Podcasts
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The popular and critically acclaimed author of more than 40 books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays, Margaret Atwood is perhaps best known for the dystopian The Handmaid’s Tale , winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Her other novels… more
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Covering culture, politics, and social issues as a national correspondent at The Atlantic , Ta-Nehisi Coates has been applauded for his levelheaded and prescient reportage. His 2008 memoir, The Beautiful Struggle , details his father’s struggle… more
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• Recorded Oct 15, 2015“One of the most gifted graphic novelists of our time” ( Wired ), Adrian Tomine has a cult following for a variety of his acclaimed work. Perhaps best known for his long-running semiautobiographical comic book series Optic Nerve , he has also… more
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The first woman from Missouri to be elected to the U.S. Senate, Claire McCaskill has championed her Show Me State constituents for more than a decade. Though she hails from a notable political family, she worked her way through law school as a… more
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• Recorded Oct 13, 2015“Involved in some of the most important legal developments of recent years” ( The Financial Times ), Roberta Kaplan made history as the first lawyer to successfully defeat the Defense of Marriage Act in the U.S. Supreme Court. A partner in the… more
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Since 2008, Philadelphia foodies and gourmands from around the world have clamored for tables at Michael Solomonov’s Zahav, a restaurant that has come to define the uniqueness of Israeli cuisine. The 2011 James Beard Award-winner for “Best Chef,… more
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“A gifted, even poetic writer” ( New York Times ), Beth Kephart is the author of 18 books across a wide range of genres, most notably the memoir. The award-winning Handling the Truth offers a thoughtful meditation on the questions that lie at the… more
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• Recorded Oct 6, 2015Most famous for his roles as morally murky yet methodical homicide detective Bunk Moreland in The Wire and trombonist Antoine Batiste in Treme , Wendell Pierce has appeared in more than 30 films, 50 television shows, and dozens of stage… more
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Counting the last three Presidents among his fans, Jay Winik is best known for the internationally bestselling April 1865: The Month That Saved America . Already a classic among historical narratives, it later became an award-winning and widely… more
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“Funny and moving but never predictable” ( USA Today ), British writer Jojo Moyes is the author of a dozen popular romance novels. She is perhaps best known for 2012’s Me Before You , a nominee for Book of the Year at the UK Galaxy Book Awards… more
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• Recorded Sep 30, 2015A Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist with an illustrious 30-year career, Wil Haygood is most famous for his 2008 Washington Post article, “A Butler Well Served By This Election,” a story about the White House steward who bore witness to some of… more
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In conversation with Linda Fairstein Internationally celebrated author Lee Child is best known for his thriller series starring Jack Reacher, “one of this century’s most original, tantalizing pop-fiction heroes” ( Washington Post ). Ten of these… more
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“Grounded in ethnic identity, fueled by collective pride, yet irreducibly individual” ( New York Times ), Juan Felipe Herrera is the virtuosic first Mexican American U.S. Poet Laureate. The son of migrant farm workers, his writing is strongly… more
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• Recorded Sep 17, 2015Leslie Michelson is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Private Health Management, a patient-focused company committed to helping both individual patients and corporate organizations navigate the American healthcare system. With more than three… more
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• Recorded Sep 15, 2015Over a 28-year career at the Washington Post , veteran reporter Dale Russakoff has covered a multitude of foundational American topics, including the economy, education, and presidential campaigns. In The Prize , she tells the true story of the… more
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(This podcast contains explicit content.) “Hilarious, heartbreaking, and insightful” ( Miami Herald ), Jennifer Weiner is the beloved no. 1 New York Times bestselling author of 11 books, including Good in Bed ; In Her Shoes , which was made… more
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• Recorded Jul 30, 2015Critic John Lahr calls Victoria Shorr ’s debut novel a “dashing and vivid” and “lyrical, pithy” take on a legendary outlaw and his paramour. In Backlands , the real-life yet nearly mythical Lampiao and Maria Bonita, the Robin Hood and Maid Marian… more
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Vice President of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and one of the nation’s top forensic anthropologists, Kathy Reichs is the author of the New York Times bestselling Temperance Brennan novels, whose protagonist shares a profession and… more
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• Recorded Jul 23, 2015Winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics, Frank Wilczek is the author of a score of groundbreaking academic papers, the New York Times notable book Longing for the Harmonies , and several articles in publications such as Nature , Physics Today ,… more
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Former Colorado Senator Gary Hart served in Congress from 1975 to 1987, ran for President in 1984 and 1988, and has since worked as a lawyer, professor, and political commentator. In 2014 President Obama named him as the United States Special… more
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