Podcasts
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What happens when Philadelphia seniors open up by sharing stories from their lives? On Seniors' Storytelling Day, be ready to smile, laugh and even cry as our city's seniors take the stage to read stories that they have written, and answer… more
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Renowned neurologist Oliver Sacks is the author of 10 bestselling books that detail the inner workings of the brain, including Musicophilia, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and Awakenings. A practicing physician and professor of neurology… more
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Though she did not live to see 40, Cleopatra accomplished much during her reign as Egypt's last queen. Ruthless and shrewd, she waged wars, poisoned her enemies, and fell in love with Mark Antony, forging an alliance with him that ultimately led… more
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Actress, comedian, and writer Amy Sedaris is the bestselling author of I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence, an unconventional handbook to home entertaining. She co-wrote and starred in the hit Comedy Central show Strangers with Candy,… more
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• Recorded Nov 4, 2010 Explicit ContentN.B. The quality of the recording improves after the first few minutes. Haitian-born writer Edwidge Danticat is the author of Oprah Book Club selection Breath, Eyes, Memory, the National Book Award finalist Krik? Krak!, and Brother, I’m Dying,… more
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• Recorded Nov 2, 2010Simon Winchester explores topics from the urbane to the catastrophic in his New York Times bestselling nonfiction books, which include The Professor and the Madman, Krakatoa, and The Man Who Loved China. His writing also appears in National… more
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Joseph J. Ellis is a bestselling author and distinguished chronicler of early American history. His book, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, won the 1997 National Book Award, and in 2001 Ellis earned the Pulitzer Prize for… more
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New Yorker music critic Alex Ross has received two American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers Deems Taylor Awards for music criticism and a Letter of Distinction from the American Music Center for his contributions to contemporary… more
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Ranked by New Yorker editors as one of the 2010 "20 Under 40" writers worth watching, Nicole Krauss is the author of the international bestseller The History of Love , and an earlier novel, Man Walks Into a Room . A no. 1 Booksense pick for 2005,… more
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Deemed a "Muslim Martin Luther" by Paul Donnelly of the Washington Post, Tariq Ramadan is leading scholar of Islam in the Western world. Barred from entering the United States for several years by the Bush administration, Ramadan is a professor… more
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Award winning journalist Michele Norris is the host of NPR's All Things Considered . She has served as a correspondent for ABC News, and has reported for the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Los Angeles Times. Named Journalist of the Year in… more
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David Grossman is the author of many novels including See Under: LOVE and Be My Knife, as well as two nonfiction books that put faces to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, The Yellow Wind and Sleeping On A Wire . His latest novel explores both the… more
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Michael Cunningham is the author of The Hours, a novel which won the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner Award and was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film starring Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, and Julianne Moore. A House at the End of the… more
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R.A. Salvatore is the author of 22 New York Times bestselling fantasy and science fiction novels. His books have sold more than 15 million copies in the United States alone. Best known for his work in the Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms… more
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Mark Bittman | The Food Matters Cookbook: Lose Weight and Heal the Planet with More Than 500 Recipes• Recorded Oct 4, 2010Mark Bittman is one of the country's foremost food writers, author of "The Minimalist" food column for The New York Times and of multiple James Beard Award and IACP/Julia Child Award-winning cookbooks, including How to Cook Everything . … more
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• Recorded Sep 30, 2010 Explicit Content(This recording contains explicit content.) Scottish writer A.L. Kennedy has twice been named to Granta's list of Best Young British Novelists, and her literary awards include the Somerset Maugham Award for Looking for the Possible Dance and the… more
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The New York Times bestselling author of Afterburn , The Heat Seekers , the Flava series, and Dear G-Spot , among others, Zane is known for stories that fuse hot sex, snappy dialog, and social consciousness. She is also the publisher of Strebor… more
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• Recorded Sep 27, 2010In 1944, at the age of 10, Thomas Buergenthal arrived at Auschwitz after surviving two ghettos and a labor camp. Separated from his mother, then his father, he survived by his wits and some remarkable strokes of luck. Almost two years after his… more
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Neuromancer, the debut novel of William Gibson, famously swept the science fiction Triple Crown, claiming the Nebula, Philip K. Dick, and Hugo awards. The first work to win all three prizes, Neuromancer envisioned a high tech world hip with the… more
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The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen's third novel, was awarded both the National Book Award and the New York Times Editors' Choice Award for 2001. He was named one of the Twenty Writers for the 21st Century by The New Yorker and has received both… more
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