Podcasts
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Stephen Dunn, Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at Richard Stockton College, is the author of eleven books of poetry including the winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Different Hours. In 1995, he received an Academy Award in… more
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Amitav Ghosh, one of the best known Indians writing in English today. A story of love and war, The Glass Palace begins with the shattering of the Burmese kingdom and the birth of a great and passionate love. It goes on to tell the story of a… more
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Winner of the 1992 MacArthur Fellowship, Paule Marshall is the author of Brown Girl Brownstones and Praisesong for the Widow , amongst others. Her writing celebrates black immigrant communities, Afro-Diasporic culture and black women in ways that… more
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Author, performer, and teacher, Gladstone's debut novel about the candid coming-of-age of a suburban household won him a Foreword Award.
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William Kennedy’s Albany cycle of novels does for Albany “what James Joyce did for Dublin and Saul Bellow did for Chicago” (James Atlas, Vogue ) and includes Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game, Legs and Ironweed, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in… more
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Satirist, food writer, and novelist, Calvin Trillin is a long-time New Yorker staff writer and "Deadline Poet" for The Nation . Tepper Isn't Going Out is a humorous narrative of the constant urban toil for a parking space.
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Patrick J. Buchanan has been a senior advisor to three American presidents and ran twice for the Republican nomination for president (in 1992 and 1996, before he became the Reform Party’s presidential candidate for the hotly contested 2000… more
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James D. Watson is best known for his discovery of the structure of DNA, for which he shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins. He is the president of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a facility… more
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• Recorded Feb 2, 2002
Chip Kidd, Editor of Pantheon's Graphic Novels Division, moderates a panel discussion between: Charles Burns, the creator of Black Hole . Kim Deitch, the author of Boulevard of Broken Dreams . Kaz, the creator of Underworld , a weekly comic… more
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Ralph Nader is one of America's most passionate and effective social critics. He has been called a muckraker, a consumer crusader, and America's public defender. He has rallied consumer advocates, citizen activists, public interest lawyers, and… more
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The internationally acclaimed author of The Perfect Storm discusses his collection of foreign reporting, which chronicles global danger from political hotspots like Afghanistan and Kosovo, to the inferno forest fires in the canyons of Idaho.
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A member of the popular singing group, the Irish Tenors, Tynan's autobiography traces his conquered lower limb disability and the success he's found in medicine, music, and life--from the Paralympic Games to the International Operatic Singing… more
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Internationally recognized expert in the fields of communication and relationships, John Gray is the author of 12 best sellers including Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus. In his latest book, Mars and Venus in the Workplace Gray offers a… more
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• Recorded Nov 20, 2001
Jeffrey Toobin, a legal analyst and the bestselling author of A Vast Conspiracy , retraces the 36-day story of the 2000 Bush-Gore presidential recount. Chris Matthews is the host of Hardball and was previously a speech writer for President Carter.… more
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From the Archive: Margaret Atwood is the author of more than twenty-five books of fiction, poetry and essays including The Handmaid’s Tale, and Cat’s Eye. Told in a style that captures the colloquialisms and clichés of the 30’s and 40’s, her… more
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• Recorded Nov 15, 2001
Chip Kidd, "The closest thing to a rock star in graphic design today" ( USA Today ), designs book jackets that "make readers appreciate books as objects of art as well as literature ( Publisher's Weekly ). His recently finished projects include a… more
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Called "a comic genius of the highest order" by the New York Times book review, Barth spoofs his own role in the pantheon of contemporary fiction with the novelistic story of two rivaling writers--one retiring and the other aspiring.
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The acclaimed author and radio persona continues the ongoing narrative of the fictional Minnesota hamlet, where an iconoclastic 14-year-old boy comes of age.
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Sigrid Nunez is the author of A Feather on the Breath of God and Naked Sleeper. Her latest book tells the story of the friendship between a writer and Rouenna, a combat nurse in the Vietnam War. Sue Miller is the author of the bestselling While I… more
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From the first author to win two PEN/Faulkner Awards comes an eloquent, multilayered memoir of basketball, family and race.
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