Podcasts
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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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• Recorded Jan 24, 2008 Explicit Content(This recording contains explicit content.) Irish author Roddy Doyle writes fiction rooted in the working-class experience. He is the author of novels including The Commitments and the Booker Prize-winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha . With his… more
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• Recorded Jan 22, 2008After six years scouring the Canadian Arctic with several colleagues, native Philadelphian, paleontologist, and professor of anatomy Neil Shubin discovered a 375-million-year-old fossil representing a “missing link” between ancient sea creatures… more
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Renowned psychologist Carol Gilligan is the author of In a Different Voice -“the little book that started a revolution” (Harvard University Press)-which criticized Lawrence Kohlberg’s research on children’s moral development and laid the… more
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• Recorded Jan 16, 2008The last member of Edward R. Murrow's CBS team still fully active in the media, veteran reporter Daniel Schorr is NPR’s senior news analyst and a legend in journalism. Over the course of a career spanning six decades and 12 presidential… more
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Michael Pollan’s recent bestseller The Omnivore’s Dilemma was named one of the ten best books of 2006 by the New York Times and the Washington Post. In his new book, In Defense of Food, Pollan offers well-considered answers to questions about… more
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• Recorded Dec 13, 2007Rodger Kamenetz is the author of the international bestseller The Jew in the Lotus , as well as several books of poetry and a critically acclaimed memoir, Terra Infirma. His new book explores the realms of word and image, psychology and… more
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• Recorded Dec 11, 2007Begun with The Prodigy and continued in The Cubist Rebel, John Richardson’s lavishly illustrated biography, A Life of Picasso, provides groundbreaking insight into the artist’s life and work, as drawn from conversations with the artist,… more
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Since leaving the Royal Shakespeare Company, Ruth Rosen has established an international reputation for her highly individualized literary portraits. Rosen's Man Without A Mask incorporates William Blake's poems, letters, and prose writings to… more
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• Recorded Dec 4, 2007Native Philadelphian and bestselling author, Teri Woods began selling hand-made copies of her first novel on the street and out of the trunk of her car. She started her own publishing company and successfully made True to the Game available to… more
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• Recorded Dec 1, 2007 Explicit Content( This recording contains explicit content. ) Author of the New York Times bestsellers The Nasty Bits and Kitchen Confidential , culinary bad boy Anthony Bourdain is the host of the Travel Channel’s No Reservations and chef-at-large of Les Halles… more
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