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Shalom Auslander | Hope: A Tragedy with Ben Marcus | The Flame Alphabet Recorded 1/17/2012Listen to MP3 audio(This recording contains explicit content.) "With his middle finger pointed at the heavens and a hand held over ... More...
John Banville writing as Benjamin Black | Christine Falls with Colum McCann | Zoli Recorded 3/13/2007Listen to MP3 audioIrish author John Banville is esteemed for his masterful prose, as well as an experimental writing style that challenges... More...
Andrea Barrett | The Air We Breathe with Claire Messud | The Emperor's ChildrenRecorded 10/11/2007Listen to MP3 audioAndrea Barrett is the author of the novels The Middle Kingdom and The Voyage of the Narwhal and the Nation... More...
Andrea Barrett | Servants of the Map | Alistair Macleod | IslandRecorded 4/17/2002Listen to MP3 audioAndrea Barrett is the author of The Voyage of the Narwhal and National Book Award Winner Ship Fever. The l... More...
Ann Beattie | Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life with Thomas Mallon | WatergateRecorded 3/1/2012Listen to MP3 audioAfter publishing several stories in The New Yorker, Ann Beattie burst on the literary scene in 1976 with Chill... More...
Edwidge Danticat | Brother, I'm Dying AND Edward P. Jones | All Aunt Hagar's Children AND Zakes Mda | CionRecorded 9/25/2007Listen to MP3 audioHaitian-born writer Edwidge Danticat is the author of Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection; Krik... More...
Rick Moody | The Four Fingers of Death with Larry Doyle | Go MutantsRecorded 7/29/2010Listen to MP3 audioRick Moody is the author of nine books, including The Diviners and The Ice Storm, which was adapted into a... More...
Baseball Panel Discussion With Jonathan Eig, Leigh Montville, Art Shamsky, and Neil LanctotRecorded 5/10/2005Listen to MP3 audioJonathan Eig, Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig - Jonathan Eig is a senior special writer for The... 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...
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...
Harold Holzer and James McPherson | Hearts Touched by Fire: The Best of Battles and Leaders of the Civil WarRecorded 6/21/2011Listen to MP3 audioA professor emeritus of History at Princeton University, James McPherson won the Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Fre... More...
Abusage and Usage: A Panel on Language with Mark Liberman, Erin McKean, John McWhorter and Ben Yagoda, moderated by Carolyn Marvin Recorded 2/8/2007Listen to MP3 audioJoin us for an evening of etymologic mayhem, sensational syntactic investigation, and grammar gone wild with Mark Liberm... More...
The Liars Club | L.A. Banks, Jonathan Maberry, Ed Pettit, and Dennis TafoyaRecorded 4/18/2010Listen to MP3 audioThe Liars Club is a collective of award winning writers who work across a spectrum of genres--from literary to mystery t... More...
David Macaulay | The Way We WorkRecorded 10/25/2008Listen to MP3 audioFrom the pyramids of Egypt to the skyscrapers of New York City, Caldecott Medalist and international bestseller David Ma... More...
David Macaulay | MosqueRecorded 11/24/2003Listen to MP3 audioDavid Macaulay, artist and author of several books (including City, Castle and Pyramid) that use his "mast... More...
Robert MacNeil | Do You Speak American?Recorded 1/20/2005Listen to MP3 audioRobert MacNeil and William Crann co-authored The Story of English, and have collaborated again for Do You Spea... More...
Robert MacNeil | Looking for My CountryRecorded 6/17/2003Listen to MP3 audioJournalist Robert MacNeil and William Crann co-authored The Story of English, and have collaborated again for ... More...
Rachel Maddow | Drift: The Unmooring of American Military PowerRecorded 4/14/2013Listen to MP3 audioAs host of MSNBC's award-winningThe Rachel Maddow Show, Rachel Maddow offers her take on the stories of the day... More...
Norman Mailer | The Castle in the ForestRecorded 3/27/2007Listen to MP3 audioWith one of the most storied careers in modern American letters, Norman Mailer’s extensive body of work includes the Nat... More...
The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker with Cartoon Editor, Robert Mankoff Recorded 9/22/2005Listen to MP3 audioJoin Robert Mankoff, cartoon editor of the New Yorker, for a rollicking visual journey through eight decades of s... More...
Editorial Cartoons: How Far Is Too Far? - Talk About It!Recorded 2/27/2006Listen to MP3 audioAn international outcry followed the publication of a Danish newspaper cartoon satirirzing the Muslim prophet Mohammed. ... More...
David Maraniss | Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the WorldRecorded 7/10/2008Listen to MP3 audioAn associate editor at the Washington Post, David Maraniss received the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in ... More...
David Maraniss | Clemente with Leigh Montville | The Big BamRecorded 5/23/2006Listen to MP3 audioThe Free Library hosts Leigh Montville, the New York Times best-selling author of Ted Williams, with a new... More...
Mary Ellen Mark | Seen Behind the SceneRecorded 11/10/2008Listen to MP3 audioPhotographer Mary Ellen Mark is renowned for her humanist portraits of people and cultures. Presented in books and exhib... More...
Wynton Marsalis and Carl Vigeland | Jazz in the Bittersweet BluesRecorded 6/18/2001Listen to MP3 audioThe renowned jazz musician and author discuss their journey together, touring the country through stages, studios and sm... More...
Paule Marshall | The Fisher KingRecorded 3/7/2002Listen to MP3 audioWinner of the 1992 MacArthur Fellowship, Paule Marshall is the author of Brown Girl Brownstones and Praisesong... More...
Yann Martel | Life of PiRecorded 5/10/2003Listen to MP3 audioLife of Pi won the 2002 Man Booker Prize. The story of a young boy shipwrecked and stranded at sea with a Bengal ... More...
Yann Martel | Beatrice and VirgilRecorded 4/17/2010Listen to MP3 audioYann Martel is the author of The Life of Pi, winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize. The story of a young boy shipwr... More...
Phil Martelli | Don't Call Me Coach: A Lesson Plan for LifeRecorded 6/18/2008Listen to MP3 audioIn Don’t Call me Coach, Saint Joseph’s University men’s basketball head coach Phil Martelli compresses his three ... More...
Judith Martin | Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior: Freshly UpdatedRecorded 4/28/2005Listen to MP3 audioAlways a joy and an education to read (even if you don't care about proper behavior), Miss Manners is known for her down... More...
Ayana Mathis | The Twelve Tribes of Hattie with Emily Raboteau | Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African DiasporaRecorded 1/24/2013Listen to MP3 audioIn the “astonishingly powerful” novel The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, Ayana Mathis writes with “uncommon narrative a... More...
Peter Matthiessen | Shadow CountryRecorded 4/17/2008Listen to MP3 audioA co-founder of the Paris Review and its first fiction editor, Peter Matthiessen received the National Book Award... More...
Brian May and Elena Vidal | A Village Lost and FoundRecorded 7/20/2010Listen to MP3 audioFounding guitarist of the legendary band Queen, Brian May also holds a Ph.D. in astrophysics and has nurtured a lifetime... More...
Jane Mayer | The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American IdealsRecorded 7/29/2008Listen to MP3 audio(This recording contains explicit content.) Jane Mayer’s The Dark Side offers a riveting account of how th... More...
Peter Mayle | French LessonsRecorded 5/24/2001Listen to MP3 audioFrancophile phenomenon and author of A Year in Provence explores the gustatory pleasures found throughout France... More...
James McBride | Song Yet SungRecorded 5/18/2008Listen to MP3 audioIn his lyrical new novel, Song Yet Sung, James McBride, the bestselling author of The Color of Water, the ... More...
Nathan McCall | ThemRecorded 1/29/2008Listen to MP3 audioA reporter for several years at the Washington Post, Nathan McCall is the author of the bestselling memoir Mak... More...
Alexander McCall Smith | The Sunday Philosophy ClubRecorded 9/28/2004Listen to MP3 audioBorn in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Alexander McCall Smith has led a distinguished career as a legal scholar, and ... More...
Andrew McCarthy | The Longest Way Home: One Man’s Quest for the Courage to Settle DownRecorded 10/3/2012Listen to MP3 audioAn entire generation knows Andrew McCarthy as Blaine McDonough from the 1986 John Hughes film Pretty in Pink. For... More...
David McCaulay | Building the Book: CathedralRecorded 11/4/1999Listen to MP3 audioThe award-winning author and illustrator looks back on the 25th anniversary of Cathedral. ... More...
General Stanley McChrystal | My Share of the TaskRecorded 1/31/2013Listen to MP3 audio“A legendary warrior with a fine eye for enduring lessons about leadership, courage, and consequence” (Tom Brokaw), Gene... More...
Frank McCourt | Teacher ManRecorded 12/6/2005Listen to MP3 audioFrank McCourt retired after thirty years of teaching in New York City's public schools to write his autobiography, An... More...
Robert McCrum | Globish: How the English Language Became the World’s LanguageRecorded 6/10/2010Listen to MP3 audioRobert McCrum is the associate editor of The Observer (London) and co-author of the bestseller The Story of En... More...
David McCullough | 1776Recorded 5/26/2005Listen to MP3 audioA two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and National Book Award recipient, historian David McCullough has chronicled the greats... More...
David McCullough | John AdamsRecorded 6/7/2001Listen to MP3 audioDavid McCullough has been called a "master of art" of narrative history. He is twice winner of the National Book Award a... More...
David McCullough | The Greater Journey: Americans in ParisRecorded 6/16/2011Listen to MP3 audioDavid McCullough’s bestselling books have created a renaissance of interest in American history. His affinity for morall... More...
Alice McDermott | Child of My HeartRecorded 1/30/2003Listen to MP3 audioAward-winning novelist Alice McDermott deals with many aspects of love and family life in her novels. She infuses her wo... More...
Alice McDermott | Books that Changed My Life Recorded 3/11/1999Listen to MP3 audioThe author of the National Book Award-winning novel, Charming Billy, discusses her literary influences. ... More...
Alice McDermott | After This Recorded 11/9/2006Listen to MP3 audioAlice McDermott is the author of five previous novels including Charming Billy, winner of the l998 National Book ... More...
William S. McFeely | Portrait: A Life of Thomas EakinsRecorded 12/7/2006Listen to MP3 audioWilliam S. McFeely, whose biography of Ulysses S. Grant won the Pulitzer Prize in 1982, sheds new light on the famed Phi... More...
