Podcasts
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• Recorded Jun 12, 2014Sarah Bird’s fiction, including The Gap Year , The Yokota Officers Club , and The Flamenco Academy , contains “such energy and snap, her novels seem to be in motion” ( The Dallas Morning News ). In her new book Above the East China Sea , the… more
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“Intoxicatingly witty” ( The New York Review of Books ) author Edward St. Aubyn has chronicled the harrowing childhood and complicated adulthood of Patrick Melrose, painting an extraordinary—and broadly autobiographical—portrait of the… more
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• Recorded Jun 6, 2014Father-son collaborators Bill and Willie Geist are both popular television journalists and bestselling authors in their own right. Bill Geist has been correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning since 1987, for which he has received two Emmys for… more
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• Recorded Jun 5, 2014Tom Rob Smith’s propulsive debut thriller Child 44 , a “densely, ingeniously plotted” ( New York Times ) portrait of Russia's secret police and the lengths they would go to protect their country’s crime-free image was an instant bestseller. The… more
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• Recorded Jun 3, 2014“The best writer of sports books in America today” ( The Boston Globe ), John Feinstein is the author of the influential and bestselling A Good Walk Spoiled and A Season on the Brink , among almost two dozen other books. He has been a staff… more
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By turns “defiant, satirically hilarious, sexy, and wise” ( Booklist ), Ana Castillo is one of the preeminent voices of the Chicana experience. Vibrantly experimental in style, she explores themes of feminism, oppression, and classism in a vast… more
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New York Times bestselling author Kimberla Lawson Roby is known for heartfelt and heart-wrenching novels that explore family and relationship issues, including infidelity and single motherhood, with “high-octane levels of emotion” ( USA Today ).… more
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One of the world’s most accomplished opera singers, Jessye Norman faced the challenges of growing up under the struggles of racism in the Deep South. Following a long tradition of American sopranos who have refused to be constrained by societal… more
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Composed with a “luxuriant ability to imagine his characters’ lives in the round” and a “romantic sense of the adventure of the inner life” ( The New York Review of Books ), Michael Cunningham’s books are narrative experiments—genre bending tours… more
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• Recorded May 20, 2014Colson Whitehead is the author of five highly acclaimed novels, including The Intuitionist , John Henry Days , and Zone One . He has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a MacArthur Fellowship recipient, and a PEN/Faulkner finalist. His non-fiction,… more
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“One of the funniest writers in the English language” according to Tom Wolfe, Christopher Buckley is the author of 15 books, including Thank You for Smoking , Little Green Men , and Supreme Courtship . The recipient of the Washington Irving Medal… more
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Sandra Tsing Loh brings a passionately distinctive and “imaginatively twisted and fearless” ( Los Angeles Times ) voice to her work across a variety of genres. A contributing editor to The Atlantic , she is the author of six books, including… more
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Since first accepting Roz Chast’s cartoons in 1978, The New Yorker has published more than 800 pieces of her work. Now a staff cartoonist with the venerable magazine, Chast has also seen her work regularly printed by Scientific American and… more
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• Recorded May 8, 2014Wall Street Journal energy reporter Russell Gold was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and Gerald Loeb Award winner for his coverage of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and its aftermath. His articles on fracking and shale gas were some of the first to… more
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• Recorded May 6, 2014With a “delicate touch and note-perfect writing” ( The Philadelphia Inquirer ), Elise Juska’s books include One for Sorrow, Two for Joy ; The Hazards of Sleeping Alone ; and Getting Over Jack Wagner , a People magazine “Critic’s Choice”; and her… more
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• Recorded May 5, 2014 Explicit Content(This podcast contains explicit content.) “The musical equivalent of a pub crawl” ( Rolling Stone ), the Pogues’s raucous melding of traditional Irish music with the incendiary energy of punk catapulted the London-based band to international… more
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• Recorded May 1, 2014Known as a satirist in the tradition of Swift, Francine Prose creates a fictional world of absurd situations and sardonic humor, intelligence, compassion, and grief. A respected novelist, critic, and essayist, she is the author of nearly 30… more
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• Recorded Apr 29, 2014Ralph Nader “singlehandedly sparked a new era of citizen-driven political and consumer activism ( Publishers Weekly ) and is largely responsible for major federal consumer protection laws such as the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, and the… more
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Esteemed economist Amartya Sen received the Nobel Prize for his work on social choice theory, welfare economics, development economics, moral and political philosophy, and the economics of peace and war. With an impeccable record of advocacy for… more
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• Recorded Apr 22, 2014Actress, author, and activist Marlo Thomas burst onto the scene with her pioneering role as the star of television’s That Girl , and over the course of a groundbreaking career she has been honored with four Emmy Awards, the George Foster Peabody… more
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