Podcasts
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Posted 14 years agoKnit Happens! And it's not just for grannies anymore… Debbie Stoller, co-Founder and Editorial Director of femme-forward Bust magazine, will discuss the techniques and stories from her book, Stitch 'n Bitch: The Knitter's Handbook, and show off… more
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Posted 14 years agoAfter graduating high school at the age of 15 Christopher Paolini needed something to do. So, he sat down to write his debut novel, Eragon, the first of an emerging three-part fantasy series about dragons and their riders. His parents, owners of a… more
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79 mins • Recorded Mar 2, 2004Posted 14 years agoFormer Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill offers a remarkably frank and revealing account of the Bush White House in The Price of Loyalty by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Ron Suskind. Working with the full cooperation of O’Neill and… more
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Posted 14 years agoIn Fabric of the Cosmos, physicist Brian Greene reveals the strange and stunning layers of reality uncovered by modern physics and lying just beneath the surface of the everyday world. Fabric of the Cosmos, an artful mélange of analogy and popular… more
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Posted 14 years agoFew authors can be credited with birthing a genre, but with his remarkable science fiction novel, Neuromancer, William Gibson did just that. As the father of "cyberpunk", Gibson is credited with the phrase "cyberspace" and consequently has made a… more
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Posted 14 years agoHa Jin immigrated in 1986 to the United States to earn a Ph.D. in English at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. Within four years, Jin had published his first book of poems in English, Between Silences. After receiving his degree, Jin began… more
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Posted 14 years agoHaving already established himself as an author who pushes jazz writing towards exceptional art with Kind of Blue: The Making of The Miles Davis Masterpiece, Ashley Kahn puts forth yet another fascinating study. Publishers Weekly claims, "Music… more
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Posted 14 years agoConsidered one of America's leading political analysts, Kevin Phillips leapt to public attention with the 1968 publication of his groundbreaking work The Emerging Republican Majority. The book correctly predicted the shift from liberalism to… more
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Posted 14 years agoAfter resigning from the University of Tehran because of oppressive policies, Azar Nafisi invited seven of her best female students to study Western literature in secret at her home. Reading Lolita in Tehran chronicles the journey of this group's… more
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Posted 14 years agoRichard Dawkins, known for his "brilliance and wit" ( New Yorker ) – is one of the most influential scientists of our time and holds a chair at Oxford University. His highly acclaimed books include Unweaving the Rainbow, The Blind Watchmaker, and… more
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Posted 14 years agoDavid Macaulay, artist and author of several books (including City, Castle and Pyramid ) that use his "masterful" illustrations to explain architecture, deconstructs the late-sixteenth-century Turkish mosque. In Mosque, Macaulay's work describes… more
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Posted 14 years agoNathaniel Philbrick is a leading authority on the history of Nantucket, director of the Egan Institute of Maritime Studies, and research fellow at the Nantucket Historical Association. He is the author of In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of… more
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Posted 14 years agoToni Morrison is the Robert F. Goheen Professor of Humanities at Princeton University, and author of esteemed novels The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, and Beloved. She has received the National Book Critics Circle award and the… more
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76 mins • Recorded Nov 3, 2003Posted 14 years ago
Bestselling author and historian Gary Wills received the National Medal for the Humanities in 1998. He is the author of Papal Sin and Lincoln at Gettysburg , winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Henry Wiencek is the author of The Hairstons , winner of… more
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72 mins • Recorded Nov 3, 2003Posted 14 years agoJoyce Carol Oates, now the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University, has published more than 70 books of poetry, short stories, essays and literary criticism, including novels and plays. She has twice… more
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Posted 13 years agoAmy Tan is the author of best-selling novels The Joy Luck Club, a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Kitchen God's Wife and The Hundred Secret Senses. The Joy Luck Club was made into a film, for… more
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Posted 14 years agoJohn Updike is the author of the "Rabbit" novels, which focus on the life of ex-high school basketball star, and by now "one of America’s most famous literary characters," Harry Angstrom. He has won the Pulitzer Prize, The National Book Award, The… more
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Posted 14 years agoLOONEY LECTURE Author and illustrator of the beloved picture books Jumanji and The Polar Express (both Caldecott Medal winners), Chris Van Allsburg has finally created Zathura. After twenty years of anticipation Zathura picks up where Jumanji… more
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62 mins • Recorded Oct 16, 2003Posted 14 years ago
Creator of Twyla Tharp Dance, Ms. Tharp has coreographed pieces for institutions ranging from the New York City Ballet to the Paris Opera Ballet. She has appeared, on Broadway and across the dance world.
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Posted 14 years agoGet Your War On is David Rees' sardonic online comic strip (and book), which brilliantly deploys every post-9/11 emotion and political stance with a humor that involves the free use of four letter words. What began as a fax that Rees sent to a… more
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