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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Jon Meacham | The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
• Recorded Jul 12, 2018A “tough-minded” but “nuanced and persuasive” ( The New York Times Book Review ) expert on history, politics, and religion in America, Jon Meacham won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for his biography American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House .… more
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Beck Dorey-Stein | From the Corner of the Oval
• Recorded Jul 10, 2018In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6ABC Action News morning edition A White House stenographer from 2012 to 2017, Beck Dorey-Stein was serving cocktails in the D.C. area when she answered an unlikely Craigslist post that ultimately… more
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Randi Hutter Epstein | Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything
• Recorded Jun 26, 2018Please join Randi on the launch date of her latest book, Aroused , which takes us on a guided tour through the intellectually arousing history and science of hormones. Randi’s prior book Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of… more
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Paul Offit | Bad Advice: Or Why Celebrities, Politicians, and Activists Aren't Your Best Source of Health Information
• Recorded Jun 25, 2018The Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a Professor of Vaccinology and Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Dr. Paul Offit is the co-inventor of the rotavirus vaccine… more
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Elin Hilderbrand | The Perfect Couple
• Recorded Jun 21, 2018“The queen of the summer beach read” ( New York Post ), Elin Hilderbrand has captured the flavor, scenery, and people of Nantucket in more than 20 New York Times bestselling novels, including The Beach Club, The Matchmaker , and The Identicals . … more
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Jamie Bernstein | Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein
• Recorded Jun 20, 2018In conversation with Peter Dobrin, classical music critic and culture writer, The Philadelphia Inquirer . Jamie Bernstein is the oldest daughter of Leonard Bernstein, one of the 20th century’s best known musicians. Chief conductor of the New York… more
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Michael A. Smerconish | Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right: American Life in Columns
• Recorded Jun 19, 2018Michael A. Smerconish is the host of The Michael Smerconish Program on SiriusXM Channel 124, the host of CNN’s Smerconish on Saturday mornings, a Sunday Philadelphia Inquirer columnist, and a New York Times bestselling author. His books… more
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Katrina van Grouw | Unnatural Selection
• Recorded Jun 14, 2018The former curator of the ornithological collections at London’s Natural History Museum, Katrina van Grouw is the author of The Unfeathered Bird . A sumptuous labor of love, this hybrid of art, science, and history features 385 detailed drawings… more
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Eliza Griswold | Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
• Recorded Jun 12, 2018In the New York Times bestselling book The Tenth Parallel , immersive journalist Eliza Griswold spent seven years traversing the geographic and ideological fronts in Africa and Asia where Christianity and Islam collide. In I Am the Beggar of… more
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Ken Auletta | Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business (and Everything Else)
• Recorded Jun 11, 2018In conversation with journalist Tracey Matisak Ken Auletta has penned the “Annals of Communications” column for The New Yorker for more than 25 years. His 11 books include the bestsellers Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way , The… more
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20th & Vine - Backstage with Jesmyn Ward
This month we're featuring two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, who recently visited the Free Library of Philadelphia to promote her novel Sing, Unburied, Sing. Laura Kovacs spoke to her backstage about living memory. 20th & Vine is 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 May 2018
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Simon Winchester
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
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Jen Sincero
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Jake Tapper
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Curtis Sittenfeld
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Jesmyn Ward
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Mark C. Serreze
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Alan Stern and David Grinspoon
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Mary Morris
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Kevin Powers