Podcasts
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An award-winning national correspondent for the Atlantic , Mark Bowden is the author of numerous books of investigative journalism, including the New York Times bestselling classic of war reporting, Black Hawk Down . Floodlighting modern war with… more
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• Recorded Nov 1, 2012Called “the Aretha Franklin of black publishing” by Kwan Foye, Karen Quinones Miller’s self-published first novel, Satin Doll , sold nearly 30,000 copies. The author of six Essence bestsellers, including Using What You Got , Passin’, and Uptown… more
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Named America’s Best Chef by Time magazine, Thomas Keller is the renowned proprietor and chef of legendary restaurants Bouchon, per se, The French Laundry, Ad Hoc, and Bouchon Bakery. He is also the author of several cookbooks from his innovative… more
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New Journalism pioneer and literary superstar Tom Wolfe has carefully recorded popular culture for more than four decades. “What makes him so good is his ability… to get under the skin of a phenomenon and transmit its metabolic rhythm” ( Newsweek… more
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“As the brightness of his brilliance is hard to look at, so is the darkness of his humor. I don't know a funnier writer alive,” wrote Jonathan Safran Foer of Howard Jacobson’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel, The Finkler Question . An acerbic… more
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Justin Cronin bombarded the summer of 2010 with vicious, limb-tearing vampires that were the catastrophic result of biomedical research in his novel, The Passage— the first book of a planned post-apocalyptic trilogy. Named one of the 10 best… more
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• Recorded Oct 18, 2012Champion of unbridled conversation, Camille Paglia acquired the nickname “Hurricane Camille” after publishing the 700-page tome on sex, art, and literature titled Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson in 1990. She… more
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• Recorded Oct 16, 2012Called simply “a genius” by the New York Times Book Review and named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People, David Mitchell was twice listed for the Man Booker Prize for his novels Number9Dream and Cloud Atlas . His other works include Black… more
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• Recorded Oct 15, 2012One of the nation's most talented chefs and an ambassador of contemporary Latin cuisine, Chef Jose Garces opened his first restaurant, Amada, in 2005, and has since opened six more acclaimed Philadelphia restaurants, in addition to ventures in… more
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Paul Elie's debut book, The Life You Save May Be Your Own told the stories of four great American Catholic writers—Flannery O'Conner, Walker Percy, Thomas Merton, and Dorothy Day—who crafted literature out of their search for God. Called “a work… more
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(This podcast contains explicit language) A founding member of The Who—"possibly the greatest live band ever" (Eddie Vedder)—and mighty force in rock music, Pete Townshend wrote more than 100 songs for the band's 11 studio albums,… more
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• Recorded Oct 9, 2012Chris Ware's graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth won the Guardian First Book Award, the first time a graphic novel has won a major United Kingdom literary award. Author of the award-winning series The ACME Novelty Library ,… more
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In her 14 novels, children's stories, and poetry collections, Louise Erdrich revisits the beloved and familiar Native American reservation of her North Dakota childhood, grounding mythic and magical in the detail of the everyday, “easily… more
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• Recorded Oct 3, 2012An entire generation knows Andrew McCarthy as Blaine McDonough from the 1986 John Hughes film Pretty in Pink. For the last decade, McCarthy has been building a formidable reputation in the world of travel writing, including two Lowell Thomas… more
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• Recorded Oct 2, 2012In The Price of Inequality, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz offers a plan for a more just and prosperous future. With the top one percent of Americans controlling an estimated 40 percent of the country’s wealth, Stiglitz argues that… more
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Musician, actor, producer, and activist Wyclef Jean was born and raised in Haiti and moved with his family to New York when he was nine years old, learning English from American rap music and later forming the hip hop group The Fugees with Lauryn… more
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• Recorded Sep 29, 2012(This recording contains explicit content) In Junot Díaz's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, a Dominican American family haunted by an ancient curse is doomed to prison, torture, and ill-starred love. Like… more
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Author, social critic, and political activist Naomi Wolf launched a new wave of feminism with her landmark first book, The Beauty Myth , which challenged the cosmetics industry and the marketing of unrealistic standards of beauty. The New York… more
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• Recorded Sep 21, 2012 Explicit Content(This recording contains explicit content) "Not for the fainthearted" ( Sunday Times ), Irvine Welsh's subterranean worlds are created with eloquent obscenity. He shot to fame with his first novel, Trainspotting , a dark comic portrait of the… more
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• Recorded Sep 20, 2012Senior legal analyst at CNN and a New Yorker staff writer, Jeffrey Toobin is known for his elegant political analyses and legal erudition about our most provocative and high profile cases, including his Emmy Award-winning coverage of the Eliàn… more
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