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  • Posted 10 years ago

    A New Yorker staff writer since 1995, investigative journalist Jane Mayer is renowned for her headlong plunges into the murky waters of national security, public relations in U.S. politics, governmental prosecution of whistleblowers, and other… more

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    In conversation with Dr. James Peterson, Director of Africana Studies and Associate Professor of English at Lehigh University. MSNBC Contributor “One of the most graceful and lucid intellectuals writing on race and politics today” ( Vanity Fair… more

  • Posted 9 years ago

    The youngest tenured and most highly rated professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, Adam Grant is a sought-after expert on work success, motivation, and giving and helping behaviors for a range of clients that… more

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    Charles Frazier, the 2016 One Book, One Philadelphia featured author, and Jennifer Higdon, composer of the opera Cold Mountain , will discuss the intersection of literature and music with Jennifer Lynn of WHYY. The evening will conclude with an… more

  • 100 mins • Recorded Jan 28, 2016
    Posted 10 years ago

    The “measured, perfectly controlled” ( Boston Globe ) Tessa Hadley is the author of four acclaimed novels, including the “rich, absorbing” ( Vanity Fair ) Clever Girl ;  Accidents in the Home , which was longlisted for the  Guardian  First Book… more

  • Posted 10 years ago

    Ian Buruma is the author of The Missionary and the Libertine , Murder in Amsterdam , Year Zero: A History of 1945 , and Theater of Cruelty: Art, Film, and the Shadows of War , winner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the… more

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    In conversation with Tracey Matisak Robert Gates served as Secretary of Defense under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, an experience recounted in his no. 1 New York Times bestselling memoir Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War . He… more

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    In conversation with Buzz Bissinger New York Times bestselling author Mark Bowden is an award-winning national correspondent for The Atlantic and the author of numerous books of investigative journalism, including the classic of war reporting,… more

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    In conversation with Laura Kovacs Possessed of “a magnificent gift for humanizing characters,” ( San Francisco Chronicle ), Elizabeth Strout won the Pulitzer Prize for the 2008 bestseller Olive Kitteridge , a linked collection of narratives about… more

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    In conversation with Jennifer Weiner Elizabeth LaBan is the author of the young adult novel The Tragedy Paper and The Grandparents Handbook . She teaches fiction writing at the University of Pennsylvania and is a freelance writer and editor whose… more

  • Posted 10 years ago

    Lauren Groff ’s “dazzling” ( Vogue ) bestselling novels, Arcadia and The Monsters of Templeton , explore family secrets and small town intrigues in bucolic upstate New York settings. She is the winner of a PEN/O. Henry Award and the Pushcart… more

  • (56:18 mins) • Recorded Dec 10, 2015
    Posted 10 years ago

    For more than three decades James Kaplan’s profiles of more than a hundred of America’s most famous people have appeared in The New Yorker , Vanity Fair , Esquire , and The New York Times Magazine . His other books include biographies of Jerry… more

  • Posted 10 years ago

    Known for quirky humor, encyclopedic knowledge, and covering events ranging from the Little League World Series to the Tour de France, Jason Gay is a fan-favorite sports columnist at The Wall Street Journal . He has contributed articles and… more

  • Posted 10 years ago

    Al Hirschfeld redefined caricature with his mastery of line. His art appeared in every major publication during nine decades of the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as on numerous book, record, and program covers, film posters and publicity art,… more

  • Posted 10 years ago

    In November 1995, right-wing extremist Yigal Amir shot and killed Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin at a rally in Tel Aviv. Award-winning journalist Dan Ephron, former Jerusalem bureau chief for Newsweek , covered both the peace-seeking… more

  • 56 mins • Recorded Dec 1, 2015
    Posted 9 years ago

    Nationally syndicated Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for commentary for his writing about race, culture, and politics. His first book, Becoming Dad: Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood , was published in… more

  • Posted 10 years ago

    Brian Kilmeade cohosts Fox News Channel’s popular morning show Fox & Friends and hosts Fox News Radio’s nationally syndicated Kilmeade and Friends . He is the author of the New York Times bestselling The Games Do Count and It’s How You Play the… more

  • Posted 10 years ago

    First-time novelist Garth Risk Hallberg’s  City on Fire is a panoramic pastiche of punk rockers and power brokers, reporters and rich kids, it vaults into the frenetic world of an extraordinary ensemble forever changed in the darkness of the… more

  • Posted 10 years ago

    Algerian Journalist Kamel Daoud’s debut novel, The Meursault Investigation , is a “tour-de-force reimagining” ( The New Yorker ) of The Stranger , told from the point of view of the brother of the nameless, voiceless Arab killed by the antihero… more

  • Posted 10 years ago

    The bestselling author of the nonfiction books The Professor and the Madman, Krakatoa ,  The Men Who United the States , and Atlantic , Simon Winchester evokes “vivid, valuable” ( Wall Street Journal ) images of legendary and little-known pockets… more