Podcasts
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• Recorded Mar 28, 2013 Explicit ContentJonathan Dee is the author of five novels, including The Privileges, a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize and winner of the 2011 Prix Fitzgerald. He is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, a National Magazine… more
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Bosnian American writer Aleksandar Hemon came to Chicago in 1992 for a month-long cultural exchange program and was supposed to return to Sarajevo on May 1—the same day the city came under siege. Granted asylum in the United States as a political… more
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Please note: this podcast contains explicit language. A roundtable member and writer on E!’s late night talk shows Chelsea Lately and After Lately , comedian Josh Wolf is known for his honest and high-energy storytelling. A fan favorite at Los… 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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• Recorded Mar 18, 2013University of Delaware journalism professor Ben Yagoda has written about language and writing for such publications as the New York Times Book Review , Rolling Stone , and Esquire . His books include Memoir: A History ; When You Catch an… 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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The One Book, One Philadelphia season concludes with a reading by featured author Julie Otsuka as well as a special musical tribute led by Udi Bar-David, cellist with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Intercultural Journeys Artistic Director.*… 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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Called “both an irresistibly engaging adventure and a searching portrait of contemporary young people in Pakistan” (Joyce Carol Oates), internationally bestselling author Mohsin Hamid’s first novel, Moth Smoke , was a New York Times Notable Book… more
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A master storyteller and queen of the book club, Jodi Picoult is known for plumbing hot-button topics in novels that feature nuanced characters, pitch-perfect descriptions of suburbia—and the darkness it often conceals—and unfettered insight into… more
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• Recorded Feb 28, 2013Anti-poverty advocate Peter Edelman is a Professor of Law at Georgetown University and the Faculty Director at the Center on Poverty, Inequality, and Public Policy. His first book, Searching for America's Heart: RFK and the Renewal of Hope… more
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Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright, Antigua native Jamaica Kincaid’s novels display “a poet’s understanding of how politics and history, private and public events, overlap and blur” ( New York Times) , and examine the powerful ties and inherent… more
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• Recorded Feb 21, 2013Po Bronson’s widely acclaimed social documentary books include Why Do I Love These People? and What Should I Do With My Life?, a no. 1 New York Times bestselling career guide. For their collaborative reporting on the science of human development… more
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• Recorded Feb 20, 2013Tina Kelley was a staff writer for the New York Times for ten years and belonged to the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for covering the September 11th attacks and now works at Covenant House. In Almost Home she and co-author Kevin Ryan tell… more
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Saru Jayaraman | Behind the Kitchen Door: What Every Diner Should Know About the People Who Feed You• Recorded Feb 19, 2013A force for social justice, Saru Jayaraman is the co-founder and co-director of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, a New York City-based nonprofit that organizes restaurant workers to win workplace justice campaigns, conduct research… more
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Robert Jordan’s multi-volume epic fantasy series, Wheel of Time “has come to dominate the world Tolkien began to reveal” ( New York Times ). Following his untimely death in 2007, Jordan’s wife and editor Harriet McDougal recruited bestselling… more
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• Recorded Feb 13, 2013Evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin was a member of the field team that made the 2004 landmark discovery of Tiktaalik roseae, a fossil fish dubbed the "missing link" between fish and land animals. The bestselling author of Your Inner Fish, Shubin… more
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• Recorded Feb 12, 2013Karen Russell's debut novel Swamplandia! , a lushly imagined narrative of a dilapidated, family-run amusement park in the Everglades, was a New York Times Best Book of the Year, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and a nominee for the Orange Prize. Her… more
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• Recorded Feb 7, 2013An art photographer and one of the nation’s leading historians of African American photography, Deborah Willis is University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.… more
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Under Michelle Rhee’s leadership, the Washington, D.C. public school system—the worst performing school district in the country—became the only major city system to see double-digit growth in state reading and state math scores over three years.… more
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