Podcasts
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(This recording contains explicit content.) Chuck Palahniuk is the author of nine previous novels, including bestsellers Haunted and Lullaby ,as well as Choke and Fight Club , which were adapted into popular films. Palahniuk’s newest novel,… more
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The editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine, Ruth Reichl is the author of three bestselling memoirs: Comfort Me with Apples, Tender at the Bone, and Garlic and Sapphires. She has been the restaurant critic for the New York Times and the food editor… more
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The Venice-based mysteries of Donna Leon are international bestsellers, winning awards including the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, and inspiring specially guided Brunetti tours of the city. The Boston Globe writes of the series: [Leon]… more
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On Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at 7:30 pm, candidates for Philadelphia District Attorney debate the issues. Come out and meet the District Attorney candidates as they prepare for the May 19 th primary election. They’ll discuss their views on crime… more
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• Recorded Apr 19, 2009“Masterfully reported,” according to the Los Angeles Times, William D. Cohan’s House of Cards chronicles the shocking fall of Bear Stearns and the end of the Second Gilded Age on Wall Street, explaining how a combination of risky bets, corporate… more
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• Recorded Apr 19, 2009On a freezing morning in 1988, Spencer Public Library director Vicki Myron discovered a tiny, bedraggled kitten abandoned in the library’s night drop box. She adopted the cat and named him Dewey Readmore Books, and for 19 years, Dewey lived at… more
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Acclaimed novelist Jane Hamilton is the author of the PEN/Hemingway Award winner The Book of Ruth and the New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Map of the World, both of which selected for Oprah’s Book Club. The Washington Post chose her… more
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• Recorded Apr 19, 2009The first American swimmer to compete in five Olympic Games, Dara Torres has set three world records and won 12 Olympic medals, including four gold medals. Returning to the Games for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Torres, at age 41, brought home… more
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• Recorded Apr 18, 2009Amiri Baraka | Home: Social Essays Poet, playwright, and political activist, Amiri Baraka is the recipient of Guggenheim Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters… more
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• Recorded Apr 18, 2009Tony Award winning actress Kristin Chenoweth originated the role of Glinda the Good Witch in the hit Broadway musical Wicked and was nominated for an Emmy for Best Supporting Actress for her work with Pushing Daisies, ABC’s Emmy and Golden… more
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• Recorded Apr 18, 2009John Quiñones is a co-anchor of the ABC newsmagazine Primetime, a correspondent for 20/20, and the sole anchor of the popular Primetime limited series What Would You Do?, which uses hidden cameras to capture people’s unscripted reactions to… more
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Looking for Alaska , the first novel by John Green, won the Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in young adult literature. His second novel, An Abundance of Katherines, was a Printz honor book. Along with his brother Hank, Green started a… more
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(This recording contains explicit content.) It's the melee on the Parkway, the fracas at the Free Library Festival! In an unprecedented inter-city StorySlam spectacular, five challengers from Chicago will battle five hometown Philadelphian… more
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Over the span of more than four decades, Joyce Carol Oates has produced an enormous body of work consisting of novels, short stories, criticism, plays, and poetry. Not a year has gone by since the mid-1960’s in which she has not published at… more
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(This recording contains explicit content.) The stories in Don’t Cry share the psychological intensity and dramatic denouement of her earlier collection, Bad Behavior . Michiko Kakutani, writing for the New York Times, remarks, “Gaitskill writes… more
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• Recorded Mar 31, 2009In The Bin Ladens, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll (Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the C.I.A., Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to Sept. 10, 2001), delivers a sprawling history of the bin Laden clan. Coll pays… more
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Elie Wiesel was Chairman of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust until 1986, the year he won the Nobel Peace Prize. Shortly thereafter, he established the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity. He has written more than 40 books, including… more
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• Recorded Mar 17, 2009A professor of bioethics at Princeton University and one of Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World,” Peter Singer’s numerous books on ethics include Practical Ethics, One World: Ethics and Globalization, and Animal Liberation,… more
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The most widely translated book in world literature after the Bible, Lao-tzu’s Tao Te Ching (Book of the Way) is the classic manual on the art of living. Following the success of his translation and commentary on that original text, renowned… more
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• Recorded Mar 10, 2009A Jury of Her Peers, the first comprehensive history of American women writers from 1650 to 2000, is an unprecedented landmark in the understanding of American literary history and culture. Author Elaine Showalter is a professor emerita at… more
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