Podcasts
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• Recorded Feb 3, 2010A prolific historian and critic, Garry Wills won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction for Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America. He has received the National Book Critics Circle Award twice and was awarded the National Medal… more
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An acclaimed poet, activist, and scholar, Sonia Sanchez is the former Laura Carnell Professor of English and Women's Studies at Temple University. Called a “lion in literature’s forest” by Maya Angelou, Sanchez has written more than a dozen books… more
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The debut novel, Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris was translated into 24 different languages, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and won the 2008 PEN/Hemingway Award. Written in the stylistically challenging first-person plural,… more
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• Recorded Jan 25, 2010Stephen Kinzer, author of the critically acclaimed All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror will speak about U.S. foreign relations with Iran and the role they played in creating the current relationship between… more
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The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova was the fastest-selling first novel in U.S. history and the first debut novel to enter the New York Times Best Sellers list at no. 1. The culmination of 10 years of research, the intricately plotted historical… more
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• Recorded Jan 19, 2010Rebecca Goldstein’s fiction explores “the dichotomies between mind and body, intellect and passion, logos and eros,” according to one New York Times reviewer. A professor of philosophy, a MacArthur Fellow, and a 1995 winner of the National Jewish… more
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• Recorded Jan 14, 2010Mika Brzezinski is an msnbc anchor and co-host of Morning Joe with Joe Scarborough, a program Time magazine calls revolutionary and the New York Times ranked as the top news show of 2008. She also appears on NBC Nightly News and Weekend Today.… more
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Tracy Chevalier is the author of the international bestseller Girl with a Pearl Earring. The book, based on the creation of the famous painting by Johannes Vermeer, was adapted into an award-winning film starring Colin Firth and Scarlett… more
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• Recorded Dec 15, 2009Julie Powell, tired of working dead-end jobs, decided to try something new. What she started was a year-long odyssey cooking every recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking and blogging about it.The resultant book, Julie and… more
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Terry Teachout writes about literature and the arts for the Wall Street Journal , the Washington Post , and the New York Times , among many other publications. The Washington Post described his biography, The Skeptic: A Life of H.L. Mencken , as… more
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• Recorded Dec 8, 2009A graduate of the Philadelphia College of Art, Deborah Willis--a 2005 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2000 MacArthur Fellow--chairs the Photography Department at New York University. Dedicated to sharing visual representations of the African American… more
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Poet and memoirist Mary Karr is the Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse University. She was a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry in 2005 and has won Pushcart Prizes for both her poetry and essays. Her bestselling memoir, The Liars' Club ,… more
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A beloved film star of the Golden Era, Leslie Caron has appeared in such classic movies as An American in Paris , Gigi , Daddy Long Legs , and Lili . More recently she acted in the film Chocolat and won an Emmy Award for her performance in an… more
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Published in 26 languages, Sue Grafton's bestselling Kinsey Millhone mysteries feature "a heroine with foibles you can laugh at and faults you can forgive," writes the New York Times Book Review. "As this master of suspense continues to… more
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The host and executive producer of Democracy Now! , an award-winning independent news program airing on over 800 stations throughout the world, Amy Goodman has a passion for truth in journalism. She is a recipient of the first Right Livelihood… more
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Carole Phillips Memorial Lecture Renowned chef and restaurateur Lidia Bastianich is co-owner of Felidia and Becco, two of Manhattan's finest restaurants. As host of her own PBS television show, Lidia's Italy , she travels her native country to… more
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Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Endowed Lecture Co-sponsored by the American Philosophical Society Museum Adam Gopnik's Angels and Ages is a study of the cultural impact of Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln. Time magazine calls the book "a… more
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An American filmmaker who revolutionized the documentary film genre, Ken Burns is the award-winning creator of the documentary series Baseball, Jazz, and Unforgivable Blackness. His landmark film, The Civil War , was the highest-rated series in… more
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• Recorded Nov 19, 2009New Yorker staff writer George Packer was honored with two Overseas Press Club awards in 2003, for his coverage of the war in Iraq and his reporting on the civil war in Sierra Leone. His books include the bestseller The Assassin's Gate: America… more
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• Recorded Nov 17, 2009The most successful debut novel of 2008, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle remained on the New York Times Best Sellers list for 39 weeks, was an Oprah Book Club Selection, and garnered widespread critical acclaim. Born mute, speaking in a sign language… more
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