Podcasts
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Recorded Mar 10, 2016Skilled at turning “the ordinary marvelously, frighteningly strange” ( The Boston Globe ), Helen Oyeyemi is the author of five virtuosic novels that explore the spaces inside and beyond fairy tales and myths: her first novel, The Icarus Girl ,… more
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Recorded Mar 8, 2016“Powerful” ( The Independent ) novelist, playwright, and essayist Darryl Pinckney explores issues of racial, sexual, and cultural identity in contemporary America. His semi-autobiographical novel High Cotton tells an irreverent and ironic… more
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Celebrated graphic novelist and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Daniel Clowes is the multiple Harvey, Ignatz, and Eisner Award-winning creator of the alternative comic Eightball . His graphic novel Ghost World was adapted into an acclaimed… more
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Recorded Mar 1, 2016The former popular and transformative mayor of Newark, Cory Booker is currently the junior United States senator from New Jersey. During his time as mayor he earned a national reputation for hands-on involvement in public service, foundational… more
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• Recorded Feb 25, 2016Harvard Business School professor and researcher Amy Cuddy has received international acclaim for her insights into nonverbal behavior, the effects of snap judgments and stereotypes, and the psychology of influence. Named a TIME magazine Game… more
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Actor, singer, and dancer Joel Grey has won Oscar, Tony, and Golden Globe Awards for a wide range of stage and screen roles. In a career that dates back to the 1940s, he originated the roles of Master of Ceremonies in Cabaret , George M. Cohan in… more
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• Recorded Feb 23, 2016A.O. Scott’s passionate, witty, tell-it-like-it-is New York Times movie reviews are among the most read and respected in the country. His prolific body of work reveals a plainspoken intellectual interested in multiple forms of art and criticism.… more
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• Recorded Feb 18, 2016E.J. Dionne Jr. is a New York Times bestselling author, a syndicated columnist who appears twice weekly in The Washington Post and nearly 100 other newspapers, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a professor at Georgetown… more
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• Recorded Feb 16, 2016“A master of subtle nuance in dealing with both Arab and Jewish society” ( New York Times ), Sayed Kashua is an Arab-Israeli who lived in Jerusalem for most of his life. He is the author of three novels— Dancing Arabs , Let It Be Morning , and… more
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Jane Mayer | Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right• Recorded Feb 12, 2016A New Yorker staff writer since 1995, investigative journalist Jane Mayer is renowned for her headlong plunges into the murky waters of national security, public relations in U.S. politics, governmental prosecution of whistleblowers, and other… more
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• Recorded Feb 9, 2016In conversation with Dr. James Peterson, Director of Africana Studies and Associate Professor of English at Lehigh University. MSNBC Contributor “One of the most graceful and lucid intellectuals writing on race and politics today” ( Vanity Fair… more
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Recorded Feb 3, 2016The youngest tenured and most highly rated professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, Adam Grant is a sought-after expert on work success, motivation, and giving and helping behaviors for a range of clients that… more
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• Recorded Feb 2, 2016Charles Frazier, the 2016 One Book, One Philadelphia featured author, and Jennifer Higdon, composer of the opera Cold Mountain , will discuss the intersection of literature and music with Jennifer Lynn of WHYY. The evening will conclude with an… more
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The “measured, perfectly controlled” ( Boston Globe ) Tessa Hadley is the author of four acclaimed novels, including the “rich, absorbing” ( Vanity Fair ) Clever Girl ; Accidents in the Home , which was longlisted for the Guardian First Book… more
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• Recorded Jan 26, 2016Ian Buruma is the author of The Missionary and the Libertine , Murder in Amsterdam , Year Zero: A History of 1945 , and Theater of Cruelty: Art, Film, and the Shadows of War , winner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the… more
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• Recorded Jan 21, 2016In conversation with Tracey Matisak Robert Gates served as Secretary of Defense under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, an experience recounted in his no. 1 New York Times bestselling memoir Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War . He… more
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• Recorded Jan 19, 2016 Explicit ContentIn conversation with Buzz Bissinger New York Times bestselling author Mark Bowden is an award-winning national correspondent for The Atlantic and the author of numerous books of investigative journalism, including the classic of war reporting,… more
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In conversation with Laura Kovacs Possessed of “a magnificent gift for humanizing characters,” ( San Francisco Chronicle ), Elizabeth Strout won the Pulitzer Prize for the 2008 bestseller Olive Kitteridge , a linked collection of narratives about… more
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In conversation with Jennifer Weiner Elizabeth LaBan is the author of the young adult novel The Tragedy Paper and The Grandparents Handbook . She teaches fiction writing at the University of Pennsylvania and is a freelance writer and editor whose… more
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• Recorded Dec 14, 2015Lauren Groff ’s “dazzling” ( Vogue ) bestselling novels, Arcadia and The Monsters of Templeton , explore family secrets and small town intrigues in bucolic upstate New York settings. She is the winner of a PEN/O. Henry Award and the Pushcart… more
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