Podcasts
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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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• Recorded Jan 14, 2014“Not your run-of-the mill cosmologist” ( Discover ), Max Tegmark explores the complex origins and ultimate fate of the cosmos in his erudite and entertaining writing. The Swedish-born theoretical physicist is the author of more than 200 technical… more
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• Recorded Jan 13, 2014For 20 years of marriage, James Carville and Mary Matalin have reigned as the country’s most politically divergent, ideologically mismatched, and intensely opinionated couple. Often referred to as the “Ragin’ Cajun” for his animated and colorful… more
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• Recorded Dec 12, 2013Current President of Barnard College, former professor at Harvard Business School, member of the Board of Directors at Goldman Sachs, and mother of three, Debora Spar understands how difficult it can be for women to achieve professionally while… more
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“One of the world’s most influential thinkers” ( The Washington Post ), Lester Brown is the founder of the Earth Policy and Worldwatch Institutes, two nonprofit research organizations dedicated to analyzing environmental issues on a global basis… more
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• Recorded Dec 10, 2013A champion of the simple life, Garrison Keillor is a consummate storyteller, gifted with the rare ability—in print and in person—to hold an audience spellbound with his tales of ordinary people whose lives contain extraordinary moments of humor,… more
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• Recorded Dec 6, 2013"One of the nation’s most astute economic observers” and “as famous as any pop star” ( New York Times ), Alan Greenspan served as head of the Federal Reserve System from 1987-2006—a tenure spanning 18 years and four presidents—and prior to that… more
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• Recorded Dec 5, 2013Acclaimed writer Alice McDermott explores themes close to her heart: love and the loss of innocence, the interlocking stories of family, Irish-American culture and assimilation, and children who must grow beyond the safe-keeping of their parents… more
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