Podcasts
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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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• 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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