Podcasts
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• Recorded Feb 1, 2024 Explicit ContentEmily Nagoski is the author of the New York Times bestseller Come as You Are , a self-help manual lauded by critics and readers for its ability to “offer up hard facts on the science of arousal and desire in a friendly and accessible way” (… more
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In conversation with Niela Orr A “hilarious, uncomfortable and compulsively readable story about race and class” ( TIME ), Kiley Reid ’s novel Such a Fun Age tells the story of a young Black babysitter and her well-intentioned but misguided… more
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Susan Muaddi Darraj won the 2016 American Book Award, the 2016 Arab American Book Award, and was a finalist for the Palestine Book Award for A Curious Land , a collection of linked stories that follows the denizens of a Palestinian West Bank… more
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• Recorded Jan 23, 2024In conversation with Kristen Graham, education reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer Public education reporter Benjamin Herold ’s stories, features, and investigative exposés have appeared in Education Week, PBS NewsHour, The Hechinger Report,… more
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• Recorded Jan 18, 2024 Explicit ContentIn conversation with CJ Hauser Featured as an Editor’s Choice in The New York Times Book Review , Annie Liontas ' debut novel, Let Me Explain You , follows the bridge-burning patriarch of a Greek American family who believes he has only days… more
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• Recorded Dec 6, 2023Co-sponsored by Committee of Seventy In conversation with Cherri Gregg, host/news anchor for WHYY radio Dannagal Goldthwaite Young is the author of Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laughter in the United States . A… more
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• Recorded Dec 5, 2023In conversation with Reem Kassis A chef, writer, video producer, and community advocate, Sohla El-Waylly hosts Mystery Menu for The New York Times Cooking YouTube channel and The History Channel’s Ancient Recipes with Sohla , and serves as a… more
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• Recorded Nov 29, 2023In conversation with Ernest Owens A writer, activist, and media strategist dedicated to Black transgender liberation, Raquel Willis has served as director of communications for Ms. Foundation for Women, a national organizer for the Transgender… more
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Renowned for her ability “to generalize from her personal experience to the greater human one” ( The Washington Post ), Beth Kephart is the author of more than 30 books across a wide range of genres, including poetry, young adult fiction, and,… more
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• Recorded Nov 18, 2023In conversation with Airea D. Matthews The winner of three Grammy Awards and three NAACP Image Awards, Tariq Trotter , aka Black Thought , is the MC and co-founder of The Roots. The Philly-based hip-hop group has produced 11 albums and is the… more
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• Recorded Nov 16, 2023Sigrid Nunez won the 2018 National Book Award for The Friend , a “beautiful” novel “crammed with a world of insight into death, grief, art, and love” ( The Wall Street Journal ) in which a woman is forced to adopt her deceased best friend’s Great… more
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• Recorded Nov 15, 2023In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6abc Action News morning edition Jonathan Karl is the author of the instant New York Times bestsellers Front Row at the Trump Show and Betrayal , behind-the-scenes accounts of Donald Trump and his… more
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• Recorded Nov 14, 2023In conversation with Dorothy Roberts One of the country’s foremost authorities in civil rights, Black feminist legal theory, race, and the law, Kimberlé Crenshaw is a law professor at UCLA and Columbia Law School, where in 1996 she founded the… more
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• Recorded Nov 9, 2023In conversation with Errin Haines Stephanie Land is the author of the bestseller Maid , a memoir that “nails the sheer terror that comes with being poor, the exhausting vigilance of knowing that any misstep or twist of fate will push you deeper… more
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• Recorded Nov 8, 2023In conversation with Marc Lamont Hill Tanisha Ford ’s Our Secret Society is a biography of Mollie Moon, the socialite, powerbroker, and founder of the National Urban League Guild, who was a key fundraiser for the Civil Rights Movement. It also… more
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In conversation with Nomi Eve “Filled with so much universal experience, such haunting imagery, such urgent matters of life and death” ( The New York Times ), Alice McDermott’ s bestselling novels include Someone ; Charming Billy , winner of the… more
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• Recorded Nov 2, 2023Watch the video here . “A marvelous epitaph to a monumental family, makers of several worlds and keepers of none” ( The Wall Street Journal ), Joseph Sassoon ’s eponymous historical volume The Sassoons charts the remarkable 19th-century rise and… more
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• Recorded Nov 1, 2023Acclaimed for his ability to “elevate the unseen aspects of private experience into a vigorous and challenging conversation about what we all share” ( San Francisco Chronicle ), David Brooks has written an op-ed column for The New York Times… more
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Watch the video here . Renowned for her “extraordinarily honest, searing and hilarious” ( San Francisco Chronicle ) takes on modern life, Roz Chast has published more than 1,000 cartoons in The New Yorker since 1978. She has written or… more
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In conversation with Rebeca L. Hey-Colón, Professor of Latinx Studies, Temple University Cristina García is the author of eight “languid and sensual, curt and surprising” ( The New York Times Book Review ) novels, including The Lady Matador’s… more
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