Podcasts
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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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“An absolute delight to read” ( Newsday ), Ruth Reichl was the editor-in-chief of Gourmet for ten years. She is the author of four bestselling memoirs: Comfort Me with Apples, Tender at the Bone, Garlic and Sapphires , and For You Mom,… more
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• Recorded Oct 22, 2015Longtime political advisor and diplomat Dennis Ross served as Director of Policy Planning in the State Department during George H.W. Bush’s administration, where he worked towards the reunification of Germany and arms control. Appointed Middle… more
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“Stunningly original…engrossing and sensual” ( The Associated Press ), Orhan Pamuk is one of Turkey’s most prestigious writers and winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. Characterized by examinations of identity, tensions between the East… more
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Praised for her “learned, engagingly discursive, funny, sometimes even jolly” ( New York Times Book Review ) romps through American history, cultural critic Sarah Vowell is a contributing editor for National Public Radio’s This American Life .… more
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