Podcasts
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• Recorded Nov 27, 2007The forthcoming PBS series The Jewish Americans is a comprehensive look at the trials and accomplishments of the Jewish-American community from the mid-17th century to the present day. Beth S. Wenger, the Katz Family Chair in American Jewish… more
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A pioneer in the world of genomic research, J. Craig Venter is one of the most controversial figures in science today. He joined the National Institutes of Health in 1984, where he introduced novel techniques for rapid gene discovery. He left in… more
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In conversation with author, journalist, and editor Larry Platt After 20 years of managing and 57 years with one franchise, Tommy Lasorda still suits up in Dodger Blue every day. The embodiment of the American dream, Lasorda went from a scrawny,… more
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The work of internationally acclaimed and bestselling Israeli novelist, Meir Shalev, has been translated into more than 20 languages. He is the recipient of many awards, including the 2006 Brenner Prize-the highest Israeli literary… more
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• Recorded Nov 13, 2007Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Founding Brothers and the National Book Award for American Sphinx, Joseph Ellis is the Ford Foundation Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College. In American Creation, Ellis argues that part of what made the… more
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( This recording contains explicit content. ) Shalom Auslander’s stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker and Esquire , and his essays on This American Life have prompted more email than any contributor since David Sedaris. Auslander is… more
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Adrian Tomine has acquired a cult-like following with his critically acclaimed comic book series Optic Nerve . His distinctive illustrations have graced the covers of the New Yorker , Rolling Stone , and Time, and his stories have appeared in the… more
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The New York Times has called Oliver Sacks "the poet laureate of medicine" and he is renowned for a style that blends literary and scientific erudition and curiosity to draw the reader into the mysteries of the mind and brain. In Musicophilia ,… more
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Carl Bernstein received a Pulitzer Prize in 1973 alongside Bob Woodward for his Washington Post coverage of the Watergate scandal, which later became the basis of their bestselling book All the President's Men. Bernstein's new book, A Woman In… more
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• Recorded Oct 30, 2007A.J. Jacobs is the editor at large of Esquire and author of The Know-It-All, the bestselling account of reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica, which the Philadelphia Inquirer called, “one of the most entertaining and informative book reports… more
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• Recorded Oct 29, 2007Bill Bryson is the bestselling author of wiseacre travelogues A Walk in the Woods and I’m a Stranger Here Myself , as well as excursions into the English language including Mother Tongue and Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words . The Life and… more
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Michael Korda is the former editor in chief of Simon and Schuster, where he worked with David McCullough, Henry Kissinger, and Mary Higgins Clark. Korda’s biography of Dwight Eisenhower presents details and anecdotes drawn from personal… more
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Paul Krugman, a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University, pens a semiweekly column for the op-ed page of the New York Times. In his new book, The Conscience of a Liberal, Krugman studies the past 80 years of… more
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• Recorded Oct 23, 2007Margalit Fox, a New York Times journalist trained as a linguist, accompanied a team of researchers to a remote Bedouin village in Israel, where a remarkable sign language arose that is used by deaf and hearing villagers alike. Talking Hands… more
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• Recorded Oct 19, 2007Gary Kasparov became the youngest-ever World Chess Champion in 1985 at the age of 22, a title he held until 2000. He retired from professional chess in 2005 to found the United Civil Front in Russia and has dedicated himself to establishing free… more
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Alice Sebold is the best-selling author of The Lovely Bones . Her first published book, Lucky , is a memoir of her rape as an 18-year-old college freshman. In The Lovely Bones , 14-year-old Susie Salmon is raped and killed by a neighbor at the… more
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One of the stars of Iron Chef and the Food Network's Iron Chef America, Masaharu Morimoto is the chef and co-owner of Morimoto in Philadelphia. (He has also opened a second eponymous restaurant in New York City.) The Kitchen Stadium champion and… more
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• Recorded Oct 11, 2007In 2004, environmentalists Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus set off a firestorm with their essay, “The Death of Environmentalism.” In it they argued that the old pollution and conservation paradigms have failed and that environmentalism as… more
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• Recorded Oct 11, 2007Andrea Barrett is the author of the novels The Middle Kingdom and The Voyage of the Narwhal and the National Book Award winning story collection Ship Fever . Her much anticipated new novel is set in the fall of 1916, on the politically charged… more
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Ken Follett is an internationally best-selling author with over 90 million copies of his books in print. Beginning with Eye of the Needle in 1978, Follett’s writing career has spanned nearly 30 years, throughout which he received several awards,… more
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