Podcasts
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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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• Recorded Mar 24, 2008First elected in 1980, Arlen Specter is Pennsylvania’s longest serving U.S. Senator and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. On February 16, 2005, Specter announced that he had been diagnosed with an advanced form of Hodgkin’s… more
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• Recorded Mar 20, 2008Part of the 2008 One Book, One Philadelphia program, featured authors Dave Eggers and Mary Williams, with special guest Valentino Achak Deng, discuss the development of What Is the What. Williams played an important role in Deng's transition to… more
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• Recorded Mar 18, 2008Columbia University professor and New Republic columnist David Hajdu is the author of Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn and Positively 4 th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina , both of… more
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• Recorded Mar 11, 2008Lionel Shriver is the author of eight novels and the recipient of the 2005 Orange Prize for her acclaimed book We Need to Talk About Kevin , a thriller and close study of maternal indifference. Her new novel, The Post-Birthday World , explores… more
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• Recorded Mar 10, 2008Named the world’s conscience by Time magazine , Jan Egeland is the former United Nations Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. During his 25-year career in human rights, Egeland participated in numerous… more
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• Recorded Mar 6, 2008A senior editor and vice president at Alfred A. Knopf, where she has worked since 1957, Judith Jones has edited some of the most culturally significant cookbooks of our time, including Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking . Her… more
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• Recorded Mar 5, 2008A practicing psychologist and family therapist in the Philadelphia area for over 35 years, Dr. Dan Gottlieb hosts Voices in the Family , a mental health radio show on WHYY. He also contributes a bimonthly column to the Philadelphia Inquirer . His… more
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Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of the bestselling Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism , Susan Jacoby is program director of the Center for Inquiry’s New York area branch and the recipient of numerous grants and awards. In The Age… more
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• Recorded Feb 29, 2008 Explicit Content(This recording contains explicit content.) The author of six novels and four bestselling nonfiction books, including Bird by Bird , Traveling Mercies , and Plan B . Anne Lamott writes and speaks about subjects that begin with capital letters:… more
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• Recorded Feb 28, 2008A foreign correspondent who has reported from more than 140 countries, Robin Wright covers U.S. foreign policy for the Washington Post. A MacArthur Foundation grant recipient, she is the author of three previous books focused on modern Islam and… more
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John Edgar Wideman was the first two-time winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for his novels Sent for You Yesterday and Philadelphia Fire . His first new novel in a decade, Fanon conjures the life and message of Frantz Fanon, whose book The Wretched… more
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• Recorded Feb 21, 2008Richard Thompson Ford is a professor of law at Stanford Law School and the author of many articles on civil rights, constitutional law, and race relations, as well as the 2005 book Racial Culture: A Critique . Using sophisticated legal analysis… more
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• Recorded Feb 14, 2008A Christian leader for social change, Jim Wallis is the editor-in-chief and chief executive officer of Sojourners magazine and Call to Renewal, a national federation of churches and faith-based organizations working with Washington policymakers… more
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Chip Kidd, "The closest thing to a rock star in graphic design today" ( USA Today ), designs book jackets that "make readers appreciate books as objects of art as well as literature ( Publisher's Weekly ). Recently honored with an exhibition at… more
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Renowned art historian Hayden Herrera’s influential 1983 biography, Frida , helped establish the Mexican artist’s reputation in America and was used as source material for the acclaimed 2002 film of the same name. Herrera’s presentation at the… more
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A mathematics professor at the University of Maryland, Manil Suri’s debut novel, The Death of Vishnu , became an international bestseller. He claims that writing is how he escapes the horror of being a mathematician, yet is known to complain to… more
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