Podcasts
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• Recorded Mar 6, 2014Before her 19th birthday, Helen Oyeyemi had already written the highly acclaimed novel The Icarus Girl , a story about folklore and childhood portrayed “not through the distancing lens of time, but as scary and magical as it really was” ( San… more
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• Recorded Mar 4, 2014“Clever, observant, and nimble,” novelist and philosopher Rebecca Goldstein examines the conflicts between heart and mind, how philosophy and emotion construct the totality of who we are. Her five novels include The Late-Summer Passion of a Woman… more
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Barbara Gohn Day Memorial Lecture Explorer of the profound connections of empathy and home, Anna Quindlen eschews the increasingly materialistic and hectic nature of American culture as she “captures both the beauty and the breathtaking fragility… more
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• Recorded Feb 25, 2014Veteran journalist and award-winning professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Samuel G. Freedman is the author of several books on teaching, religion, and American social life, including The Inheritance , a Pulitzer… more
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The satire of Nikolai Gogol and Richard Linklater meet in the absurdity, frenetic detail, and cultural obsessions of Gary Shteyngart’s novels. His 2002 debut, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook , won the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction. He… more
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In a chillingly easy-to-imagine what-if scenario, Ally Condie explores an “enthralling and twisty dystopian” ( Publishers Weekly ) future in which the government makes all of its citizens’ decisions, including who they will marry and love, in her… more
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• Recorded Feb 20, 2014Pine Tree Foundation Endowed Lecture In The Triple Package , co-authors, fellow professors at Yale Law School, and married couple Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld use startling statistics and pioneering research to examine the traits and factors that… more
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Meelya Gordon Memorial Lecture In five novels and seven works of nonfiction ranging from memoir to literary history to biographical study, Susan Cheever demonstrates emotional intensity, bravery, and compassion. Her nonfiction books include My… more
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Author of the “charmingly nerve-wracking” ( NPR ) best-selling Silver Linings Playbook , Matthew Quick exploded into the literary world with his quirky 2008 book about mental illness and love that was adapted into the Academy Award-winning film.… more
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• Recorded Feb 10, 2014(This podcast contains explicit content.) Telex From Cuba , Rachel Kushner ’s “multilayered and absorbing” first novel about wealthy Americans in pre-Castro Cuba, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and a New York Times bestseller and… more
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(This podcast contains explicit content.) “Feisty, funky, rude, unpretentious and great fun” ( Time Out ), prolific novelist, dramatist, children’s author, and screenwriter Roddy Doyle writes fiction rooted in the vibrant colloquialisms and tight… more
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• Recorded Feb 6, 2014In conversation with Bonnie and John Raines and Keith Forsyth In 1971 a group of unlikely activists—ordinary people from diverse walks of life—broke into an FBI office just outside of Philadelphia and stole thousands of files that documented the… more
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• Recorded Feb 5, 2014Celebrate the start of One Book’s 12 th year with a reading and talk by author Kevin Powers and an evening of theater and music. The event will feature a screening of vignettes from In Conflict , a critically acclaimed drama drawn from… more
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Former journalist Nancy Horan writes ambitious fictionalizations of people known only from the pages of history. In her first novel, Loving Frank , she draws Frank Lloyd Wright and his mistress Mamah Borthwick Cheney forth from time’s hazy… more
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“A direct literary descendant of Carson McCullers” ( The Baltimore Sun ), Sue Monk Kidd grapples with the struggles of women to be heard, loved, and understood. Her no. 1 New York Times bestseller The Secret Life of Bees maps a young girl’s… more
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• Recorded Jan 27, 2014Writer, filmmaker, and photo hound Ransom Riggs is the author of the “chilling, wondrous” ( People ) no. 1 New York Times bestseller Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children , a unique mix of young adult fantasy and vintage photography that… more
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“Hideously effective in conveying the essential horror of his experiences,” ( Kirkus Reviews ), former child soldier Ishmael Beah escaped his native Sierra Leone at 17. He detailed his brutal early years and his struggle to return to civilized… more
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• Recorded Jan 23, 2014A writer of “intelligence, humor, and grace,” Wendy Lesser possesses a “contagious love of reading” ( Library Journal ), which is wholly apparent in her many essays, works of fiction, and attentive editing. Founder of the acclaimed Three Penny… more
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• Recorded Jan 21, 2014A television broadcasting fixture for more than three decades, Jane Pauley cohosted the Today show from 1976 to 1989, anchored Dateline NBC for 11 years, and in 2004 became the host of her own daytime program, The Jane Pauley Show . That same… more
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E. L. Doctorow concocts “a ferocious re-imagining of the past that returns it to us as something powerful and strange” ( Time ) in novels such as The Book of Daniel , Ragtime, World’s Fair, Billy Bathgate, City of God , March , and Homer &… more
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