Podcasts
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• Recorded Feb 5, 2015Scott Stossel’s essays and articles have appeared in a variety of publications, including The New Yorker , The Wall Street Journal , The Daily Beast , and The New Republic . He is the editor of The Atlantic magazine and former executive editor… more
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This podcast contains explicit content. The “genuinely, hauntingly, transgressive” ( Guardian ) navigator of underground realms of sex, drugs, and the Scottish working class, Irvine Welsh cooks up speedballs of kinetically subversive fiction… more
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• Recorded Feb 2, 2015Deborah Voigt is one of the opera world’s most beloved and versatile sopranos. In a celebrated career spanning over 30 years, her powerful voice and commanding stage presence have won acclaim and many awards, including Philadelphia’s Luciano… more
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• Recorded Jan 29, 2015 Explicit ContentThis podcast contains explicit content. Hey! Ho! Let’s go! Marky Ramone is best known as the longtime drummer for the watershed punk band The Ramones. Before his “blitzkrieg” style of drumming added to the band’s driving signature sound, the… more
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• Recorded Jan 22, 2015Join One Book, One Philadelphia featured author Christina Baker Kline for a discussion about her inspirations in writing featured selection Orphan Train , as well as an interview with Peter Crimmins of WHYY. Then, enjoy an original musical work,… more
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• Recorded Jan 20, 2015“Master historian” ( San Francisco Chronicle ) Eric Foner won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery . Widely considered one of the preeminent scholars of the Civil War, slavery, and Reconstruction, he… more
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Stewart O’Nan was named one of America’s Best Young Novelists by Granta for his “strangely beautiful” ( Los Angeles Times ) 1996 debut Snow Angels , which was adapted into a film by David Gordon Green. His acclaimed fiction also includes A Prayer… more
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Author, television and film producer, and screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith is famous for his genre-bending New York Times bestsellers Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter . The latter was adapted into a popular 2012… more
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• Recorded Dec 11, 2014In 1823, Sir Henry Bunbury discovered a volume of first edition Shakespeare plays in a closet of his manor house. One stood out as extraordinary: a previously unknown text of Hamlet , known as Q1 , which predated all other versions. Suddenly, the… more
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• Recorded Dec 9, 2014Bestselling author and Boston Globe columnist James Carroll is the author of 11 novels and seven works of nonfiction, including the National Book Award winning An American Requiem ; the New York Times bestselling Constantine’s Sword ; and House… more
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Historian and chair of Harvard’s History and Literature Program, Jill Lepore is the author of the Carnegie Medal finalist The Mansion of Happiness ; The Story of America , an examination of the nature of history and the shaping of its narrative;… more
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David Baldacci is the author of nearly 30 novels, all of which have been worldwide bestsellers. His debut, Absolute Power , was adapted into a popular film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. Baldacci’s infectiously popular serialized books… more
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Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Richard Ford’s “sinewy and distinctively American voice contains the echoing tones of many [literary] ancestors” ( New York Times ). Celebrated for creating stories that express the shifting moods of the United… more
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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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