Podcasts
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• Recorded May 17, 2008Jennifer Weiner’s novels are full of wit, spunk, and spot-on insights into human nature. Kirkus Reviews calls her latest novel, Certain Girls, the sequel to Weiner’s smash debut, Good in Bed as “heartfelt and funny, a touching examination of both… more
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What happens when one woman dares to explore her every fantasy? Eleven-time New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey ponders that question, and the jealousy and obsession that can come with following intimate desires, in his new… more
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Ted Sorensen’s long-awaited memoir, Counselor, has been described by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Robert Caro as a “rare gift to history: an account of mighty events by a participant who stood at their heart." A legendary speechwriter and… more
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• Recorded May 9, 2008Parade magazine has described Harry Reid as one of a handful of leaders in Washington with true “integrity and guts.” Since first elected to the House of Representatives in 1982, and the Senate in 1986, Reid has developed a reputation as a… more
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• Recorded May 8, 2008“This is quite simply the most profound book to have been written on the subject of American foreign policy since the attacks of 9/11, indeed, since the end of the cold war,” writes renowned historian Niall Ferguson of Philip Bobbitt’s latest… more
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• Recorded May 8, 2008Simon Winchester explores topics from the urbane to the catastrophic in his bestselling nonfiction books, which include The Professor and the Madman , an intriguing behind-the-scenes story of the writing of the Oxford English Dictionary , and… more
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• Recorded May 7, 2008The US spends more money per capita on medical care than any other country in the world, yet tens of millions of citizens are uninsured, underinsured or uninsurable. As Americans look at ways to reinvent the system, a panel of physicians,… more
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Award-winning novelist Louise Erdrich explores the cultural issues facing modern-day Native Americans and Americans of mixed heritage. Challenging and prolific, Erdrich is the author of Love Medicine , Tracks , The Master Butchers Singing Club ,… more
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• Recorded Apr 26, 2008On his way back to the office one day, a haunting melody stopped former Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Steve Lopez in his tracks: a melody coaxed out of a battered, two-stringed violin by a homeless man. Nathaniel Ayers, once a promising… more
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• Recorded Apr 23, 2008Peabody and Emmy Award-winner Roger Mudd joined CBS in 1961, and as a congressional correspondent became a household name covering the historic Senate debate over the 1964 Civil Rights Act. In The Place to Be , Mudd describes the CBS news bureau… more
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A co-founder of the Paris Review and its first fiction editor, Peter Matthiessen received the National Book Award in 1979 for his memoir The Snow Leopard . His novel At Play in the Fields of the Lord was adapted into a film, and Blue Meridian:… more
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Anne Perry is the author of several bestselling mystery novels featuring famed protagonists Inspector William Monk and Special Services Detective Thomas Pitt. Buckingham Palace Gardens is her latest novel featuring Detective Pitt, who is called… more
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(This recording contains explicit content.) Philadelphia author Jennifer Weiner writes novels and stories full of wit, spunk, and sharp insights into human nature. Her 2002 novel, In Her Shoes , was adapted into a critically acclaimed film… more
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Greg Heffley is a bullied, wise-cracking middle-school kid whose antics Jeff Kinney chronicles in the New York Times best-selling series Diary of a Wimpy Kid . First published in daily cartoon installments on Funbrain.com, Diary of a Wimpy Kid… more
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A master of the short story, Tobias Wolff’s collections include Back in the World and The Night in Question . His memoir This Boy’s Life was adapted into a film starring Robert DeNiro and Leonardo DiCaprio. A professor at Stanford, where he has… more
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Often described as a hip-hop intellectual, Michael Eric Dyson is an ordained Baptist minister, a social analyst, and a professor at Georgetown University. His book Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind? was a national… more
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• Recorded Apr 3, 2008Founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Samantha Power received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction for her book A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide , and was named one of the top 100… more
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( This recording contains explicit content. ) Writer Russell Banks has described Richard Price as a “writer I hope my great-grandchildren will read, so they’ll know what it was like to be truly alive in the early 21 st century.” His novels, which… more
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Chinua Achebe’s groundbreaking 1958 novel Things Fall Apart is one of the most frequently read books in the world. Written in response to negative portrayals of African culture in much of Western literature, Things Fall Apart is an unsentimental… more
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• Recorded Mar 25, 2008Lebanese writer Elias Khoury is the author of Little Mountain , The Kingdom of Strangers , and Gate of the Sun , among others. He serves as editor-in-chief of Mulhak , the weekly literary supplement of the An-Nahar newspaper. His latest novel,… more
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