Podcasts
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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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• 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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