Podcasts
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Christopher Buckley has been called the quintessential political novelist of his time by Fortune magazine and one of the funniest writers in the English language, by Tom Wolfe. A winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, Buckley has written… more
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• Recorded Oct 28, 2008A champion of environmental and social justice causes, John Perkins is the author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man , a startling exposé of international corruption that spent more than a year on the New York Times Best Sellers list. In The… more
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From the pyramids of Egypt to the skyscrapers of New York City, Caldecott Medalist and international bestseller David Macaulay has demystified the world’s great architectural and engineering accomplishments in his elaborately illustrated books… more
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( This recording contains explicit content. ) Etgar Keret | The Girl on the Fridge: Stories Israeli author, journalist, and filmmaker Etgar Keret directed the acclaimed film Jellyfish, winner of the 2007 Camera d’Or Award at the Cannes Film… more
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• Recorded Oct 21, 2008 Explicit Content( This recording contains explicit content. ) A panelist on National Public Radio’s Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me, whose deadpan interjections frequently reduce his fellow panelists to tears of laughter, Roy Blount Jr. is a writer whose work… more
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Cornelia Funke achieved international recognition with the fantasy novel Dragon Rider, which remained on the New York Times Best Sellers list for 78 weeks. Time magazine listed her as one of the 100 most influential people of 2005, dubbing her… more
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South African native Breyten Breytenbach is a distinguished painter, activist, and writer of more than 30 books of poetry and prose. A vocal critic and committed opponent of apartheid, he founded the resistance group Okhela in the 1970s and spent… more
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Dexter Filkins is a foreign correspondent for the New York Times, covering the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The recipient of two Overseas Press Club Awards and the George Polk Award, Filkins earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination for his reporting… more
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Amarcord, the memoir of celebrated chef Marcella Hazan, "is as delicious as her food," writes Frances Mayes. The godmother of Italian cooking in the United States, Hazan's standard-setting cookbooks include Marcella Cucina and Essentials of… more
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Host and writer of Minnesota Public Radio’s A Prairie Home Companion , Garrison Keillor is a storyteller, humorist, columnist, musician, satirist, and the author of more than a dozen books including Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from… more
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The author of two previous novels, Marilynne Robinson won the PEN/Hemingway Award for best first novel with Housekeeping and earned the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize with her second novel, Gilead. A writer of luminous… more
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Recognized for his groundbreaking discoveries in superstring theory, Brian Greene is also well- known as the host of the Public Broadcasting Service’s NOVA series based on his book, The Elegant Universe. A professor of mathematics and physics at… more
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• Recorded Sep 16, 2008 Explicit Content( This recording contains explicit content. ) In his 2004 New York Times bestseller What’s the Matter With Kansas?, Thomas Frank took a hard and compassionate look at why so many working Americans vote against their own economic and social… more
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• Recorded Sep 11, 2008The subprime mortgage crisis has visited ruin on millions of people and continues to threaten the health of the U.S. and global economies. In The Subprime Solution, market expert Robert J. Shiller calls for aggressive restructuring of financial… more
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• Recorded Aug 14, 2008 Explicit Content( This recording contains explicit content. ) Best known as one half of the 70s comedy duo Cheech and Chong, Tommy Chong is an actor, writer and political activist. Along with Cheech Marin, Chong recorded seven gold comedy albums (including the… more
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• Recorded Aug 5, 2008Speaker Pelosi will only sign copies of her current book. No memorabilia or photos permitted. Since 1987, Nancy Pelosi has represented California's 8th District in the House of Representatives, which includes most of the city of San Francisco.… more
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Breena Clarke’s first novel River, Cross My Heart was selected as an Oprah’s Book Club pick and went on to become an international bestseller, earning her comparisons to Eudora Welty and Toni Morrison. Her writings have also appeared in the… more
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• Recorded Jul 29, 2008 Explicit Content( This recording contains explicit content. ) Jane Mayer’s The Dark Side offers a riveting account of how the United States made what she sees as self-destructive decisions, particularly the choice to torture information out of often-innocent… more
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• Recorded Jul 24, 2008Written by Edward Dolnick, the Edgar Award-winning author of The Rescue Artist , The Forger’s Spell tells the true story of the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer and the no-name painter Han van Meergeren whose forged paintings managed to pass as… more
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• Recorded Jul 22, 2008Wall Street Journal sports reporter Stefan Fatsis infiltrated the insular world of competitive Scrabble players in his New York Times bestseller, Word Freak . With A Few Seconds of Panic , he explores an entirely different subculture: that of… more
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