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L. A. Banks | The Forbidden with Tananarive Due | Joplin's Ghost Recorded 9/29/2005Listen to MP3 audioL. A. Banks has written more than 17 novels under various pseudonyms in multiple genres, including romance, women’s fict... More...
"The Best Day of My Life So Far..." Recorded 11/14/2010Listen to MP3 audioWhat happens when Philadelphia seniors open up by sharing stories from their lives? On Seniors' Storytelling Day, be rea... More...
Daniel R. Biddle and Murray Dubin |Tasting Freedom: Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War AmericaRecorded 9/22/2010Listen to MP3 audioPhiladelphia orator and activist Octavius Catto electrified audiences in 1864, calling on free men and women to aid and ... More...
Talking Philadelphia with David Brenner Recorded 4/22/1995Listen to MP3 audioThe famous Philadelphia-born comedian is interviewed by Channel 6 anchor Marc Howard on the old neighborhood, Philly foo... More...
Philadelphia DA Candidates Debate the IssuesRecorded 4/22/2009Listen to MP3 audioOn Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at 7:30 pm, candidates for Philadelphia District Attorney debate the issues. Come out and m... More...
Alex Danchev | Cézanne: A LifeRecorded 11/8/2012Listen to MP3 audioAlex Danchev’s writing spans art, politics, and military history, and the subjects of his acclaimed biographies include ... More...
Edwidge Danticat | Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at WorkRecorded 3/16/2012Listen to MP3 audioOne Book, One Philadelphia Grand Finale Featured author Edwidge Danticat will discuss the themes in the 2012 One Boo... More...
Edwidge Danticat | The Dew BreakerRecorded 3/25/2004Listen to MP3 audioBorn in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Edwidge Danticat spent most of early years with her aunt and uncle and then at the ag... 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...
Edwidge Danticat | Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work with Linh Dinh | Love Like HateRecorded 11/4/2010Listen to MP3 audioN.B. The quality of the recording improves after the first few minutes. Haitian-born writer Edwidge Dantica... More...
Tony Danza | I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had: My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast HighRecorded 9/15/2012Listen to MP3 audioActor and producer Tony Danza achieved small-screen fame with his portrayals of dimwitted but lovable cab driver Tony Ba... More...
Paul Davies | The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien IntelligenceRecorded 4/17/2010Listen to MP3 audioThe acclaimed British-born theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and astrobiologist Paul Davies is the director of the Bey... More...
Paul Davies | Cosmic Jackpot: Why Our Universe Is Just Right for LifeRecorded 5/11/2007Listen to MP3 audioIn his new book, Templeton Prize-winner Paul Davies shows how recent scientific discoveries point to a perplexing fact: ... More...
Lydia Davis | The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis with Jonathan Lethem | Chronic CityRecorded 11/12/2009Listen to MP3 audioThe Los Angeles Times Book Review calls Lydia Davis "one of the quiet giants of American fiction." The author of ... More...
Richard Dawkins | The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution Recorded 10/22/2009Listen to MP3 audioEvolutionary biologist and unapologetic atheist Richard Dawkins taught for many years at Oxford University as the Charle... More...
Richard Dawkins | A Devil's ChaplainRecorded 11/25/2003Listen to MP3 audioRichard Dawkins, known for his "brilliance and wit" (New Yorker) – is one of the most influential scientists of o... More...
Richard Dawkins | The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of EvolutionRecorded 9/22/2005Listen to MP3 audioRichard Dawkins - known for his “brilliance and wit” (New Yorker) - is one of the most influential scientists of ... More...
Richard Dawkins | The God DelusionRecorded 11/2/2006Listen to MP3 audioThe preeminent scientist Richard Dawkins is Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford U... More...
Frans de Waal | The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates Recorded 4/11/2013Listen to MP3 audioDrawing on a wealth of pioneering research, esteemed primatologist Frans de Waal traces the biological roots of human mo... More...
John Dean | Conservatives Without ConscienceRecorded 7/18/2006Listen to MP3 audioFormer White House counsel to President Nixon, John Dean emerged as a central figure in the Watergate scandal and is con... More...
Howard Dean | Howard Dean's Prescription for Real Health Care ReformRecorded 9/24/2009Listen to MP3 audioA physician and the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Howard Dean served six terms as Governor of Ve... More...
Alain de Botton | Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer’s Guide to the Uses of ReligionRecorded 3/11/2012Listen to MP3 audioAlain de Botton's aphoristic first novel, On Love, was a winking dissertation on romantic love, published when he... More...
Joshua Ferris | The Unnamedwith Jonathan Dee | The Privileges Recorded 1/28/2010Listen to MP3 audioThe debut novel, Then We Came to the End by Jonathan Ferris was translated into 24 different languages, was a fin... 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...
Frank Deford | Over TimeRecorded 5/8/2012Listen to MP3 audioPickwick Salon 2012 With his regular contributions to Sports Illustrated—where his by-line first app... More...
Baseball Then and Now With Frank Deford and Buzz BissingerRecorded 5/12/2005Listen to MP3 audioWith his regular contributions to Sports Illustrated (where his by-line first appeared in 1962) and NPR's Morn... More...
Don DeLillo | CosmopolisRecorded 4/24/2003Listen to MP3 audioFrom the Archive: Don DeLillo is the author of Underworld, a sweeping novel of the last half-century... More...
Daniel C. Dennett | Freedom EvolvesRecorded 3/6/2003Listen to MP3 audioThe co-director for the Center for Cognitive Studies and Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University, Dennett is the aut... 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...
Anita Desai | Fasting, FeastingRecorded 5/18/2000Listen to MP3 audioThe three-time Booker Prize finalist discusses her elegiac novel about the intricate web of family conflict and cultural... More...
Kiran Desai The Inheritance of LossRecorded 4/12/2007Listen to MP3 audioDaughter of the acclaimed novelist Anita Desai, Indian writer Kiran Desai cinched the 2006 Man Booker Prize with her lat... More...
Richard Russo | That Old Cape Magic with Peter Dexter | SpoonerRecorded 9/29/2009Listen to MP3 audio(This recording contains explicit content.) Richard Russo's novels are distinguished by their true-to-life depictions of... More...
Anita Diamant | The Last Days of Dogtown with Myla Goldberg | Wickett's Remedy Recorded 9/20/2005Listen to MP3 audioBefore the unprecedented success of her 1997 novel, The Red Tent, Anita Diamant authored several well-received bo... More...
Jared Diamond | Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or SucceedRecorded 1/15/2005Listen to MP3 audioIn Collapse, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel considers the collapse of some of... More...
Jared Diamond | The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?Recorded 1/13/2013Listen to MP3 audioA globally renowned scholar and recipient of a National Science Medal, Jared Diamond is the author of the bestselling bo... More...
Junot Diaz | This Is How You Lose Her WITH Samuel R. Delany | Through the Valley of the Nest of SpidersRecorded 9/29/2012Listen to MP3 audio(This recording contains explicit content) In Junot Díaz's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of O... More...
Kate DiCamillo | The Magician's Elephant Recorded 11/14/2009Listen to MP3 audioKate DiCamillo is a critically acclaimed, bestselling author of novels and stories for children. Her books include the N... More...
Eric Jerome Dickey | PleasureRecorded 5/17/2008Listen to MP3 audioWhat happens when one woman dares to explore her every fantasy? Eleven-time New York Times bestselling author Eri... More...
Christopher Dickey | The SleeperRecorded 9/14/2004Listen to MP3 audioAn experienced combat reporter and expert on terrorism, Christopher Dickey is Newsweek magazine's Paris bureau ch... More...
Eric Jerome Dickey | Between LoversRecorded 6/27/2001Listen to MP3 audioThe bestselling author delves into a complex love triangle infused with autobiographical detail. ... More...
Joan Didion | Blue NightsRecorded 11/3/2011Listen to MP3 audioAn acclaimed literary journalist and novelist, Joan Didion is the author of numerous novels and essays, including Slo... More...
Joan Didion | Political FictionsRecorded 10/8/2002Listen to MP3 audioAn acclaimed journalist, novelist, and former Features Editor for Vogue, Joan Didion's writing is characterized b... More...
E.J. Dionne, Jr. | Stand Up Fight Back: Republican Toughs and Democratic Wimps, and the Politics of RevengeRecorded 6/15/2004Listen to MP3 audioA political correspondent for the Washington Post and regular commentator on NPR, E. J. Dionne, Jr. is a senior f... More...
E.J. Dionne, Jr. | Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of DiscontentRecorded 6/26/2012Listen to MP3 audioE. J. Dionne, Jr. is a senior fellow in government studies at the Brookings Institution, a political correspondent for t... More...
E.J. Dionne, Jr. | Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics After the Religious RightRecorded 5/22/2008Listen to MP3 audioA political correspondent for the Washington Post and a regular commentator on NPR, E.J. Dionne, Jr. is a senior ... More...
Lou Dobbs | War on the Middle ClassRecorded 10/12/2006Listen to MP3 audioA prominent CNN commentator, Lou Dobbs is the anchor and editorial director of Lou Dobbs Tonight. He writes for <... More...
E. L. Doctorow | The March Recorded 11/1/2005Listen to MP3 audioE. L. Doctorow’s novels include The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, World’s Fair, Billy Bathgate, and City of ... 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...
Emma Donoghue | Life Mask and Susanna ClarkeRecorded 9/13/2004Listen to MP3 audioAward-winning Irish writer Emma Donoghue has published five books of fiction, two works of literary history, two antholo... More...
Ross Douthat | Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of HereticsRecorded 5/1/2012Listen to MP3 audioThe youngest op-ed columnist in New York Times history, Ross Douthat represents a new generation of conservative ... More...
