Podcasts
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Jack Miles, Distinguished Professor of English and Religious Studies at the University of California at Irvine and Senior Fellow for Religious Affairs for the Pacific Council on International Policy, is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning… more
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Beloved star of stage and screen and “one of the most fun people in show business” ( Time ), Alan Cumming is renowned for his fearless portrayal of diverse characters. In the past few years, he has sung at venues around the globe; appeared in a… more
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Following her “extraordinary” ( Vanity Fair ), “evocative” ( New York Times ), and “magically beautiful” ( The Boston Globe ) coming-of-age memoir, Academy Award-winning actress Anjelica Huston writes about her turbulent, high-profile… more
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Congressman John Lewis is one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecropper’s farm to the halls of Congress, and receiving the Medal of Freedom from the first… more
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In 2013, Patricia Lockwood’s poem “Rape Joke,” first printed on the website The Awl, went viral. A “satirical work that nonetheless brings your heart up under your ears” ( New York Times ), the poem “reawakened a generation’s interest in poetry”… more
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Writer and illustrator Chris Van Allsburg’s more than 20 children’s books are celebrated for their “beautiful simplicity of design, balance, texture, and a subtle intelligence beyond the call of illustration” ( New York Times ). Two of his best… more
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Anne Rice returns to the “unrelentingly erotic… unforgettable” ( The Washington Post ) Vampire Chronicles series. Rice gained notoriety and a vast cult readership for her series, which began with Interview With the Vampire in 1976. The book… more
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Archer Mayor , the New York Times bestselling author of 25 Vermont-based mysteries featuring detective Joe Gunther, will team up with former Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne Abraham to compare notes on real and fictional crime, rural vs.… more
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• Recorded Nov 4, 2014Eric Metaxas is best known for his biographies, told with “passion and theological sophistication,” ( The Wall Street Journal ) of William Wilberforce and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, profoundly moral men who took unpopular stances and have since been… more
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• Recorded Nov 3, 2014Attorney and former award-winning journalist Terry Mutchler was appointed as Pennsylvania’s first Executive Director of the Office of Open Records, ensuring government transparency. As a writer for The Associated Press, she was the first woman… more
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With an impressive body of poetry, essays, and criticism, feminist writer Katha Pollitt brings “a lively wit and considerable erudition” ( Publishers Weekly ) to a variety of political and social issues, including reproductive rights, racism, and… more
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Esteemed biologist E. O. Wilson’s ideas have had an immeasurable influence on our understanding of life, nature, and society. The author of more than 25 books, including two Pulitzer Prize-winning works of nonfiction, Wilson has won a raft of… more
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Richard Blanco made history four times at Barack Obama’s second presidential inauguration: He was the first immigrant, the first Latino, the youngest person, and the first openly gay person to be the U.S. inaugural poet. He explored his heritage… more
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At the height of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, CIA Operations Officer Valerie Plame was outed as a covert operative by conservative news pundit Robert Novak. The federal investigation into this violation of national security eventually… more
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• Recorded Oct 22, 2014A former long-time correspondent and editor at Time magazine, S.C. Gwynne has also written for the New York Times , Harper’s , and The Los Angeles Times , among several other publications. Gwynne’s books include Selling Money , Outlaw Bank , and… more
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Marilynne Robinson won a PEN/Hemingway award for Housekeeping , her 1980 debut novel about transience, loss, and survival. Gilead , her “serenely beautiful” ( Washington Post ) tale of three generations of an ordinary but unforgettable family,… more
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• Recorded Oct 20, 2014Bestselling biographer Walter Isaacson’s portrait of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, released just weeks after the tech guru’s death, became an international bestseller and broke all records for sales of a biography. Isaacson has also penned… more
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Prominent and provocative educator and philosopher Dr. Cornel West is the author of the contemporary classic Race Matters , which changed the course of America’s dialogue on race, justice, and democracy and received the American Book Award. His… more
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Prolific writer and producer Norman Lear is the creator of some of television’s most loved shows, including All in the Family , Sanford and Son , The Jeffersons , Good Times , Maude , and others too numerous to list. A longtime supporter of First… more
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“A dancer of extraordinary grace and beauty” ( The Guardian ), Bill T. Jones is also one of America’s most celebrated choreographers and artistic directors. The creator of more than 100 works for his own dance studio, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane… more
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