Podcasts
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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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• Recorded Feb 6, 20082008 One Book companion title Of Beetles and Angels tells the unforgettable, true story of a young boy's journey from a refugee camp in Sudan to an affluent Chicago suburb, where his family survived on welfare. Following his father's advice to… more
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• Recorded Feb 5, 2008One of the country’s most distinguished historians, David Levering Lewis won the Pulitzer Prize for each of the volumes in his magisterial biography of W.E.B. Du Bois. Additionally, he is the recipient of the Bancroft Prize and the Francis… more
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A surgeon and bestselling writer, Atul Gawande is on staff at both the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and the New Yorker magazine. With pieces published in both the Best American Essays and Best American Science Writing annual… more
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“...[A] writer we can actually learn from, whose books help and urge us to change,” (the Village Voice ), Russell Banks is a Pulitzer and PEN/Faulkner finalist, and the author of numerous novels, including The Sweet Hereafter, which was also… more
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• Recorded Jan 29, 2008Serving from 1996 to 2000 as part of the Clinton administration, Madeleine Albright was the first woman to hold the position of United States Secretary of State. Prior to her cabinet post, Albright was the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.… more
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A reporter for several years at the Washington Post , Nathan McCall is the author of the bestselling memoir Makes Me Wanna Holler and the essay collection What’s Going On . McCall’s first novel, Them , tells the story of Barlowe Reed, an Atlanta… more
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• Recorded Jan 24, 2008One of the “Greatest Entrepreneurs of All Time” ( BusinessWeek ), economist Muhammad Yunus received the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize with Grameen Bank, which he founded to provide microloans to poor entrepreneurs otherwise unable to qualify for… more
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