Podcasts
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• Recorded Feb 5, 2013Taylor Branch received the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for America in the King Years , a landmark three-volume history of the Civil Rights Movement. Branch’s other works include The Cartel and The Clinton Tapes .… more
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A columnist at the Miami Herald for nearly 30 years, New York Times bestselling humorist Dave Barry won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1988. His work has been syndicated in more than 500 newspapers, and his more than 30 books include I’ll… more
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“A legendary warrior with a fine eye for enduring lessons about leadership, courage, and consequence” (Tom Brokaw), General Stanley McChrystal retired in July 2010 as a four-star general in the United States Army after serving as the top… more
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• Recorded Jan 29, 2013One of the first cosmologists to suggest that galaxies are immersed in large halos of dark matter, Jeremiah Ostriker has been an influential researcher in the most exciting areas of modern astrophysics and cosmology. His areas of study include… more
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• Recorded Jan 24, 2013In the “astonishingly powerful” novel The Twelve Tribes of Hattie , Ayana Mathis writes with “uncommon narrative authority” and “extraordinary psychological precision” ( New York Times ). The book—selected for Oprah’s Book Club 2.0—follows… more
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Brad Meltzer is the no. 1 New York Times bestselling author of eight novels, two non-fiction books, and five comics. A Columbia Law Graduate, he enriches his thrilling novels with his knowledge of law and the United States government. In The… more
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• Recorded Jan 22, 2013Daniel Pink—the author of four books about the changing world of work, including the no. 1 New York Times bestseller Drive —provides invaluable advice to companies about intrinsic motivation and personal satisfaction. His long-running New York… more
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One Book, One Philadelphia Kickoff Join featured author Julie Otsuka for the One Book, One Philadelphia kickoff and enjoy an original musical work, inspired by featured selection The Buddha in the Attic , composed by Riho Maimets of the Curtis… more
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Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Tony Auth spent more than 40 years at the Philadelphia Inquirer , and is currently the digital artist in residence at WHYY. His many awards include five Overseas Press Press Club Awards, the Sigma Delta… more
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• Recorded Jan 13, 2013A globally renowned scholar and recipient of a National Science Medal, Jared Diamond is the author of the bestselling book Guns, Germs and Steel , recipient of the Pulitzer Prize. An ecologist and evolutionary biologist, Diamond is a professor of… more
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A Pulitzer Prize finalist for history, Kevin Phillips is a regular commentator for NPR and has been a political and economic commentator for four decades. He served as chief political strategist for Richard Nixon during the 1968 election, and in… more
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With the publication of his seminal work, Black Theology and Black Power , Dr. James H. Cone was dubbed the father of black liberation theology, a movement which takes root in 1960s civil rights activism. Cone’s work addresses God as concerned… more
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Natasha Trethewey, winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her collection Native Guard , was named the 19 th United States poet laureate in June 2012. A Mississippi native, Trethewey is a professor at Emory University in Atlanta. Her… more
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Regarded as “one of the finest journalistic investigators of our time” ( Los Angeles Times Book Review ), Bob Woodward is a longtime Washington Post reporter and currently associate editor there. In 1972 he teamed with Carl Bernstein to unravel… more
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Food Network icon Rachael Ray is host of the Emmy Award–winning syndicated show Rachael Ray, as well as 30-Minute Meals and Tasty Travels. Her bestselling cookbooks include The Book of Burger and Rachael Ray’s Look + Cook— a “bullet-proof recipe… more
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• Recorded Dec 6, 2012Daniel Mendelsohn’s books include the international bestseller The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, winner of the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award and the Prix Medicis Etranger, and an acclaimed translation of the poetry of C. P.… more
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It's hard to find a food blog with more accolades than Deb Perelman’s Smitten Kitchen blog, which counts the New York Times , Martha Stewart, NPR, and Rachael Ray among its many admirers. Perelman’s philosophy is that there are no bad cooks, just… more
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A highly regarded commentator on history, politics and religion in America, Jon Meacham is executive editor at Random House and co-anchor of Need to Know on PBS, as well as the former editor of Newsweek , where he started as writer in 1995 and… more
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• Recorded Nov 29, 2012Illustrious researcher and Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University’s Polytechnic Institute, Nassim Nicholas Taleb is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable… more
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A courageous voice for justice, freedom, and human rights around the world, Wole Soyinka is the first African recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature for his novels, plays, poems, and essays. For his unhesitating resistance to political… more
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