Podcasts
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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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In her novels, Jennifer Weiner plumbs life's messiness with witty, honest characters who face real issues—relationships, careers, family dynamics, and motherhood. She is the author of eight no. 1 New York Times bestsellers, including Good in Bed… more
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Author and poet Sapphire writes about overcoming adversity, empowerment, and the transformative power of literacy. Her award-winning novel, Push , telling the story of an illiterate, brutalized Harlem teenager, was named one of the top 25 books… more
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• Recorded Jun 28, 2011Tayari Jones is a novelist and short-story writer whose fiction often focuses on the urban south. In Leaving Atlanta —winner of the Hurston/Wright Award for Debut Fiction—Jones sets the scene in Atlanta during the early 1980s when a number of… more
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• Recorded Jun 21, 2011A professor emeritus of History at Princeton University, James McPherson won the Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era , his single-volume treatment of the Civil War that set a benchmark for scholarship in the field. He is… more
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David McCullough’s bestselling books have created a renaissance of interest in American history. His affinity for morally complex subjects results in fascinating, in-depth biographical studies. He has twice received the Pulitzer Prize, for Truman… more
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Tomi Ungerer arrived in New York City in 1956 with $60 in his pocket and a trunk full of jazzy, acid-etched manuscripts and drawings. His first children’s book, The Mellops Go Flying , about a family of daring French pigs, was published to… more
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• Recorded Jun 9, 2011Eli Pariser is a pioneer in online politics. Shortly after 9/11, he created a website calling for a non-military approach to fighting terrorism. Within weeks, over half a million people from 192 countries signed on. His website merged with… more
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