Podcasts
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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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During his decades-long career as a columnist for the New York Times , David K. Shipler reported from the battlefields of Vietnam and Lebanon, was the Bureau Chief of both Moscow and Jerusalem, and was the Chief Diplomatic Correspondent in the… more
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“Provocative and compelling” ( New York Newsday ), Jabari Asim is a Guggenheim Fellowship-winning author, poet, playwright, editor, and Emerson College writing professor. A former deputy editor of the book review section at the Washington Post ,… more
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One of America’s most intriguing photographers, Sally Mann’s trademark large black-and-white images of her family and the American South are included in the permanent collections of many of the world’s most prestigious museums, including the… more
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• Recorded May 12, 2015John Palfrey is a leading scholar on the legal issues of emerging media and an authority and advocate for internet freedom, transparency, and accountability. His many books include Born Digital , Access Denied , and Intellectual Property Strategy… more
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