Podcasts
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Mystery writer Harlan Coben has won the Edgar Award, the Shamus Award, and the Anthony Award: he is the first author ever to win all three. His books have debuted at no. 1 on the New York Times Best Sellers list, and his novel Tell No One was… more
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• Recorded Apr 17, 2010The acclaimed British-born theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and astrobiologist Paul Davies is the director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science and co-director of the Cosmology Initiative, both at Arizona State University.… more
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Kitty Kelley is the most widely read biographer of our times. Her previous subjects have included the Bush dynasty ( The Family ), the British Royal Family ( The Royals ), Nancy Reagan ( Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography ), and Frank… more
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Yann Martel is the author of The Life of Pi, winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize. The story of a young boy shipwrecked and stranded at sea with a Bengal tiger and other wild animals, The Life of Pi explores issues of spirituality and practicality… more
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• Recorded Apr 17, 2010It’s not your mama’s StorySlam when the City of Brotherly Love goes head-to-head against the Beltway at the 2nd annual Inter-City StorySlam! Join master storytellers from Philadelphia’s First Person Arts as they compete against the talented… more
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Acid yet entertaining, Michael Lewis is a skilled chronicler of our times. He was a top bond salesman at Salomon Brothers before he left to become a writer, and Liar’s Poker, his semiautobiographical account of life on Wall Street in the 1980s,… more
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• Recorded Apr 7, 2010When two moms ventured inside their struggling public elementary school, the new principal asked what it would take for them to enroll their children. Sensing opportunity, they returned the next day with an extensive wish list. In How to Walk to… more
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Robert Coover is an avant-garde novelist, critic, and playwright whose work combines fact with fiction and twists familiar stories in ways that expose the absurdities of modern society. He is the author of the William Faulkner Award winner The… more
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• Recorded Mar 25, 2010Journalist Marilyn Johnson has been a staff writer for Life and an editor at Esquire, Redbook, and Outside. An obituary expert, she is the author of The Dead Beat and has written obituaries for Princess Diana, Jackie Onassis, Katharine Hepburn,… more
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• Recorded Mar 23, 2010Now in its 20th year of publication, The Things They Carried has more than two million copies in print. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Things They Carried is a collection of short stories that… more
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An Academy Award-winning screenwriter and producer, William Peter Blatty is the author of the iconic horror novel The Exorcist. Based loosely on an actual possession story, the book sold more than 13 million copies and remained on the New York… more
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• Recorded Mar 16, 2010A novelist and a theorist of post-colonial literature at the University of California, Irvine, Ngugi wa Thiong'o is one of Kenya's most prominent public intellectuals. In 1977, following the publication of his novel Petals of Blood he was… more
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Philosopher and scholar Kwame Anthony Appiah is president of the PEN American Center and a professor at Princeton University. He is the author of a collection of essays on African-American identity called In My Father’s House and co-author of the… more
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• Recorded Mar 9, 2010 Explicit Content(This podcast contains explicit content.) A master of dark satire and a purveyor of quick, witty language, Sam Lipsyte "shows off the prose equivalent of three chords on a one-string guitar" ( Kirkus Reviews ). His short story collection Venus… more
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• Recorded Mar 4, 2010On September 18, 2006, Anousheh Ansari became the first astronaut of Iranian descent, the first female private space explorer, and the fourth person ever to purchase a ride into space. Fleeing the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Ansari immigrated to… more
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With more than 150,000 copies sold, Elif Shafak’s The Forty Rules of Love is already a no. 1 bestseller in Turkey. One of the best known authors of Turkish descent writing today, Shafak was charged with the crime of "insulting Turkishness" by the… more
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A former model with an advanced degree in holistic nutrition, Kim Barnouin is co-author, along with Rory Freedman, of the diet book for women Skinny Bitch. With more than two million copies in print, it was a no. 1 New York Times bestseller and… more
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• Recorded Feb 18, 2010A National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master and three-time Grammy Award nominee, Jimmy Heath has performed on more than 125 albums and written more than 100 compositions, including the jazz classics "Gemini," "Gingerbread Boy," and "CTA."… more
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Francine Prose is former president of the PEN American Center and author of more than 20 books. Her fictional critique of academia, Blue Angels, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and her nonfiction guide to writing, Reading Like a… more
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• Recorded Feb 4, 2010In the primarily white, Southern world of NASCAR, black drivers are extremely rare and black-owned teams nearly nonexistent. Yet Leonard T. Miller (son of the black motor racing pioneer Leonard W. Miller) has owned and run Miller Racing for more… more
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