Podcasts
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• Recorded Sep 10, 2014“Immensely likable, eclectic, and dynamic” ( Booklist ), Maureen Corrigan brings intellectual rigor and an infectious enthusiasm to her literary reviews on NPR’s Fresh Air and the “Book World” section of The Washington Post . She is also the… more
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• Recorded Aug 7, 2014Hampton Sides is an award-winning editor of Outside and the New York Times bestselling author of the historical books Ghost Soldiers , a World War II story that was the basis for the film The Great Raid ; Blood and Thunder , about controversial… more
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• Recorded Aug 5, 2014Rick Perlstein’s bestselling Nixonland , the “sprawling, rollicking” and “fervid” ( New York Times Book Review ) second volume in a trilogy mapping the political history of conservatism in America, was named one of the best nonfiction books of… more
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• Recorded Jul 31, 2014In The Nixon Defense , former White House Counsel John W. Dean, one of the last major surviving figures of Watergate and the chief whistleblower that brought down Nixon’s presidency, draws on his own transcripts of nearly a thousand… more
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Determined to give her son everything but the truth of his father or Mexican ancestry, Brando Skyhorse’s mother took the last name of a stranger in prison for armed robbery and created a new identity for her young child as the Native American son… more
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• Recorded Jul 24, 2014In the early 1900s, the Virgin Islands are transferred from Danish to American rule, and an important ship sinks into the Caribbean Sea, orphaning two sisters and their half-brother, each armed with an otherworldy gift that will either sink or… more
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• Recorded Jul 17, 2014In 1789, as the French Revolution shook Europe, a distinguished circle of five French leaders sought refuge in Philadelphia, then capital of the United States and home of the wealthiest merchants and financiers. François Furstenberg follows these… more
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• Recorded Jul 15, 2014In her debut novel Life Drawing , Robin Black unfolds a brutal, honest, and moving portrait of marriage and creative partnership, the secrets that sustain love, and those that threaten to destroy it. Augusta and Owen have left the city and its… more
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• Recorded Jul 10, 2014In conversation with Kristen Wiewora Marisa McClellan is a food writer and canning teacher better known as the personality behind the award-winning blog Food in Jars, dedicated to the joyful preservation of time in a jar, storing away the tastes… more
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• Recorded Jul 8, 2014“A quirky addition to the genre-busting canon” ( Entertainment Weekly ), Ian Doescher’s New York Times bestselling debut novel, William Shakespeare’s Star Wars retells George Lucas’s epic space opera in the style of the Bard. The saga of a wise… more
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• Recorded Jul 1, 2014Paul Greenberg is the author of the James Beard Award–winning New York Times bestseller Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food , a fellow with The Blue Ocean Institute, and the writer in residence at New York City’s South Street Seaport… more
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• Recorded Jun 30, 2014Megan Hart is the author of many genres of romantic fiction, including historical, contemporary, romantic suspense, romantic comedy, futuristic, fantasy, and erotic. Her books include Tear You Apart , The Favor , Precious and Fragile Things ,… more
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• Recorded Jun 26, 2014 Explicit Content( This podcast contains explicit content. ) “An achingly gorgeous heartbreaker,” ( The Boston Globe ) Ru Freeman’s novel On Sal Mal Lane takes place over the five years leading up to Sri Lanka’s 26-year civil war. The children growing up on a… more
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• Recorded Jun 24, 2014Award-winning journalist Virginia Morris’s book How to Care for Aging Parents is “a compassionate guide of encyclopedic proportion” ( The Washington Post ). Completely revised and expanded in an up-to-date new edition, this comprehensive resource… more
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• Recorded Jun 23, 2014Since 1968, columnist George Vecsey has covered the Olympics, tennis, football, hockey, boxing, baseball, and a variety of other sports for the New York Times . The author of more than a dozen books, including the bestseller Stan Musial: An… more
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This podcast contains explicit content. ) Jennifer Weiner is the beloved no. 1 New York Times bestselling author of 10 books, including Good in Bed ; In Her Shoes , which was made into a major motion picture starring Cameron Diaz, Shirley… more
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• Recorded Jun 18, 2014For more than a decade, James Joyce’s Ulysses — a book often considered the greatest novel of the 20 th century—was illegal to own, sell, advertise, or purchase in most of the English-speaking world. Even before its publication in 1922, the book… more
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• Recorded Jun 17, 2014 Explicit Content(Contains explicit content) “A feast for ravenous readers of eighteenth-century Scottish history, heroism and romance” ( Kirkus ), Diana Gabaldon’s New York Times bestselling Outlander novels contain elements of mystery, adventure, and science… more
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Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done little to curb drug use or sales. It has however created a surveillance state in our most deprived neighborhoods. Arrest quotas and futuristic surveillance techniques criminalize entire blocks, and… more
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• Recorded Jun 13, 2014 Explicit Content(This podcast contains explicit content. ) Armed with wit, a pencil-thin mustache, and a cardboard sign that reads “I’m Not Psycho,” John Waters hitchhikes from Baltimore to San Francisco, braving lonely highways and risky drivers, celebrating… more
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