Podcasts
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Actor, singer, and dancer Joel Grey has won Oscar, Tony, and Golden Globe Awards for a wide range of stage and screen roles. In a career that dates back to the 1940s, he originated the roles of Master of Ceremonies in Cabaret , George M. Cohan in… more
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• Recorded Feb 16, 2016“A master of subtle nuance in dealing with both Arab and Jewish society” ( New York Times ), Sayed Kashua is an Arab-Israeli who lived in Jerusalem for most of his life. He is the author of three novels— Dancing Arabs , Let It Be Morning , and… more
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• Recorded Jul 30, 2015Critic John Lahr calls Victoria Shorr ’s debut novel a “dashing and vivid” and “lyrical, pithy” take on a legendary outlaw and his paramour. In Backlands , the real-life yet nearly mythical Lampiao and Maria Bonita, the Robin Hood and Maid Marian… more
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• Recorded Jun 24, 2015American-born Michael Oren is a “brilliant, lucid” ( Washington Post Book World ) Middle East historian and was Israel’s ambassador to the United States from 2009 to 2013. He is the author of the bestselling Power, Faith and Fantasy and Six Days… more
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• Recorded May 28, 2015Writer’s writer Jim Shepard is the author of six novels and four story collections, including Project X and Like You’d Understand Anyway , a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of The Story Prize. His short fiction has appeared nearly… more
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The satire of Nikolai Gogol and Richard Linklater meet in the absurdity, frenetic detail, and cultural obsessions of Gary Shteyngart’s novels. His 2002 debut, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook , won the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction. He… more
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• Recorded Oct 17, 2013“One of the most beautiful, original, and ingenious prose stylists to have come along in decades” ( New York Times ), Nicholson Baker is the bestselling author of nine unconventional novels and five works of nonfiction, including the National… more
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• Recorded May 6, 2013“The Ambassador of the Great American Songbook,” Michael Feinstein is a multi-platinum-selling, Emmy and Grammy Award-nominated entertainer dedicated to restoring music from the golden age of American song. He educates audiences about the… more
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• Recorded Apr 30, 2013Journalist and social justice activist Letty Cottin Pogrebin is the founding editor of Ms. magazine, a national flagship platform for feminist journalism launched in 1971 that brazenly helped to shape the anti-sexist movement. Pogrebin is the… more
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• Recorded Apr 1, 2013Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel is a leading oncologist, political theorist, and the author of nine books on medical ethics and healthcare. A Professor and Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, Emanuel… more
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• Recorded Mar 19, 2013Blind since birth, mezzo-soprano Laurie Rubin has been praised for her “compelling artistry” and “communicative power” (New York Times), and her “especially acute intuition about the power and subtleties of sound” (Los Angeles Times). In her… more
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Scholar and women’s studies pioneer Lillian Faderman is the author of several groundbreaking narratives of the cultural, social, and political history of LGBT life and identity, including Surpassing the Love of Men , “one of the most significant… more
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It's hard to find a food blog with more accolades than Deb Perelman’s Smitten Kitchen blog, which counts the New York Times , Martha Stewart, NPR, and Rachael Ray among its many admirers. Perelman’s philosophy is that there are no bad cooks, just… more
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• Recorded Nov 13, 2012Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame is a collection of essays about influential Jewish athletes, coaches, broadcasters, team owners, and trainers, including Howard Cosell, Art Shamsky, Kerri Strug, and Sandy Koufax. Contributors include New… more
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• Recorded Apr 26, 2012 Explicit ContentThis podcast contains explicit content. Called "an astute and compassionate observer, a meticulous historian and a gifted stylist" by Adam Langer in the New York Times , David Bezmozgis emigrated from Riga, Latvia to Toronto in 1980. His debut… more
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• Recorded Mar 8, 2012Jonathan Safran Foer became a certified literary wunderkind at the age of 25 with his debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated , which told the story of a young man's search across the obliterated Ukrainian landscape for the woman who saved his… more
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• Recorded Jan 17, 2012 Explicit Content( This recording contains explicit content. ) "With his middle finger pointed at the heavens and a hand held over his heart, Shalom Auslander gives us Foreskin's Lament ," wrote Benjamin Anastas in the New York Times Book Review about Auslander's… more
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He started as Jerry Blavat, a half-Jewish, half-Italian kid from South Philadelphia. These days, he’s better known as The Geator with the Heater, The Boss with the Hot Sauce. After 50 years in the music business, the man former Governor Ed… more
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• Recorded Sep 30, 2010 Explicit Content(This recording contains explicit content.) Scottish writer A.L. Kennedy has twice been named to Granta's list of Best Young British Novelists, and her literary awards include the Somerset Maugham Award for Looking for the Possible Dance and the… more
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• Recorded May 27, 2010Jonathan Sacks is Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of Great Britain and the Commonwealth. A frequent contributor to The Times (London) and the BBC, Rabbi Sacks was knighted in 2005 and granted life peerage in the House of Lords in… more
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