Podcasts
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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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Novelist Richard Russo is the author of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize winner Empire Falls , and the novels Mohawk and Straight Man , as well as the short story collection, The Whore’s Child . As a screenwriter he has co-authored scripts for the 1998… more
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• Recorded Oct 4, 2007A celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first publication of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road , featuring a musical performance by Kerouac collaborator David Amram followed by a panel discussion featuring Kerouac’s companion and National Book… more
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Ann Patchett is the author of the novels The Patron Saint of Liars , Taft , The Magician’s Assistant , Bel Canto , and the nonfiction book Truth & Beauty . Her writings have been awarded the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Orange Prize, and the Book… more
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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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