Podcasts
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• Recorded Mar 28, 2019In conversation with Tamala Edwards , anchor, 6ABC Action News morning edition A “heroine of the resistance” ( Vogue ), Cecile Richards was the president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund from 2006… more
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Nathan Englander is the author of the story collections For the Relief of Unbearable Urges and What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank , a Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. In… more
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• Recorded Jan 31, 2019Penning “nonfiction literature of a high and lasting order” ( Chicago Tribune ), Jane Brox is the author of, among other books, Five Thousand Days Like This One , a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Brilliant: The Evolution of… more
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In conversation with award-winning journalist, Tracey Matisak One of the most esteemed religious scholars of our time, Elaine Pagels is the author of Revelations , Beyond Belief , and The Gnostic Gospels . Her many honors include Rockefeller,… more
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• Recorded May 10, 2018“A marvelous storyteller” ( Chicago Tribune ), Mary Morris explores some of her favorite themes—away versus home, childhood memories, and the Midwest—in such works of fiction as A Mother’s Love, House Arrest , and The Jazz Palace . The winner of… more
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Watch the video here . Released just weeks after the tech guru’s death, Walter Isaacson’s “staggering” ( The New York Times ) portrait of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs instantly became an international bestseller. Isaacson has also penned bios of… more
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• Recorded Nov 6, 2017Watch the video here . “One of the finest poets of our time” ( Ebony ), Nikki Giovanni is the author of nearly 30 books, including the collections Acolytes; Black Feeling, Black Talk, Black Judgment; Those Who Ride the Night Winds ; and Quilting… more
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• Recorded Oct 24, 2017Watch the video here . In conversation with Carlin Romano , Critic-at-Large, The Chronicle of Higher Education , former literary critic The Philadelphia Inquirer and author of America the Philosophical Lauded historian Simon Schama is the… more
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Watch the video here . Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for The Swerve: How the World Became Modern , Stephen Greenblatt is widely acclaimed as the father of New Historicism, which strives to understand works of literature… more
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In conversation with Sam Katz, civic entrepreneur and executive producer of History Making Productions. Janet Benton’s writing has appeared in some of America’s most prestigious periodicals and literary journals, including The New York Times, The… more
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• Recorded Apr 20, 2017Watch the video here . Joan Nathan is the author of 11 bestselling culinary guides, including The New American Cooking and Jewish Cooking in America , both of which won James Beard and IACP awards. The latter book was adapted into a PBS series… more
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In conversation with Carlin Romano, Critic-at-Large,The Chronicle of Higher Education “Perhaps the most prominent intellectual in France today” ( The Boston Globe ), Bernard-Henri Lévy led the vanguard of the radical 1970s “New Philosophy”… more
Top 10 Podcast Episodes September 2019
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Paul Tough
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Jonathan Safran Foer
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Edwidge Danticat
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Trevor Noah
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Amy Gutmann and Jonathan D. Moreno
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Malcolm Gladwell
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Richard Russo
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Billy Bragg
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Téa Obreht
Ten Random YouTube Videos September 2019
- Angela Duckworth
- Gary Kasparov
- Sally Mann
- Robert F. Kennedy
- Elizabeth Strout
- Ian Bostridge
- Alex Wagner
- Candice Bergen
- Donald Ray Pollock
- Julia Alvarez
