Podcasts
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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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Malcolm Gladwell is the bestselling author of The Tipping Point, an examination of the viral life of ideas, and Blink, a look at the power of thinking with your gut. In Outliers , Gladwell finds that extraordinarily successful people are the… more
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• Recorded Jan 29, 2009As the human lifespan lengthens, a new developmental phase of life, characterized by people between the ages of 50 and 75, who are considered “neither young nor old,” is redefining society’s views on aging by challenging cultural definitions of… more
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In her New York Times bestselling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi painted a vibrant portrait of women’s lives in Iran and shared “an eloquent brief on the transformative powers of fiction” (New York Times). In her new memoir, Things… more
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A gifted and award-winning writer and essayist, Jayne Anne Phillips’s “quick, piercing tales of love and loss [demonstrate] a keen love of language, and a rare talent of illuminating the secret core of ordinary lives with clear-sighted… more
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Trained in Bergamo, Italy, by some of the region’s most distinguished chefs, South Philadelphia native Marc Vetri brings a bold, contemporary sensibility to the classic Italian cuisine served at his two Philadelphia restaurants, Vetri, which as… more
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Diagnosed with autism as a child, Temple Grandin, who studied psychology and earned a Ph.D. in Animal Science, has become a philosophical leader of both the animal welfare and autism advocacy movements. A passionate voice for the humane treatment… more
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• Recorded Jan 14, 2009When Steve Lopez sees Nathaniel Ayers playing his heart out on a two-string violin on Skid Row, he envisions this homeless Violin Man as the topic of his next column for the Los Angeles Times, only to unearth an even more extraordinary story… more
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• Recorded Jan 13, 2009In October 2007, Poe scholar Ed Pettit argued in a Philadelphia City Paper cover story that both the legacy and the remains of Edgar Allan Poe should lie in Philadelphia, not Baltimore, the city where the mid-19th-century writer is currently… more
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• Recorded Jan 8, 2009David Allen’s smash bestseller Getting Things Done revolutionized the way people, from CEOs to soccer moms, organize their lives. He is the chairman and founder of the David Allen Company, a global management and consulting firm that is a leading… more
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