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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...
Anousheh Ansari | My Dream of Stars: From Daughter of Iran to Space PioneerIn conversation with co-author Homer HickamRecorded 3/4/2010Listen to MP3 audioOn September 18, 2006, Anousheh Ansari became the first astronaut of Iranian descent, the first female private space exp... More...
Jennifer Egan | A Visit from the Goon Squad with Jaimy Gordon | Lord of Misrule and Karen Russell | Swamplandia!Recorded 10/27/2011Listen to MP3 audioAccording to the New York Times Book Review, Jennifer Egan writes with "an admirably deft touch, but more impress... More...
Jonathan Haidt | The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and ReligionRecorded 4/21/2012Listen to MP3 audio2012 Philadelphia Book Festival In what Psychology Today called the “remedy for the... More...
David Hajdu | The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed AmericaRecorded 3/18/2008Listen to MP3 audioColumbia University professor and New Republic columnist David Hajdu is the author of Lush Life: A Biography o... More...
David Hajdu | Positively 4th StreetRecorded 7/19/2001Listen to MP3 audioThe celebrated biographer pieces extensive interviews into a narrative of the collective inspiration of the 1960s, follo... More...
David Halberstam | The Culture of CelebrityRecorded 10/22/1998Listen to MP3 audioDistinguished social and political commentator David Halberstam discusses the power of popular culture and the evolution... More...
David Halberstam | The Education of a Coach Recorded 12/9/2005Listen to MP3 audioDavid Halberstam is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and one of most distinguished social and political commentators ... More...
Mohsin Hamid | How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia Recorded 3/5/2013Listen to MP3 audioCalled “both an irresistibly engaging adventure and a searching portrait of contemporary young people in Pakistan” (Joyc... More...
Pete Hamill, A Drinking LifeRecorded 5/8/2003Listen to MP3 audioRaise a glass to life with Pete Hamill, author of the critically acclaimed A Drinking Life. In his revealing and ... More...
Jane Hamilton | Laura Rider's MasterpieceRecorded 4/19/2009Listen to MP3 audioAcclaimed novelist Jane Hamilton is the author of the PEN/Hemingway Award winner The Book of Ruth and the New ... More...
Zack Hample | The Baseball: Stunts, Scandals, and Secrets Beneath the Stitches with Neil Lanctot | Campy: The Two Lives of Roy CampanellaRecorded 7/26/2011Listen to MP3 audioZack Hample is best known for snagging more than 4600 baseballs from the stands at major league stadium... More...
Jane Hamilton | DisobedienceRecorded 9/25/2001Listen to MP3 audioAcclaimed novelist Jane Hamilton is the author of the PEN/Hemingway Award winner The Book of Ruth and the New York Times... More...
Blaine Harden | Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the WestRecorded 4/2/2013Listen to MP3 audioAn author and journalist who reports for PBS’s Frontline and contributes to The Economist, Blaine Harden h... More...
Hill Harper | Letters to a Young Sister: DeFINE Your DestinyRecorded 6/19/2008Listen to MP3 audioCSI: NY star and author of the bestselling Letters to a Young Brother (winner of two NAACP awards), Hill H... More...
E. Lynn Harris | I Say a Little PrayerRecorded 5/8/2006Listen to MP3 audioE. Lynn Harris is the best-selling author of eight novels, including A Love of My Own and Any Way the Wind Blo... More...
E. Lynn Harris | What Becomes of the Broken-Hearted: A MemoirRecorded 7/15/2003Listen to MP3 audioIn his most daring act yet, E. Lynn Harris writes the memoir of his life from his childhood in Arkansas as a closeted ga... More...
E. Lynn Harris | Any Way the Wind BlowsRecorded 7/25/2001Listen to MP3 audioE. Lynn Harris is the author of six novels including If This World Were Mine, which won the James Baldwin Award f... More...
E. Lynn Harris | A Love of My OwnRecorded 9/5/2002Listen to MP3 audioAfter Zola Denise Norwood meets media mogul Davis Vincent McClinton on a New York-bound flight, he makes her a couple of... More...
Jessica B. Harris | High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to AmericaRecorded 2/1/2011Listen to MP3 audioAn accomplished food historian and critically acclaimed cookbook author, Jessica B. Harris has spent much of her life do... More...
Charlaine Harris | Dead in the Family: A Sookie Stackhouse NovelRecorded 5/5/2010Listen to MP3 audioDead in the Family is book 10 of Charlaine Harris’s no. 1 New York Times bestselling Sookie Stackhouse ... More...
Kathryn Harrison | The Mother Knot | Interviewed by Tracey TannenbaumRecorded 6/8/2004Listen to MP3 audioKathryn Harrison's first novel, Thicker Than Water and her second, Exposure, were both New York Times... More...
Marcella Hazan | Amarcord: Marcella RemembersRecorded 10/7/2008Listen to MP3 audioAmarcord, the memoir of celebrated chef Marcella Hazan, "is as delicious as her food," writes Frances Mayes. The ... More...
Jimmy Heath | I Walked with Giants: The Autobiography of Jimmy HeathIn conversation with co-author Joseph McLarenRecorded 2/18/2010Listen to MP3 audioA National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master and three-time Grammy Award nominee, Jimmy Heath has performed on more tha... More...
Chris Hedges | Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle Recorded 7/28/2009Listen to MP3 audioIn Empire of Illusion, Chris Hedges, author of the bestseller War is a Force that Give Us Meaning, ... More...
Chris Hedges | Days of Destruction, Days of RevoltRecorded 6/21/2012Listen to MP3 audioIn Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges and American Book Award-wi... More...
Ursula Hegi | The Vision of Emma Blau: A NovelRecorded 2/17/2000Listen to MP3 audioThe bestselling author of Stones from the River discusses her epic story of German immigrants in America at the t... More...
Aleksandar Hemon | The Book of My Lives Recorded 3/27/2013Listen to MP3 audioBosnian American writer Aleksandar Hemon came to Chicago in 1992 for a month-long cultural exchange program and was supp... More...
William Kennedy | Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes with Paul Hendrickson | Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961Recorded 10/6/2011Listen to MP3 audio"What James Joyce did for Dublin and Saul Bellow did for Chicago, William Kennedy has done for Albany," said John Atlas ... More...
Bob Herbert | Promises Betrayed: What Kind of America Do We Want to Live In?Recorded 7/12/2005Listen to MP3 audioBob Herbert has been an op-ed columnist for The New York Times since 1993, and was previously a correspond... More...
Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson | The Winds of DuneRecorded 8/11/2009Listen to MP3 audioBrian Herbert and New York Times bestselling writer Kevin Anderson collaborate on expanding the beloved Dune... More...
Susan Herman | Taking LibertiesRecorded 10/19/2011Listen to MP3 audioThe Patriot Act, warrantless wire taps by the NSA, increased government secrecy and monitoring. Since September 11, 2001... More...
Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez | Love and Rockets: Thirtieth Anniversary TourRecorded 9/19/2012Listen to MP3 audioCo-creators of the comic art series Love and Rockets, Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez have been likened in the Tim... More...
Hayden Herrera | Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: Sacred MonstersRecorded 2/13/2008Listen to MP3 audioRenowned art historian Hayden Herrera’s influential 1983 biography, Frida, helped establish the Mexican artist’s ... More...
Seymour Hersh | Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu GhraibRecorded 10/14/2004Listen to MP3 audioSeymour Hersh is among the foremost investigative reporters of our time. His reputation was established thirty-five year... More...
Seymour Hersh | Rethinking Our History Recorded 9/24/1998Listen to MP3 audioSeymour Hersh is the author of the bestselling expose of President Kennedy, The Dark Side of Camelot. He is the r... More...
Amanda Hesser | The Essential New York Times Cookbook... with Madhur Jaffrey | At Home with Madhur Jaffreys... moderated by Judith Jones | The Pleasures of Cooking For OneRecorded 12/9/2010Listen to MP3 audioA food editor and columnist for more than a decade at the New York Times, Amanda Hesser is the award-winning auth... More...
Carl Hiaasen | Skinny DipRecorded 7/15/2004Listen to MP3 audioCarl Hiaasen was born and raised in Florida. His nine previous novels include Sick Puppy, Lucky You, Stormy Weather,<... More...
Oscar Hijuelos | A Simple Habana MelodyRecorded 6/13/2002Listen to MP3 audioOscar Hijuelos turns the characters and experiences of his Cuban-American heritage into fictional works that consistentl... More...
Oscar Hijuelos | Thoughts Without Cigarettes: A MemoirRecorded 6/7/2011Listen to MP3 audioOscar Hijuelos turns the characters and experiences of his Cuban-American heritage into fictional works that consistentl... More...
Anita Hill | Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding HomeRecorded 12/7/2011Listen to MP3 audioAnita Hill gained national exposure during the Senate confirmation hearings of Clarence Thomas when her allegations of s... More...
James Hillman | A Terrible Love of WarRecorded 5/4/2004Listen to MP3 audioJames Hillman studied with psychiatrist Carl Jung in the 1950s and went on to become the first director of studies at th... More...
Ayaan Hirsi Ali | Nomad: A Memoir Recorded 6/3/2010Listen to MP3 audioBorn in Somalia and raised Muslim, Ayaan Hirsi Ali fled to Holland, where she eventually became a member of the Dutch pa... More...
Christopher Hitchens | Hitch-22Recorded 6/15/2010Listen to MP3 audioChristopher Hitchens is a prolific and controversial writer, as well as a popular radio and TV commentator. A self-style... More...
Christopher Hitchens | God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons EverythingRecorded 5/22/2007Listen to MP3 audio(This recording contains explicit content.) Christopher Hitchens is the author of such controversial works as ... More...
Nicole Hollander | The Sylvia Chronicles: 30 Years of Graphic Misbehavior from Reagan to ObamaRecorded 8/10/2010Listen to MP3 audioNicole Hollander's wry and witty comic strip Sylvia appears in more than 80 newspapers nationwide, including the ... More...
Alan Hollinghurst | The Line of BeautyRecorded 12/2/2004Listen to MP3 audioBorn in Stroud, England, Alan Hollinghurst's debut novel, The Swimming-Pool Library, was lauded for its startling... More...
Harold Holzer and James McPherson | Hearts Touched by Fire: The Best of Battles and Leaders of the Civil WarRecorded 6/21/2011Listen to MP3 audioA professor emeritus of History at Princeton University, James McPherson won the Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Fre... More...
Nick Hornby | A Long Way DownRecorded 6/8/2005Listen to MP3 audioNick Hornby is the author of three previous novels, High Fidelity, About a Boy, and How to be Good, and tw... More...
Anthony Horowitz | The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes NovelRecorded 11/8/2011Listen to MP3 audioEnglish screenwriter and children's novelist Anthony Horowitz is the author of the New York Times bestselling mys... More...
