Podcasts
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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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• Recorded Jul 14, 2015With thousands of recipes, cooking contests, a hotline, and a kitchen and home shop, Food52 is an online community for home cooks and expert chefs alike. The site is a celebration of food and of those who cook, naturally fostering more… more
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“The UK’s answer to Tina Fey, Chelsea Handler, and Lena Dunham all rolled into one” ( Marie Claire ), Caitlin Moran introduced herself to an American audience with her New York Times bestselling debut, How to Be a Woman . The book, a “rowdy and… more
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Drexel University law professor Adam Benforado’s research and expertise in cognitive psychology seeks to uncover the subtly hidden ways our legal system is affected by the vast and intricate architectures of our mental processes and prejudices.… more
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• Recorded Jun 29, 2015Winner of the Dos Passos Prize for Literature, Mat Johnson has been compared to writers ranging from Vonnegut ( New York Times ) to Roth ( Washington Post ) to Ellison ( Vanity Fair ). His novel Pym , a satirical fantasy about race and Edgar… more
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Etgar Keret’s lithe, colloquial writing style and darkly inventive themes brought renewed popularity to the short story form in 1990s Israel. The author of seven story collections, a children’s book, and several comic books, he is a lecturer at… more
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• Recorded Jun 24, 2015American-born Michael Oren is a “brilliant, lucid” ( Washington Post Book World ) Middle East historian and was Israel’s ambassador to the United States from 2009 to 2013. He is the author of the bestselling Power, Faith and Fantasy and Six Days… more
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• Recorded Jun 22, 2015N+1 is an online and print magazine that publishes social criticism, political commentary, literature, reviews, and books that expand on the interests contained therein. By opting for “the possibility of seriousness against the glibness and… more
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Matthew Quick exploded into the literary world in 2008 with his “charmingly nerve-wracking” ( NPR ) bestselling novel Silver Linings Playbook , a quirkily humane paean to mental illness and love that was adapted into the Academy Award-winning… more
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• Recorded Jun 16, 2015Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges is the author of 11 books, including the bestsellers War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning , Empire of Illusion , and Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt . For nearly two decades he was a foreign… more
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• Recorded Jun 15, 2015Over nearly 50 years of working with children in inner-city schools, Jonathan Kozol has been a tireless and fiery advocate for the issues surrounding education inequity and for genuinely integrated public education. His books in this field… more
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• Recorded Jun 11, 2015Steve Inskeep is the co-host of NPR’s Morning Edition , the highest-rated news program on radio. Aspiring to “slow down the news,” he is known for the breadth of his interview subjects and the globe-spanning locales from which he has reported. An… more
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• Recorded Jun 9, 2015Lou Ureneck is the author of Backcast , a memoir of fishing and fatherhood that won the 2007 National Outdoor Book Award. His follow-up, Cabin , is a Thoreau-esque mediation on construction in the Maine wilderness. The former deputy managing… more
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In addition to being the President and Publisher of major publishing house Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, Jonathan Galassi is the author of the acclaimed poetry collections Left-Handed , North Street , and Morning Run , and is also a poetry critic… more
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New York Times bestselling author HW Brands was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Franklin Roosevelt, The First American and Traitor to His Class , respectively. Ranging in topic from Aaron Burr and… more
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Praised for synthesizing ambitious political ideology with intimately acute interior life, critic, journalist, and essayist Vivian Gornick is the author of eleven books, including a biography of Emma Goldman and the essay collection The Men in My… more
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• Recorded May 28, 2015Writer’s writer Jim Shepard is the author of six novels and four story collections, including Project X and Like You’d Understand Anyway , a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of The Story Prize. His short fiction has appeared nearly… more
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