Podcasts
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• Recorded Sep 27, 2007The recent appointments of John Roberts and Samuel Alito marked a dramatic turning point for the United States Supreme Court. With The Nine, Jeffrey Toobin-a CNN legal analyst and New Yorker staff writer-examines the meaning and the roots of this… more
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• Recorded Sep 25, 2007Haitian-born writer Edwidge Danticat is the author of Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection; Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; and The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner. Brother, I’m Dying, Danticat’s most… more
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For 25 years, Dave Barry’s syndicated column appeared in more than 500 newspapers, and in 1988, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. With History of the Millenium, Barry takes his place among the world’s great historians-Thucydides, Gibbon,… more
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When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka dive bombers devastated Warsaw and the city’s zoo along with it. In this powerful, true story, Diane Ackerman relates how Jan and Antonia Zabinski, zookeepers and resisters, kept ammunition in the elephant… more
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• Recorded Sep 18, 2007A towering figure of the Right, Norman Podhoretz is editor-at-large of Commentary magazine and the author of several bestselling books, including Breaking Ranks , Ex-Friends , and The Prophets . In World War IV , Podhoretz argues that the “War on… more
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• Recorded Sep 18, 2007 Explicit Content( This recording contains explicit content. ) Stephen Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, where he conducts research on language and cognition. One of today’s most popular science writers and a New York… more
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One of Britain's foremost comedy character actors, Michael Palin is known for his inventive genius and astonishing versatility. A founding member of the Monty Python comedy troupe, Palin is also a screenwriter, author of children's books, and… more
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As a United States senator since 1973, Joe Biden has been an intimate witness to the major events of the past four decades-from the Vietnam War, to the fall of the Berlin Wall, to the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. In Promises to Keep , Biden… more
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Few authors can be credited with birthing a genre, but with his science fiction novel Neuromancer, William Gibson created “cyberpunk.” Gibson says his new novel “is set in the same universe,’ as Pattern Recognition ... It takes place during the… more
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Stephen Carter's best-selling thriller The Emperor of Ocean Park was deemed "among the most remarkable fiction debuts in recent years" by the Boston Globe . Carter, the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale University, returns to… more
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• Recorded Jul 19, 2007Join us for an evening dedicated to Edgar Allan Poe. Matthew Pearl’s ( The Dante Club) latest bestseller combines literary history with suspense as he follows Baltimore lawyer Quentin Clark, who puts his reputation at risk to salvage Poe’s by… more
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To be traveling the Silk Road, writes Colin Thubron, is to be traveling the history of the world: tracing the passage not just of trade and armies, but of ideas, religions and inventions. Thubron covers 7,000 miles in 8 months as he passes… more
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• Recorded Jul 12, 2007Gina Kolata is a science writer for the New York Times and author of Ultimate Fitness and the national bestseller, Flu . "Kolata may be the best writer around covering the science of health...In chapters equally entertaining and dismaying, Kolata… more
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Michael Eric Dyson is an ordained Baptist minister, and the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. His book Is Bill Cosby Right? was a national bestseller and winner of a NAACP Image Award for Outstanding… more
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Confused by food labels that use words such as “natural,” “organic,” and “fresh?” Then come hear America’s most respected nutritionist as she offers an aisle-by-aisle guide to supermarket buying. A longtime nutritionist, PBS commentator, and… more
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America’s longest-serving Middle East envoy and former U.S. Ambassador, Dennis Ross was the point person on the peace process in both the George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations. For twelve years he shaped U.S. involvement and dealt… more
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Helen Oyeyemi is the author of the highly acclaimed novel The Icarus Girl , which she wrote before her nineteenth birthday. In her follow-up novel, Oyeyemi explores the thin wall between myth and reality through the alternating tales of two young… more
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• Recorded Jun 7, 2007This extraordinary and historic book required twenty years to research and write. The often challenged findings of the Warren Commission: Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, shot and killed President John F. Kennedy, are here confirmed beyond all… more
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A National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner, John Updike is the author of the “Rabbit” novels, whose protagonist, Harry Angstrom, is one of America’s most famous literary characters. Updike’s Terrorist is a caustic and empathic rendering of… more
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( This recording contains explicit content. ) A Spokane/Coeur d'Alene tribal member who grew up on the reservation, Sherman Alexie ( The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven ) has garnered praise for his portrayals of contemporary Native… more
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