Podcasts
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Ken Burns is the director responsible for illuminating American culture with epic PBS documentaries that include the Emmy Award-winning Baseball , and Christopher Award-winning, Jazz . His landmark film, The Civil War was the highest-rated series… more
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Enjoy a visual presentation on the wonders of backyard stargazing with physicist and astronomer Timothy Ferris. Recipient of the American Institute of Physics Prize and the American Association for the Advancement of Science Prize, Ferris's books… more
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Two decades ago, psychologist Carol Gilligan published In a Different Voice , a provocative study of moral development in girls “that started a revolution.” Her award-winning research led to the creation of Harvard’s first professorship in Gender… more
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• Recorded Sep 6, 2002Veteran television broadcaster and former host of ABC's 20/20, Hugh Downs is one of televisions most familiar figures. Mr. Downs was the host of NBC's Today Show for nine years, and in 1957, he helped to launch NBC's famous Tonight Show . As a… more
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After Zola Denise Norwood meets media mogul Davis Vincent McClinton on a New York-bound flight, he makes her a couple of offers before they even land. One is editing his hot new urban style magazine Bling Bling. The other is more personal. As… more
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A contributing editor at Rolling Stone, Touré won the Sam Adams Short Story Contest sponsored by Zoetrope magazine. The stories in The Portable Promised Land introduce Soul City, an imagined utopia where magic happens and black is beautiful.… more
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Editor of the New York Times Book Review , McGrath is also the former editor of The New Yorker . He is moderating a panel of mystery guests on the game they love.
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America's most popular weatherman invites us into his own backyard and shares grilling recipes, family anecdotes, tips, techniques, and rules. Rule #1: Never touch another man's grill.
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• Recorded Jun 25, 2002
Ann Bernays is a writing teacher and the author of eight novels, including Prudence Indeed and Professor Romeo . Justin Kaplan is a biographer who has written accounts of figures such as Mark Twain and Walt Whitman. Their book, Back Then is a… more
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Writer and filmmaker Robert Gordon is the author of Can’t Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters ; he directed the PBS documentary Muddy Waters Can’t Be Satisfied and was writer on the Memphis episode of Martin Scorsese’s The Blues… more
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Oscar Hijuelos turns the characters and experiences of his Cuban-American heritage into fictional works that consistently win both critical and popular praise.Hijuelos was the first Latino to receive the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for fiction,… more
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From the Archive: Award-winning playwright of the Heidi Chronicles , Wendy Wasserstein gave a private talk at the Free Library of Philadelphia about the art and craft of writing for the theater.
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Ann Patchett is the award-winning author of The Patron Saint of Liars, The Magician's Assistant and Taft . Her new novel, Bel Canto is loosely based on the Peruvian hostage crisis of 1996, and won the PEN/Faulkner Award. Known as the Henry James… more
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Actress and best-selling author Marlo Thomas is joined (in print) by such luminaries as Tom Wolfe, Toni Morrison, Cal Ripken Jr., Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Muhammad Ali among others, each of whom tells a story of a… more
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Worldwide bestselling thriller novelist Mary Higgins Clark discusses exploring the depths of the criminal mind in her new book, Daddy's Little Girl .
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Called the "reigning grande dame of teenage chick lit" by The New York Times Book Review Meg Cabot is the bestselling author of The Princess Diaries series that spawned two hit movies.
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Hampton Sides is an acclaimed bestselling author and a National Magazine Award nominated journalist. He won the PEN USA Award for nonfiction Ghost Soldiers , a historical narrative following the rescue of WWII Bataan Death March survivors that… more
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One of the country's leading social philosophers, Francis Fukuyama teaches at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and is the author of The End of History and the Last Man. In Our Postmodern… more
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A frequent contributor to The New Yorker , Ian Fraizer is the critically-acclaimed author of Dating Your Mom, Great Plains, Coyote v. Acme and On the Rez . The Fish's Eye is a collection of essays that contain observations of the American… more
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Praised for her lyrical writing and historical knowledge, Anchee Min is the author of the bestselling memoir, Red Azalea and the novel Becoming Madame Mao . Growing up during the Cultural Revolution in China, Min spent time in a labor camp and was… more
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