Podcasts
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Donna Tartt burst onto the literary scene with her “gorgeously written, relentlessly erudite, and persistently (and quite anachronistically) high-minded” ( Vanity Fair ) debut novel, The Secret History . The book, packed with literary references… more
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Terry Teachout is the drama critic of The Wall Street Journal , the critic-at-large of Commentary , and the author of “Sightings,” a biweekly column about the arts in the United States. His books include Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong , All in… more
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• Recorded Oct 28, 2013Veteran politics and culture analyst Jeff Greenfield has spent over 30 years on network television and currently hosts Need To Know on PBS. The recipient of five Emmy Awards, Greenfield worked as a speechwriter in the 1968 Presidential campaign… more
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In conversation with David Dye Imaginative musician and songwriter Donald Fagen is best known as the cofounder, along with Walter Becker, and lead singer of the rock band Steely Dan. Paragons of subversive 1970s music, the band combined pop hooks… more
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• Recorded Oct 22, 2013Acclaimed author Simon Winchester follows in the footsteps of the explorers, thinkers, and innovators who helped forge and unify the citizens and geography of the United States in his new book The Men Who United the States . Made an officer of… more
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• Recorded Oct 18, 2013“One of the brightest stars in the media firmament” ( Time ), Malcolm Gladwell synthesizes academic research with critical analysis and delightfully fascinating writing to fashion astonishing and useful insights about our world and our place in… more
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• Recorded Oct 17, 2013“One of the most beautiful, original, and ingenious prose stylists to have come along in decades” ( New York Times ), Nicholson Baker is the bestselling author of nine unconventional novels and five works of nonfiction, including the National… more
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In The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler , Ben Urwand, a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University, draws upon a raft of secret documents uncovered at archives in Berlin and Washington, D.C., to reveal how Hollywood… more
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• Recorded Oct 10, 2013“The most thoughtful voice on cable” ( New York Observer ), Reverend Al Sharpton has more than 40 years’ experience as a dynamic community leader, lightning rod Baptist minister, firebrand politician, and “a relentless protestor” (The New York… more
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• Recorded Oct 10, 2013Renowned for his well-reasoned approach in tackling sensitive racial issues, Randall Kennedy is one of America’s premier scholars on race and ethnicity. Called “admirable, courageous, and meticulously fair and honest” ( New York Times Book… more
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• Recorded Oct 8, 2013In his 40-year career at Levittown’s Harry S. Truman High School, legendary drama teacher Lou Volpe staged more than 40 productions—including debuts of Les Miserables and Rent for national high school use—coached students towards success as… more
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Beloved picture book creator David Wiesner is the recipient of three prestigious Caldecott Medals, for Tuesday in 1992, The Three Pigs in 2002, and Flotsam in 2007, making him only the second person in the award’s long history to have won… more
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Eat, Pray, Love , Elizabeth Gilbert’s heartfelt memoir of her journey around the world in search of solace after a contentious divorce, was a no. 1 New York Times bestseller and the basis of a film starring Julia Roberts. One of Time ’s 100 Most… more
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• Recorded Oct 2, 2013Jill Lepore’s meticulously researched books explore violence, language, and the absences and asymmetries in the historical record. A New Yorker staff writer and chair of Harvard’s History and Literature Program, she is the author of the Carnegie… more
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• Recorded Oct 1, 2013 Explicit Content(This podcast contains explicit content) After the 1989 publication of his novel The Satanic Verses led Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini to issue a fatwa calling for his death, Salman Rushdie went underground, living under police protection for almost… more
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One of the world’s most beloved storytellers, Nicholas Sparks maps the varied routes of the human heart and chronicles love lost and found—from irrevocable decisions to chances to rewrite the past. All of his books are New York Times bestsellers,… more
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Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer A. Scott Berg is renowned for his detailed portraits of American icons, including the National Book Award-winning biography Max Perkins: Editor of Genius , an exploration of the famed editor and the literary… more
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A craftsman of “suspense, searing particulars, and deep emotion” ( The Guardian ), Thomas Keneally has published more than 25 novels, a dozen screenplays, and several works of nonfiction. He is perhaps most famous for Schindler’s List (of which… more
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• Recorded Sep 20, 2013Investigative journalist Eric Schlosser is the author of the New York Times bestselling books Fast Food Nation , which helped launch a revolution in how people think about what they eat; Reefer Madness , which probed the flourishing black market… more
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• Recorded Sep 19, 2013“The planet’s best green journalist” ( Time ), Bill McKibben gave one of the earliest cautions about global warming with his 1989 book The End of Nature . The author of a dozen books about the environment, he received the 2013 Gandhi Peace Award… more
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