Podcasts
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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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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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