Anne Enright | The Forgotten Waltz with Julie Otsuka | The Buddha in the Attic
Recorded 10/4/2011
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Known for her gritty realism, Anne Enright shot to international fame when her fourth novel, The Gathering, abo... More...

Joyce Carol Oates | A Widow’s Story: A Memoir
Recorded 3/8/2011
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Over the span of more than four decades, Joyce Carol Oates has produced an enormous body of work, including novels, shor... More...

Joyce Carol Oates | Blonde: A Novel
Recorded 4/14/2000
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The acclaimed author reimagines the life and spirit of Norma Jean Baker, the woman who would come to be Marilyn Monroe. ... More...

Joyce Carol Oates |Freaky Green Eyes and The Faith of a Writer
Recorded 11/3/2003
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Joyce Carol Oates, now the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University, has publ... More...

Joyce Carol Oates | Dear Husband, Stories
Recorded 4/18/2009
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Over the span of more than four decades, Joyce Carol Oates has produced an enormous body of work consisting of novels, s... More...

Joyce Carol Oates | High Lonesome Stories: 1966-2006 & Etgar Keret | The Nimrod Flipout
Recorded 5/2/2006
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For over four decades, Joyce Carol Oates has produced an enormous body of work consisting of novels, short stories, crit... More...

Barack Obama | The Audacity of Hope
Recorded 10/21/2006
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Barack Obama is the junior United States Senator from Illinois and the first African-American male Democrat elected to t... More...

Edna O'Brien | The Light of Evening
Recorded 10/17/2006
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An Irish writer famous for her rich and sensuous prose, Edna O’Brien has been called “the most gifted woman now writing ... More...

Tim O’Brien | The Things They Carried (20th Anniversary Edition)
Recorded 3/23/2010
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Now in its 20th year of publication, The Things They Carried has more than two million copies in print. A finalis... More...

Edna O'Brien | Down By the River
Recorded 5/14/1998
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The Irish novelist discusses her controversial, bestselling book which chronicles themes of incest, rape, and poverty. ... More...

Tim O'Brien | July, July
Recorded 10/24/2002
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The National Book Award-winning author of The Things They Carried, O'Brien introduces a host of troubled characte... More...

Frank Delaney | The Matchmaker of Kenmare with Joseph O'Connor | Ghost Light
Recorded 2/22/2011
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Born in Tipperary, Frank Delaney enjoyed a long and prominent career in broadcasting before becoming a full-time writer.... More...

Nuala O'Faolain - Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman
Recorded 4/8/2004
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County Dublin-born Nuala O'Faolain joins the ranks of the "serial memoirists" with her most recent memoir, Almost... More...

Prize Stories 2000: The O'Henry Awards
Recorded 10/26/2000
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Three of the O'Henry Award-winning authors-- Andrea Barrett, Mary Gordon and Beth Lordan-- discuss their stories publish... More...

Barbara Olshansky & Dave Lindorff | The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office
Recorded 5/4/2006
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Barbara Olshansky is the Assistant Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. Her current docket at the Cen... More...

Joseph O'Neill | Netherland
Recorded 6/16/2009
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Born in Ireland and raised in Holland, Joseph O'Neill writes regularly for The Atlantic Monthly and is the... More...

Michael Oren | Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East 1776 to the Present
Recorded 2/6/2007
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An historian and Middle East scholar with citizenship in the United States and Israel, Michael Oren is the author of the... More...

Susan Orlean | Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend
Recorded 12/5/2011
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A staff writer for The New Yorker since 1992, Susan Orlean won widespread fame for her 1998 New York Times... More...

Jeremiah Ostriker | Heart of Darkness: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Invisible Universe
Recorded 1/29/2013
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One of the first cosmologists to suggest that galaxies are immersed in large halos of dark matter, Jeremiah Ostriker has... More...

GRAND FINALE with Julie Otsuka & Intercultural Journeys*
Recorded 3/13/2013
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The One Book, One Philadelphia season concludes with a reading by featured author
Julie Otsuka as well as a specia... More...

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...

OED 80th Anniversary with Jesse Sheidlower, Barbara Wallraff & Ammon Shea
Recorded 11/18/2008
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This recording contains explicit content.

Jesse Sheidlower, Editor-at-large of the Oxford Engli... More...

Helen Oyeyemi | The Opposite House
Recorded 6/19/2007
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Helen Oyeyemi is the author of the highly acclaimed novel The Icarus Girl, which she wrote before her nineteenth ... More...

Amos Oz | Scenes from Village Life
Recorded 10/28/2011
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Israel's best-known novelist Amos Oz is the author of nearly 30 works, including My Michael, the novel that made ... More...

Cynthia Ozick | Heir to the Glimmering World
Recorded 9/21/2004
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Acclaimed for both her fiction and criticism, Cynthia Ozick was a finalist for the National Book Award for her penultima... More...

Cynthia Ozick | The Din in the Head & Nicole Krauss | The History of Love
Recorded 6/27/2006
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In The Din In the Head, Cynthia Ozick, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism for Quar... More...

Alice Ozma | The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared WITH Robert Strauss | Daddy’s Little Goalie
Recorded 7/19/2011
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Alice Ozma's touching debut memoir The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared tells the story ... More...