Podcasts
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• Recorded Sep 12, 2017Watch the video here . With a career spanning four decades, 26 studio albums, and untold scores of concerts, Loudon Wainwright III is one of the world’s most loved singer-songwriters. A prolific actor in a variety of television and film roles,… more
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Watch the video here . Patricia Lockwood, “The Poet Laureate of Twitter” (unofficial), is the author of 2014’s groundbreaking Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals , a book of obscene, angry, funny verse that “is unforgettable, literally: once… more
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Watch the video here . Yaa Gyasi’s breakout debut novel Homegoing , a multigenerational tale that “brims with compassion” ( NPR Books ), follows two half-sisters on opposite sides of the 18th-century Ghanaian slave trade and their descendants. It… more
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Watch the video here . “His generation’s most gifted writer of love’s complicated, contradictory power” ( Los Angeles Times ), Colm Tóibín is the author of an impressive list of novels, short stories, essays, plays, poetry, and criticism. His… more
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• Recorded Mar 9, 2017Watch the video here . “One of his generation’s most inventive and gifted writers” ( New York Times ), Mohsin Hamid is the author of Moth Smoke , a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a PEN/Hemingway Award finalist; the novel The… more
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A “brilliant chronicler of the American Indian experience” ( Reader’s Digest ), Louise Erdrich revisits the beloved and familiar Ojibwe reservation of her North Dakota childhood—illuminating the mythical and magical in the detail of the… more
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With “an outsize life to match her outsize talent” ( New York Times ), Edna O’Brien is the author of a score of novels, short story collections, biographies, and poetry collections. Due to frank female voices and daring sexual scenes, her first… more
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Known as the “punk poet laureate” for her unique fusion of rock, poetry, and visual arts, Patti Smith won the 2010 National Book Award for Just Kids , a “moving portrait of the artist as a young woman” ( Los Angeles Times ). Her 1975 debut album… more
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The popular and critically acclaimed author of more than 40 books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays, Margaret Atwood is perhaps best known for the dystopian The Handmaid’s Tale , winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Her other novels… more
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• Recorded Oct 15, 2015“One of the most gifted graphic novelists of our time” ( Wired ), Adrian Tomine has a cult following for a variety of his acclaimed work. Perhaps best known for his long-running semiautobiographical comic book series Optic Nerve , he has also… more
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“A gifted, even poetic writer” ( New York Times ), Beth Kephart is the author of 18 books across a wide range of genres, most notably the memoir. The award-winning Handling the Truth offers a thoughtful meditation on the questions that lie at the… more
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“Grounded in ethnic identity, fueled by collective pride, yet irreducibly individual” ( New York Times ), Juan Felipe Herrera is the virtuosic first Mexican American U.S. Poet Laureate. The son of migrant farm workers, his writing is strongly… more
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In addition to being the President and Publisher of major publishing house Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, Jonathan Galassi is the author of the acclaimed poetry collections Left-Handed , North Street , and Morning Run , and is also a poetry critic… more
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• Recorded May 4, 2015A poet of “extraordinary range and ambition” ( New York Times Book Review) , Tracy K. Smith is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book of poetry Life on Mars . Her other poetry collections include Duende, winner of the James Laughlin Award,… more
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• Recorded Apr 20, 2015 Explicit ContentThis podcast contains explicit content. Terrance Hayes won the National Book Award for the 2010 poetry collection Lighthead . Praised for their elegantly evocative imagery and formal versatility, his other collections include Wind in a Box , Hip… more
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• Recorded Mar 24, 2015Marisa de Los Santos is the New York Times bestselling author of Belong to Me , Love Walked In , and Falling Together , as well as the middle grade novel Saving Lucas Biggs , co-written with her husband David Teague, and the poetry collection… more
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In 2013, Patricia Lockwood’s poem “Rape Joke,” first printed on the website The Awl, went viral. A “satirical work that nonetheless brings your heart up under your ears” ( New York Times ), the poem “reawakened a generation’s interest in poetry”… more
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With an impressive body of poetry, essays, and criticism, feminist writer Katha Pollitt brings “a lively wit and considerable erudition” ( Publishers Weekly ) to a variety of political and social issues, including reproductive rights, racism, and… more
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• Recorded Oct 14, 2014Pulitzer Prize-winner Jane Smiley is the author of more than a dozen “smart, irreverent, and wickedly tender” ( The Boston Globe ) novels, including Ten Days in the Hills , Moo , and A Thousand Acres . She is also the author of a short story… more
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• Recorded Sep 16, 2014Granted unprecedented access to Philadelphia’s famous museum of medical oddities, specimens, and antique medical equipment, Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz has penned an in-depth and revelatory biography of its eccentric and brilliant founder, Thomas… more
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