Podcasts
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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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James Gleick's bestselling book, Chaos: Making a New Science, explained chaos theory in layman's terms by focusing on the stories of those scientists who were pioneers in the field and was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer… more
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• Recorded Feb 22, 2011Born in Tipperary, Frank Delaney enjoyed a long and prominent career in broadcasting before becoming a full-time writer. The author of more than 20 books of fiction and nonfiction, Delaney is writing a series of historical novels that explore the… more
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With his New York Times bestselling biography The Bridge, David Remnick offers a personal and historical context for Barack Obama's extraordinary political career. Remnick's exhaustive research illuminates the President's critical formative… more
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• Recorded Feb 15, 2011Global economist Dambisa Moyo is the author of the controversial and critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better Way for Africa , which details the inefficacy of development aid for… more
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Michael Scheuer—the former chief of the bin Laden unit at the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center—is the bestselling author of Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terrorism and Through Our Enemies' Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam,… more
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• Recorded Feb 8, 2011When Andrew Johnson succeeded Abraham Lincoln to the presidency of the United States, he faced a nearly impossible task: to reconcile the nation after the Civil War while working with a recalcitrant Congress controlled by the Radical Republicans.… more
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Published in 1976, Maxine Hong Kingston's first book, The Woman Warrior, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and made her a literary celebrity at age 36. A recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature and the… more
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