neuromancer, William Gibson did just that. As the father of "cyberpunk", Gibson is credited with the phrase "cyberspace" and consequently has made a… more
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Ha Jin immigrated in 1986 to the United States to earn a Ph.D. in English at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. Within four years, Jin had published his first book of poems in English, Between Silences. After receiving his degree, Jin began… more
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Having already established himself as an author who pushes jazz writing towards exceptional art with Kind of Blue: The Making of The Miles Davis Masterpiece, Ashley Kahn puts forth yet another fascinating study. Publishers Weekly claims, "Music… more
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Considered one of America's leading political analysts, Kevin Phillips leapt to public attention with the 1968 publication of his groundbreaking work The Emerging Republican Majority. The book correctly predicted the shift from liberalism to… more
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After resigning from the University of Tehran because of oppressive policies, Azar Nafisi invited seven of her best female students to study Western literature in secret at her home. Reading Lolita in Tehran chronicles the journey of this group's… more
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Richard Dawkins, known for his "brilliance and wit" ( New Yorker ) – is one of the most influential scientists of our time and holds a chair at Oxford University. His highly acclaimed books include Unweaving the Rainbow, The Blind Watchmaker, and… more
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