Podcasts
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Veteran actor John Lithgow has starred on stage, film, and television, achieving stunning success with his various ventures, including multiple Emmy Awards, Golden Globes, and Tony Awards, two Academy Award nominations, induction into the Theatre… more
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• Recorded Oct 12, 2011Often called the "Dean of Moderators," Jim Lehrer has presided over eleven presidential and vice-presidential debates. "In his quiet but intense way, Jim Lehrer earns the trust of the major political players of our time," notes Barbara Walters.… more
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• Recorded Oct 11, 2011"[A] writer we can actually learn from, whose books help and urge us to change," (The Village Voice), Russell Banks is a Pulitzer and PEN/Faulkner finalist, and the author of numerous novels, including The Sweet Hereafter and Affliction , which… more
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• Recorded Oct 6, 2011"What James Joyce did for Dublin and Saul Bellow did for Chicago, William Kennedy has done for Albany," said John Atlas in Vogue . Playwright, screenwriter, and celebrated author of the Albany Cycle novels, Kennedy began his writing career as a… more
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• Recorded Oct 4, 2011Known for her gritty realism, Anne Enright shot to international fame when her fourth novel, The Gathering , about a large Irish family assembling for the funeral of a wayward brother, won the 2007 Man Booker Prize for Fiction and was named the… more
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Bestselling thriller writer Lee Child’s 1997 debut novel Killing Floor , starring tough but humane maverick Jack Reacher, was an immediate success, winning the mystery writer’s Anthony Award and launching an electrifying series. “Until Reacher… more
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• Recorded Sep 27, 2011Jerome Groopman, M.D. and Pamela Hartzband, M.D. are on the staff of Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the faculty of Harvard Medical School. Married for more than 20 years, they have collaborated on articles for the New York… more
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• Recorded Sep 27, 2011Harvard professor Lisa Randall —renowned for her research on particle physics and cosmology—jolted the physics world with the 1999 Randall-Sundrum model, a fascinating and complex extra-dimensional theory of the universe. The first tenured… more
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Shakespearean scholar and Harvard professor Stephen Greenblatt is widely acclaimed as the father of New Historicism, which concentrates on understanding works of literature within their historical and social contexts. The Swerve: How the World… more
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• Recorded Sep 15, 2011Satirist, food writer, and novelist, Calvin Trillin is a long-time New Yorker staff writer and “Deadline Poet” for The Nation . He has also written verse on the events of the day for The New Yorker , the New York Times , and National Public… more
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Economist and journalist Sylvia Nasar is the author of A Beautiful Mind , the bestselling biography of the schizophrenic—and Nobel Prize-winning—mathematician John Nash. The book won the National Book Critics Circle Award and inspired an Academy… more
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When NPR fired longtime news analyst Juan Williams for stating on The O'Reilly Factor that seeing people in “Muslim garb” on airplanes made him nervous, he called it a “chilling assault on free speech,” and said: “The critical importance of… more
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He started as Jerry Blavat, a half-Jewish, half-Italian kid from South Philadelphia. These days, he’s better known as The Geator with the Heater, The Boss with the Hot Sauce. After 50 years in the music business, the man former Governor Ed… more
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“Josh Ritter has a way with metaphor,” praises the New York Times. “It’s one of the literary touches in his music that have established him among the cream of the young singer-songwriter crop.” Ritter’s six albums have earned him extensive… more
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• Recorded Jul 26, 2011Zack Hample is best known for snagging more than 4600 baseballs from the stands at major league stadiums. He is also the author of How to Snag Major League Baseballs and Watching Baseball Smarter— the baseball bible for armchair professionals. At… more
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• Recorded Jul 25, 2011Notorious publisher and free speech champion Larry Flynt has been challenging America’s interpretation of the First Amendment—and showcasing his brash style in assorted halls of justice—since his Hustler magazine hit national newsstands in 1974.… more
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Esmeralda Santiago is the author of the memoirs When I Was Puerto Rican, Almost A Woman—which she adapted into a Peabody Award-winning film for PBS Masterpiece Theater—and The Turkish Lover; the novel América's Dream; and a children's book, A… more
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• Recorded Jul 20, 2011 Explicit Content(This recording contains explicit content.) When Brian McManus came to Philadelphia from Houston to work as the Music and Food editor for The Philadelphia Weekly , he knew he’d have to get to know the city. He did it the best way he knew how: to… more
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• Recorded Jul 19, 2011Alice Ozma's touching debut memoir The Reading Promise : My Father and the Books We Shared tells the story of her single father, an elementary school librarian, who read aloud to her every night, starting from when she was in fourth grade until… more
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• Recorded Jul 14, 2011Henry Miller predicted that Erica Jong's Fear of Flying would "make literary history… because of it, women are going to find their own voice and give us great sagas of sex, life, joy, and adventure." The book became an international best seller… more
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