Podcast
The Free Library Podcast is an easy way to participate in the author events and lectures that take place at the Central Library. Visit Author Events to find upcoming events.
Recent Episodes
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Carolyn Forché | What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
• Recorded Mar 19, 2019In conversation with Beth Kephart, the award-winning author of twenty-four books, including Going Over , Handling the Truth: On the Writing of Memoir , and Flow: The Life and Times of Philadelphia’s Schuylkill River . “An unflinching witness and… more
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Lidia Bastianich | My American Dream: A Life of Love, Family, and Food
• Recorded Mar 18, 2019Renowned chef and restaurateur Lidia Bastianich is the owner and co-owner of celebrated Italian restaurants in Manhattan, Pittsburgh, and Kansas City. The author of a baker’s dozen cookbooks, a judge on Masterchef Jr. Italy , and a regular… more
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Frans de Waal | Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
• Recorded Mar 14, 2019Esteemed primatologist Frans de Waal is the author of The Bonobo and the Atheist , a “tour de force” ( Nature ) exploration of the biological roots of human morality found in primate social emotions, including empathy, reciprocity, and fairness.… more
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Darius James | Negrophobia: An Urban Parable
• Recorded Mar 12, 2019 Explicit ContentIn conversation with Gene Seymour, contributor to The Nation and former film critic and jazz columnist for Newsday . He has written for Bookforum , CNN.com, and The Washington Post . Author and spoken-word artist Darius James’s 1992 masterpiece,… more
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David Treuer | The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
• Recorded Mar 7, 2019An Ojibwe from the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota and an unromantic chronicler of Native American culture and literature, David Treuer is the author of the novels Prudence , Little , The Hiawatha , and The Translation of Dr. Appeles… more
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Brittney Cooper | Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower with Rebecca Traister | Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger
• Recorded Mar 5, 2019 Explicit ContentIn converation with Rebecca Traister , author of Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger Examining the intersections of race, gender, and politics in a popular monthly Cosmo column, Brittney Cooper is also a professor of women’s… more
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Don Winslow | The Border
• Recorded Feb 28, 2019The author of numerous international bestselling crime novels, Don Winslow is the recipient of dozens of awards and spots on myriad best-books-of-the-year lists. These books include The Winter of Frankie Machine , The Force , and Savages , for… more
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Sigrid Nunez | The Friend: A Novel with Keith Gessen | A Terrible Country: A Novel
• Recorded Feb 26, 2019Sigrid Nunez won the 2018 National Book Award for The Friend , “a penetrating, moving meditation on loss, comfort, memory” (NPR) in which a woman is forced to adopt her deceased best friend’s Great Dane. The recipient of a Berlin Prize, the Rome… more
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Steve Luxenberg | Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation
• Recorded Feb 21, 2019A 30-year writer and senior editor at The Washington Post , Steve Luxenberg has overseen reportage that has won a host of awards, including two Pulitzer Prizes for explanatory journalism. He is the author of Annie’s Ghosts: A Journey in a Family… more
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Pete Buttigieg | Shortest Way Home: One Mayor’s Challenge and a Model for America’s Future
• Recorded Feb 19, 2019In conversation with Tamala Edwards , anchor, 6ABC Action News morning edition The multifaceted, 36-year-old progressive mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigieg is a Rhodes Scholar and Harvard graduate. Nearly a decade ago he left a… more
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20th & Vine - Backstage with Pete Buttigieg
This month we're featuring Pete Buttigieg, who recently visited the Free Library of Philadelphia to discuss his new political memoir Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future. Buttigieg spoke to Laura Kovacs backstage about repairing the engine of our democracy with regard to political representation and the electoral college among other topics. 20th & Vine features behind-the-scenes conversations from the Free Library of Philadelphia's award-winning Author Events series. Subscribe now for more videos with your favorite authors.
Top 10 Podcast Episodes February 2019
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Pete Buttigieg
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Bernard-Henri Lévy
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Jane Brox
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Chris Wilson
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Dani Shapiro
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Feminista Jones
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Steve Luxenberg
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Bridgett M. Davis
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Howard Schultz
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Victor LaValle with Justina Ireland, Sam J. Miller, and Alice Sola Kim