Podcasts
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• Recorded Dec 7, 2015Al Hirschfeld redefined caricature with his mastery of line. His art appeared in every major publication during nine decades of the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as on numerous book, record, and program covers, film posters and publicity art,… more
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• Recorded Dec 3, 2015In November 1995, right-wing extremist Yigal Amir shot and killed Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin at a rally in Tel Aviv. Award-winning journalist Dan Ephron, former Jerusalem bureau chief for Newsweek , covered both the peace-seeking… more
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Nationally syndicated Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for commentary for his writing about race, culture, and politics. His first book, Becoming Dad: Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood , was published in… more
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Brian Kilmeade cohosts Fox News Channel’s popular morning show Fox & Friends and hosts Fox News Radio’s nationally syndicated Kilmeade and Friends . He is the author of the New York Times bestselling The Games Do Count and It’s How You Play the… more
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• Recorded Nov 19, 2015First-time novelist Garth Risk Hallberg’s City on Fire is a panoramic pastiche of punk rockers and power brokers, reporters and rich kids, it vaults into the frenetic world of an extraordinary ensemble forever changed in the darkness of the… more
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Algerian Journalist Kamel Daoud’s debut novel, The Meursault Investigation , is a “tour-de-force reimagining” ( The New Yorker ) of The Stranger , told from the point of view of the brother of the nameless, voiceless Arab killed by the antihero… more
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• Recorded Nov 17, 2015The bestselling author of the nonfiction books The Professor and the Madman, Krakatoa , The Men Who United the States , and Atlantic , Simon Winchester evokes “vivid, valuable” ( Wall Street Journal ) images of legendary and little-known pockets… more
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Author, journalist, screenwriter, and broadcasting personality Mitch Albom is best known for the phenomenon that is Tuesdays with Morrie , the bestselling memoir of all time. His debut novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven , sold an only… more
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Exploring family sagas and themes of love, war, and politics, Isabel Allende’s historical fiction “rearranges reality with a blend of memories, mysticism and imagination” ( Philadelphia Inquirer ). The recipient of 50 awards in more than a dozen… more
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• Recorded Nov 12, 2015The Free Library of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Orchestra present Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Philadelphia Orchestra Music Director Hannibal, Composer Sonia Sanchez, Poet and Trustee of the Free Library In a conversation about Art and Its… more
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Perhaps Britain’s best-known scholar of antiquity, Mary Beard is a University of Cambridge classicist, a fellow of Newnham College, and a Royal Academy of the Arts professor of ancient literature. Some of her seminal works include Rome in the… more
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• Recorded Nov 9, 2015One of the world’s most influential theoretical physicists, Lisa Randall is best known for her research on particle physics and cosmology, and for co-creating the Randall-Sundrum model, an elegant and complex extra-dimensional theory of the… more
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Known as the “punk poet laureate” for her unique fusion of rock, poetry, and visual arts, Patti Smith won the 2010 National Book Award for Just Kids , a “moving portrait of the artist as a young woman” ( Los Angeles Times ). Her 1975 debut album… more
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“Britain’s leading contemporary playwright” ( Sunday Times ), Sir David Hare has won two Laurence Olivier Awards, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and the 2015 Tony for Best Revival for Skylight . His more than 30 celebrated plays,… more
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Recipient of the 2015 Newbery Medal and the 2015 Coretta Scott King Honor Award, Kwame Alexander’s The Crossover is a novel-in-verse about twin brothers who are basketball stars: “kings on the court, with crossovers that make even the toughest… more
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John Irving’s life-affirming, sometimes brutal stories are among the most loved in modern literature. His 1978 novel The World According to Garp received the National Book Award and was adapted into a film starring Robin Williams. A string of… more
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• Recorded Nov 3, 2015T.J. Stiles won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography for The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt , a rollicking account of the railroad magnate and philanthropist. He is also the author of the bestselling… more
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Nonfiction storyteller Stacy Schiff won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for her “monumental” ( The Boston Globe ) biography Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov ), a narrative of the 52-year marriage of the legendary writer and his even more vivid wife. She is… more
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• Recorded Oct 29, 2015 Explicit ContentPut a bird on it, little babies! Cofounder of the wildly influential riot grrrl band Sleater-Kinney, guitarist/vocalist Carrie Brownstein is a foundational figure in the Pacific Northwest indie rock scene. The band’s studios albums include the… more
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• Recorded Oct 28, 2015“One of the most formidable brains of our era” ( The Washington Post ), chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov was the world’s #1 ranked player from 1986 until his retirement in 2005. Since then he has dedicated himself to establishing free and fair… more
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