Podcasts
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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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Holocaust survivor Nechama Tec is professor emerita of sociology at the University of Connecticut and the author of six books, including In the Lion’s Den and Dry Tears, her memoir of growing up during the Nazi occupation of Poland. Recently… more
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• Recorded Mar 3, 2009Named the "Sexiest Astrophysicist Alive" by People magazine in 2000, Neil DeGrasse Tyson is the New York Times bestselling author of Death by Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries. The recipient of the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal,… more
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• Recorded Feb 28, 2009A veteran of public broadcast news, Gwen Ifill is the moderator and managing editor of Washington Week and senior correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer . She frequently serves as moderator for national election debates, including the… more
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• Recorded Feb 26, 2009Director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, Martin Indyk has held senior positions in the U.S. government, most recently as ambassador to Israel for the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations and as… more
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The deputy executive chairman of the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq and deputy head of the United Nations weapons inspections team from 2003 to January 23, 2005, Charles Duelfer led the Iraq Survey Group: the CIA team charged with the… more
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• Recorded Feb 19, 2009Vanity Fair special correspondent Bryan Burrough narrates the story of the Texas oil industry’s four richest fortune holders in his new book, The Big Rich. Known in their day as the Big Four, Roy Cullen, H.L. Hunt, Clint Murchison, and Sid… more
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• Recorded Feb 17, 2009Senior Pentagon correspondent for the Washington Post, Thomas E. Ricks is the author of the #1 New York Times Best Seller Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, a thorough account of the Bush administration’s mishandling of the Iraq war… more
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• Recorded Feb 12, 2009Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Studies at Harvard University and author of numerous works of criticism, including Figures in… more
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T. C. Boyle is the award-winning author of 19 books of fiction, including Pen/Faulkner Award winner World’s End and National Book Award finalist Drop City, and his O. Henry Award-winning stories appear in many prominent periodicals, including the… more
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Based on research of the newly completed Lincoln Legal Papers and recently discovered letters and photographs, A. Lincoln is an intimate portrait of Abraham Lincoln’s personal, political, and moral evolution from noted historian Ronald C. White,… more
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In Food Matters, Mark Bittman, one of the country’s foremost food writers, examines the role that meat consumption plays in global warming and discusses how government policy, big marketing, and global economics influence what we eat. The voice… more
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