Podcasts
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• Recorded Apr 21, 2011Acclaimed sociologist Elijah Anderson has been called "one of our best urban ethnographers" by the New York Times Book Review . Anderson is currently the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Sociology at Yale University and the Charles and William… more
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• Recorded Apr 20, 2011As president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States—the world's largest animal protection organization—Wayne Pacelle leads 11 million members and constituents in confronting animal cruelty. He has worked for the passage of more than… more
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Walter Dean Myers is "arguably one of the most important writers of children's books of our age," according to a reviewer for Kirkus. The winner of two Newbery Honor awards, five Coretta Scott King Awards, and the Michael L. Printz Award, among… more
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The author and illustrator of the popular children’s picture books Jumanji and The Polar Express —both of which were adapted into successful major motion pictures—Chris Van Allsburg is the winner of two Caldecott Medals, the National Book Award,… more
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Kadir Nelson won the Coretta Scott King Author Award, the Sibert Medal, and the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor for We Are the Ship, an illustrated history of the Negro Baseball Leagues. An acclaimed artist, Nelson has illustrated a number… more
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Sara Shepard is the author of the no. 1 New York Times bestselling series Pretty Little Liars. Adapted into a successful TV show on ABC Family, the books were based on Shepard's own experiences growing up on Philadelphia’s Main Line, where she… more
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A sell-out program at the Philadelphia Book Festival for two years running, this year’s Third Annual First Person Arts Inter-City StorySlam pits a team of top Philadelphia storytellers against Boston’s finest raconteurs from the storytelling… more
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A professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and the University of Pennsylvania, Donald Bogle is the foremost authority on African Americans in film. His books, which include Dorothy Dandridge; Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies,… more
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Host and writer of Minnesota Public Radio's A Prairie Home Companion , Garrison Keillor is a storyteller, humorist, columnist, musician, satirist, and the author of more than a dozen books including Homegrown Democrat, Lake Wobegon Days, Pontoon,… more
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• Recorded Mar 31, 2011Bart D. Ehrman is the author of more than 20 books, including the New York Times bestsellers Misquoting Jesus, God’s Problem, and Jesus, Interrupted . The James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North… more
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• Recorded Mar 29, 2011The year 2010 marked the sixtieth anniversary of the start of the Korean War. Called a "sobering corrective" by a reviewer for the New York Times , Bruce Cumings's book takes a fresh look at the often unjustly ignored conflict. Characterizing… more
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Challenges to Documentary Photography in the 21st Century Panel discussion Moderated by A.D. Coleman with Nancy Browkaw and Daniel Traub. Sponsored by the Associates of the Print & Picture Collection, Friends of the Central Library. more
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• Recorded Mar 24, 2011Cokie Roberts is a contributing senior news analyst for NPR and a commentator for ABC News, covering politics, congress, and public policy. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers We Are Our Mothers’ Daughters , Founding Mothers , and… more
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• Recorded Mar 22, 2011Under the name John Wesley Harding, novelist, singer, and songwriter Wesley Stace has released 15 albums in genres ranging from folk to pop music. He has performed on stage with artists such as Rosanne Cash and Bruce Springsteen, and his songs… more
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Cartoonist, novelist, and playwright Lynda Barry writes and draws the nationally syndicated comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek, featuring pre-teen characters Marlys and Freddie as they navigate the emotional traumas of growing up. Barry is also the… more
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• Recorded Mar 15, 2011An op-ed columnist for the New York Times since 2003, David Brooks has been a senior editor at The Weekly Standard and a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Atlantic Monthly ; he is also a weekly commentator on NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.… more
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Charles Baxter is the author, most recently, of Gryphon: New and Selected Stories, published in January, 2011. He is also the author of The Soul Thief, Saul and Patsy, First Light, Shadow Play and four books of stories.His third novel, The Feast… more
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Colin Thubron is "a grand master of the travel genre" writes a reviewer for The New Statesman. "His prose is unfailingly poetic and evocative." Admired for his ability to combine panoramic prose, historical insight, and personal observation,… more
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Over the span of more than four decades, Joyce Carol Oates has produced an enormous body of work, including novels, short stories, criticism, plays, and poetry. Among her many distinctions, she has received the National Book Award for them, the… more
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• Recorded Mar 3, 2011Born and raised in the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza, Izzeldin Abuelaish is a Palestinian doctor who worked in Israeli hospitals as an obstetrician and gynecologist specializing in infertility. In January 2009, three of his daughters and a niece… more
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