Podcasts
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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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• Recorded Jun 17, 2008One of the most influential political thinkers of the progressive movement, George Lakoff is an advisor to the Democratic Party and author of Whose Freedom? and Don’t Think of An Elephant! He is a professor of linguistics and cognitive science at… more
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When the Atlantic Monthly celebrated its 150th anniversary by publishing excerpts from the best writing ever to appear in the magazine, in the category of the humorous essay it chose only four pieces: one by Mark Twain, one by James Thurber, one… more
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From the number one bestselling author of House of Sand and Fog (an Oprah’s Book Club selection and finalist for the National Book Award) comes The Garden of Last Days . Set in Florida in early September, 2001, the book brings together four… more
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• Recorded Jun 9, 2008A correspondent for the International Herald Tribune , the New York Review of Books , and the Nation , Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid has been covering the politics of Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan in particular, for more than 20… more
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Cartoonist, novelist, and playwright Lynda Barry is the creator behind the syndicated strip Ernie Pook’s Comeek featuring the incomparable Marlys and Freddy, as well as the Alex Award-winning One Hundred Demons and The Good Times are Killing Me… more
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• Recorded Jun 5, 2008A recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Natan Sharansky spent almost a decade in a Siberian labor camp before escaping to Israel, where he served as a senior minister in Israel’s government, now heading… more
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• Recorded May 29, 2008From 9/11 to Katrina to color codes and duct tape, homeland security sometimes seems like an oxymoron. Veteran counterterrorism czar and bestselling author of Against All Enemies , Richard A. Clarke has worked for seven presidents and devoted… more
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(This recording contains explicit content.) Author of the controversial A Million Little Pieces , James Frey constructs a bold fictional experiment in his first novel, Bright Shiny Morning . A sweeping narrative that encompasses the history of… more
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• Recorded May 22, 2008A political correspondent for the Washington Post and a regular commentator on NPR, E.J. Dionne, Jr. is a senior fellow in government studies at the Brookings Institution. His books include Why Americans Hate Politics and They Only Look Dead: Why… more
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• Recorded May 18, 2008The irreverent spokeswoman for today’s knitting revival, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, a.k.a. the Yarn Harlot, is the author of several books on knitting, as well as keeper of the popular blog, www.yarnharlot.com. In Things I Learned from Knitting, she… more
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