Podcasts
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Kate DiCamillo named the next Ambassador of Young People's Literature by the Library of Congress. Kate DiCamillo is a critically acclaimed, bestselling author of novels and stories for children. Her books include the Newbery Award winner The Tale… more
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• Recorded Nov 12, 2009The Los Angeles Times Book Review calls Lydia Davis "one of the quiet giants of American fiction." The author of several short-story collections, she won the Whiting Award with Break It Down and was nominated for the National Book Award for… more
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In Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer synthesizes philosophy, literature, science, and his own detective work in order to to explore the fictions that we use to justify our eating habits and reveals how such tales can justify an ignorance of the… more
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Pine Tree Foundation Endowed Lecture President Barack Obama's chief campaign manager David Plouffe is credited with crafting the strategy that helped secure Obama's win of the Democratic primary--and presidency--in 2008. In his acceptance speech… more
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From corned beef to knishes, Save the Deli is the story of David Sax's quest to observe and preserve a defining element of Jewish culture--and the sandwiches he loves. Diving deep into the world of the Jewish delicatessen, Sax explores the… more
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• Recorded Oct 29, 2009Ellis Wachs Endowed Lecture The Alva O. Way Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University, Gordon S. Wood won the Pulitzer Prize for The Radicalism of the American Revolution and the Bancroft Prize for The Creation of the American Republic,… more
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( This recording contains explicit content. ) Praised for his unsentimental portrayals of contemporary life among Native Americans, Sherman Alexie writes stories and novels that are by turns hilarious and heartbreaking. His work has earned… more
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• Recorded Oct 27, 2009Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner spent more than two years on the New York Times Best Sellers list and sold more than 4 million copies worldwide. The book offered surprising insights into hot-button issues like cheating,… more
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• Recorded Oct 27, 2009One of the godfathers of modern black cinema and theater, Melvin Van Peebles directed the legendary film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song , won multiple Drama Desk Awards for his Broadway musical A in't Supposed to Die a Natural Death , and has… more
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The Glass Castle , Jeannette Walls's memoir of growing up in an impoverished and nomadic family, is one of the bestselling memoirs of all time. Half Broke Horses --the novelized prequel to The Glass Castle --recounts the story of the author's… more
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• Recorded Oct 22, 2009Evolutionary biologist and unapologetic atheist Richard Dawkins taught for many years at Oxford University as the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science. The Economist called his international bestseller, The God… more
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• Recorded Oct 20, 2009A distinguished Iranian-American intellectual, Haleh Esfandiari is the founding Director of the Woodrow Wilson Center's Middle East Program. Falsely imprisoned for four months in Iran under the belief that she knew of a U.S. plot for "regime… more
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Douglas Adams' comic space odyssey, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , began as a BBC radio series in the 1970s and evolved into a wildly successful series of novels. Now, 30 years after the publication of the first Hitchhiker novel comes And… more
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• Recorded Oct 15, 2009Sponsored by the Regional Foundation Center, with support from our Advisory Council. There are four potential points of connection between you and your target audience. When you build your campaign around these four points, your time and money… more
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• Recorded Oct 15, 2009Steve Poses is the founding chef of Frög (named Best Restaurant of the past 25 years by Philadelphia magazine in 1998) and The Commissary. Born of the two, Poses's Frog Commissary Catering has catered more than 15,000 events in the Philadelphia… more
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An international authority and researcher on mood disorders, Kay Redfield Jamison has unique insight into the world of mental illness. In 1995, as Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University, she shocked her colleagues by going public… more
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Max Cleland is a decorated Vietnam veteran who, after returning from his tour of duty and recovering from his extensive injuries at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, became Georgia's youngest Secretary of State, head of the Veterans… more
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A war correspondent during the Vietnam War, Neil Sheehan won a Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for breaking the story of the Pentagon Papers in the New York Times and won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for A Bright Shining Lie, his… more
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A powerful voice for ecumenical understanding, Karen Armstrong is the author of many acclaimed books on religious affairs, including A History of God and The Battle for God . Recipient of the 2008 TED Prize, she has participated in the World… more
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• Recorded Sep 29, 2009 Explicit Content(This recording contains explicit content.) Richard Russo's novels are distinguished by their true-to-life depictions of declining small towns in the United States. His novel Empire Falls won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize, and his other works,… more
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