Podcasts
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Written with the perspective of an insider, A Time to Run is the first novel from U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, one of the most admired and respected figures in politics today. A Time to Run tells an exciting tale of friendship and betrayal,… more
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Frank McCourt retired after thirty years of teaching in New York City's public schools to write his autobiography, Angela's Ashes . The memoir remained at the top of the New York Times bestseller list for more than two years, won the Pulitzer… more
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The late, great New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael called Teri Garr “the funniest neurotic dizzy dame on the screen.” One of Hollywood’s most beloved comic actresses, Garr starred in the classic films Young Frankenstein, Close Encounters of the… more
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Maureen Dowd -- the intrepid New York Times columnist and winner of a Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for her saucy and incisive commentary -- hit the bestseller list during the 2004 presidential campaign with Bushworld , a collection of her amp-ed up… more
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Michael Graves was instrumental in the emergence of postmodernism in the mid-1970s. His classic and colorful buildings are intended to make contemporary architecture more meaningful and accessible, referring to past tradition while responding to… more
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• Recorded Nov 18, 2005In 2002 Lynne Truss, the British writer and journalist, presented Cutting a Dash , a BBC Radio 4 series about punctuation. The success of the series led to the publication of Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, a… more
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A distinguished historian and critic, Garry Wills is best known for his incisive political commentaries. Wills won the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award and 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Lincoln at Gettysburg , the 1979 National Book Critics… more
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Historian and biographer Edmund Morris wrote Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan, the controversial portrait of the 40th U.S. President, and The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, and first of an… more
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Marilynne Robinson is the author of Housekeeping, a modern classic and winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award. A teacher at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, Robinson has also authored two books of nonfiction, Mother Country and The Death of Adam. Her new… more
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Scott Turow’s first-hand knowledge of the American legal system informs his taut legal mysteries. His novels, including Presumed Innocent and Reversible Errors, explore the murky terrain of justice with a “brash, backroom sensibility” and his… more
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E. L. Doctorow’s novels include The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, World’s Fair, Billy Bathgate, and City of God . Among his many honors are the National Book Award, two National Book Critics Circle awards, the PEN/Faulkner Award and the National… more
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Actor Jerry Lewis’s rubber-faced characters in such films as The Nutty Professor and The King of Comedy earned him recognition as one of the great physical comics of all time. Now this Nobel Peace Prize nominee is chairman of the Muscular… more
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Ernest J. Gaines has enriched the body of American literature with his bestselling books, which include The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and the 1993 National Book Critics Circle Award winner A Lesson before Dying . His books revel in the… more
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R. L. Stine spoke to middle-schoolers about writing and urban myths at the Free Library of Philadelphia as part of the Field Family Teen Author Series.
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• Recorded Oct 25, 2005H. W. Brands is the Dickson Allen Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. The author of Lone Star Nation and The Age of Gold , he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography for The First American: The Life and Times of… more
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• Recorded Oct 20, 2005Cartoonist Chris Ware is a professional colorist, award-winning letterer, and author of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, which was included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial of American Art. The ACME Novelty Library is a new graphic work… more
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Dava Sobel has a rare gift for weaving scientific concepts into a compelling story and her internationally bestselling books, including Longitude and Galileo’s Daughter, attract readers from across the literary spectrum. An award-winning former… more
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• Recorded Oct 18, 2005An education activist, Jonathan Kozol works to end illiteracy, improve economic conditions for the poverty-stricken, and to awaken affluent Americans to the plight of the downtrodden. Since his National Book Award-winning first book, Death at an… more
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• Recorded Oct 11, 2005A Christian leader for social change, Jim Wallis is the founder and editor-in-chief of Sojourners magazine and the president and convener of “Call to Renewal,” the national federation of churches and faith-based organizations working with members… more
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In a downtown Washington, D.C., recording studio, Fresh Air book critic and Georgetown University English professor, Maureen Corrigan tapes her book reviews for Fresh Air with Terry Gross . Over the past 16 years, Corrigan has logged thousands of… more
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