Podcasts
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David Macaulay, artist and author of several books (including City, Castle and Pyramid ) that use his "masterful" illustrations to explain architecture, deconstructs the late-sixteenth-century Turkish mosque. In Mosque, Macaulay's work describes… more
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Nathaniel Philbrick is a leading authority on the history of Nantucket, director of the Egan Institute of Maritime Studies, and research fellow at the Nantucket Historical Association. He is the author of In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of… more
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Toni Morrison is the Robert F. Goheen Professor of Humanities at Princeton University, and author of esteemed novels The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, and Beloved. She has received the National Book Critics Circle award and the… more
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• Recorded Nov 3, 2003Bestselling author and historian Gary Wills received the National Medal for the Humanities in 1998. He is the author of Papal Sin and Lincoln at Gettysburg , winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Henry Wiencek is the author of The Hairstons , winner of… more
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Joyce Carol Oates, now the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University, has published more than 70 books of poetry, short stories, essays and literary criticism, including novels and plays. She has twice… more
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Amy Tan is the author of best-selling novels The Joy Luck Club, a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Kitchen God's Wife and The Hundred Secret Senses. The Joy Luck Club was made into a film, for… more
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John Updike is the author of the "Rabbit" novels, which focus on the life of ex-high school basketball star, and by now "one of America’s most famous literary characters," Harry Angstrom. He has won the Pulitzer Prize, The National Book Award, The… more
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LOONEY LECTURE Author and illustrator of the beloved picture books Jumanji and The Polar Express (both Caldecott Medal winners), Chris Van Allsburg has finally created Zathura. After twenty years of anticipation Zathura picks up where Jumanji… more
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Creator of Twyla Tharp Dance, Ms. Tharp has coreographed pieces for institutions ranging from the New York City Ballet to the Paris Opera Ballet. She has appeared, on Broadway and across the dance world.
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Get Your War On is David Rees' sardonic online comic strip (and book), which brilliantly deploys every post-9/11 emotion and political stance with a humor that involves the free use of four letter words. What began as a fax that Rees sent to a… more
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215 Festival Event Patti Smith began publishing her poetry in the 1970's. She is the author of Witt, Wild Leaves, Seventh Heaven and Patti Smith Complete: Lyrics, Notes and Reflections , which stand among numerous volumes of her poems and… more
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Maxine Hong Kingston is the distinguished author of The Woman Warrior (winner of the 1976 Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction), Tripmaster Monkey and China Men. The Fifth Book of Peace is Kingston's own creation, based on the three "books of… more
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The Guerrilla Girls are a team of anonymous women artists who set out, in 1985, to make the art world feel ashamed of its bigotry. Well-equipped with an outrageous sense of humor and an arsenal of facts, the Guerrilla Girls began creating posters… more
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The Guerilla Girls' illustrated guide to female stereotypes.
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Eugenides’ first novel, The Virgin Suicides , was the basis for the much-acclaimed film directed by Sofia Coppola. His writings have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review , and Best American Short Stories , and he has received a Whiting… more
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Tracy Kidder has been described as "master of the non-fiction narrative." His writing has earned him the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Award. Mountains Beyond Mountains is the true story of Dr. Paul Farmer,… more
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Jhumpa Lahiri received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her debut collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Agni, and Story Quarterly, as well as in Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards… more
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Dick Thornburgh is the only Republican to have served two consecutive terms, from 1979-1987, as the governor of Pennsylvania. He has worked under five presidents in the United States Justice Department, spent three years as attorney general, and… more
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• Recorded Sep 13, 2003"Lulu on the Bridge," Paul Auster's directing debut, played at the Cannes film festival in 1998. Starring Harvey Keitel, Mira Sorvino and William DeFoe, it is the story of the love and magic shared between a jazz saxophonist and an aspiring… more
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Anne Garrels, National Public Radio's senior foreign correspondent, was one of sixteen un-embedded American journalists to bear witness to Baghdad's fall. Naked in Bagdad is her account of the American invasion of Iraq, a report she presented… more
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