Podcasts
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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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Liz Tuccillo captured the single woman’s zeitgeist, first as a writer and executive story editor for Sex and the City , then as co-author with Greg Behrendt of the New York Times smash bestseller, He’s Just Not That Into You . Now with her debut… more
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• Recorded Jul 10, 2008An associate editor at the Washington Post , David Maraniss received the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1993. The author of four critically acclaimed and bestselling books, including Clemente and They Marched Into Sunlight , Maraniss’s… more
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• Recorded Jul 1, 2008Based in the wilderness of North Carolina, Blackwater USA is the fastest-growing private army on the planet (with forces capable of carrying out regime change throughout the world) and as a privatized army, Blackwater is accountable to no one.… more
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( This recording contains explicit content. ) Salman Rushdie’s novels are known for their witty examinations of an ever-changing sociopolitical landscape. Midnight’s Children , winner of the prestigious Booker Prize, is a comedic telling of Indian… more
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• Recorded Jun 24, 2008Dr. Kathleen Hall Jamieson offers a compelling analysis of the conservative media establishment, from talk radio to Fox News to the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal . Using survey data, case studies and the meteoric rise of Rush Limbaugh… more
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CSI: NY star and author of the bestselling Letters to a Young Brother (winner of two NAACP awards), Hill Harper offers young women a new vision for facing tough issues and becoming the architects of their own lives. Letters to a Young Sister… more
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In Don’t Call me Coach , Saint Joseph’s University men’s basketball head coach Phil Martelli compresses his three decades of experience into a 10-point “lesson plan for life” that will benefit anyone. One of America’s most outspoken and… more
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