Podcasts
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• Recorded Sep 13, 2006Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now! She is co-author, with her brother David Goodman, of the national bestseller The Exception to the Rulers , which was chosen by independent bookstores as the #1 political title of the… more
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• Recorded Sep 12, 2006An acclaimed journalist and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet, Katha Pollitt is a regular columnist for The Nation magazine. Pollitt is a self-described liberal and feminist famous for her critiques of the feminist movement and its… more
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• Recorded Aug 15, 2006 Explicit Content( This recording contains explicit content. ) Scottish novelist Irvine Welsh gained international acclaim with his 1996 novel Trainspotting and the subsequent eponymous film directed by Danny Boyle and starring Ewan McGregor. Welsh is an… more
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Monte Irvin’s career in baseball stretched from the Negro National League to the Major League, from shortstop to scout to PR specialist in the commissioner’s office. The right-handed power hitter won two batting titles in the Negro National… more
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• Recorded Jul 27, 2006In early 2006, Joseph Volpe retired from The Metropolitan Opera, where as general manager since 1990, he was one of New York’s most powerful and outspoken culture czars. Volpe joined The Met in 1964 and was the first general manager to rise… more
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• Recorded Jul 25, 2006Lily Brett, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, was born in Germany and emigrated to Australia with her parents in 1948. Both her fiction and poetry have won other major prizes, including the 1987 Victorian Premier’s Award for poetry for The… more
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Drawn to stories of danger and adventure, Sebastian Junger is a National Magazine Award-winning journalist and author of the New York Times bestsellers The Perfect Storm and Fire. His new book, A Death In Belmont, begins with an unsettling… more
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• Recorded Jul 18, 2006A twenty-year veteran of The News Hour with Jim Lehrer and former Johannesburg Bureau Chief for CNN, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, a Special Africa Correspondent for NPR, has won two Emmys and two Peabody Awards for her journalism. She is the author of… more
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Former White House counsel to President Nixon, John Dean emerged as a central figure in the Watergate scandal and is considered the chief whistleblower that brought down Nixon’s presidency. Dean has recounted this time in the Watergate memoirs… more
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• Recorded Jul 13, 2006One of the most influential political thinkers of the progressive movement, George Lakoff is an advisor to the Democratic Party and author of Don’t Think of An Elephant!, a Democrat’s handbook during the 2004 elections. He is a professor of… more
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A renowned editor, writer, and educator, Victor S. Navasky, helmed The Nation for almost thirty years. A Matter of Opinion is at once the biography of a great magazine by the “wily” and “parsimonious” man behind it, and an extraordinary political… more
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• Recorded Jun 27, 2006In The Din In the Head, Cynthia Ozick, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism for Quarrel & Quandry in 2001, offers a new collection of essays on the joys of great literature, above all, the novel. One of America’s… more
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A cult favorite in the comics world, Alison Bechdel has chronicled the lives of fictionalized characters in her “Dykes to Watch Out For” comic strip since 1993. Called “one of the preeminent oeuvres of the comics genre, period” by Ms, “Dykes” is… more
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• Recorded Jun 20, 2006Under the art direction of Paul Buckley, renowned graphic artists Roz Chast, Anders Nilsen, and Seth have designed new covers for Stella Gibbons’s Cold Comfort Farm , Hans Christian Anderson’s Fairy Tales , and The Portable Dororthy Parker ,… more
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Scott Simon, the host of National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition with Scott Simon, has won every major broadcasting award, including the Peabody, the Emmy, and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. His first novel, Pretty Birds, set in war-torn… more
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• Recorded Jun 1, 2006The Free Library partners with First Person Arts for an evening of memoir with McSweeney’s editor at large Sean Wilsey and New Yorker contributor Francine du Plessix Gray. Sean Wilsey ’s Oh the Glory of It All is an “irreverent and remarkably… more
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Lorene Cary speaks about her memoir Black Ice at the 2006 Youth Empowerment Summit.
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The Free Library hosts Leigh Montville, the New York Times best-selling author of Ted Williams, with a new book on Babe Ruth based on newly discovered documents and interviews; and David Maraniss, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of They Marched… more
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E. Lynn Harris is the best-selling author of eight novels, including A Love of My Own and Any Way the Wind Blows, both of which were named Novel of the Year by Blackboard, and If This World Were Mine, winner of James Baldwin Award of Literary… more
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• Recorded May 4, 2006Barbara Olshansky is the Assistant Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. Her current docket at the Center includes class action lawsuits concerning immigrants’ rights, race discrimination in employment and education,… more
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