Podcasts
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• Recorded Sep 22, 2010Philadelphia orator and activist Octavius Catto electrified audiences in 1864, calling on free men and women to aid and educate the newly freed slaves. In Tasting Freedom, co-authors Biddle and Dubin profile this charismatic black leader who… more
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Sara Gruen is the no. 1 New York Times bestselling author of Water for Elephants, Flying Changes , and Riding Lessons . A devoted animal lover, she draws readers into the animal world through stories where fiction is closely aligned with facts… more
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• Recorded Sep 14, 2010An award-winning investigative journalist and poet, Eliza Griswold has spent the past seven years traveling between the equator and the 10th parallel (the line of latitude 700 miles north of the equator) at the geographic and ideological front… more
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(This podcast contains explicit content.) Terry McMillan has garnered much critical and popular acclaim for her novels. Her New York Times bestselling books Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back have been made into major motion… more
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Daughter of legendary musician Johnny Cash, ten-time Grammy Award nominee Rosanne Cash is a formidable singer/songwriter in her own right, earning two gold records, 11 no. 1 one singles, and a Grammy Award in 1985 for her song, “I Don’t Know Why… more
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• Recorded Aug 10, 2010Nicole Hollander's wry and witty comic strip Sylvia appears in more than 80 newspapers nationwide, including the Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times. She has published 16 collections of Sylvia strips and is the author of Tales of Graceful… more
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• Recorded Aug 3, 2010 Explicit Content"One of those rare writers who can tackle the most obscure unpleasantness and distill the data into a hilarious and informative package," according to the San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times bestselling science writer Mary Roach has explored… more
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• Recorded Jul 29, 2010Rick Moody is the author of nine books, including The Diviners and The Ice Storm, which was adapted into a critically acclaimed film starring Sigourney Weaver. Among his many honors, he has won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award and a Guggenheim… more
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Founding guitarist of the legendary band Queen, Brian May also holds a Ph.D. in astrophysics and has nurtured a lifetime passion for "stereoscopic" 3-D images. Picture cards, given away in cereal boxes, first fascinated him as a child. A… more
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• Recorded Jul 15, 2010Steven Raichlen began his culinary career with a Thomas J. Watson Foundation Fellowship to study medieval cooking in Europe. He has since written nearly 30 cookbooks filled with recipes collected from around the world, among them, the… more
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Philadelphian Jennifer Weiner is the author of seven books, including the New York Times bestseller Good in Bed; In Her Shoes, which was adapted into major motion picture starring Cameron Diaz; Certain Girls; and Best Friends Forever. There are… more
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• Recorded Jul 13, 2010"David Mitchell is a prodigiously daring and imaginative young writer," writes Time magazine; he is simply "a genius," according to the New York Times Book Review. Mitchell was twice listed for the Man Booker Prize for his novels Number9Dream and… more
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The Passage by Justin Cronin is the first novel in a planned trilogy set in a monster-ravaged, post-apocalyptic America, in which the future of humanity hinges on the actions of a six-year-old girl. Stephen King praises, "[The Passage] has the… more
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Recipient of a 2005 Canadian Comedy Award, Samantha Bee holds the title of Most Senior Correspondent at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, which she joined in 2003. She also recently appeared in the feature film Motherhood alongside Uma Thurman.… more
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According to the New York Times Book Review, Jennifer Egan writes with "an admirably deft touch, but more impressive than her craftsmanship is the emotional authenticity she achieves." She is the author of novels The Keep, National Book Award… more
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Christopher Hitchens is a prolific and controversial writer, as well as a popular radio and TV commentator. A self-styled radicalist, Hitchens is notorious for his strong opinions and conflicting views: he was against the Vietnam War and for the… more
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The New York Times calls Alan Furst "America’s preeminent spy novelist" and "an incomparable expert at his game." He is the bestselling author of more than 10 historical thrillers, which have been translated into 17 languages. His milieu is the… more
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• Recorded Jun 10, 2010Robert McCrum is the associate editor of The Observer (London) and co-author of the bestseller The Story of English , a history of the English language, that went on to be adapted into an Emmy Award-winning nine-part PBS television series. He is… more
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Novella Carpenter studied under writer and food guru Michael Pollan for two years at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. In Farm City she chronicles the creation and maintenance of her urban farm in Oakland, California, where she raises… more
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Born in Somalia and raised Muslim, Ayaan Hirsi Ali fled to Holland, where she eventually became a member of the Dutch parliament, to avoid a forced marriage. An outspoken advocate for the rights of women and a staunch critic of Islamic extremism,… more
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