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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...
Renegades: Radical African American Voices in the Arts with Amiri Baraka, Ed Bullins, and Sonia Sanchez, moderated by Charles FullerRecorded 4/18/2009Listen to MP3 audioAmiri Baraka | Home: Social Essays Poet, playwright, and political activist, Amiri Baraka is the recipient ... More...
Donald Barlett and James Steele | The Betrayal of the American DreamRecorded 8/2/2012Listen to MP3 audioCelebrated investigative reporting team Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele have worked together for nearly 40 years, ... More...
CIA Inside Out: Bin Laden, Tora Bora and the War on Terror with Gary Berntsen and Michael ScheuerRecorded 3/9/2006Listen to MP3 audioIn Gary Berntsen’s best-selling book Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda: A Personal Account by the C... More...
Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions Illustrators Roz Chast, Seth, Anders Nilsen & Paul BuckleyRecorded 6/20/2006Listen to MP3 audioUnder the art direction of Paul Buckley, renowned graphic artists Roz Chast, Anders Nilsen, and Seth have designed new c... More...
Justin Cronin | The Twelve with R.L. Stine | Red RainRecorded 10/20/2012Listen to MP3 audioJustin Cronin bombarded the summer of 2010 with vicious, limb-tearing vampires that were the catastrophic result of biom... More...
Jonathan Dee | A Thousand Pardons with George Saunders | Tenth of DecemberRecorded 3/28/2013Listen to MP3 audioJonathan Dee is the author of five novels, including The Privileges, a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize and w... More...
Troy Denning | Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: InvincibleRecorded 5/17/2008Listen to MP3 audioAuthor of the New York Times bestseller Waterdeep, science fiction master Troy Denning has written more than 19 n... More...
Edward Dolnick | The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century with Peter Schjeldahl | Let's See: Writings on Art from the New YorkerRecorded 7/24/2008Listen to MP3 audioWritten by Edward Dolnick, the Edgar Award-winning author of The Rescue Artist, The Forger’s Spell tells t... 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...
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...
This Dog’s Life with Susannah Charleson, Alexandra Horowitz, and Michael Schaffer Recorded 4/18/2010Listen to MP3 audioSusannah Charleson | Scent of the Missing: Love and Partnership with a Search-and-Rescue Dog Susannah Char... 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...
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...
Daniel Libeskind | Breaking Ground: Adventures in Life and ArchitectureRecorded 12/10/2004Listen to MP3 audioDaniel Libeskind is an international figure in architecture and urban design. In February 2003, Daniel Libeskind was cho... 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...
Brian McManus | Philadelphia’s Best Dive Bars – Drinking and Diving in the City of Brotherly Love WITH Sarah Stolfa | The RegularsRecorded 7/20/2011Listen to MP3 audio(This recording contains explicit content.) When Brian McManus came to Philadelphia from Houston to work as the Music an... More...
Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus | Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of PossibilityRecorded 10/11/2007Listen to MP3 audioIn 2004, environmentalists Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus set off a firestorm with their essay, “The Death of En... More...
OED 80th Anniversary with Jesse Sheidlower, Barbara Wallraff & Ammon Shea Recorded 11/18/2008Listen to MP3 audioThis recording contains explicit content. Jesse Sheidlower, Editor-at-large of the Oxford Engli... More...
Alice Ozma | The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared WITH Robert Strauss | Daddy’s Little GoalieRecorded 7/19/2011Listen to MP3 audioAlice Ozma's touching debut memoir The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared tells the story ... 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...
Lisa Randall | Knocking on Heaven’s Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World with Gino Segre | Ordinary Geniuses: Max Delbruck, George Gamow, and the Origins of Genomics and Big-Bang CosmologyRecorded 9/27/2011Listen to MP3 audioHarvard professor Lisa Randall—renowned for her research on particle physics and cosmology—jolted the physics world with... More...
Anne Roiphe and Alix Shulman | A Discussion of Women, Working and Writing Recorded 3/12/1998Listen to MP3 audioThe acclaimed authors converse on women's issues and their celebrated books: Roiphe's Fruitful: A Real Mother in the ... More...
Middle East Panel with Trudy Rubin, Michael Scheuer and Robin WrightRecorded 5/17/2008Listen to MP3 audioA foreign correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Trudy Rubin writes the paper’s “Worldview” column and has ... More...
Howard M. Sachar | A History of the Jews in the Modern WorldRecorded 12/5/2006Listen to MP3 audioIn A History of the Jews in the Modern World, Howard M. Sachar, a professor of history at George Washington Unive... More...
Oliver Sacks | Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the BrainRecorded 11/1/2007Listen to MP3 audioThe New York Times has called Oliver Sacks "the poet laureate of medicine" and he is renowned for a style that bl... More...
Oliver Sacks | The Mind's EyeRecorded 11/10/2010Listen to MP3 audioRenowned neurologist Oliver Sacks is the author of 10 bestselling books that detail the inner workings of the brain, inc... More...
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks | Future Tense: Jews, Judaism, and Israel in the Twenty-First Century Recorded 5/27/2010Listen to MP3 audioJonathan Sacks is Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of Great Britain and the Commonwealth. A frequent contr... More...
Sisters Tenth Anniversary Celebration with Carol Saline and Sharon J. WohlmuthRecorded 11/18/2004Listen to MP3 audioBring your sister and a story to share. In 1994, co-authors Carol Saline and Sharon J. Wohlmuth launched a lite... More...
R.A. Salvatore | GauntlgrymRecorded 10/5/2010Listen to MP3 audioR.A. Salvatore is the author of 22 New York Times bestselling fantasy and science fiction novels. His books have ... More...
Sonia Sanchez | Morning HaikuRecorded 2/2/2010Listen to MP3 audioAn acclaimed poet, activist, and scholar, Sonia Sanchez is the former Laura Carnell Professor of English and Women's Stu... More...
Sonia Sanchez | An Evening with Sonia SanchezRecorded 4/18/2012Listen to MP3 audio2012 Philadelphia Book Festival “Sanchez has long been regarded as the city's unofficial poet laureate. But no... More...
Brandon Sanderson and Harriet McDougal | A Memory of LightRecorded 2/19/2013Listen to MP3 audioRobert Jordan’s multi-volume epic fantasy series, Wheel of Time “has come to dominate the world Tolkien began to reveal”... More...
Esmeralda Santiago | ConquistadoraRecorded 7/21/2011Listen to MP3 audioEsmeralda Santiago is the author of the memoirs When I Was Puerto Rican, Almost A Woman—which she adapted into ... More...
Sapphire | The KidRecorded 7/7/2011Listen to MP3 audioAuthor and poet Sapphire writes about overcoming adversity, empowerment, and the transformative power of literacy. Her a... More...
Marjane Satrapi | Persepolis IIRecorded 9/7/2004Listen to MP3 audioIn 2003 the world met Marjane Satrapi, author of Persepolis--a wise and funny memoir of a spirited girl growing u... More...
David Sax | Save the DeliRecorded 11/3/2009Listen to MP3 audioFrom corned beef to knishes, Save the Deli is the story of David Sax's quest to observe and preserve a defining e... More...
John Sayles | A Moment in the Sun Recorded 5/2/2011Listen to MP3 audioJohn Sayles is "one of the country's best independent filmmakers," according to a reviewer for the Washington Post Book ... More...
Jeremy Scahill | Dirty Wars: The World Is A BattlefieldRecorded 5/21/2013Listen to MP3 audioJeremy Scahill is an award-winning investigative journalist and the author of the bestselling book Blackwater, ab... More...
Jeremy Scahill | Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary ArmyRecorded 7/1/2008Listen to MP3 audioBased in the wilderness of North Carolina, Blackwater USA is the fastest-growing private army on the planet (with forces... More...
Simon Schama | Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Writing on Politics, Ice Cream, Churchill and My MotherRecorded 4/25/2011Listen to MP3 audio "[Simon] Schama is a genius of storytelling," writes The Times of London. The author of many books, including <... More...
Simon Schama | The American Future: A HistoryRecorded 5/19/2009Listen to MP3 audioThe author of many books, including The Embarrassment of Riches and National Book Critics Circle Award winner ... More...
Michael Scheuer | Osama bin LadenRecorded 2/10/2011Listen to MP3 audioMichael Scheuer—the former chief of the bin Laden unit at the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center—is the bestselling author of... More...
Michael Scheuer | Imperial Hubris: Why The West is Losing The War on TerrorRecorded 2/24/2005Listen to MP3 audioMichael Scheuer, former chief of the Counterterrorist Center's Bin Laden unit, resigned from the CIA in November 2004 af... More...
Stacy Schiff | Cleopatra: A LifeRecorded 11/9/2010Listen to MP3 audioThough she did not live to see 40, Cleopatra accomplished much during her reign as Egypt's last queen. Ruthless and shre... More...
Arthur M. Schlesinger | War and the American Presidency Recorded 1/27/2005Listen to MP3 audioThe gravest decision in a democracy is the one to go to war. In a book that brings a magisterial command of history to t... More...
Arthur Schlesinger | War and the American PresidencyRecorded 1/27/2005Listen to MP3 audioArthur Schlesinger is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and the author of more than 20 books, including A Thousand D... More...
Daniel Schorr | Come to Think of It: Notes on the Turn of the MilleniumRecorded 1/16/2008Listen to MP3 audioThe last member of Edward R. Murrow's CBS team still fully active in the media, veteran reporter Daniel Schorr is NPR’s ... More...
William Schulz | Tainted Legacy: 9/11 and the Ruin of Human RightsRecorded 9/9/2004Listen to MP3 audioDr. William F. Schulz is the Executive Director of Amnesty International USA. An ordained Unitarian Universalist ministe... More...
Jill Scott | The Moments, the Minutes, the Hours: the Poetry of Jill ScottRecorded 5/6/2005Listen to MP3 audioGrammy Award winner Jill Scott grew up in North Philadelphia. She was discovered by The Root's drummer Amir, who invited... More...
