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Joshua Ferris | The Unnamedwith Jonathan Dee | The Privileges Recorded 1/28/2010Listen to MP3 audioThe debut novel, Then We Came to the End by Jonathan Ferris was translated into 24 different languages, was a fin... More...
Jonathan Safran Foer and Nathan Englander | New American HaggadahRecorded 3/8/2012Listen to MP3 audio Jonathan Safran Foer became a certified literary wunderkind at the age of 25 with his debut novel, Everything Is Il... More...
Lillian Faderman | My Mother’s Wars Recorded 3/7/2013Listen to MP3 audioScholar and women’s studies pioneer Lillian Faderman is the author of several groundbreaking narratives of the cultural,... More...
Paul Farmer | Haiti After the EarthquakeRecorded 12/6/2011Listen to MP3 audioDue to a technical issue, the first 15 minutes of the recording were inaudible. The podcast joins Dr. Farmer a little la... More...
Stefan Fatsis | A Few Seconds of Panic: A 5-Foot-8, 170-Pound, 43-Year-Old Sportswriter Plays in the NFLRecorded 7/22/2008Listen to MP3 audioWall Street Journal sports reporter Stefan Fatsis infiltrated the insular world of competitive Scrabble players i... More...
Jules Feiffer | Political Cartoon Panel Recorded 10/24/1995Listen to MP3 audioJules Feiffer leads a panel discussion on the dedication to editorial cartooning. ... More...
Jules Feiffer and Jenny Allen | The Long ChalkboardRecorded 11/21/2006Listen to MP3 audio Jules Feiffer’s Pulitzer Prize-winning comic strip ran for forty-two years in the Village Voice and his cartoon... More...
Bruce Feiler | Where God Was Born Recorded 9/27/2005Listen to MP3 audioBeginning with a daring helicopter ride over the West Bank and climaxing with a hair-raising airlift into Baghdad, Wh... More...
Michael Feinstein | The Gershwins And Me: A Personal History in Twelve Songs Recorded 5/6/2013Listen to MP3 audio“The Ambassador of the Great American Songbook,” Michael Feinstein is a multi-platinum-selling, Emmy and Grammy Award-no... More...
Timothy Ferris | Seeing in the DarkRecorded 9/19/2002Listen to MP3 audioEnjoy a visual presentation on the wonders of backyard stargazing with physicist and astronomer Timothy Ferris. Recipien... More...
Helen Fielding | Olivia Joules and the Overactive ImaginationRecorded 6/17/2004Listen to MP3 audioHelen Fielding's first novel Cause Celeb was based on her experience filming documentaries in Africa for Comic Re... More...
Dexter Filkins | The Forever WarRecorded 10/14/2008Listen to MP3 audioDexter Filkins is a foreign correspondent for the New York Times, covering the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The ... More...
First Person StorySlam: Philly vs. Chicago Recorded 4/18/2009Listen to MP3 audio(This recording contains explicit content.) It's the melee on the Parkway, the fracas at the Free Library Festival! In ... More...
First Person StorySlam: Mistaken IdentitiesRecorded 4/20/2012Listen to MP3 audio2012 Philadelphia Book Festival Competing storytellers from Philadelphia and Detroit tell their best mistak... More...
James McPherson and David Hackett FischerRecorded 11/13/2008Listen to MP3 audioJames McPherson | Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief A professor emeritus of History at Princet... More...
Ari Fleischer | Taking Heat: The President, the Press, and My Years in the White HouseRecorded 3/7/2005Listen to MP3 audioAri Fleischer was the press secretary for President George W. Bush from January 2001 to July 2003, the culmination of a ... More...
Larry Flynt and David Eisenbach, Ph.D. | One Nation Under Sex: How the Private Lives of Presidents, First Ladies and Their Lovers Changed the Course of American HistoryRecorded 7/25/2011Listen to MP3 audioNotorious publisher and free speech champion Larry Flynt has been challenging America’s interpretation of the First Amen... More...
Franklin Foer and Marc Tracy | Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of FameRecorded 11/13/2012Listen to MP3 audioJewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame is a collection of essays about influential Jewish athletes, coaches, br... More...
Jonathan Safran Foer | Eating AnimalsRecorded 11/10/2009Listen to MP3 audioIn Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer synthesizes philosophy, literature, science, and his own detective work in... More...
Mick Foley | Tietam BrownRecorded 7/17/2003Listen to MP3 audioMick Foley - former Commissioner of the World Wrestling Federation, a.k.a. Cactus Jack, Dude Love, and Mankind - is the ... More...
Ken Follett | World Without EndRecorded 10/11/2007Listen to MP3 audioKen Follett is an internationally best-selling author with over 90 million copies of his books in print. Beginning with ... More...
Eric Foner | The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American SlaveryRecorded 11/30/2010Listen to MP3 audioThe DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, Eric Foner is a noted scholar of the Civil War and Recon... More...
Susanna Foo | Susanna Foo Fresh Inspiration Recorded 9/14/2005Listen to MP3 audioA culinary innovator, Susanna Foo revolutionized Chinese cuisine, first in her popular Philadelphia restaurant, then in ... More...
Richard Ford | The Lay of the LandRecorded 10/30/2006Listen to MP3 audioIn The Lay of the Land, his first novel in ten years, Richard Ford reprises his famed everyman protagonist, Frank... More...
Richard Ford | CanadaRecorded 5/24/2012Listen to MP3 audioCelebrated for creating stories that express the shifting moods of the United States, Richard Ford is best known for his... More...
Margalit Fox | Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals about the MindRecorded 10/23/2007Listen to MP3 audioMargalit Fox, a New York Times journalist trained as a linguist, accompanied a team of researchers to a remote Be... More...
Ian Fraizer | Fish's EyeRecorded 5/2/2002Listen to MP3 audioA frequent contributor to The New Yorker, Ian Fraizer is the critically-acclaimed author of Dating Your Mom, G... More...
Thomas Frank | What's the Matter with Kansas?Recorded 6/2/2005Listen to MP3 audioMolly Ivins has called Thomas Frank's New York Times bestseller What's the Matter with Kansas? "... More...
Thomas Frank | The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives RuleRecorded 9/16/2008Listen to MP3 audio(This recording contains explicit content.) In his 2004 New York Times bestseller What’s the Matter Wit... More...
Thomas Frank | Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right Recorded 2/2/2012Listen to MP3 audioIn his incisive and bestselling 2004 book, What's the Matter With Kansas?, Thomas Frank argued that red-state Ame... More...
Frank McCourt | 'TisRecorded 9/23/1999Listen to MP3 audioFrank McCourt's second memoir 'Tis is the story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilli... More...
John Hope Franklin | Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope FranklinRecorded 2/9/2006Listen to MP3 audioNonagenarian John Hope Franklin has long been a leader in the study of African American life. A pioneer of historical st... More...
Jonathan Franzen | The CorrectionsRecorded 9/26/2002Listen to MP3 audioThe Corrections, Jonathan Franzen’s third novel, was awarded both the National Book Award and New York Times... More...
Jonathan Franzen | Freedom: A NovelRecorded 9/23/2010Listen to MP3 audioThe Corrections, Jonathan Franzen's third novel, was awarded both the National Book Award and the New York Tim... More...
Ian Frazier | Lamentations of the Father: EssaysRecorded 6/12/2008Listen to MP3 audioWhen the Atlantic Monthly celebrated its 150th anniversary by publishing excerpts from the best writing ever to a... More...
Tana French | Broken HarborRecorded 7/31/2012Listen to MP3 audioIrish novelist and actress Tana French won the 2007 Edgar Award for her New York Times bestselling debut novel ... More...
James Frey | Bright Shiny MorningRecorded 5/27/2008Listen to MP3 audio (This recording contains explicit content.) Author of the controversial A Million Little Pieces, James Frey con... More...
Bryant Simon | Everything but the Coffee: Learning About America from Starbuckswith Stephen Fried | Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild WestRecorded 4/21/2010Listen to MP3 audioBryant Simon's new book, Everything but the Coffee, looks at Starbucks’ psychological, emotional, political, and ... More...
Carlos Fuentes | Destiny and Desire: A Novel | In conversation with Edith GrossmanRecorded 1/20/2011Listen to MP3 audioThe former Mexican Ambassador to France, Carlos Fuentes is the author of more than 20 books, including Happy Families... More...
Francis Fukuyama | The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French RevolutionRecorded 4/26/2011Listen to MP3 audioFrancis Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for Internatio... More...
Francis Fukuyama | America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power and the Neoconservative LegacyRecorded 4/20/2006Listen to MP3 audioFrancis Fukuyama is a professor of International Political Economy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International... More...
Francis FukuyamaRecorded 5/9/2002Listen to MP3 audioOne of the country's leading social philosophers, Francis Fukuyama teaches at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced Inter... More...
Cornelia Funke | InkdeathRecorded 10/18/2008Listen to MP3 audioCornelia Funke achieved international recognition with the fantasy novel Dragon Rider, which remained on the N... More...
Alan Furst | Spies of the BalkansRecorded 6/14/2010Listen to MP3 audioThe New York Times calls Alan Furst "America’s preeminent spy novelist" and "an incomparable expert at his game."... More...
William Kennedy | Roscoe | Richard Ford | A Multitude of SinsRecorded 2/21/2002Listen to MP3 audioWilliam Kennedy’s Albany cycle of novels does for Albany “what James Joyce did for Dublin and Saul Bellow did for Chicag... More...
Richard T. Ford | The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse AND Michael J. Klarman | Unfinished Business: Racial Equality in American HistoryRecorded 2/21/2008Listen to MP3 audioRichard Thompson Ford is a professor of law at Stanford Law School and the author of many articles on civil rights, cons... More...
John Strausbaugh, Kurt Thometz and Jonathan Safran Foer with MC Neal PollackRecorded 4/11/2002Listen to MP3 audioMC Neal Pollack, author of The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, kicks off a motley discussion inclu... More...
Jonathan Safran Foer | Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close with Francine Prose | A Changed ManRecorded 3/31/2005Listen to MP3 audioWith the publication of his first novel, Jonathan Safran Foer became a certified literary wunderkind at the age of 25. T... More...
James Srodes | Franklin: The Essential Founding FatherRecorded 3/14/2006Listen to MP3 audioJames Srodes’s biography of Benjamin Franklin, Franklin: The Essential Founding Father, was selected as one of th... More...
Stephen J. Dubner | SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life InsuranceRecorded 10/27/2009Listen to MP3 audioFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner spent more than two years on the New York Times Bes... More...
