Edwidge Danticat | Brother, I'm Dying AND Edward P. Jones | All Aunt Hagar's Children AND Zakes Mda | Cion
Recorded 9/25/2007
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Haitian-born writer Edwidge Danticat is the author of Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection; Krik... 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 One
Recorded 12/9/2010
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A food editor and columnist for more than a decade at the New York Times, Amanda Hesser is the award-winning auth... More...

A. J. Jacobs | The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
Recorded 10/30/2007
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A.J. Jacobs is the editor at large of Esquire and author of The Know-It-All, the bestselling account of re... More...

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...

Susan Jacoby | The Age of American Unreason
Recorded 3/4/2008
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Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of the bestselling Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, Susan Jacob... More...

P.D. James | A Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography
Recorded 5/4/2000
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P.D. James spoke at the Free Library on the occasion of the publication of A Time to Be in Earnest, a diary of he... More...

Tommy James | Me, the Mob, and the Music: One Helluva Ride with Tommy James & the Shondells
Recorded 4/18/2010
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Legendary rock-and-roll artist Tommy James is the creator of dozens of memorable hit songs, including "I Think We’re Alo... More...

Kathleen Hall Jamieson | Echo Chamber: Rush Limbaugh and the Conservative Media Establishment
Recorded 6/24/2008
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Dr. Kathleen Hall Jamieson offers a compelling analysis of the conservative media establishment, from talk radio to Fox ... More...

Kay Redfield Jamison | Nothing Was the Same
Recorded 10/13/2009
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An international authority and researcher on mood disorders, Kay Redfield Jamison has unique insight into the world of m... More...

Kay Redfield Jamison | Exuberance: The Passion for Life
Recorded 10/28/2004
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An international authority and researcher on mood disorders, Kay Redfield Jamison has unique insight into the world of m... More...

Judith Jamison | Artistic Director, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre
Recorded 5/22/2003
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Discovered by Agnes de Mille, Judith Jamison became a member of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 1965 where she... More...

Saru Jayaraman | Behind the Kitchen Door: What Every Diner Should Know About the People Who Feed You
Recorded 2/19/2013
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A force for social justice, Saru Jayaraman is the co-founder and co-director of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers Uni... More...

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...

Ha Jin | The Bridegroom
Recorded 11/10/2000
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From the National Book Award winner (Waiting) comes an insightful collection of stories about post-Cultural Revol... More...

Diane Johnson | Le Mariage
Recorded 4/6/2000
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Author of Persian Nights, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and co-writer of the film The Shining, Johnson... More...

Marilyn Johnson | This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
Recorded 3/25/2010
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Journalist Marilyn Johnson has been a staff writer for Life and an editor at Esquire, Redbook, and Outside. ... More...

Edward P. Jones | The Known World
Recorded 10/21/2004
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Edward P. Jones is the winner of the 2004 Pulitzer and the National Book Critics Circle prizes for fiction for his first... More...

Judith Jones | The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food with Alex Prud'homme | My Life In France
Recorded 3/6/2008
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A senior editor and vice president at Alfred A. Knopf, where she has worked since 1957, Judith Jones has edited some of ... More...

Street Lit Panel Featuring Teri Woods, Shannon Holmes, and Solomon Jones - Moderated by Vanessa Morrision
Recorded 12/4/2007
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Native Philadelphian and bestselling author, Teri Woods began selling hand-made copies of her first novel on the street ... More...

Tayari Jones | Silver Sparrow With Danielle Evans | Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
Recorded 6/28/2011
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Tayari Jones is a novelist and short-story writer whose fiction often focuses on the urban south. In Leaving Atlanta<... More...

Erica Jong | Sugar in my Bowl: Real Women Write About Real Sex In conversation with contributors Julie Klam and Karen Abbott
Recorded 7/14/2011
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Henry Miller predicted that Erica Jong's Fear of Flying would "make literary history… because of it, women are go... More...

Erica Jong | Sappho's Leap
Recorded 5/15/2003
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Henry Miller predicted that Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying would “make literary history, that because of it, women a... More...

Jamal Joseph | Panther Baby: A Life of Rebellion and Reinvention
Recorded 2/21/2012
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As a teenager in the Bronx ghetto of the 1960s, Eddie Joseph was introduced to the tenets of the Black Panther Party jus... More...

Tony Judt | Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Recorded 11/28/2006
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Almost a decade in the making, Postwar is a sweeping history of post WWII Europe from the renowned historian Tony... More...

Sebastian Junger | A Death in Belmont
Recorded 7/20/2006
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Drawn to stories of danger and adventure, Sebastian Junger is a National Magazine Award-winning journalist and author of... More...

Sebastian Junger | Fire
Recorded 1/31/2002
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The internationally acclaimed author of The Perfect Storm discusses his collection of foreign reporting, which ch... More...

Sebastian Junger | War
Recorded 5/20/2010
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A contributing editor to Vanity Fair, Sebastian Junger has won both the SAIS Novartis Prize for journalism and a ... More...

Norton Juster | The Phantom Tollbooth 50th Anniversary
Recorded 11/5/2011
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When The Phantom Tollbooth was first released in 1961, it captured the hearts and minds of millions of children, ... More...

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...

Ha Jin | The Crazed and Anchee Min | Empress Orchid
Recorded 2/5/2004
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Ha Jin immigrated in 1986 to the United States to earn a Ph.D. in English at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. Withi... More...

Ann Patchett and Ward Just
Recorded 6/6/2002
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Ann Patchett is the award-winning author of The Patron Saint of Liars, The Magician's Assistant and Taft. ... More...

Lionel Shriver | The New Republic with Heidi Julavits | The Vanishers
Recorded 3/27/2012
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Lionel Shriver is the author of 10 novels and the recipient of the 2005 Orange Prize for her acclaimed book We Need t... 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...