Podcasts
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Henry Miller predicted that Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying would “make literary history, that because of it, women are going to find their own voice and give us great sagas of sex, life, joy, and adventure.” The book became an international best… more
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Life of Pi won the 2002 Man Booker Prize. The story of a young boy shipwrecked and stranded at sea with a Bengal tiger and other wild animals, The Life of Pi explores issues of spirituality and practicality through the child’s relationships with… more
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Raise a glass to life with Pete Hamill, author of the critically acclaimed A Drinking Life. In his revealing and vivid memoir, Hamill explores the connection between writing and alcohol, and records his childhood in a New York era gone by. A New… more
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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley is the author of The Age of Grief, Moo , and A Thousand Acres . She has won both the O. Henry Award and National Book Critics Circle Award for her spare, lyric prose. Good Faith takes aim at America's… more
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Lois Lowry is the author of the Newbery Medal-winning classic The Giver . The Silent Boy is her 29th novel.
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From the Archive: Don DeLillo is the author of Underworld, a sweeping novel of the last half-century that earned DeLillo the coveted William Dean Howells Medal. Salman Rushdie wrote "Underworld is a magnificent book by an American master."… more
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Born in Saint Lucia in 1930, Derek Walcott is the author of more than twenty collections of poems and plays, and is the 1992 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. At 18, he made his debut with 25 Poems, and in 1959, founded the Trinidad… more
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Michael Connelly's books have won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Nero, Barry, Maltese Falcon (Japan), .38 Caliber (France), Grand Prix (France), and Premio Bancarella (Italy) awards. In 2003 Connelly will be President of the Mystery Writers of… more
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The co-director for the Center for Cognitive Studies and Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University, Dennett is the author of Breaking the Spell and Darwin's Dangerous Idea . Freedom Evolves seeks to account for free will in a world constructed… more
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Billy Collins has published nine previous collections of poetry, including Questions About Angels, Picnic, Lightning, and Sailing Alone Around the Room – his last three collections have broken sales records for poetry. A New York Public Library… more
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One of the seven original Right Stuff astronauts, Scott Carpenter was the fourth American in space and the second to orbit the earth. After the Mercury Project, he went on to explore the oceans, commanding the underwater teams of the U.S. Navy's… more
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A correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, Far Eastern Economic Review, The Times of London, Daily Telegraph, and Pakistan’s The Nation, Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid has been covering the politics of Central Asia, Afghanistan and Pakistan… more
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Knighted in 1995, Sir Martin Gilbert is the official biographer of Sir Winston Churchill and one of the leading historians of our time. His major works include histories of British politics in the 20th century, of both World Wars, and of the… more
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One of England's foremost writers, A. S. Byatt’s novel Possession won both the Booker Prize and Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize in 1990. A Whistling Woman is the conclusion to her fictional quartet that includes The Virgin In… more
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A Rhodes Scholar, Randall Kennedy teaches classes on contracts, freedom of expression, and the regulation of race relations at Harvard Law School. His first book, Race, Crime, and the Law, received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. His… more
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Award-winning novelist Alice McDermott deals with many aspects of love and family life in her novels. She infuses her works with inventiveness and originality, and is praised for her storytelling skills, her lyrical writing, and her descriptive… more
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Novelist and screenwriter, Richard Price is known as the “Voice of the Bronx” because he illuminates the lives of the urban, post-industrial dispossessed. His most recent novel Freedomland, ambitiously confronted America's race problem and for it,… more
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Giovanni first emerged during the Civil Rights, Black Power, and Black Arts Movements in the 1960s. She has penned 16 volumes of poetry. Giovanni enjoys teaching and writing about what she knows. Her poetry is personal and political with topics… more
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Andy Rooney, the CBS News correspondent, writer and producer, has won the Writers Guild Award for Best Script of the Year six times, more than any other writer in the history of the medium. Known and beloved to millions for his weekly commentary… more
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Johnnie Cochran had been well-known in Los Angeles courtrooms as a folksy orator since the 1960s, but the 1995 O.J. Simpson trial catapulted him to international fame – a status he gladly acknowledges in this bare-knuckles memoir of his years in… more
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