Podcasts
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By turns “defiant, satirically hilarious, sexy, and wise” ( Booklist ), Ana Castillo is one of the preeminent voices of the Chicana experience. Vibrantly experimental in style, she explores themes of feminism, oppression, and classism in a vast… more
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• Recorded Apr 19, 2014For the New York Times bestselling The Tenth Parallel , journalist Eliza Griswold spent seven years traveling the geographic and ideological fronts in Africa and Asia where Christianity and Islam collide. She is also the author of Wideawake Field… more
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Over the course of eight collections of poetry, four books of criticism, and the long-running “Poet’s Choice” column in the Washington Post , Edward Hirsch has cemented his reputation as an attentive reader and an elegant poet, capturing what the… more
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• Recorded Dec 10, 2013A champion of the simple life, Garrison Keillor is a consummate storyteller, gifted with the rare ability—in print and in person—to hold an audience spellbound with his tales of ordinary people whose lives contain extraordinary moments of humor,… more
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(This podcast contains explicit content) A "rare, remarkable talent that brings to mind the great artists of the Harlem Renaissance" ( Philadelphia Inquirer ), MK Asante is a writer, filmmaker, and hip-hop artist and recipient of the Langston… more
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"A linguistic Midas—everything she puts to paper is golden" ( Family Circle ), Beth Kephart is the author of more than a dozen books, including five memoirs, several acclaimed novels for young readers, and Flow , an autobiography of the… more
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Since joining the Princeton University faculty in 1978—where she has mentored countless young writers—Joyce Carol Oates’s literary work has continued unabated. Her “towering career” ( Washington Post ) includes nearly 60 novels, more than 30… more
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• Recorded May 29, 2013Alice Walker’s esteemed literary career spans over four decades and includes seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children’s books, and volumes of essays and poetry. Her 1983 novel The Color Purple received the Pulitzer Prize and… more
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At the age of 17, Kevin Powers enlisted in the Army and later served as a machine-gunner in Mosul and Tal Afar, Iraq, where the infinite sky is “catacombed with clouds” and “soldiers stay awake on fear and amphetamines and Tabasco sauce daubed… more
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"The most sophisticated and original poet of his generation," ( The New York Review of Books ), Paul Muldoon received the Pulitzer Prize for his 2003 poetry collection Moy Sand and Gravel . His many other honors include the T. S. Eliot Award, the… more
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Natasha Trethewey, winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her collection Native Guard , was named the 19 th United States poet laureate in June 2012. A Mississippi native, Trethewey is a professor at Emory University in Atlanta. Her… more
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• Recorded Dec 6, 2012Daniel Mendelsohn’s books include the international bestseller The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, winner of the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award and the Prix Medicis Etranger, and an acclaimed translation of the poetry of C. P.… more
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A courageous voice for justice, freedom, and human rights around the world, Wole Soyinka is the first African recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature for his novels, plays, poems, and essays. For his unhesitating resistance to political… more
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In her 14 novels, children's stories, and poetry collections, Louise Erdrich revisits the beloved and familiar Native American reservation of her North Dakota childhood, grounding mythic and magical in the detail of the everyday, “easily… more
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• Recorded Sep 21, 2012 Explicit Content(This recording contains explicit content) "Not for the fainthearted" ( Sunday Times ), Irvine Welsh's subterranean worlds are created with eloquent obscenity. He shot to fame with his first novel, Trainspotting , a dark comic portrait of the… more
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Paul Auster reenergized contemporary experimental literature with his 1986 New York Trilogy , a trio of postmodern, labyrinthine meta-detective novellas where "each detail, each small revelation must be attended to as significant. And such… more
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2012 Philadelphia Book Festival “Sanchez has long been regarded as the city's unofficial poet laureate. But now the job is truly hers,” wrote the Philadelphia Inquirer after acclaimed activist Sonia Sanchez’s appointment, at the end of 2011, as… more
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• Recorded Jul 14, 2011Henry Miller predicted that Erica Jong's Fear of Flying would "make literary history… 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 seller… more
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Host and writer of Minnesota Public Radio's A Prairie Home Companion , Garrison Keillor is a storyteller, humorist, columnist, musician, satirist, and the author of more than a dozen books including Homegrown Democrat, Lake Wobegon Days, Pontoon,… more
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Over the span of more than four decades, Joyce Carol Oates has produced an enormous body of work, including novels, short stories, criticism, plays, and poetry. Among her many distinctions, she has received the National Book Award for them, the… more
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