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Graphic Novels Panel: Art Spiegelman, Chip Kidd, Jessica Abel, Charles Burns & David HeatleyRecorded 11/6/2008Listen to MP3 audio(This recording contains explicit content.) Art Spiegelman | Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist a... More...
Elias Khoury | Yalo AND Sinan Antoon | I’jaam: An Iraqi RhapsodyRecorded 3/25/2008Listen to MP3 audioLebanese writer Elias Khoury is the author of Little Mountain, The Kingdom of Strangers, and Gate of th... More...
Anne Bernays and Justin Kaplan | Back Then: Two Literary Lives in 1950sRecorded 6/25/2002Listen to MP3 audioAnn Bernays is a writing teacher and the author of eight novels, including Prudence Indeed and Professor Romeo... More...
Taylor Branch | At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68Recorded 1/24/2006Listen to MP3 audioA journalist and civil-rights activist, Taylor Branch is the author of America in the King Years, athree part bio... More...
Lily Brett | You Gotta Have Balls & Ken Kalfus | A Disorder Peculiar to the Country Recorded 7/25/2006Listen to MP3 audioLily Brett, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, was born in Germany and emigrated to Australia with her parents in 1948... More...
Chris Ware | The ACME Novelty Library with Charles Burns | Black Hole and Chip Kidd | Book One: Work: 1986-2006 Recorded 10/20/2005Listen to MP3 audioCartoonist Chris Ware is a professional colorist, award-winning letterer, and author of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest ... More...
Daniel Clowes | Mister Wonderful: A Love Story with Ben Katchor | The Cardboard Valise | Moderated by Chip KiddRecorded 5/3/2011Listen to MP3 audioCalled "the country’s premier underground cartoonist" (Newsweek) and "a bona-fide cult hero" (The New Yorker... More...
Roddy Doyle |The Deportees and Other Stories AND A.L. Kennedy | DayRecorded 1/24/2008Listen to MP3 audio(This recording contains explicit content.) Irish author Roddy Doyle writes fiction rooted in the working-class experie... More...
Etgar Keret & Rivka GalchenRecorded 10/23/2008Listen to MP3 audio(This recording contains explicit content.) Etgar Keret | The Girl on the Fridge: Stories ... More...
William Kennedy | Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes with Paul Hendrickson | Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961Recorded 10/6/2011Listen to MP3 audio"What James Joyce did for Dublin and Saul Bellow did for Chicago, William Kennedy has done for Albany," said John Atlas ... More...
Hayden Herrera | Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: Sacred MonstersRecorded 2/13/2008Listen to MP3 audioRenowned art historian Hayden Herrera’s influential 1983 biography, Frida, helped establish the Mexican artist’s ... More...
Ashley Kahn | A Love SupremeRecorded 1/29/2004Listen to MP3 audioHaving already established himself as an author who pushes jazz writing towards exceptional art with Kind of Blue: Th... More...
Ken Kalfus | Equilateral with James Salter | All That IsRecorded 4/16/2013Listen to MP3 audioPraised for his ability to flesh out vivid characters whose lives saturate puzzling cultural backdrops, Ken Kalfus is th... More...
Rodger Kamenetz | The History of Last Night's Dream: Discovering the Hidden Path to the SoulRecorded 12/13/2007Listen to MP3 audioRodger Kamenetz is the author of the international bestseller The Jew in the Lotus, as well as several books of p... More...
Eric Kandel | In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of MindRecorded 3/29/2007Listen to MP3 audioEric Kandel, the 2000 Nobel Laureate in Medicine, came to the United States with his family from Nazi-occupied Vienna in... More...
Jan Karon | Light From Heaven Recorded 12/8/2005Listen to MP3 audioAt Home in Mitford, the first book in Jan Karon’s phenomenally successful Mitford Years series, was nominated for... More...
Mary Karr | CherryRecorded 10/18/2001Listen to MP3 audioMary Karr’s best-selling memoir, The Liar’s Club, won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award. The sequel, Cherry, ca... More...
Mary Karr | Lit Recorded 12/3/2009Listen to MP3 audioPoet and memoirist Mary Karr is the Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse University. She was a Guggenheim Fe... More...
Gary Kasparov | How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves - from the Board to the BoardroomRecorded 10/19/2007Listen to MP3 audioGary Kasparov became the youngest-ever World Chess Champion in 1985 at the age of 22, a title he held until 2000. He ret... More...
Sandor Katz | The Art of Fermentation: An In-Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes from Around the WorldRecorded 6/5/2012Listen to MP3 audioA self-avowed "fermentation fetishist," author and activist Sandor Katz (aka Sandor Kraut) travels the world spreading t... More...
Garrison Keillor | Good Poems, American PlacesRecorded 4/11/2011Listen to MP3 audioHost and writer of Minnesota Public Radio's A Prairie Home Companion, Garrison Keillor is a storyteller, humorist... More...
Garrison Keillor | LibertyRecorded 10/5/2008Listen to MP3 audioHost and writer of Minnesota Public Radio’s A Prairie Home Companion, Garrison Keillor is a storyteller, humorist... More...
Garrison Keillor | Lake Wobegon Summer 1956Recorded 11/6/2001Listen to MP3 audioThe acclaimed author and radio persona continues the ongoing narrative of the fictional Minnesota hamlet, where an icono... More...
Thomas Keller | Under Pressure: Cooking Sous VideRecorded 11/24/2008Listen to MP3 audioSous vide is an innovative culinary technique that is revolutionizing the professional food world. Blazing the gastronom... More...
Thomas Keller and Sebastien Rouxel | Bouchon BakeryRecorded 10/25/2012Listen to MP3 audioNamed America’s Best Chef by Time magazine, Thomas Keller is the renowned proprietor and chef of legendary restau... More...
Kitty Kelley | Oprah: A BiographyRecorded 4/17/2010Listen to MP3 audioKitty Kelley is the most widely read biographer of our times. Her previous subjects have included the Bush dynasty (T... More...
Tina Kelley | Almost Home: Helping Kids Move from Homelessness to HopeRecorded 2/20/2013Listen to MP3 audioTina Kelley was a staff writer for the New York Times for ten years and belonged to the team that won the Pulitze... More...
Randall Kennedy | The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama PresidencyRecorded 12/1/2011Listen to MP3 audioOne of the country's premier scholars on race and ethnicity, Randall Kennedy's instant bestseller Nigger: The Strange... More...
William Kennedy | The Flaming CorsageRecorded 4/15/1997Listen to MP3 audioThe novelist discusses the sixth book in his Albany Cycle. ... More...
Randall Kennedy | Nigger and Interracial IntimaciesRecorded 2/4/2003Listen to MP3 audioA Rhodes Scholar, Randall Kennedy teaches classes on contracts, freedom of expression, and the regulation of race relati... 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...
A.L. Kennedy | What Becomes: Stories with Gary Shteyngart | Super Sad True Love StoryRecorded 9/30/2010Listen to MP3 audio(This recording contains explicit content.) Scottish writer A.L. Kennedy has twice been named to Granta's list o... More...
Jill Ker Conway | When Memory SpeaksRecorded 4/20/1999Listen to MP3 audioA leading feminist voice and the first woman president of Smith College, Jill Ker Conway discusses her book on the art o... More...
On the Road 50th Anniversary Celebration Co-Sponsored by the 215 FestivalRecorded 10/4/2007Listen to MP3 audioA celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first publication of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, featuring a musical... More...
John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry | This Moment on Earth: Today's New Environmentalists and Their Vision for the FutureRecorded 6/4/2007Listen to MP3 audioJohn Kerry has led the fight to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, passed legislation protecting our oceans, f... More...
Sue Monk Kidd | The Mermaid ChairRecorded 4/12/2005Listen to MP3 audioSue Monk Kidd's fiction debut, The Secret Life of Bees, transformed the acclaimed memoirist into a literary super... More...
Chip Kidd | Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz | The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two SemestersRecorded 11/15/2001Listen to MP3 audioChip Kidd, "The closest thing to a rock star in graphic design today" (USA Today), designs book jackets that "mak... More...
Chip Kidd | The LearnersRecorded 2/14/2008Listen to MP3 audioChip Kidd, "The closest thing to a rock star in graphic design today" (USA Today), designs book jackets that "mak... More...
Tracy Kidder | Mountains Beyond MountainsRecorded 9/20/2003Listen to MP3 audioTracy Kidder has been described as "master of the non-fiction narrative." His writing has earned him the Pulitzer Prize,... More...
Jamaica Kincaid | See Now ThenRecorded 2/26/2013Listen to MP3 audioLyrical, sardonic, and forthright, Antigua native Jamaica Kincaid’s novels display “a poet’s understanding of how politi... More...
Ross King | Leonardo and the Last SupperRecorded 11/20/2012Listen to MP3 audioIn Leonardo and the Last Supper, Ross King presents a portrait of one of history’s artistic geniuses, exploring h... More...
Martin Luther King III | Reach for PeaceRecorded 1/5/2005Listen to MP3 audioMartin Luther King's son discusses peace in America. ... More...
Late Great Words of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with Martin Luther King, III and Christopher EschenbachRecorded 1/7/2005Listen to MP3 audioMartin Luther King, III joins Maestro Christoph Eschenbach for a discussion of how Dr. King's life experience and belief... More...
Ross King | The Judgement of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World ImpressionismRecorded 4/20/2006Listen to MP3 audioRoss King is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Brunelleschi’s Dome and Michaelangelo & the P... More...
Elaine Pagels and Karen King | Reading JudasRecorded 3/8/2007Listen to MP3 audioTwo celebrated religion scholars examine the recently discovered “Gospel of Judas.” Elaine Pagels exploded the myth of t... More...
Barbara Kingsolver | Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of FoodRecorded 5/2/2007Listen to MP3 audioBarbara Kingsolver is an acclaimed novelist and winner of the PEN fiction prize whose work, which includes The Bean T... More...
Barbara Kingsolver | Flight Behavior Recorded 11/9/2012Listen to MP3 audioCalled “the Woody Guthrie of contemporary American fiction” (Boston Globe), Barbara Kingsolver is a self-d... More...
Maxine Hong Kingston | I Love a Broad Margin to My LifeRecorded 2/3/2011Listen to MP3 audioPublished in 1976, Maxine Hong Kingston's first book, The Woman Warrior, won the National Book Critics Circle Awa... More...
Maxine Hong Kingston | The Fifth Book of PeaceRecorded 10/8/2002Listen to MP3 audioMaxine Hong Kingston is the distinguished author of The Woman Warrior (winner of the 1976 Book Critics Circle Awa... More...
Galway Kinnell | Strong is Your Hold AND Edith Grossman | The Golden Age: Poems of the Spanish RenaissanceRecorded 11/16/2006Listen to MP3 audioWinner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for Poetry for Selected Poems, Galway Kinnell establish... More...
