John Banville | The Sea WITH Sebastian Barry | A Long Long Way AND Colm Toibin | The Master
Recorded 3/28/2006
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Irish novelist John Banville is the author of the 2005 Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Sea, the tale of ... More...

Joan Didion | Political Fictions
Recorded 10/8/2002
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An acclaimed journalist, novelist, and former Features Editor for Vogue, Joan Didion's writing is characterized b... More...

Michael R. Gordon and General Bernard E. Trainor | Cobra 2: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq with John Crawford | The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell
Recorded 4/6/2006
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New York Times chief military correspondent Michael R. Gordon was the only reporter embedded with the Allied land... More...

The Liars Club | L.A. Banks, Jonathan Maberry, Ed Pettit, and Dennis Tafoya
Recorded 4/18/2010
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The Liars Club is a collective of award winning writers who work across a spectrum of genres--from literary to mystery t... More...

John Strausbaugh, Kurt Thometz and Jonathan Safran Foer with MC Neal Pollack
Recorded 4/11/2002
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MC Neal Pollack, author of The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, kicks off a motley discussion inclu... More...

Seth | George Sprott (1894-1975) with Adrian Tomine | Shortcomings and A Drifting Life
Recorded 6/9/2009
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A celebrated cartoonist and illustrator for the New Yorker, Seth has earned Harvey, Eisner, and Ignatz awa... More...

Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Recorded 11/29/2012
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Illustrious researcher and Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University’s Polytechnic Institute, N... More...

Talk About It! What's the Solution to America's Healthcare Crisis?
Recorded 5/7/2008
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The US spends more money per capita on medical care than any other country in the world, yet tens of millions of citizen... More...

Amy Tan | The Opposite of Fate
Recorded 10/28/2003
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Amy Tan is the author of best-selling novels The Joy Luck Club, a finalist for the National Book Award and the Na... More...

Sam Tanenhaus | The Death of Conservatism
Recorded 9/15/2009
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Meelya Gordon Memorial Lecture Series Editor of the New York Times Book Review, Sam Tanenhaus is the author of t... More...

Mike Tanier | The Philly Fan’s Code: The 50 Toughest, Craziest, Most Legendary Philadelphia Athletes of the Last 50 Years
Recorded 11/14/2011
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 Mike Tanier covers football, baseball and the wacky side of sports for The New York Times. His newest boo... More...

Mark Taylor | The Original Marvelettes: Motown's Mystery Girl Group WITH Eleanor "Cookie" Harris, Vocalist
Recorded 2/7/2006
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Mark Taylor, a longtime music journalist, chronicles their rise and fall of one of the great girl groups of Motow... More...

Terry Teachout | Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong
Recorded 12/10/2009
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Terry Teachout writes about literature and the arts for the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and ... More...

Nechama Tec | Defiance: The Bielski Partisans
Recorded 3/5/2009
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Holocaust survivor Nechama Tec is professor emerita of sociology at the University of Connecticut and the author of six ... More...

Mark Tercek | Nature's Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature
Recorded 5/22/2013
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Mark Tercek is president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy, the global conservation organization. A former managing dire... More...

Amitav Ghosh with Shashi Tharoor
Recorded 3/21/2002
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Amitav Ghosh, one of the best known Indians writing in English today. A story of love and war, The Glass Palace b... More...

Twyla Tharp | The Creative Habit: Learn it and Use it For Life
Recorded 10/16/2003
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Creator of Twyla Tharp Dance, Ms. Tharp has coreographed pieces for institutions ranging from the New York City Ballet t... More...

Paul Theroux | My Other Life
Recorded 10/2/1996
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The great expatriate chronicler discusses his imaginary memoir of alternate decisions. ... More...

Paul Theroux | Blinding Light
Recorded 6/21/2005
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Paul Theroux has written more than two dozen novels, including The Mosquito Coast, Kowloon... More...

Ngugi wa Thiong’o | Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir
Recorded 3/16/2010
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A novelist and a theorist of post-colonial literature at the University of California, Irvine, Ngugi wa Thiong'o is one ... More...

Marlo Thomas | The Right Words at the Right Time
Recorded 5/30/2002
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Actress and best-selling author Marlo Thomas is joined (in print) by such luminaries as Tom Wolfe, Toni Morrison, Cal Ri... More...

Play On, Philly! | Inspiration from El Sistema: Social Innovation Through Music Education
Recorded 1/24/2012
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Thirty-seven years ago in a parking garage in Caracas, Venezuela, Dr. José Antonio Abreu gathered together 11 children t... More...

Dick Thornburgh | Where the Evidence Leads
Recorded 9/16/2003
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Dick Thornburgh is the only Republican to have served two consecutive terms, from 1979-1987, as the governor of Pennsylv... More...

Colin Thubron | To a Mountain in Tibet
Recorded 3/10/2011
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Colin Thubron is "a grand master of the travel genre" writes a reviewer for The New Statesman. "His prose is unfa... More...

Colin Thubron | Shadow of the Silk Road
Recorded 7/17/2007
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To be traveling the Silk Road, writes Colin Thubron, is to be traveling the history of the world: tracing the passage no... More...

Baratunde Thurston | How to Be Black
Recorded 4/18/2013
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Comedian, author, and self-described vigilante pundit, Baratunde Thurston is the former Digital Director for The Onio... More...

John F. Timoney | Beat Cop to Top Cop: A Tale of Three Cities
Recorded 5/11/2010
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Named "America’s Top Cop" by Esquire magazine, John F. Timoney has served as First Deputy Commissioner for the Ne... More...

Krista Tippett | Speaking of Faith
Recorded 3/6/2007
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A journalist and former diplomat, Krista Tippett is the host of Speaking of Faith, public radio’s weekly conversa... More...

Colm Toibin | The Testament of Mary
Recorded 11/7/2012
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“Immensely gifted and accomplished” (Washington Post) Irish novelist Colm Toibin's books include The South, ... More...

Adrian Tomine | Shortcomings
Recorded 11/6/2007
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Adrian Tomine has acquired a cult-like following with his critically acclaimed comic book series Optic Nerve. His... More...

Jeffrey Toobin | The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
Recorded 9/27/2007
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The recent appointments of John Roberts and Samuel Alito marked a dramatic turning point for the United States Supreme C... More...

Jeffrey Toobin | The Oath: The Obama White House v. The Supreme Court*
Recorded 9/20/2012
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Senior legal analyst at CNN and a New Yorker staff writer, Jeffrey Toobin is known for his elegant political anal... More...

Jeffrey Toobin | Too Close to Call | Chris Matthews | Now, Let Me Tell You What I Really Think
Recorded 11/20/2001
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Jeffrey Toobin, a legal analyst and the bestselling author of A Vast Conspiracy, retraces the 36-day story of the... More...

Dara Torres | Age is Just a Number: Achieve Your Dreams at Any Stage in Your Life
Recorded 4/19/2009
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The first American swimmer to compete in five Olympic Games, Dara Torres has set three world records and won 12 Olympic ... More...

Toure with Mat Johnson
Recorded 7/18/2002
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A contributing editor at Rolling Stone, Touré won the Sam Adams Short Story Contest sponsored by Zoetrope ... More...

Alan Hollinghurst | The Stranger’s Child with Amor Towles | Rules of Civility
Recorded 10/25/2011
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British author Alan Hollinghurst received the Man Booker Prize for his fourth book, The Line of Beauty, an elegia... More...

Pete Townshend | Who I Am: A Memoir
Recorded 10/10/2012
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(This podcast contains explicit language) A founding member of The Who—"possibly the greatest live band ever" (Eddie Ved... More...

An Evening with Natasha Trethewey
Recorded 12/11/2012
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Natasha Trethewey, winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her collection Native Guard, was named the 1... More...

Calvin Trillin | Tepper Isn't Going Out: A Narrative
Recorded 2/14/2002
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Satirist, food writer, and novelist, Calvin Trillin is a long-time New Yorker staff writer and "Deadline Poet" fo... More...

Calvin Trillin | About Alice
Recorded 1/23/2007
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Satirist, food writer, and novelist, Calvin Trillin is a long-time New Yorker staff writer and "Deadline Poet" fo... More...

Calvin Trillin | Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff
Recorded 9/15/2011
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Satirist, food writer, and novelist, Calvin Trillin is a long-time New Yorker staff writer and “Deadline Poet” ... More...

Lynne Truss | Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or, Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door
Recorded 11/18/2005
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In 2002 Lynne Truss, the British writer and journalist, presented Cutting a Dash, a BBC Radio 4 series about punc... More...

Liz Tuccillo | How to Be Single
Recorded 7/17/2008
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Liz Tuccillo captured the single woman’s zeitgeist, first as a writer and executive story editor for Sex and the City... More...

Scott Turow | Ordinary Heroes
Recorded 11/2/2005
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Scott Turow’s first-hand knowledge of the American legal system informs his taut legal mysteries. His novels, including ... More...

Scott Turow | Personal Injuries
Recorded 10/22/1999
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The lawyer-novelist discusses his suspense story about corruption, deceit and love. ... More...

Ronan Tynan | Halfway Home: My Life 'til Now
Recorded 1/23/2002
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A member of the popular singing group, the Irish Tenors, Tynan's autobiography traces his conquered lower limb disabilit... More...

Neil deGrasse Tyson | The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet
Recorded 3/3/2009
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Named the "Sexiest Astrophysicist Alive" by People magazine in 2000, Neil DeGrasse Tyson is the New York Times... More...