Podcasts
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• Recorded Mar 15, 2012Elaine Pagels burst the myth of the early Christian Church as a unified movement in her 1979 book The Gnostic Gospels, which won both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award, and was chosen by the Modern Library as… more
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• Recorded Mar 13, 2012In the 1940s and 1950s, a group of brilliant engineers led by John von Neumann gathered in Princeton, New Jersey with the joint goal of realizing Alan Turing's theoretical universal machine—a thought experiment that scientists use to understand… more
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• Recorded Mar 11, 2012Alain de Botton's aphoristic first novel, On Love, was a winking dissertation on romantic love, published when he was just 23. It was followed by several books that explored a philosophy of everyday life, including The Architecture of Happiness… more
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• Recorded Mar 8, 2012Jonathan Safran Foer became a certified literary wunderkind at the age of 25 with his debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated , which told the story of a young man's search across the obliterated Ukrainian landscape for the woman who saved his… more
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The queen of the book club, Jodi Picoult is known for her fictional page-turners that feature nuanced characters, pitch-perfect descriptions of suburbia—and the darkness it often conceals—and unfettered insight into the shape-shifting terrain of… more
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• Recorded Mar 1, 2012After publishing several stories in The New Yorker , Ann Beattie burst on the literary scene in 1976 with Chilly Scenes of Winter and promptly became the unofficial diarist of a generation, delivering "irony-laced reports from the front line of… more
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As founder of StoryCorps, David Isay has dedicated his career to preserving an oral history of the United States. Modeled—in spirit and in scope—after the interviews of the 1930s Works Progress Administration, StoryCorps seeks out ordinary… more
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• Recorded Feb 21, 2012As a teenager in the Bronx ghetto of the 1960s, Eddie Joseph was introduced to the tenets of the Black Panther Party just as it gained a national foothold. The cause swallowed him into one of the most emblematic criminal cases of the '60s. After… more
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• Recorded Feb 16, 2012Called a literary lion of the gay world, Edmund White is best known for his autobiographical novels in which unabashed hedonism thrives, including A Boy's Own Story and The Beautiful Room is Empty . A chronicler of gay life since the 1970s,… more
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Anne Rice gained notoriety and a vast cult readership for her Vampire Chronicles series, which the Washington Post called "unrelentingly erotic . . . unforgettable." The first and most popular book, Interview With the Vampire (1976) reinvented… more
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Bestselling biographer Walter Isaacson is the author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life , Kissinger: A Biography and Einsten: His Life and Universe . He is the president and CEO of the Aspen Institute for educational and policy studies. The… more
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• Recorded Feb 2, 2012In his incisive and bestselling 2004 book, What's the Matter With Kansas? , Thomas Frank argued that red-state America, pulled by explosive values issues and emotional touchstones of conservatism, votes against its own economic interests. This,… more
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Along with her sisters, Maggie and Terre, Suzzy Roche is a founding member of the beloved singing group The Roches, whose debut recording was named Album of the Year by the New York Times in 1979. Their music combines tight harmonies with… more
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• Recorded Jan 26, 2012One of the wise men of United States foreign policy, Zbigniew Brzezinski is a political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman who served as United States National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981. A leading Cold War… more
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• Recorded Jan 24, 2012Thirty-seven years ago in a parking garage in Caracas, Venezuela, Dr. José Antonio Abreu gathered together 11 children to play music. El Sistema was born. This program now teaches music to 400,000 of Venezuela’s poorest children, demonstrating… more
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• Recorded Jan 17, 2012 Explicit Content( This recording contains explicit content. ) "With his middle finger pointed at the heavens and a hand held over his heart, Shalom Auslander gives us Foreskin's Lament ," wrote Benjamin Anastas in the New York Times Book Review about Auslander's… more
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A member of the Latino Literary Hall of Fame, Luis Albert Urrea draws upon his Mexican American cultural heritage to craft powerful and clever books that explore the greater themes of love, loss, and triumph. The Devil's Highway, his non-fiction… more
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• Recorded Dec 13, 2011Offering a fresh perspective on the Antarctic expeditions of the early 20 th century, Edward J. Larson's An Empire of Ice illuminates the stories of Robert F. Scott and Roald Amundsen by framing the two explorers' race to the South Pole within a… more
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• Recorded Dec 8, 2011One of the most trusted and respected figures in broadcast journalism, Tom Brokaw anchored NBC Nightly News for 21 years, from 1983 to 2004, during which time he reported on landmark national and world events as well as presented several in-depth… more
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• Recorded Dec 7, 2011Anita Hill gained national exposure during the Senate confirmation hearings of Clarence Thomas when her allegations of sexual harassment were made public. She documented her experiences in the bestselling memoir, Speaking Truth to Power, and has… more
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