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Russell Banks | Lost Memory of Skin with Donald Ray Pollock | The Devil All the TimeRecorded 10/11/2011Listen to MP3 audio"[A] writer we can actually learn from, whose books help and urge us to change," (The Village Voice), Russell Ban... More...
Matthew Pearl | The Poe Shadow with Louis Bayard | The Pale Blue EyeRecorded 7/19/2007Listen to MP3 audioJoin us for an evening dedicated to Edgar Allan Poe. Matthew Pearl’s (The Dante Club) latest bestseller combines ... More...
Dave Eggers and Neal Pollack Recorded 4/19/2004Listen to MP3 audioDave Eggers is the bestselling author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Neal Pollack is a major contr... 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...
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...
Graphic Novels Panel: Chip Kidd, Charles Burns, Kim Deech, Kaz, Richard McGuire, Chris Weir, Art Spiegalman Recorded 2/2/2002Listen to MP3 audioChip Kidd, Editor of Pantheon's Graphic Novels Division, moderates a panel discussion between: Charles Burns, the cr... More...
Judith Jones | The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food with Alex Prud'homme | My Life In FranceRecorded 3/6/2008Listen to MP3 audioA senior editor and vice president at Alfred A. Knopf, where she has worked since 1957, Judith Jones has edited some of ... 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...
Wayne Pacelle | The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend ThemRecorded 4/20/2011Listen to MP3 audioAs president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States—the world's largest animal protection organization—Wayne... More...
George Packer | Interesting Times: Writing from a Turbulent Decade Recorded 11/19/2009Listen to MP3 audioNew Yorker staff writer George Packer was honored with two Overseas Press Club awards in 2003, for his coverage o... More...
Elaine Pagels | Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of RevelationRecorded 3/15/2012Listen to MP3 audioElaine Pagels burst the myth of the early Christian Church as a unified movement in her 1979 book The Gnostic Gospels... More...
Camille Paglia | Glittering Images: A Journey through Art from Egypt to Star WarsRecorded 10/18/2012Listen to MP3 audioChampion of unbridled conversation, Camille Paglia acquired the nickname “Hurricane Camille” after publishing the 700-pa... More...
Camille Paglia | Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best PoemsRecorded 4/5/2005Listen to MP3 audioCamille Paglia is University Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and... More...
Chuck Palahniuk | RANTRecorded 5/10/2007Listen to MP3 audio(This recording contains explicit content.) Chuck Palahniuk has written seven novels including the bestsellers ... More...
Chuck Palahniuk | DamnedRecorded 10/29/2011Listen to MP3 audioThis podcast contains explicit content. Chuck Palahniuk has said about his world: "It can go to some dark p... More...
Chuck Palahniuk | PygmyRecorded 5/8/2009Listen to MP3 audio(This recording contains explicit content.) Chuck Palahniuk is the author of nine previous novels, including bestselle... More...
Michael Palin | Diaries 1969-1979: The Python YearsRecorded 9/6/2007Listen to MP3 audioOne of Britain's foremost comedy character actors, Michael Palin is known for his inventive genius and astonishing versa... More...
Christopher Paolini | EldestRecorded 8/26/2005Listen to MP3 audioChristopher Paolini, a precocious, home-schooled teenager from Montana made headline news in 2003 with his debut fantasy... More...
Christopher Paolini | EragonRecorded 3/3/2004Listen to MP3 audioAfter graduating high school at the age of 15 Christopher Paolini needed something to do. So, he sat down to write his d... More...
Christopher Paolini | InheritanceRecorded 11/9/2011Listen to MP3 audioChristopher Paolini, a precocious, homeschooled teenager from Montana, made headline news in 2003 with his debut fantasy... More...
Bernie Parent | Unmasked: Bernie Parent and the Broad Street BulliesRecorded 11/14/2012Listen to MP3 audio In the late 1970s “only the Lord saved more” than Flyers goaltender Bernie Parent. In his time as a Broad Street Bully... More...
Eli Pariser | The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding from YouRecorded 6/9/2011Listen to MP3 audioEli Pariser is a pioneer in online politics. Shortly after 9/11, he created a website calling for a non-military approac... More...
Ann Patchett | RunRecorded 10/3/2007Listen to MP3 audioAnn Patchett is the author of the novels The Patron Saint of Liars, Taft, The Magician’s Assistant,... More...
Ann Patchett and Ward Just Recorded 6/6/2002Listen to MP3 audioAnn Patchett is the award-winning author of The Patron Saint of Liars, The Magician's Assistant and Taft. ... More...
John Allen Paulos | Once Upon a NumberRecorded 11/12/1998Listen to MP3 audioThe mathematician discusses surprising connections between the scientific and literary cultures. ... More...
Nancy Pearl | Book Lust RediscoveriesRecorded 4/15/2013Listen to MP3 audioCalled "the talk of librarian circles" (New York Times) and immortalized as an action figure, librarian Nancy Pea... More...
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee | Things I Learned from Knitting (Whether I Wanted To or Not) Recorded 5/18/2008Listen to MP3 audioThe irreverent spokeswoman for today’s knitting revival, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, a.k.a. the Yarn Harlot, is the author o... More...
Harvey Pekar | American SplendorRecorded 10/7/2004Listen to MP3 audioHarvey Pekar shifted the culture of American comics in 1976 with the publication of American Splendor--a chronicl... More...
Nancy Pelosi | Know Your Power: A Message to America's DaughtersRecorded 8/5/2008Listen to MP3 audioSpeaker Pelosi will only sign copies of her current book. No memorabilia or photos permitted. Since 1987... More...
Sir Roger Penrose | The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the UniverseRecorded 3/2/2005Listen to MP3 audioSir Roger Penrose is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and is the best-selling au... More...
Deb Perelman | The Smitten Kitchen CookbookRecorded 12/5/2012Listen to MP3 audioIt's hard to find a food blog with more accolades than Deb Perelman’s Smitten Kitchen blog, which counts the New York... More...
John Perkins | The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and How to Change the WorldRecorded 10/28/2008Listen to MP3 audioA champion of environmental and social justice causes, John Perkins is the author of Confessions of an Economic Hit M... More...
Anne Perry | Buckingham Palace Gardens Recorded 4/15/2008Listen to MP3 audioAnne Perry is the author of several bestselling mystery novels featuring famed protagonists Inspector William Monk and S... More...
Charles Peters | Five Days in Philadelphia: Wendell Willkie, Franklin Roosevelt, and the 1940 Convention That Saved the Western WorldRecorded 7/28/2005Listen to MP3 audioThe year, 1940; the place, Philadelphia: After five days of rousing speeches and multiple ballots, Wendell Willkie won t... More...
Nathaniel Philbrick | A Sea of GloryRecorded 11/22/2003Listen to MP3 audioNathaniel Philbrick is a leading authority on the history of Nantucket, director of the Egan Institute of Maritime Studi... More...
Nathaniel Philbrick | The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little BighornRecorded 5/12/2010Listen to MP3 audioThe author of modern and authoritative historical narratives, New York Times bestselling author Nathaniel Philbri... More...
Nathaniel Philbrick | Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A RevolutionRecorded 5/13/2013Listen to MP3 audioThe New York Times bestselling author of modern and authoritative historical narratives, Nathaniel Philbrick’s wo... More...
Jayne Anne Phillips | Lark and TermiteRecorded 1/22/2009Listen to MP3 audioA gifted and award-winning writer and essayist, Jayne Anne Phillips’s “quick, piercing tales of love and loss [demonstra... More...
Kevin Phillips | 1775: A Good Year for RevolutionRecorded 12/18/2012Listen to MP3 audioA Pulitzer Prize finalist for history, Kevin Phillips is a regular commentator for NPR and has been a political and econ... More...
Kevin Phillips | American DynastyRecorded 1/27/2004Listen to MP3 audioConsidered one of America's leading political analysts, Kevin Phillips leapt to public attention with the 1968 publicati... More...
Kevin Phillips | American Theocracy: The Perils and Politics of Radical Releigion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st CenturyRecorded 3/23/2006Listen to MP3 audioWith his New York Times bestsellers American Dynasty, The Politics of Rich and Poor, and Wealth and Dem... More...
Jodi Picoult | The StorytellerRecorded 3/4/2013Listen to MP3 audioA master storyteller and queen of the book club, Jodi Picoult is known for plumbing hot-button topics in novels that fea... More...
Jodi Picoult | Lone WolfRecorded 3/5/2012Listen to MP3 audioThe queen of the book club, Jodi Picoult is known for her fictional page-turners that feature nuanced characters, pitch-... More...
Daniel Pink | To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth about Moving OthersRecorded 1/22/2013Listen to MP3 audioDaniel Pink—the author of four books about the changing world of work, including the no. 1 New York Times bestsel... More...
Steven Pinker | The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence Has DeclinedRecorded 10/20/2011Listen to MP3 audioNamed one of Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People of All Time," Harvard professor Steven Pinker is a cogn... More...
Steven Pinker | The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human NatureRecorded 9/18/2007Listen to MP3 audio(This recording contains explicit content.) Stephen Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Har... More...
Joseph Pistone (a.k.a. Donnie Brasco) | The Way of the Wiseguy with Ed Conlon | Blue BloodRecorded 4/26/2005Listen to MP3 audioJoseph D. Pistone served in the FBI for 28 years, including six years under cover infiltrating the New York Mafia where ... More...
David Plouffe | The Audacity to Win Recorded 11/5/2009Listen to MP3 audioPine Tree Foundation Endowed Lecture President Barack Obama's chief campaign manager David Plouffe ... More...
Christopher Plummer | In Spite of MyselfRecorded 11/19/2008Listen to MP3 audio Christopher Plummer has appeared in more than 100 films, including The Man Who Would Be King and A Beautiful... More...
Norman Podhoretz | World War IV: The Long Struggle Against IslamofascismRecorded 9/18/2007Listen to MP3 audioA towering figure of the Right, Norman Podhoretz is editor-at-large of Commentary magazine and the author of seve... More...
