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Brad Meltzer | The Fifth Assassin

Brad Meltzer | The Fifth Assassin
Recorded 1/23/2013
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Brad Meltzer is the no. 1 New York Times bestselling author of eight novels, two non-fiction books, and five comi... More...

Daniel Pink | To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth about Moving Others

Daniel Pink | To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth about Moving Others
Recorded 1/22/2013
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Daniel Pink—the author of four books about the changing world of work, including the no. 1 New York Times bestsel... More...

Julie Otsuka | The Buddha in the Attic

Julie Otsuka | The Buddha in the Attic
Recorded 1/17/2013
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One Book, One Philadelphia Kickoff

Join featured author Julie Otsuka for the One Book, One Philad... More...

Tony Auth | The Art of Tony Auth: To Stir, Inform and Inflame

Tony Auth | The Art of Tony Auth: To Stir, Inform and Inflame
Recorded 1/16/2013
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Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Tony Auth spent more than 40 years at the Philadelphia Inquirer, and ... More...

Jared Diamond | The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

Jared Diamond | The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
Recorded 1/13/2013
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A globally renowned scholar and recipient of a National Science Medal, Jared Diamond is the author of the bestselling bo... More...

Kevin Phillips | 1775: A Good Year for Revolution

Kevin Phillips | 1775: A Good Year for Revolution
Recorded 12/18/2012
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A Pulitzer Prize finalist for history, Kevin Phillips is a regular commentator for NPR and has been a political and econ... More...

James H. Cone | The Cross and the Lynching Tree

James H. Cone | The Cross and the Lynching Tree
Recorded 12/13/2012
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With the publication of his seminal work, Black Theology and Black Power, Dr. James H. Cone was dubbed the father... More...

An Evening with Natasha Trethewey

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...

Bob Woodward | The Price of Politics

Bob Woodward | The Price of Politics
Recorded 12/10/2012
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Regarded as “one of the finest journalistic investigators of our time” (Los Angeles Times Book Review), Bob Woodw... More...

Rachael Ray and John Cusimano | My Year in Meals

Rachael Ray and John Cusimano | My Year in Meals
Recorded 12/8/2012
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Food Network icon Rachael Ray is host of the Emmy Award–winning syndicated show Rachael Ray, as well as 30-Min... More...

Daniel Mendelsohn | Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture

Daniel Mendelsohn | Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture
Recorded 12/6/2012
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Daniel Mendelsohn’s books include the international bestseller The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, winner ... More...

Deb Perelman | The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook

Deb Perelman | The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook
Recorded 12/5/2012
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It's hard to find a food blog with more accolades than Deb Perelman’s Smitten Kitchen blog, which counts the New York... More...

Jon Meacham | Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

Jon Meacham | Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
Recorded 12/4/2012
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A highly regarded commentator on history, politics and religion in America, Jon Meacham is executive editor at Random Ho... More...

Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

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...

Wole Soyinka | Of Africa

Wole Soyinka | Of Africa
Recorded 11/26/2012
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A courageous voice for justice, freedom, and human rights around the world, Wole Soyinka is the first African recipient ... More...

Ross King | Leonardo and the Last Supper

Ross King | Leonardo and the Last Supper
Recorded 11/20/2012
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In Leonardo and the Last Supper, Ross King presents a portrait of one of history’s artistic geniuses, exploring h... More...

David Nasaw | The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy

David Nasaw | The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy
Recorded 11/15/2012
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Patriarch of one of the greatest political dynasties in the United States, Joseph Patrick Kennedy was an indomitable fig... More...

Bernie Parent | Unmasked: Bernie Parent and the Broad Street Bullies

Bernie Parent | Unmasked: Bernie Parent and the Broad Street Bullies
Recorded 11/14/2012
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In the late 1970s “only the Lord saved more” than Flyers goaltender Bernie Parent. In his time as a Broad Street Bully... More...

Franklin Foer and Marc Tracy | Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame

Franklin Foer and Marc Tracy | Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame
Recorded 11/13/2012
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Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame is a collection of essays about influential Jewish athletes, coaches, br... More...

Barbara Kingsolver | Flight Behavior

Barbara Kingsolver | Flight Behavior
Recorded 11/9/2012
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Called “the Woody Guthrie of contemporary American fiction” (Boston Globe), Barbara Kingsolver is a self-d... More...

Alex Danchev | Cézanne: A Life

Alex Danchev | Cézanne: A Life
Recorded 11/8/2012
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Alex Danchev’s writing spans art, politics, and military history, and the subjects of his acclaimed biographies include ... More...

Colm Toibin | The Testament of Mary

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...

Mark Bowden | The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden

Mark Bowden | The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden
Recorded 11/5/2012
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An award-winning national correspondent for the Atlantic, Mark Bowden is the author of numerous books of investig... More...

Karen Quinones Miller | An Angry-Ass Black Woman with Solomon Jones | The Dead Man's Wife

Karen Quinones Miller | An Angry-Ass Black Woman with Solomon Jones | The Dead Man’s Wife
Recorded 11/1/2012
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Called “the Aretha Franklin of black publishing” by Kwan Foye, Karen Quinones Miller’s self-published first novel, Sa... More...

Thomas Keller and Sebastien Rouxel | Bouchon Bakery

Thomas Keller and Sebastien Rouxel | Bouchon Bakery
Recorded 10/25/2012
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Named America’s Best Chef by Time magazine, Thomas Keller is the renowned proprietor and chef of legendary restau... More...

Tom Wolfe | Back to Blood

Tom Wolfe | Back to Blood
Recorded 10/25/2012
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New Journalism pioneer and literary superstar Tom Wolfe has carefully recorded popular culture for more than four decade... More...

Howard Jacobson | Zoo Time

Howard Jacobson | Zoo Time
Recorded 10/24/2012
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“As the brightness of his brilliance is hard to look at, so is the darkness of his humor. I don't know a funnier writer ... More...

Justin Cronin | The Twelve with R.L. Stine | Red Rain

Justin Cronin | The Twelve with R.L. Stine | Red Rain
Recorded 10/20/2012
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Justin Cronin bombarded the summer of 2010 with vicious, limb-tearing vampires that were the catastrophic result of biom... More...

Camille Paglia | Glittering Images: A Journey through Art from Egypt to Star Wars

Camille Paglia | Glittering Images: A Journey through Art from Egypt to Star Wars
Recorded 10/18/2012
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Champion of unbridled conversation, Camille Paglia acquired the nickname “Hurricane Camille” after publishing the 700-pa... More...

David Mitchell | Cloud Atlas with Michael Chabon | Telegraph Avenue

David Mitchell | Cloud Atlas with Michael Chabon | Telegraph Avenue
Recorded 10/16/2012
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Called simply “a genius” by the New York Times Book Review and named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential Pe... More...

Jose Garces | The Latin Road Home: Savoring the Foods of Ecuador, Spain, Cuba, Mexico and Peru

Jose Garces | The Latin Road Home: Savoring the Foods of Ecuador, Spain, Cuba, Mexico and Peru
Recorded 10/15/2012
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One of the nation's most talented chefs and an ambassador of contemporary Latin cuisine, Chef Jose Garces opened his fir... More...

Paul Elie | Reinventing Bach

Paul Elie | Reinventing Bach
Recorded 10/11/2012
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Paul Elie's debut book, The Life You Save May Be Your Own told the stories of four great American Catholic writer... More...

Pete Townshend | Who I Am: A Memoir

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...

Chris Ware | Building Stories with Charles Burns | The Hive moderated by Chip Kidd

Chris Ware | Building Stories with Charles Burns | The Hive moderated by Chip Kidd
Recorded 10/9/2012
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Chris Ware's graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth won the Guardian First Book Award, the first... More...

Louise Erdrich | The Round House

Louise Erdrich | The Round House
Recorded 10/4/2012
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In her 14 novels, children's stories, and poetry collections, Louise Erdrich revisits the beloved and familiar Native Am... More...

Andrew McCarthy | The Longest Way Home: One Man's Quest for the Courage to Settle Down

Andrew McCarthy | The Longest Way Home: One Man’s Quest for the Courage to Settle Down
Recorded 10/3/2012
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An entire generation knows Andrew McCarthy as Blaine McDonough from the 1986 John Hughes film Pretty in Pink. For... More...

Joseph Stiglitz | The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

Joseph Stiglitz | The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
Recorded 10/2/2012
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In The Price of Inequality, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz offers a plan for a more just and prosp... More...

Wyclef Jean | Purpose: An Immigrant's Story

Wyclef Jean | Purpose: An Immigrant’s Story
Recorded 10/1/2012
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Musician, actor, producer, and activist Wyclef Jean was born and raised in Haiti and moved with his family to New York w... More...

Junot Diaz | This Is How You Lose Her WITH Samuel R. Delany | Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders

Junot Diaz | This Is How You Lose Her WITH Samuel R. Delany | Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders
Recorded 9/29/2012
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(This recording contains explicit content) In Junot Díaz's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of O... More...

Naomi Wolf | Vagina: A New Biography

Naomi Wolf | Vagina: A New Biography
Recorded 9/27/2012
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Author, social critic, and political activist Naomi Wolf launched a new wave of feminism with her landmark first book, <... More...

Irvine Welsh | Skagboys with Lisa Zeidner | Love Bomb

Irvine Welsh | Skagboys with Lisa Zeidner | Love Bomb
Recorded 9/21/2012
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(This recording contains explicit content) "Not for the fainthearted" (Sunday Times), Irvine Welsh's subterranean... More...

Jeffrey Toobin | The Oath: The Obama White House v. The Supreme Court*

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...

Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez | Love and Rockets: Thirtieth Anniversary Tour

Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez | Love and Rockets: Thirtieth Anniversary Tour
Recorded 9/19/2012
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Co-creators of the comic art series Love and Rockets, Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez have been likened in the Tim... More...

Tony Danza | I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had: My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High

Tony Danza | I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had: My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High
Recorded 9/15/2012
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Actor and producer Tony Danza achieved small-screen fame with his portrayals of dimwitted but lovable cab driver Tony Ba... More...

Tariq Ramadan | Islam and the Arab Awakening

Tariq Ramadan | Islam and the Arab Awakening
Recorded 9/14/2012
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Tariq Ramadan is one of the leading scholars of Islam in the Western world and a professor of Contemporary Islamic Studi... More...

Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope

Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope
Recorded 9/13/2012
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In The Silenced Majority, grassroots journalism pioneers Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan show the power of ordinar... More...

Paul Auster | Winter Journal

Paul Auster | Winter Journal
Recorded 9/13/2012
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Paul Auster reenergized contemporary experimental literature with his 1986 New York Trilogy, a trio of postmodern... More...

Joe Posnanski | Paterno

Joe Posnanski | Paterno
Recorded 9/6/2012
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In 46 seasons at Penn State, legendary football coach Joe Paterno won 409 games—more than any other coach in the history... More...

Donald Barlett and James Steele | The Betrayal of the American Dream

Donald Barlett and James Steele | The Betrayal of the American Dream
Recorded 8/2/2012
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Celebrated investigative reporting team Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele have worked together for nearly 40 years, ... More...

Tana French | Broken Harbor

Tana French | Broken Harbor
Recorded 7/31/2012
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Irish novelist and actress Tana French won the 2007 Edgar Award for her New York Times bestselling debut novel ... More...

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