Podcasts
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• Recorded May 5, 2015A “clever and insightful inspector of the American scene” ( Wall Street Journal ), David Brooks has written an op-ed column for the New York Times since 2003. Regarded as a moderate and sophisticated conservative who follows his own star, Brooks… more
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• Recorded May 4, 2015A poet of “extraordinary range and ambition” ( New York Times Book Review) , Tracy K. Smith is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book of poetry Life on Mars . Her other poetry collections include Duende, winner of the James Laughlin Award,… more
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• Recorded May 3, 2015Philadelphia native Andrew Ervin is the author of the “darkly evocative” ( Philadelphia Inquirer ) novel Extraordinary Renditions , a story of tarnished expatriates, Hungarian unrest, and opera. His fiction has been published in the Southern… more
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• Recorded Apr 30, 2015Gretchen Rubin is the bestselling author of The Happiness Project , the “enlightening, laugh-aloud” ( Christian Science Monitor ) account of her year-long experiment with the wisdom, science, and pop culture of happiness. A popular eponymously… more
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One of the world’s most revered writers, the “luminescent” ( Boston Globe ) Toni Morrison is celebrated for her epic, haunting, and poetic depictions of African American culture. The Robert F. Goheen Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Princeton… more
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The author of more than two dozen books for young adults, Jacqueline Woodson has won three Newbery Honors, a Coretta Scott King Award and three Coretta Scott King Honors, as well as the 2014 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Her… more
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Kate Mulgrew is best known for her roles as Captain Kathryn Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager and Russian gangster Galina “Red” Reznikov on Orange Is the New Black . For these and her other diverse roles in dozens of television, film, and theater… more
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• Recorded Apr 27, 2015Covering politics, Congress, and public policy, Cokie Roberts is a senior news analyst for National Public Radio, a political commentator for ABC News, and co-writes a popular syndicated weekly newspaper with her husband. She is the author of… more
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• Recorded Apr 23, 2015Michelangelo Signorile is famous for his gutsy and outspoken gay rights advocacy. His seminal 1993 manifesto Queer in America examined the political forces responsible for the LGBT closet. He is also the author of three other books, as well as… more
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Embodying “the ideal of the scientist as iconoclast” ( Wired ), Dr. Freeman Dyson is one of the world’s most intriguing and accomplished theoretical physicists and mathematicians, renowned for his work in quantum electrodynamics, solid-state… more
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• Recorded Apr 20, 2015 Explicit ContentThis podcast contains explicit content. Terrance Hayes won the National Book Award for the 2010 poetry collection Lighthead . Praised for their elegantly evocative imagery and formal versatility, his other collections include Wind in a Box , Hip… more
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• Recorded Apr 19, 2015One of the world’s most accomplished astronauts, Chris Hadfield logged more than 4,000 hours in space and served as commander of the International Space Station. In a stellar 35-year career that included flying fighter jets, experimental… more
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An artist “whose work comes from the painfully familiar” ( Esquire ), Bruce Eric Kaplan, also known as “BEK,” is famous for his dark-humored single-panel New Yorker cartoons. These cartoons have been collected in No One You know , This Is a Bad… more
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During her 28 years as a reporter for The New York Times , Judith Miller won a Pulitzer Prize for her January 2001 stories on Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda, covered a country traumatized by the events of 9/11, was an anthrax letter hoax victim… more
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Candice Bergen won five Emmys and two Golden Globe Awards for her starring role in the popular television series Murphy Brown , and received critical acclaim for her role on the dramedy Boston Legal , and for her work in such films as The Wind… more
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Minimalist classicist composer Philip Glass is one of the most influential artists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. His prolific and immersive work includes more than 20 operas, 10 symphonies, musical theater works, several concertos,… more
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• Recorded Apr 6, 2015One of America’s most respected and decorated broadcasters, Scott Simon is the host of NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday , “the most literate, witty, moving, and just plain interesting news show on any dial” ( Washington Post ). Having reported from… more
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The author of 15 novels and more than 100 short stories, T.C. Boyle blends “brilliance with high-concept pyrotechnics, meditations with whiz-bangery” ( Los Angeles Times ) to spin darkly humorous tales of babyboomers, anti-heros, and famous… more
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• Recorded Apr 1, 2015In a career at The New York Times that has spanned two decades, Frank Bruni has been the paper’s Rome bureau chief, head restaurant critic, White House correspondent, and staff writer for its Sunday magazine, among other positions. In 2011 he… more
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Winner 2015 NAACP Image Award for Autobiography Dr. Louis Sullivan served as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from 1989 to 1993, during which time he spearheaded initiatives to improve FDA food labels, educate… more
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