Podcasts
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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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• 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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