Podcasts
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In his most daring act yet, E. Lynn Harris writes the memoir of his life from his childhood in Arkansas as a closeted gay boy through his struggling days as a self-published author to his rise as a New York Times bestselling author. In What… more
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Journalist Robert MacNeil and William Crann co-authored The Story of English , and have collaborated again for Do You Speak American? , a companion to the PBS special of the same name. MacNeil's memoir, Looking for My Country is an exploration of… more
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• Recorded Jun 12, 2003In America, baseball writing is an art form. Join five of the best for a roundtable discussion of the ins and outs of our national pastime: Roger Angell has set the standard for baseball writing for more than forty years, his new book is Game… more
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Fresh from performances with Grammy-Award® winning jazz vocalist Cassandra Wilson in New York City, the Free Library of Philadelphia is proud to present DANIEL BERNARD ROUMAIN (DBR) in the Philadelphia premiere of his I, COMPOSER solo show. This… more
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Vartan Gregorian is the president of Carnegie Corporation of New York and past president of both Brown University and the New York Public Library. He developed a love of books as a child in the public library of his hometown in Tabriz, Iran where… more
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• Recorded May 22, 2003Discovered by Agnes de Mille, Judith Jamison became a member of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 1965 where she danced for 15 years; she was later asked to become artistic director of the Dance Theater by Alvin Ailey himself. A noted… more
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Bill Bryson is the bestselling author of wiseacre travelogues A Walk in the Woods and I’m a Stranger Here Myself , as well as excursions into the English language including Mother Tongue and Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words . A Short… more
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Henry Miller predicted that Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying would “make literary history, that because of it, women are going to find their own voice and give us great sagas of sex, life, joy, and adventure.” The book became an international best… more
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Life of Pi won the 2002 Man Booker Prize. The story of a young boy shipwrecked and stranded at sea with a Bengal tiger and other wild animals, The Life of Pi explores issues of spirituality and practicality through the child’s relationships with… more
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Raise a glass to life with Pete Hamill, author of the critically acclaimed A Drinking Life. In his revealing and vivid memoir, Hamill explores the connection between writing and alcohol, and records his childhood in a New York era gone by. A New… more
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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley is the author of The Age of Grief, Moo , and A Thousand Acres . She has won both the O. Henry Award and National Book Critics Circle Award for her spare, lyric prose. Good Faith takes aim at America's… more
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Lois Lowry is the author of the Newbery Medal-winning classic The Giver . The Silent Boy is her 29th novel.
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From the Archive: Don DeLillo is the author of Underworld, a sweeping novel of the last half-century that earned DeLillo the coveted William Dean Howells Medal. Salman Rushdie wrote "Underworld is a magnificent book by an American master."… more
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Born in Saint Lucia in 1930, Derek Walcott is the author of more than twenty collections of poems and plays, and is the 1992 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. At 18, he made his debut with 25 Poems, and in 1959, founded the Trinidad… more
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Michael Connelly's books have won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Nero, Barry, Maltese Falcon (Japan), .38 Caliber (France), Grand Prix (France), and Premio Bancarella (Italy) awards. In 2003 Connelly will be President of the Mystery Writers of… more
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The co-director for the Center for Cognitive Studies and Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University, Dennett is the author of Breaking the Spell and Darwin's Dangerous Idea . Freedom Evolves seeks to account for free will in a world constructed… more
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Billy Collins has published nine previous collections of poetry, including Questions About Angels, Picnic, Lightning, and Sailing Alone Around the Room – his last three collections have broken sales records for poetry. A New York Public Library… more
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One of the seven original Right Stuff astronauts, Scott Carpenter was the fourth American in space and the second to orbit the earth. After the Mercury Project, he went on to explore the oceans, commanding the underwater teams of the U.S. Navy's… more
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A correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, Far Eastern Economic Review, The Times of London, Daily Telegraph, and Pakistan’s The Nation, Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid has been covering the politics of Central Asia, Afghanistan and Pakistan… more
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Knighted in 1995, Sir Martin Gilbert is the official biographer of Sir Winston Churchill and one of the leading historians of our time. His major works include histories of British politics in the 20th century, of both World Wars, and of the… more
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