Podcasts
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• Recorded Jun 4, 2007John Kerry has led the fight to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, passed legislation protecting our oceans, fisheries, and air, and has been an outspoken advocate for fuel efficiency. Kerry also participated in the first Earth Day in… more
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Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and moved to the United States in 1980. His first novel, The Kite Runner , is an international bestseller with four million copies in print. Booklist calls A Thousand Splendid Suns "unimaginably… more
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• Recorded May 22, 2007 Explicit Content( This recording contains explicit content. ) Christopher Hitchens is the author of such controversial works as The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, in which he criticizes the beloved Nobel Peace Prize winner and No One… more
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Jim Crace is known for fiction that probes the social and political nature of human beings. The author of eight previous novels, including Being Dead , Quarantine, Continent and Gift of Stone, , Crace’s work has won the National Book Critics… more
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• Recorded May 11, 2007In his new book, Templeton Prize-winner Paul Davies shows how recent scientific discoveries point to a perplexing fact: our universe is bio-friendly by accident; we just happened to win the cosmic jackpot. An internationally acclaimed physicist… more
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( This recording contains explicit content. ) Chuck Palahniuk has written seven novels including the bestsellers Haunted , Lullaby, and Fight Club , which was made into a film by director David Fincher. He is also the author of the nonfiction… more
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Elmore Leonard has written more than three dozen books, including Cuba Libre, Rum Punch, and Get Shorty, and numerous screenplays. A Grand Master Award winner of the Mystery Writers of America, he has been likened to everyone from Balzac to… more
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• Recorded May 8, 2007Natalie Angier, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer for the New York Times and author of Women: An Intimate Geography and The Beauty and the Beastly , refines everything you’ve ever wanted to know about science into an entertaining and accessible… more
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In 1999, Nathan Englander published the New York Times best-selling story collection For the Relief of Unbearable Urges . A starred Kirkus Review says of Englander’s long awaited new novel: The fate of Argentina’s Jews during the 1976-83 Dirty… more
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Barbara Kingsolver is an acclaimed novelist and winner of the PEN fiction prize whose work, which includes The Bean Trees, Animal Dreams, and The Poisonwood Bible, has been characterized as beautifully written, accessible, and engaging.… more
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• Recorded Apr 22, 2007The Woodruff's had it all -- Lee was a public relations executive and Bob was co-anchor of ABC's World News Tonight. Then Bob was seriously injured while embedded in Iraq. In an Instant is the frank account of how Bob and Lee's lives came… more
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Walter Isaacson has been the Chairman and CEO of CNN and the Managing Editor of Time Magazine. He is the author of the best-selling biography Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, and he has won several awards for his reporting, including the… more
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Daughter of the acclaimed novelist Anita Desai, Indian writer Kiran Desai cinched the 2006 Man Booker Prize with her latest novel The Inheritance of Loss. Desai was hailed as a promising new literary voice with the publication of her first novel,… more
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• Recorded Mar 29, 2007Eric Kandel, the 2000 Nobel Laureate in Medicine, came to the United States with his family from Nazi-occupied Vienna in 1939. University Professor of Physiology and Cell Biophysics, Psychiatry, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Columbia… more
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With one of the most storied careers in modern American letters, Norman Mailer’s extensive body of work includes the National Book Award winner Miami and the Siege of Chicago, National Book and Pulitzer Prize winner The Armies of the Night, and… more
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• Recorded Mar 22, 2007Kurt Andersen was co-founder and editor of Spy magazine, editor-in-chief of New York magazine, and currently hosts the public radio program Studio 360 . His first novel, Turn of the Century, was a national bestseller and a New York Times Notable… more
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Born in Somalia and raised Muslim, Ayaan Hirsi Ali is the former Dutch politician who became the target of terrorists for her fierce, public criticisms of Islam. Forced into hiding after the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh, her collaborator on… more
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Born in Havana in 1950, Carlos Eire was one of fourteen thousand unaccompanied children airlifted out of Cuba by Operation Pedro Pan in the early '60s. Today he is the Yale University Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies. Narrated with… more
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• Recorded Mar 13, 2007Irish author John Banville is esteemed for his masterful prose, as well as an experimental writing style that challenges the traditional form of the novel. His extensive list of works includes award-winning novels Kepler, The Book of Evidence,… more
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Two celebrated religion scholars examine the recently discovered “Gospel of Judas.” Elaine Pagels exploded the myth of the early Christian Church as a unified movement in her 1979 book The Gnostic Gospels, which won both the National Book… more
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