Podcasts
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Over the course of eight collections of poetry, four books of criticism, and the long-running “Poet’s Choice” column in the Washington Post , Edward Hirsch has cemented his reputation as an attentive reader and an elegant poet, capturing what the… more
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• Recorded Apr 8, 2014Pine Tree Foundation Endowed Lecture As longtime cartoon editor of The New Yorker , Bob Mankoff is a prominent commentator on the role of humor in American business, politics, and life, charged with selecting the less than 20 cartoons that will… more
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• Recorded Apr 3, 2014“Dark and witty” ( Publishers Weekly ), Walter Kirn has been praised for his excoriating and exquisitely detailed satires of modern American life. Two of his novels, Thumbsucker and the “hilarious, often ingenious” ( Time Out New York ) Up in the… more
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• Recorded Apr 1, 2014One of history’s least celebrated—and most successful—military units, the 369 th Infantry, nicknamed “The Harlem Hellfighters” by their enemies, was the first African American regiment to fight in World War I. Simultaneously surviving prolonged… more
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• Recorded Mar 31, 2014The youngest woman ever elected to the Florida State Legislature, Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz has dedicated her public life to working on behalf of the people of southern Florida for two decades. She has commanded… more
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• Recorded Mar 27, 2014A Renaissance man in every sense of the word, “[Simon] Schama is a genius of storytelling” ( The Times of London ). The author of many books, including The Embarrassment of Riches and National Book Critics Circle Award winner Rough Crossings,… more
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Celebrating its 30 th anniversary in 2014, the Mural Arts Program of Philadelphia has produced more than 3,800 murals and public art projects that have brightened every Philadelphia neighborhood. Under the guidance of Jane Golden, the program has… more
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• Recorded Mar 24, 2014Teju Cole received the 2012 PEN/Hemingway Award for his “prismatic debut” ( The New Yorker ) Open City , “a quiet novel that somehow manages to scream” ( Boston Globe ). The book, named a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, is set in… more
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• Recorded Mar 20, 2014In July 2009, American hikers Sarah Shourd , Shane Bauer , and Josh Fattal were arrested by border guards for unknowingly crossing over to Iran from Iraqi Kurdistan. Detained, accused of espionage, and held in Tehran’s infamous Evin Prison,… more
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• Recorded Mar 18, 2014When prolific drug informant Benny Martinez walked into the offices of Philadelphia Daily News reporters Wendy Ruderman and Barbara Laker in 2009, he triggered events that would ultimately expose one of the biggest police corruption scandals in… more
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Possessed of “psychological precision” and an “unsentimental knowledge of her characters’ hopes and fears” ( New York Times ), Lorrie Moore is the author of several short story collections and novels, including Birds of America and A Gate at the… more
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• Recorded Mar 11, 2014Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel is Vice Provost for Global Initiatives and Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. The author of nine books on medical ethics and healthcare, Emanuel writes for the New… more
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• Recorded Mar 11, 2014Fifteen years ago, Matthew Shepard was found savagely beaten, unconscious, and tied to a fence in Laramie, Wyoming, sparking international attention and the watershed hate crimes bill signed by President Obama in 2009. When investigative… more
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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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