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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young | Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation from 2023-12-08T06:10:33
Co-sponsored by Committee of SeventyIn conversation with Cherri Gregg, host/news anchor for WHYY radioDannagal Goldthwai...
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Sohla El-Waylly | Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook: A Cookbook from 2023-12-07T10:06:32
In conversation with Reem KassisA chef, writer, video producer, and community advocate,Sohla El-Wayllyhosts Mystery Menu for The New York Times Cooking YouTube cha...
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Raquel Willis | The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation from 2023-12-06T13:22:20
In conversation with Ernest OwensA writer, activist, and media strategist dedicated to Black transgender liberation,Raquel Willishas served as director of communic...
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Beth Kephart | My Life in Paper: Adventures in Ephemera from 2023-12-04T14:32:16
Renowned for her ability''to generalize from her personal experience to the greater human one''(The Washington Post),Beth Kephartis the author of more than 30 books across a wide r...
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KimberléCrenshaw | #SayHerName: Black Women's Stories of Police Violence and Public Silence from 2023-11-22T07:34:38
In conversation with Dorothy RobertsOne of the country's foremost authorities in civil rights, Black feminist legal theory, race, and the law,KimberléCrenshawis a ...
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Tariq''Black Thought''Trotter | The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are from 2023-11-22T06:33:15
In conversation with Airea D. MatthewsThe winner of three Grammy Awards and three NAACP Image Awards, Tariq Trotter, aka Black Thought, is the MC ...
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Sigrid Nunez | The Vulnerables: A Novel with Henry Hoke | Open Throat: A Novel from 2023-11-17T11:33:43
Sigrid Nunezwon the 2018 National Book Award for The Friend, a''beautiful''novel''crammed with a world of insight into death, grief, art, and love''(The Wall Street Journal) in whi...
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Jonathan Karl | Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party from 2023-11-16T08:27:17
In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6abc Action News morning editionJonathan Karl is the author of the instant New York Times bestsellers Front Row at the Trump Show and B...
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Stephanie Land | Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger and Higher Education from 2023-11-14T08:17:27
In conversation with Errin HainesStephanie Landis the author of the bestseller Maid, a memoir that''nails the sheer terror that comes with being poor, the exhausti...
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Tanisha Ford | Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement from 2023-11-13T12:16:25
In conversation with Marc Lamont HillTanisha Ford's Our Secret Society is a biography of Mollie Moon, the socialite, powerbroker, and founder of the National Urban...
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Alice McDermott | Absolution from 2023-11-10T10:34:32
In conversation with Nomi Eve''Filled with so much universal experience, such haunting imagery, such urgent matters of life and death''(The New York Times),Alice McDermott'...
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Joseph Sassoon | The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire from 2023-11-06T11:49
Watch the videohere.''A marvelous epitaph to a monumental family, makers of several worlds and keepers of none''(The Wall Street Jour...
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David Brooks | How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen from 2023-11-03T13:03:47
Acclaimed for his ability to''elevate the unseen aspects of private experience into a vigorous and challenging conversation about what we all share''(San Francisco Chronicle),David Brooks Listen
Cristina García | Vanishing Maps: A Novel from 2023-11-02T11:37:42
In conversation with Rebeca L. Hey-Colón, Professor of Latinx Studies, Temple UniversityCristina García is the author of eight''languid and sensual, curt and surpr...
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Roz Chast | I Must be Dreaming from 2023-10-31T14:09:03
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Renowned for her''extraordinarily honest, searing and hilarious''(San Francisco Chronicle) takes on modern life,
Melissa Broder | Death Valley: A Novel with Hilary Leichter | Terrace Story: A Novel from 2023-10-30T10:42:18
Melissa Broderis the author of Milk Fed, the''sensuous and delightfully delirious tale''(O, The Oprah Magazine) of a calorie-obsessed lapsed Jewish woman who falls under the spell ...
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Rachel Maddow | Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism from 2023-10-29T13:24:27
In conversation with Julian E. ZelizerRachel Maddow is host of the Emmy Award–winning The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, as well as the #1 New York Times bestsellin...
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David Zucker | Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane from 2023-10-27T13:38:19
In conversation with comedian and author James"Murr"MurraySurely You Can't Be Serious is a behind-the-scenes making-of oral history of the 1980 comedy classic Airplane!, as told by...
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Tim O'Brien | America Fantastica: A Novel from 2023-10-26T12:43:29
In conversation with Andy KahanMeelya Gordon Memorial Lecture''As good as any piece of literature can get''(Chicago Sun Times),Tim O'Brien'sThe Th...
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Nikhil Goyal | Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty from 2023-10-20T13:16:21
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Martin Baron | Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and The Washington Post from 2023-10-18T12:56:13
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Endowed LectureIn conversation with David BoardmanIn Collision of Power,Martin Barontells the inside story of the m...
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Angus Deaton | Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality from 2023-10-16T12:00:54
In conversation with Binyamin AppelbaumAngus Deatonwon the 2015 Nobel Prize in economics for his study of poverty, consumption, and welfare. The Dwight D. Eisenhower Profe...
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Drew Gilpin Faust | Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury from 2023-10-13T13:39:50
In conversation with Rev. Dr. Jonathan Lee WaltonA postwar coming-of-age memoir about life in a conservative family in segregated Virginia,Drew Gilpin Faust's Necessary Tr...
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Ayana Mathis | The Unsettled: A Novel from 2023-10-12T11:10:09
In conversation with Asali SolomonAyana Mathisis the author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie,''a remarkable page-turner of a novel''(Chicago Tribune) that follows th...
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Siddhartha Mukherjee | The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human from 2023-10-11T11:54:29
In conversation with Carl H. June, MD, Director of the Center for Cellular Immunotherapies, University of PennsylvaniaSiddhartha Mukherjeewon the 2011 Pulitzer Pri...
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Safiya Sinclair | How to Say Babylon: A Memoir from 2023-10-05T13:19:54
In conversation with Philadelphia Poet Laureate Airea D MatthewsHailed by Tara Westover as''Dazzling. Potent Vital. A light shining on the path of self-deliverance,'' Safiy...
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Sarah Cooper | Foolish: Tales of Assimilation, Determination, and Humiliation from 2023-10-05T06:29:24
In conversation with comedian Chanel AliReferred to by Amy Schumer as''the funniest, smartest person I know,''Sarah Cooperis best known for her hilariousListen
Malcolm Jenkins | What Winners Won't Tell You: Lessons from a Legendary Defender from 2023-10-04T12:06:32
In conversation with Michael Eric DysonOne of pro football's all-time defensive greats,Malcolm Jenkinswon Super Bowls with the Philadelphia Eagles and New Orleans ...
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Lidia Matticchio Bastianich | Lidia's From Our Family Table to Yours: More Than 100 Recipes Made with Love for All Occasions from 2023-09-29T10:50:34
In conversation with Heather Marold Thomason, Butcher&Founder of Primal Supply''The cookbook author who changed the way Americans cook Italian food''(The New York Times),Li...
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Michael E. Mann | Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth's Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis from 2023-09-29T09:57:30
The Presidential Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media at the University of Pennsylvania, climatologist and geophysicistMichael E. Ma...
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Emily Wilson | The Iliad from 2023-09-28T12:36:15
In conversation with Sheila Murnaghan, chair of the classics department at the University of Pennsylvania''A cultural landmark''(The Guardian),Emily Wilson's 2017 ...
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Bettina L. Love | Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal from 2023-09-27T11:43:23
In conversation with Marc Lamont HillBettina L. Loveis the author of the bestseller We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educa...
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Simon Schama | Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations from 2023-09-22T16:16:54
Pine Tree Foundation Endowed LectureIn conversation with Maiken Scott''A historian of prodigious and varied gifts''(San Francisco Chronicle), Simon Schama is the a...
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Bernie Taupin | Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me from 2023-09-15T13:24:21
In conversation with novelist and musician Wesley StaceLegendary English song lyricistBernie Taupinhas worked with Elton John since 1967 and has written the lyrics...
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Jennifer Weiner | The Breakaway from 2023-09-01T11:28:38
Jennifer Weiner is the no. 1 New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen''funny, fanciful, extremely poignant''(The Boston Globe) novels, including That Summer, Mrs. Eve...
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Jonathan Eig | King: A Life from 2023-08-30T09:20:08
Named one of the most anticipated books of the year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Newsweek, Jonathan Eig's King, an''intimate, multidimensional biography''(The Bo...
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Sheryl Lee Ralph | Diva 2.0: 12 Life Lessons From Me For You from 2023-08-24T07:12:20
In conversation with award-winning journalist and broadcaster Tracey MatisakA celebrated veteran of film, television, and the Broadway stage,Sheryl Lee Ralphwon an...
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James McBride | The Heaven&Earth Grocery Store from 2023-08-11T07:12:30
James McBride is the author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird,''a brilliant romp of a novel''(The New York Times Book Review) in which a young boy born into sla...
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R. Eric Thomas | Congratulations, the Best Is Over!: Essays from 2023-08-09T13:52:31
R. Eric Thomas is the author of the Lambda Literary Award finalist Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul America, a bestselling essay collection that tackles just what it means to...
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Wesley Lowery | American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress from 2023-07-21T14:20:17
In conversation with award-winning journalist and broadcaster Tracey MatisakIn American Whitelash, Wesley Lowery examines the cyclical pattern of violence that mar...
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Barbara Butcher | What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator with Kate White | Between Two Strangers from 2023-07-19T07:58:39
Barbara Butcher is the former chief of staff and director of the Forensic Sciences Training Program at the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner (OCME). Only the second wo...
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One Book One Philadelphia Finale: Author Conversation with Charles Yu from 2023-07-13T09:21:26
Join us at the Community College of Philadelphia for a celebration to conclude the One Book, One Philadelphia 2023 season. This event will feature an in-person conversation between Charles Yu and D...
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Jake Tapper | All the Demons Are Here: A Thriller from 2023-07-12T11:57:47
In conversation with Jim GardnerJake Tapper is the Washington, D.C., anchor and chief Washington correspondent for CNN, where he hosts the weekday program The Lead...
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Christian Cooper | Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World from 2023-06-29T09:51:08
In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6abc Action News morning editionCentral Park birderChristian Cooperis the host and consulting producer on the National...
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Blair LM Kelley | Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class from 2023-06-28T10:37:09
In conversation with Marc Lamont HillReferred to by acclaimed author and academic Michael Eric Dyson as''one of the most important works of history to come across my desk in a long...
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David E. Guggenheim | The Remarkable Reefs Of Cuba: Hopeful Stories From the Ocean Doctor from 2023-06-22T09:11:22
A marine scientist, ocean explorer, conservation policy specialist, and submarine pilot, David E. Guggenheim, Ph.D. is the founder and president of Ocean Doctor, a nonprofit organization committed ...
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Christine Pride and Jo Piazza | You Were Always Mine from 2023-06-21T12:44:54
In conversation with Alexandra Auder, author of Don't Call Me Home: A MemoirPublishing industry veteran Christine Pride has held a variety of editorial positions a...
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Geraldine Brooks | Horse from 2023-06-21T11:23:35
Geraldine Brooks won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for her novel March, an''honorable, elegant, and true''(The Wall Street Journal) retelling of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women from the point of view of...
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David Maraniss | Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe from 2023-06-08T15:26:42
In conversation with Paul Hendrickson''One of our most talented biographers and historians''(The New York Times), David Maraniss is the author of bestselling portr...
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Kwame Alexander | Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Recipes, Letters, and Remembrances from 2023-06-08T12:44:49
In conversation with Tracey Michae'l Lewis-Giggetts Kwame Alexander is the author of The Crossover, a''beautifully measured novel''(The New York Times Book Review)...
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Airea D. Matthews | Bread and Circus from 2023-06-02T09:09:42
In conversation with poet Phillip B. WilliamsAirea D. Matthews is the 2022–23 Philadelphia Poet Laureate and directs the poetry program at Bryn Mawr College. Her collection Simulac...
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James Comey | Central Park West: A Crime Novel from 2023-06-01T11:42:26
In conversation with George AnastasiaThe director of the FBI from 2013 to 2017, James Comey captured international attention for his investigations into Hillary Clinton's emails, R...
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Kristen R. Ghodsee | Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us from 2023-05-22T17:34:25
In conversation with Arwa MahdawiReferred to by bestsstelling author Rebecca Traister as''exhilarating, good humored, and forward looking,'' Kristen R. Ghodsee's E...
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Samantha Irby | Quietly Hostile: Essays from 2023-05-17T10:18:32
In conversation with podcaster and author Kelsey McKinney''America's most talented comic writer''(The New Republic),Samantha Irbyis the author of four essay collec...
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Linda Villarosa | Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation from 2023-05-16T09:47:42
A contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and The 1619 Project, Linda Villarosa has won numerous awards for articles concerning issues of Black mother and infant health, medical myths, A...
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Brett H. Mandel | Philadelphia, Corrupt and Consenting: A City's Struggle against an Epithet from 2023-05-12T06:52:04
In conversation with Ernest OwensA consultant and writer in the fields of civic activism and government reform, Brett H. Mandel served as director of Philadelphia'...
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Hernan Diaz | Trust from 2023-05-10T10:23:27
Hernan Diaz's bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning novel Trust,"a genre-bending, time-skipping story about New York City's elite in the roaring'20s and Great Depression''(Vanity ...
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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah | Chain Gang All-Stars with Daniel Torday | The 12th Commandment from 2023-05-09T09:26:54
With characters situated in surreal, Twilight Zone-esque, yet all-too-familiar positions of oppression within our most venerable institutions, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's 2018 debut...
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Dave Barry | Swamp Story: A Novel from 2023-05-04T11:30:32
A''genuine genius''(The New York Times Book Review), Dave Barry won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1988. He wrote for the Miami Herald for 30 years, where his column was syndicated in more th...
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Sarah Bakewell | Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope from 2023-05-03T11:11:06
In conversation with Eric BanksAcclaimed for''wonderfully readable''fusions of''biography, philosophy, history, cultural analysis and personal reflection''(The Independent),
Camille Dungy | Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden from 2023-05-03T10:37:53
In conversation with Abra LeeCamille T. Dungy is the author of Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History, a debut personal essay...
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Chad L. Williams | The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War from 2023-04-28T11:57:57
In conversation with Mia BayChad L. Williamsis the author of Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era, winner of the Liberty Leg...
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Simon Winchester | Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic from 2023-04-27T10:36:54
Pine Tree Foundation Endowed LectureExuding''the comfort and charm of a beloved encyclopedia come to life''(The New Yorker), Simon Winchester is the bestselling author of nearly 30...
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Eileen Myles | a''Working Life'' from 2023-04-26T11:00:07
''Unflinching but also irrepressibly humorous''(The New York Times Book Review), Eileen Myles is the celebrated author of nearly two dozen books of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, plays, and performan...
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One Book One Philadelphia Kickoff: Community Fair and Author Conversation from 2023-04-24T12:47:39
Charles Yu is the author of four books, including Interior Chinatown (the winner of the 2020 National Book Award for fiction), and the novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fiction...
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David Grann | The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder from 2023-04-20T12:01:20
David Grann is the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, an account of the chilling true-life story of one of the most s...
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Neil King Jr. | American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal from 2023-04-20T10:58:19
In conversation with Signe WilkinsonA Wall Street Journal correspondent for two decades,Neil King Jr.reported from more than 50 countries, served as the newspaper'...
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Michelle Zauner | Crying in H Mart from 2023-04-17T13:29:23
In conversation with Homay KingThe lead vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist of the indie rock outfit Japanese Breakfast,Michelle Zaunerhas garnered wide acclaim fo...
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Mary Louise Kelly | It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs from 2023-04-14T09:12:51
In conversation with award-winning journalist and broadcaster Tracey MatisakBarbara Gohn Day Memorial LectureAn NPR reporter for more than two decades, Mary Louise...
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Mark Bowden | Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore's Deadliest Gang Leader from 2023-04-12T15:49:54
In conversation with Bill MarimowRenowned for his''signature blend of deep reportage and character-driven storytelling (The New York Times Book Review),''Mark Bowden Listen
Jennifer Senior | On Grief: Love, Loss, Memory from 2023-04-11T09:12:35
In conversation with Mike SielskiA staff writer at The Atlantic,Jennifer Seniorwon the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing for''Twenty Years Gone,''an account ...
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Vanessa Hua | Forbidden City from 2023-04-04T09:49:02
In conversation with Pia SarkarA former longtime columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle,Vanessa Huahas written about Asia and the diaspora from countries such a...
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Alex Mar | Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy from 2023-03-31T13:28:31
In conversation with Shane ClaiborneAlex Maris the author of Seventy Times Seven, a chronicle of the brutal 1985 Indiana murder of an elderly white woman by a fift...
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Angela Saini | The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality from 2023-03-30T08:28:59
Angela Saini is the author of Superior, an''easy-to-read blend of science reporting, cultural criticism, and personal reflection''(Slate) that explores the resurgence of the harmful and faulty stud...
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Emily St. John Mandel | Sea of Tranquility from 2023-03-29T11:11:47
In conversation with Laura McGrath, Assistant Professor of English at Temple UniversityA''soul-quaking''(Los Angeles Review of Books) meditation on the everyday miracles we take fo...
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Ari Shapiro | The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening from 2023-03-24T07:48:15
In conversation with award-winning chef and restauranteur Michael SolomonovAri Shapiro is the cohost of NPR's All Things Considered, the most listened-to radio news program in the ...
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Judith Lewis Herman, M.D. | Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice from 2023-03-23T11:50:30
In conversation with Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Endowed LectureA professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School for more than 40 y...
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Adam Gopnik | The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery from 2023-03-22T11:52:44
Featuring magician, Justin GilmoreA staff writer at The New Yorker for more than three decades, Adam Gopnik is the author of Paris to the Moon, The Table Comes First, At the Strang...
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Debra Lee | I Am Debra Lee: A Memoir from 2023-03-13T12:07:25
In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6abc Action News morning editionThe former longtime CEO of Black Entertainment Television (BET),Debra Leecurrently ser...
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Heather McGhee | The Sum of Us (Adapted for Young Readers): How Racism Hurts Everyone from 2023-03-08T11:50:20
Sandra Shaber Memorial LectureIn conversation with award-winning journalist and broadcaster Tracey MatisakThe Sum of Us, Heather McGhee's 2021 odyssey across the A...
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Mehdi Hasan | Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking from 2023-03-03T13:14:22
In conversation with Marc Lamont HillBritish American journalistMehdi Hasanhosts the eponymously titled The Mehdi Hasan Show, a news and politics program that airs...
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Camonghne Felix | Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation from 2023-03-02T10:53:50
In conversation with Sharon G. FlakeCamonghne Felixis the author of Build Yourself a Boat,''an exquisite and thoughtful''(Bustle) poetry collection that was longli...
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Leth Oun and Joe Samuel Starnes | A Refugee's American Dream: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to the U.S. Secret Service from 2023-03-01T11:04:54
Veteran United States Secret Service Officer Leth Oun has protected presidents and vice presidents in four administrations in almost every state and more than a dozen countries. A ...
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Reginald Dwayne Betts | Redaction from 2023-02-28T09:14:32
In conversation with Airea D. MatthewsA''powerful work of lyric art''and''tour de force indictment of the carceral industrial state''(The New York Times Book Review),Regina...
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Paul Harding | This Other Eden with Hanna Pylväinen | The End of Drum-Time from 2023-02-24T10:08:36
Paul Harding won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Tinkers,''an astringent meditation on loss, family ties, and the presence of the past''(The Guardian) in which a dying elde...
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Jamila Minnicks | Moonrise Over New Jessup from 2023-02-23T11:21:37
Jamila Minnicks'debut novel Moonrise Over New Jessup tells the story of a 1950s-era, all-Black Alabama town that is resistant to desegregation and the opposing political viewpoints that threaten a ...
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Joseph Earl Thomas | Sink: A Memoir from 2023-02-22T10:08:29
In conversation with Elias RodriquesReferred to by Carmen Maria Machado as''all blood and nerve and near-unbearable beauty,''Joseph Earl Thomas' Sink is a coming-o...
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Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. | Who Hears Here: On Black Music, Pasts,&Present from 2023-02-22T07:08:06
In conversation with Marc Lamont Hill Professor emeritus of Music at the University of Pennsylvania, Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. is a celebrated musicologist, composer, pianist, and music historian. He...
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Sadeqa Johnson | The House of Eve from 2023-02-13T12:20:08
In conversation with Jennifer WeinerAcclaimed for their explorations of marital fidelity, friendship, and the difficulties of connecting in modern life, Sadeqa Johnson Listen
Steve Lopez | Independence Day: What I Learned about Retirement from Some Who've Done it and Some Who Never Will from 2023-02-10T11:06:43
In conversation with Mark BowdenA Los Angeles Times columnist for the past 22 years and former columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer,Steve Lopezis a four-time fi...
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Dan Berger | Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power through One Family's Journey from 2023-02-08T08:32:59
In conversation with Michael Simmons and Robert Saleem HolbrookDan Berger is the author of the James A. Rawley Prize winning Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizin...
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Sigal R. Ben-Porath | Cancel Wars: How Universities Can Foster Free Speech, Promote Inclusion, and Renew Democracy from 2023-02-06T12:00:54
A professor of education, philosophy, and political science at the University of Pennsylvania,Sigal R. Ben-Porathis the co-author of Making Up Our Mind: What School Choice Is Reall...
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Clint Smith | How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America from 2023-02-03T12:46:30
In conversation with award-winning journalist and broadcaster Tracey Matisak''A public intellectual with much to offer about teaching (and unlearning) history''(The Washington Post...
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Ibram X. Kendi and Nic Stone | How to Be a (Young) Antiracist from 2023-02-01T14:00:19
In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6abc Action News morning editionIbram X. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston Universit...
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John Hendrickson | Life on Delay: Making Peace with a Stutter from 2023-01-25T10:11:06
In conversation with Robert KolkerJohn Hendrickson is the author of a 2019 Atlantic article titled''What Joe Biden Can't Bring Himself to Say.''An account of the P...
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Ilyon Woo | Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom from 2023-01-23T10:49:13
In conversation with Imani PerryIlyon Woois the author of The Great Divorce, the''lively, well-written, and engrossing tale''(The New York Times Book Review) of a ...
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Stephen A. Smith | Straight Shooter: A Memoir of Second Chances and First Takes from 2023-01-20T16:24:08
In conversation with Mike SielskiThe star of ESPN's No. 1 morning talk show First Take,Stephen A. Smithis one of the U.S. sporting press's most popular and outspok...
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Jerry Blavat | You Only Rock Once: My Life in Music from 2023-01-20T11:41:53
He started as Jerry Blavat, a half-Jewish, half-Italian kid from South Philadelphia. These days, he's better known as The Geator with the Heater, The Boss with the Hot Sauce. After 50 years in the ...
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Aidan Levy | Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins from 2023-01-18T13:24:55
In conversation with Nate ChinenThe author of Dirty Blvd.: The Life and Music of Lou Reed and editor of Patti Smith on Patti Smith: Interviews and Encounters, Aiden Levy Listen
Deb Perelman | Smitten Kitchen Keepers: New Classics for Your Forever Files: A Cookbook from 2022-12-08T11:33:03
Julie Dannenbaum Memorial Culinary Arts LectureIn conversation with Dena Heilik, head of Philbrick Hall, the Fiction and Movie department at Parkway Central. She also cohos...
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Tyler Kepner | The Grandest Stage: A History of the World Series from 2022-12-02T14:33:42
The national baseball writer for The New York Times since 2010, Tyler Kepner began his career as a teenager, interviewing players for a homemade magazine that garnered him national attention. His n...
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Misty Copeland | The Wind at My Back: Resilience, Grace, and Other Gifts from My Mentor, Raven Wilkinson from 2022-11-30T12:06:29
In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6abc Action News morning editionThe first African American principal dancer in the history of the elite American Ballet Theatre, Misty ...
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David M. Rubenstein | How to Invest: Masters on the Craft from 2022-11-30T07:42:32
Pine Tree Foundation Endowed LectureIn conversation with Richard VagueDavid Rubensteinis the co-founder and co-chairman of The Carlyle Group, one ...
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Patti Smith | A Book of Days from 2022-11-29T08:59:29
A couple of songs and stories from a memorable evening with Patti Smith and Tony Shanahan--and a great audience--at the library. (recorded 11/22/2022)
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Neal Gabler | Against The Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Rise of Conservatism, 1976-2009 with Patrick Kennedy from 2022-11-23T13:07:38
In conversation with former congressman Patrick KennedyNeal Gableris the author of Catching the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour, a''rich and insightful''...
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John Banville | The Singularities from 2022-11-08T07:54:25
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Ellis Wachs Endowed LectureIn conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6ABC Action News morning editionA former longtime columnist and foreign correspondent for T...
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In conversation with Valerie ErwinCharleston, South Carolina–basedKardea Brownhosts the Food Network's Delicious Miss Brown and OWN's The Great Soul Food Cookoff. ...
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Ross Gay | Inciting Joy: Essays with Major Jackson | A Beat Beyond: Selected Prose of Major Jackson from 2022-10-31T12:39:46
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault | My People: Five Decades of Writing about Black Lives from 2022-10-26T11:13:46
In conversation with Dorothy RobertsReferred to by Jelani Cobb as''a Dean of American journalism,''Charlayne Hunter-Gaulthas chronicled some of the past half-centu...
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Tom Felton | Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard from 2022-10-21T13:29:32
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Ada Limón | The Hurting Kind from 2022-10-20T11:54:54
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Reza Aslan | An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville from 2022-10-18T09:39:18
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Yiyun Li | The Book of Goose with Elizabeth McCracken | The Hero of this Book from 2022-10-11T09:50:59
Yiyun Li's''remarkable''(The Washington Post) debut fiction collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the PEN/Hemingway ...
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Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan | Mad Honey from 2022-10-07T10:51:39
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Vladimir Sorokin and Max Lawton | Telluria and Their Four Hearts from 2022-10-04T13:18:38
In conversation with Mark Krotov, publisher and editor of n+1 Vladimir Sorokin is one of contemporary Russian literature's most popular writers. Banned by the Sovi...
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Margaret A. Burnham | By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners from 2022-10-03T10:23:58
In conversation with Tracey MatisakMargaret A. Burnham is the founding director of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, an initiative to document every racially motiva...
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Camika Royal | Not Paved For Us: Black Educators and Public School Reform in Philadelphia from 2022-09-30T13:10:49
In conversation with Edwin Mayorga and Sharif El-Mekki For 20 years Camika Royal was a middle and high school teacher and a teaching coach for her fellow educators...
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Ben Macintyre | Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis'Fortress Prison from 2022-09-29T11:44:22
Meelya Gordon Memorial Lecture''John le Carré's nonfiction counterpart'' (The New York Times), Ben Macintyre is the bestselling author of A Spy Among Friends, Agent Zigzag, Operat...
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Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes, Dawud Anyabwile | Victory. Stand! Raising My Fist for Justice from 2022-09-28T07:54:33
In conversation with Tracey Matisak, award winning broadcaster and journalistTommie SmithandJohn Carlosmade history at the 1968 Mexico City Olympi...
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Ruth Wilson Gilmore | Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation from 2022-09-27T09:49
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Ian McEwan | Lessons from 2022-09-26T10:51:38
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Douglas Rushkoff | Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires from 2022-09-26T05:40:39
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Jann Wenner | Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir from 2022-09-21T06:22:54
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Gary Shteyngart | Our Country Friends from 2022-09-20T05:22:56
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Buzz Bissinger | The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II from 2022-09-20T05:20:09
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Jenifer Lewis | Walking in My Joy: In these Streets from 2022-09-19T13:20:48
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Gail Collins | No Stopping Us Now: A History of Older Women in America from 2022-04-21T10:48:19.800541
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Frans de Waal | Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist from 2022-04-18T11:14:34
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Maggie Shipstead | Great Circle from 2022-04-13T07:49:02
Carole Phillips Memorial LectureMaggie Shipstead is the bestselling author of the novels Astonish Me and Seating Arrangements, the latter of which won the Dylan Thomas Prize and th...
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Bryant Terry | Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora from 2022-04-13T05:18:31
In conversation with Jamila RobinsonChef and educatorBryant Terryis the author of four vegan cookbooks, including Grub, Afro-Vegan, and Vegetable Kingdom, winner o...
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Jennifer Egan | The Candy House from 2022-04-08T14:52:32
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Jennifer Lin | Beethoven in Beijing: Stories from the Philadelphia Orchestra's Historic Journey to China from 2022-04-06T07:53:20
In conversation with Nydia Han, Consumer Investigative Reporter and co-anchor of 6ABC Action News Sunday morningsA reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer for 31 years, Jennifer Lin ...
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Neil Lanctot | The Approaching Storm: Roosevelt, Wilson, Addams, and Their Clash Over America's Future from 2022-03-30T08:08:07
In conversation with John M. CooperHistorian Neil Lanctot is the author of Campy: The Two Lives of Roy Campanella and Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a...
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Jeremy Denk | Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons from 2022-03-29T10:50:24
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Hannah Tinti, Mira Jacob, Jai Chakrabarti, and Marie-Helene Bertino | Small Odysseys: Selected Shorts Presents 35 New Stories from 2022-03-25T12:16:57
Hannah Tinti is the author of the bestselling novels The Good Thief and The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley and the short story collection Animal Crackers. A creative writing profess...
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Fintan O'Toole | We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland from 2022-03-24T08:13:21
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Donna Leon | Give Unto Others from 2022-03-21T10:26:50
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Mary Beard | Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern from 2022-03-18T10:15:03
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Elie Mystal | Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution from 2022-03-18T08:28:06
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Howard Gardner and Wendy Fischman | The Real World of College: What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be from 2022-03-17T06:45:25
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Michael Kazin | What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party from 2022-03-09T12:48:31
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Erika M. Kitzmiller | The Roots of Educational Inequality: Philadelphia's Germantown High School, 1907–2014 from 2022-02-25T14:58:02
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Mary Ann Sieghart | The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It from 2022-02-24T08:55:53
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Amartya Sen | Home in the World: A Memoir from 2022-02-08T09:06:39
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Ro Khanna | Dignity in a Digital Age: Making Tech Work for All of Us from 2022-02-03T08:26:30
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Tracey Michae'l Lewis-Giggetts | Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration from 2022-02-02T05:18:03
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Barbara F. Walter | How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them from 2022-02-01T07:07:19
In conversation with Jacob S. HackerPolitical scientistBarbara F. Walteris the author of Reputation and Civil War: Why Separatists Conflicts are So Violent; Global...
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Jessamine Chan | The School for Good Mothers from 2022-01-28T09:24:39
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Nechama Tec | Defiance: The Bielski Partisans from 2022-01-27T09:22:16
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Solomon Jones | Ten Lives, Ten Demands: Life and Death Stories, and a Black Activist's Blueprint for Racial Justice from 2022-01-20T10:33:51
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Hanya Yanagihara | To Paradise from 2022-01-20T07:41:22
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Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague | The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and the People Who Stopped It from 2022-01-13T09:31:35
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Rumaan Alam | Leave the World Behind from 2022-01-05T05:37:25
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Kevin Birmingham | The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece from 2021-12-01T11:39:44
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Nikole Hannah-Jones | The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story from 2021-11-23T10:07:40
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Jorge L. Contreras | The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA from 2021-11-22T11:33:43
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Jonathan Karl | Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show from 2021-11-22T11:00:39
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Tracy K. Smith | Lucille Clifton's Generations: A Memoir from 2021-11-17T06:42:39
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Kristin Henning | The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth from 2021-11-16T05:17:41
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Robert Costa | Peril from 2021-11-15T08:03:15
Ellis Wachs Endowed LectureIn conversation with Michael SmerconishA national political reporter at The Washington Post, Bucks County's own Robert Costa has earned ...
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Uwem Akpan | New York, My Village with Kirstin Valdez Quade | Five Wounds from 2021-11-11T07:07:57
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Linda Greenhouse | Justice on the Brink: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Rise of Amy Coney Barrett, and Twelve Months That Transformed the Supreme Court from 2021-11-10T06:28:29
In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6ABC Action News morning editionPine Tree Foundation Endowed LectureThe New York Times's Supreme Court correspondent f...
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Robby Krieger: | Set the Night on Fire: Living, Dying, and Playing Guitar With the Doors from 2021-11-09T07:20:05
In conversation with David Fricke, senior editor for Rolling Stone and SiriusXM hostOne of Rolling Stone's''100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time'', Robby Krieger is best known as a ...
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Huma Abedin | Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds from 2021-11-08T10:43:34
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Antonio Damasio | Feeling&Knowing: Making Minds Conscious from 2021-11-05T13:06:48
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Endowed LectureOne of the world's leading neuroscientists, Dr. Antonio Damasio has made watershed contributions to the understanding of how our brain...
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Glory Edim | On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library from 2021-11-04T07:03:45
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George F. Will | American Happiness and Discontents: The Unruly Torrent, 2008–-2020 from 2021-11-03T09:45:16
Meelya Gordon Memorial LectureRenowned for his''ability to combine high thinking with a shrewd capacity to understand day-to-day American politics,''(The Economist) Pulitzer Prize ...
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Woody Holton | Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution from 2021-10-29T09:09:34
In conversation with Adam McNeil, host of the New Books in African American Studies podcastThe McCausland Professor of History at the University of South Carolina,Woody Hol...
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Joshua Ferris | A Calling for Charlie Barnes with Dana Spiotta | Wayward from 2021-10-27T07:02:59
Joshua Ferris's''brash, extravagant, and chillingly beautiful''(The New Yorker) novels include Then We Came to the End, winner of the 2008 PEN/Hemingway Award for best first novel and a finalist fo...
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Donald Antrim | One Friday in April: A Story of Suicide and Survival from 2021-10-21T17:01:52
In conversation with Jonathan Franzen, bestselling author of Crossroads, Freedom, Purity, and The Corrections among other works of fiction and non-fiction.''A fiercely intelligent ...
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Asali Solomon | The Days of Afrekete from 2021-10-21T11:49:17
In conversation with Nicole Dennis-BennAsali Solomon is the author of Disgruntled,''a smart, philosophical, coming-of-age''(San Francisco Chronicle) novel about the double-binds of...
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Anthony Doerr | Cloud Cuckoo Land from 2021-10-20T10:06:51
In conversation with John FreemanAnthony Doerrwon the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for All the Light We Cannot See,''a beautiful, daring, heartbreaking, oddly joyous novel'...
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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers | The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois with Kevin Young | Stones from 2021-10-19T05:48:25
Honorée Fanonne Jeffersis the author of five poetry collections, including The Gospel of Barbecue, Red Clay Suite, and The Age of Phillis, which was longlisted for the 2020 Nationa...
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Adam Schiff | Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could from 2021-10-18T09:55:46
In conversation with Tracey Matisak, award-winning journalist and broadcasterThe United States representative for California's 28th congressional district and the chairman of the H...
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Todd Doughty | Little Pieces of Hope: Happy-Making Things in a Difficult World from 2021-10-15T07:02:14
In conversation with Adriana Trigiani The senior vice president and deputy publisher of Doubleday, Todd Doughty has worked for Penguin Random House publishing for more than 20 year...
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Keisha N. Blain | Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America from 2021-10-13T05:20:04
In conversation with Mitchell S. JacksonKeisha N. Blain's Set the World on Fire, a history of some of the early 20th century's leading Black nationalist women, won...
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Temple Grandin with Debra Moore | Navigating Autism: 9 Mindsets For Helping Kids on the Spectrum from 2021-10-12T05:33:05
Dr. Temple Grandin is a philosophical leader and activist for both the animal welfare and autism advocacy efforts. She is a TIME Magazine Top 100 Hero, the author of more than 60 s...
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Fiona Hill | There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century from 2021-10-08T09:52:28
In conversation with Trudy Rubin, Worldview columnist, The Philadelphia InquirerKnown for her testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives during Donald Trump's 2019 impeachment ...
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Andrea Elliott | Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival&Hope in an American City from 2021-10-07T18:01:30
In conversation with Reginald Dwayne Betts, essayist, poet, and author of the award-winning collection, FelonAn investigative reporter at The New York Times, Andrea Elliott won the...
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Sheryll Cashin | White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality from 2021-10-06T07:34:02
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In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6ABC Action News morning editionPublishing industry veteran Christine Pride has held a variety of editorial positions ...
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Hilma Wolitzer | Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket from 2021-09-30T04:57:53
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Joe Posnanski | The Baseball 100 from 2021-09-29T06:10:17
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Dara Horn | People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present from 2021-09-24T05:36:51
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Richard Powers | Bewilderment from 2021-09-23T07:04:51
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Randall Kennedy | Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture from 2021-09-22T06:36:26
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Alice McDermott | What About the Baby? Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction from 2021-09-21T08:00:20
In conversation with Danielle EvansPulling the delicate threads of''fear and vulnerability, joy and passion, the capacity for love and pain and grief''(The Washington Post), Alice ...
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Tarana Burke | Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement from 2021-09-20T09:18:19
In conversation with Imani PerryA longtime activist for justice and equity,Tarana Burkefounded the Me Too movement in 2006 as a way for women to come together in t...
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Gabrielle Union | You Got Anything Stronger? from 2021-09-15T13:33:16
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Colm Tóibín | The Magician from 2021-09-15T06:01:46
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Christopher Emdin | Ratchetdemic: Reimagining Academic Success from 2021-09-14T05:27:16
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Carole Hopson | A Pair of Wings: A Novel Inspired by Pioneer Aviatrix Bessie Coleman from 2021-08-12T16:45:53
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Rita Dove | Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems from 2021-08-12T07:45:26
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James Lapine | Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created''Sunday in the Park with George'' from 2021-08-11T05:35:39
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Rebecca Donner | All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler from 2021-08-10T06:51:44
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Omar El Akkad | What Strange Paradise from 2021-07-23T08:20:43
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Robin DiAngelo | Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm from 2021-07-22T04:27:49
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William di Canzio | Alec from 2021-07-16T06:59:13
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Yaa Gyasi | Transcendent Kingdom from 2021-07-15T05:21:01
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T.J. Newman | Falling from 2021-07-14T09:54:05
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Scott Ellsworth | The Ground Breaking: An American City's Search for Justice from 2021-07-01T16:46:45
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Bobby Rush | I Ain't Studdin'Ya: My American Blues Story from 2021-07-01T05:36:11
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Sarah Schulman | Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987–1993 from 2021-06-30T12:12:33
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Joshua Cohen | The Netanyahus with Rivka Galchen | Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch from 2021-06-29T10:02:15
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Alex Michaelides | The Maidens from 2021-06-24T14:26:14
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Laura Raicovich | Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest from 2021-06-23T07:43:42
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Elizabeth Hinton | America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s from 2021-06-22T08:20:33
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Emily Rapp Black | Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg from 2021-06-22T08:04:05
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Jason L. Riley | Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell from 2021-06-17T12:30:15
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Ursula M. Burns | Where You Are Is Not Who You Are from 2021-06-16T06:43:59
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Paul Farmer | Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History from 2021-06-15T06:31:31
Pine Tree Foundation Endowed LectureIn conversation with Dr. Steven Larson, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Listen
Lawrence Wright | The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid from 2021-06-14T10:56:51
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Kiese Laymon | Long Division from 2021-06-09T14:00:51
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Sebastian Junger | Freedom from 2021-06-08T07:49:54
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Michael Punke | Ridgeline from 2021-06-08T07:46:08
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Kevin Kwan | Sex and Vanity from 2021-06-03T08:13:50
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David Yoon | Version Zero from 2021-05-28T08:43:40
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Ray Didinger | Finished Business: My Fifty Years of Headlines, Heroes, and Heartaches from 2021-05-27T06:33:34
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Kaitlyn Greenidge | Libertie from 2021-05-25T06:40:38
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Marc Bookman | A Descending Spiral: Exposing the Death Penalty in 12 Essays from 2021-05-21T11:16:02
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Camille T. Dungy, Gregory Pardlo and Joshua Bennett | There's A Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis from 2021-05-20T08:53:26
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Suzanne Simard | Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest from 2021-05-19T08:39:24
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Amy Klobuchar | Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age from 2021-05-18T06:04:55
In conversation with Mark Zandi, Chief Economist, Moody's AnalyticsThe senior United States Senator from Minnesota, Amy Klobuchar chairs the Senate Rules Committee; the Judiciary S...
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Caleb Azumah Nelson | Open Water from 2021-05-14T07:39:56
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Ian Manuel | My Time Will Come: A Memoir of Crime, Punishment, Hope, and Redemption from 2021-05-13T05:45:15
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Martha C. Nussbaum | Citadels of Pride: Sexual Abuse, Accountability, and Reconciliation from 2021-05-13T05:41:52
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Annette Gordon-Reed | On Juneteenth from 2021-05-11T07:07:27
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Brian Greene | Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe from 2021-05-10T06:31:09
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Cate Doty | Mergers and Acquisitions: Or, Everything I Know About Love I Learned on the Wedding Pages from 2021-05-05T07:31:33
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Ross King | The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance from 2021-04-30T06:36:07
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Yusef Komunyakaa | Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems, 2001–2021 from 2021-04-29T07:39:51
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Senator Mazie K. Hirono | Heart of Fire: An Immigrant Daughter's Story from 2021-04-27T08:03:16
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Rickie Lee Jones | Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour from 2021-04-23T10:37:57
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Natalie Diaz | Postcolonial Love Poem with Denice Frohman from 2021-04-22T07:23:30
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Larry Krasner | For the People: A Story of Justice and Power from 2021-04-21T09:07:26
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Sonia Sanchez | Collected Poems from 2021-04-14T06:02:48
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Blake Bailey | Philip Roth: The Biography from 2021-04-13T07:47:11
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Richard Thompson | Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975 from 2021-04-09T07:54:30
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Quiara Alegría Hudes | My Broken Language from 2021-04-08T12:43:36
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Walter Isaacson | The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race from 2021-04-07T05:49:53
Pine Tree Foundation LectureIn conversation with Tracey Matisak, award-winning broadcaster and journalist''A renaissance man...driven by a joyful desiredrive to di...
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Reem Kassis | The Arabesque Table: Contemporary Recipes from the Arab World from 2021-04-06T06:11:22
In conversation with Deb PerelmanReem Kassisis the author of The Palestinian Table, a guide to Middle Eastern cooking woven together through recipes, regional hist...
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Jonathan Zimmerman and Signe Wilkinson | Free Speech: And Why You Should Give a Damn from 2021-04-02T10:23:53
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Deborah Willis | The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship from 2021-03-31T05:59:55
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Kate Masur | Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction from 2021-03-26T07:48:57
Ellis Wachs Endowed LectureIn conversation with Tracey Matisak, award-winning broadcaster and journalistKate Masur is the author of An Example for All the Land, a ...
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Viet Thanh Nguyen | The Committed from 2021-03-24T11:39:24
In conversation with Alexander Chee, author of Edinburgh, The Queen of the Night, and How To Write An Autobiographical Novel, and associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Dart...
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Don Lemon | This Is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism from 2021-03-23T07:14:58
In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6ABC Action News morning editionAmerica's sole Black primetime news anchor, Don Lemon has hosted CNN Tonight since 2014. Before joining...
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Hala Alyan | The Arsonists'City from 2021-03-17T13:07:53
In conversation with Alix Gerz, Vice President of Communications, Free Library of PhiladelphiaHala Alyan's novel Salt Houses, a''heart-wrenching, lyrical and timely''(Dallas Mornin...
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Eddie Glaude, Jr. | Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own from 2021-03-17T12:01:30
In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6ABC Action News morning editionThe chair of the Department of African American Studies and the James S. McDonnell Distinguished Univer...
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Madeleine Dean and Harry Cunnane | Under Our Roof: A Son's Battle for Recovery, a Mother's Battle for Her Son from 2021-03-11T09:26:43
In conversation with Action News anchor, Jim GardnerOn the eve of the biggest professional risk of her life-running for a seat in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives-Madelein...
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Yaba Blay | One Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race from 2021-03-05T12:29:44
In conversation with Imani PerryReferred to by Michael Eric Dyson as''one of the most brilliant and committed critics and advocates writing and thinking and working on behalf of Bl...
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Beth Kephart | Wife | Daughter | Self: A Memoir in Essays from 2021-03-04T10:45:12
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Joby Warrick | Red Line: The Unraveling of Syria and America's Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World from 2021-03-03T07:49:31
Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Endowed LectureJoby Warrick won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction for Black Flags,''a revealing, riveting and exquisitely detailed account''(San Fran...
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Brontez Purnell | 100 Boyfriends from 2021-02-25T05:01:42
In conversation with Kaitlyn GreenidgeBrontez Purnellis the author of Since I Laid My Burden Down, a debut novel about growing up gay in 1980s Alabama that''not on...
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Amelia Pang | Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America's Cheap Goods from 2021-02-24T06:53:30
In conversation with Tracey Matisak, award-winning broadcaster and journalistIn 2017, Amelia Pang earned the first place award in investigative journalism from the LA Press Club fo...
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Michael Eric Dyson | Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America from 2021-02-19T12:22:54
In conversation with Jon MeachamMeelya Gordon Memorial LectureMichael Eric Dyson is the author of Tears We Cannot Stop, an''eloquent, righteous, and inspired''(Phi...
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Maria Kefalas | Harnessing Grief: A Mother's Quest for Meaning and Miracles from 2021-02-17T08:55:08
In conversation with Ashley Fox, Writer. Speaker. Entrepreneur. Athlete. Mom. ESPN alumna.In 2012, Maria Kefalas's daughter, Calliope, wa...
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Melissa Broder | Milk Fed from 2021-02-12T07:52:07
In conversation with Nomi Eve, author of Henna House and The Family Orchard, Director of the Creative Writing MFA program, Drexel University.Melissa Broder is the author of The Pis...
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Elizabeth Kolbert | Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future from 2021-02-11T08:36:22
Barbara Gohn Day Memorial LectureIn conversation with Tracey Matisak, award-winning broadcaster and journalist''An astute observer, excellent explainer, and superb...
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Victor Wooten | The Spirit of Music: The Lesson Continues from 2021-02-10T08:23:58
In conversation with novelist and musician Wesley StaceA founding member of jazz fusion super group Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, bass g...
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John Ghazvinian | America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present from 2021-02-05T14:02:28
In conversation with Ambassador John Limbert, US Deputy Secretary of State for Iran (2009-10); former hostage in the US Embassy in Tehran (1979-81)An author, historian, and former ...
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Nadia Owusu | Aftershocks: A Memoir from 2021-02-04T06:57:55
In conversation with writer and librarian Maisy Card, author of These Ghosts Are FamilyNadia Owusu won a 2019 Whiting Award for her work on Aftershocks.''A memoir that broods on lo...
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James Oakes | The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution from 2021-02-03T07:34:14
In conversation with Eric Foner, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery and Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, winner of the Ba...
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Paul Farmer | Haiti After the Earthquake from 2021-02-01T09:24:41
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Charles Kenny | The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease from 2021-01-29T14:10:19
A senior fellow and the director of technology and development at the Center for Global Development,Charles Kennyhas extensively contributed to policy reforms in global health, UN ...
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Stephanie Schriock | Run to Win: Lessons in Leadership for Women Changing the World from 2021-01-28T07:14:27
In conversation with Yvette Nicole Brown, star of screens big and small and known to audiences for her roles in Community, The Mayor, Supermansion, The Odd Couple, and many other films and ...
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Salamishah Tillet | In Search of The Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece from 2021-01-27T07:19:08
In conversation with Errin Haines, founding member and editor at large at The 19th, a new, nonprofit newsroom focused on the intersection of women, politics and policy.Sala...
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VIRTUAL - Sadeqa Johnson | Yellow Wife from 2021-01-26T10:48:20
In conversation with Jennifer Weiner, bestselling author of numerous books including In Her Shoes and most recently Big SummerYellow Wife tells the harrowing story of an enslaved w...
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Gabriel Byrne | Walking with Ghosts from 2021-01-22T12:44:22
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Ijeoma Oluo | Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America from 2021-01-20T09:49:46
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George Saunders | A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Masterclass on Writing, Reading, and Life from 2021-01-19T10:32:30
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Tommy Lasorda | I Live for This: Baseball's Last True Believer from 2021-01-12T14:01:20
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Katherine May | Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times from 2020-12-11T06:02:42
In conversation with Tracey Matisak, award-winning broadcaster and journalistKatherine May's fiction and memoirs include The Electricity of Every Living Thing, Bur...
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In conversation with author, essayist, and radio host Solomon Jones.Jerald Walker's recent How to Make a Slave and Other Essays was a finalist for the 2020 Nationa...
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Catherine Coleman Flowers | Waste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret from 2020-12-03T08:45:47
In conversation with Khaliah Ali WertheimerDubbed the''Erin Brockovich of Sewage,''Catherine Coleman Flowersis a hero of the environmental justice movement. She is...
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi from 2020-12-02T10:08:25
In conversation with Ketu H. Katrak, Professor in the Department of Drama at the University of California, Irvine, and author of the forthcoming book Jay Pather, Performance, and Spatial Po...
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Tamara Payne | The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X from 2020-11-24T05:40:54
In conversation with Sarah Glover, veteran journalist and past president of the National Association of Black Journalists. In 1990, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalistLes Pa...
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AndréGregory | This is Not My Memoir from 2020-11-24T05:37:57
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Karen Russell | Sleep Donation with Charles Yu | Interior Chinatown from 2020-11-20T10:00:46
Karen Russell's debut novel, Swamplandia!, the tale of a family's run-down alligator-themed Everglades amusement park, was a New York Times Best Book of the Year, a Pulitzer Prize ...
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Jess Walter | The Cold Millions from 2020-11-20T08:50:53
Jess Walter's six acclaimed novels include the #1 New York Times bestseller The Beautiful Ruins, the National Book Award finalist The Zero, and Citizen Vince, winner of the Edgar Award. A former pr...
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Antonio M. Johnson | You Next: Reflections in Black Barber Shops from 2020-11-19T10:05:43
The nephew of a beloved neighborhood barber, West PhiladelphianAntonio M. Johnsonis the creator of You Next, a pictorial dive into one of African American men's most valued institu...
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Alex Ross | Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music from 2020-11-17T09:58:28
In conversation with Simon CallowMusic critic for the New Yorker since 1996, Alex Ross is the author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth C...
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Issac J. Bailey | Why Didn't We Riot: A Black Man in Trumpland from 2020-11-12T11:41:49
In conversation with Tracey Matisak, award-winning broadcaster and journalist''A painful indictment of American inhumanity woven with threads of grace and love''(Guardian)I...
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H. W. Brands | The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom from 2020-11-11T10:11:02
''A terrific writer who commands''his historical subject matter with''authority and panache''(New York Times), H. W. Brands was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his bestselling biographies of ...
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Ayad Akhtar | Homeland Elegies from 2020-11-11T10:09:56
In conversation with Tracey Matisak, award-winning broadcaster and journalistAcclaimed for exploring complicated sociopolitical aspects of identity within the Muslim American exper...
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Nicole Krauss | To Be a Man: Stories from 2020-11-11T10:08:08
In conversation with Nomi Eve, author of Henna House and The Family Orchard, Director of the Creative Writing MFA program, Drexel University.''One of America's most important novel...
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Barbara Kingsolver | How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) from 2020-10-30T09:35:27
A''gifted magician of words''(Time), Barbara Kingsolver is the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Poisonwood Bible, a postcolonial epic about an evangelical American family's undoing in the ...
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Veronica Chambers | Finish the Fight!: The Brave and Revolutionary Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote from 2020-10-28T12:40:20
In conversation with: Rachelle Baker, illustrator; Jennifer Harlan, writer; Steffi Walthall, illustratorVeronica Chambersis the editor for Narrati...
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Nikki Giovanni | Make Me Rain from 2020-10-28T05:23:29
One of America's most celebrated poets, the''outspoken, prolific, energetic''(New York Times) Nikki Giovanni is the author of numerous collections of poetry including Acolytes; Black Feeling, Black...
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Colin Quinn | Overstated: A Coast-to-Coast Roast of the 50 States from 2020-10-26T10:09:25
Comedian, writer, and actor Colin Quinn's decades-long career includes stints as anchor of Saturday Night Live's''Weekend Update,''his own titular talk show, numerous standup specials, and appearan...
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Maria Hinojosa | Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America from 2020-10-22T12:45:04
In conversation with: Helen Ubiñas, metro columnist at the The Philadelphia InquirerIn her nearly 30 years as a journalist, Maria Hinojosa has reported for PBS, CBS, and CNN, among...
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Asha Lemmie | Fifty Words for Rain from 2020-10-21T08:07:52
In conversation with Tracey Matisak, award-winning broadcaster and journalist Asha Lemmie's New York Times bestselling novel Fifty Words for Rain tells the decades and continents-s...
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B. Janet Hibbs and Anthony Rostain | The Stressed Years of Their Lives: Helping Your Kid Survive and Thrive During Their College Years from 2020-06-29T08:39:28
In conversation wthElizabeth MosierA longtime faculty member at Drexel University, the Family Institute, and Widener University,B. Janet Hibbsis a renowned expert ...
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Roddy Doyle | Love from 2020-06-25T10:17:24
In conversation withLiz Moore, best selling author of Long Bright River Lauded for his''marvelous''and''bloody brilliant''(Toronto Star) works of fiction, prolific novelist, dram...
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Ezekiel J. Emanuel | Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care? from 2020-06-24T07:14:30
Ezekiel J. Emanuel is Vice Provost for Global Initiatives and Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. An oncologist and author of nine books o...
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Chris Wallace | Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World from 2020-06-23T08:44:08
The popular anchor of Fox News Sunday,Chris Wallacehas reported on nearly every watershed national and international political event. During his 50-year career in journalism, he ha...
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Inga Saffron | Becoming Philadelphia: How an Old American City Made Itself New Again from 2020-06-22T06:44:41
Architectural critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer for more than 20 years, Inga Saffron won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for her sagacious critiques of urbanism, planning, and Philly's hyper-rapid trans...
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Stacey Abrams | Our Time is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America from 2020-06-19T11:42:41
In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6ABC Action News morning editionStacey Abrams is the New York Times bestselling author of Lead from the Outside, a serial entr...
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Donna Rifkind | The Sun and Her Stars: Salka Viertel and Hitler's Exiles in the Golden Age of Hollywood from 2020-06-12T06:15:43
A prolific book critic whose reviews appear in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the New York Times Book Review, Donna Rifkind was a 2006 finalist for the Nona Balakian Citation for...
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Imani Perry In Conversation with Kiese Laymon: On the Uprising since George Floyd's Murder and Black Struggles for Freedom in the United States from 2020-06-10T09:01:35
Imani Perryis the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies and faculty associate in the Program in Law and Public Affairs and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton. ...
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Lauren Francis-Sharma | Book of the Little Axe from 2020-05-29T07:09:02
In conversation withErica Armstrong Dunbar, award-winning author of Never Caught: The Washingtons'Relentless Pursuit of their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge and She Came to Slay: The Lif...
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Karla Cornejo Villavicencio | The Undocumented Americans from 2020-05-22T10:07:05
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Seanan McGuire | Middlegame and Imaginary Numbers from 2020-05-15T07:35:07
One of contemporary sci-fi/fantasy's most popular writers, Seanan McGuire won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards for the Wayward Children series of books. Also the author of, among other books, the...
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Jennifer Steinhauer | The Firsts: The Inside Story of the Women Reshaping Congress from 2020-05-13T07:49:32
A reporter for the New York Times for 25 years, Jennifer Steinhauer has covered the United States Congress since 2010. Her former assignments include Los Angeles bureau chief and New York City Hall...
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Susan Choi | Trust Exercise with Jacqueline Woodson | Red at the Bone from 2020-05-08T11:34:04
Winner of the 2019 National Book Award for fiction, Trust Exercise follows a star-crossed suburban teen romance in a 1980s performing arts high school.Susan Choi's novels are known...
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David Wallace-Wells | The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming from 2020-05-06T13:30:36
In conversation with Dr. Rachel Valletta, Environmental Scientist at The Franklin Institute and director of all climate change education and outreach programming.A columnist and de...
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Frank B. Wilderson III | Afropessimism from 2020-05-01T10:31:14
Frank B. Wilderson III spent more than five years in South Africa, where he was one of two Americans elected to the African National Congress during the country's transformation after apartheid. Hi...
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Samantha Irby | Wow, No Thank You. from 2020-05-01T10:04:39
In conversation with New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-DelusionIn her popular long-running blog, bitches gotta eat, Samantha Irby offers ...
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Judith Heumann | Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist from 2020-04-17T06:03:15
In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6ABC Action News morning editionA world-renowned leader in the Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement, featured in the new f...
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David Fajgenbaum | Chasing My Cure: A Doctor's Race to Turn Hope into Action from 2020-04-15T05:48:31
A professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and associate director of the university's Orphan Disease Center, Dr. David Fajgenbaum holds an MBA from the Wharton School, earned a maste...
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Julia Alvarez | Afterlife from 2020-04-09T08:03:55
Named''Woman of the Year''by Latina magazine in 2000, poet, essayist, and fiction writer Julia Alvarez is renowned for her lyrical, poignant, politically insightful books, includin...
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Katie Roiphe | The Power Notebooks from 2020-04-01T06:35:03
Feminist author and journalist Kate Roiphe is the author of In Praise of Messy Lives, a''daring, vivid, combative''(Wall Street Journal) collection of essays that explores everything from Joan Didi...
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Emily St. John Mandel | The Glass Hotel from 2020-03-31T11:22:24
In conversation with Beth Kephart, the award-winning author of more than twenty-five books, including Going Over, Handling the Truth: On the Writing of Memoir, and most recently Th...
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James McBride | Deacon King Kong from 2020-03-13T09:08:38
''Boisterous, highly entertaining,''and''altogether original''(Washington Post), James McBride is the author of the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird, in which a young boy born into sl...
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David Plouffe | A Citizen's Guide to Beating Donald Trump from 2020-03-12T10:25:52
The campaign manager for Barack Obama's 2008 primary and general election victories, David Plouffe later served on the White House staff as a senior advisor and was largely credited with the 44th p...
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John Feinstein | The Back Roads to March: The Unsung, Unheralded, and Unknown Heroes of a College Basketball Season from 2020-03-06T13:08:33
''One of the best sportswriters alive''(USA Today), John Feinstein is the author of the bestselling A Good Walk Spoiled, A Season on the Brink, and Where Nobody Knows Your Name, among almost two do...
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Adam Hochschild | Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes from 2020-03-06T08:38:36
Historian Adam Hochschild's ten''carefully researched and vigorously told''(Houston Chronicle) books include King Leopold's Ghost, a haunting portrait of Belgium's 19th-century brutal colonization ...
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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez | Legendary Children: The First Decade of Rupaul's Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life from 2020-03-04T11:08:43
The creators of the immensely popular eponymous blog Tom and Lorenzo, Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez entertain millions of readers a month with their singular perspective on fashion and pop cul...
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R. Eric Thomas | Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America from 2020-02-28T11:44:20
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Steven Levy | Facebook: The Inside Story from 2020-02-27T11:40:32
In conversation with Michael A. SmerconishEditor at large at Wired and a technology writer for more than 30 years, Steven Levy is the author of seven books, including In the Plex: ...
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Gish Jen | The Resisters from 2020-02-26T11:11:45
Gish Jen's many novels include Typical American, World and Town, and Mona in the Promised Land. She is also the author of two nonfiction works that explore the differences in East-West notions of a...
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Dan Pfeiffer | UnTrumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again from 2020-02-25T12:24:46
In conversation with Alyssa Mastromonaco, author of Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House and frequent ...
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Sam Sifton | See You on Sunday: A Cookbook for Family and Friends from 2020-02-21T10:03:17
The food editor at the New York Times and the founding editor of the Times's digital cookbook, NYT Cooking, Sam Sifton is one of America's most popular culinary writers. He formerly worked as the G...
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Jenny Offill | Weather from 2020-02-14T09:45:13
Jenny Offill's Dept. of Speculation,''an effortless-seeming downhill ride that picks up astonishing narrative speed as it goes''(New York Review of Books), tells the story of a once heady marriage ...
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Joseph''Rev Run''Simmons and Justine Simmons | Old School Love: And Why it Works from 2020-02-13T09:56:12
Walk this way for an evening with Joseph''Rev Run''Simmons, frontman for the mega-influential hip-hop trio Run-DMC. Regarded as the driving force behind ushering rap into the mainstream, the group ...
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Gretchen Sorin | Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights from 2020-02-12T10:40:22
A curator with more than 30 years'experience, Dr. Gretchen Sorin has consulted for more than 250 institutions, including the Smithsonian, the Jewish Museum, and the New York State Historical Associ...
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John Sayles | Yellow Earth from 2020-02-11T13:12:40
Referred to by Roger Ebert as''the conscience of American independent filmmaking,''John Sayles is the writer/director of 18 movies, including Matewan, Lone Star, Eight Men Out, and Passion Fish. In...
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EJ Dionne | Code Red: How Progressives and Moderates Can Unite to Save Our Country from 2020-02-10T08:40:09
In conversation with Dick Polman ''Substantial''and''notably fair minded''(New York Times Book Review), E.J. Dionne Jr. is a syndicated columnist who appears twice weekly in the Wa...
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David Zucchino | Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy from 2020-02-05T10:45:32
In conversation with Mark Bowden, most recently author of The Last Stone: A Masterpiece of Criminal InterrogationDavid Zucchino is a contributing writer for The New York Times. He ...
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Eoin Colfer | Highfire from 2020-02-04T11:55:36
In conversation with Jon McGoran, author of SplinteredEoin Colfer is the internationally acclaimed author of the Artemis Fowl series, which chronicles the''magical''(Washington Pos...
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Paul Krugman | Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future from 2020-01-31T10:54:29
In conversation with Mark Zandi, Chief Economist, Moody's Analytics''The most celebrated economist of his generation''(Economist), Paul Krugman won the Nobel Prize in 2008 for his ...
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Jennifer S. Hirsch and Shamus Khan | Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus from 2020-01-30T09:13:08
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Emma Copley Eisenberg | The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia from 2020-01-24T09:10:46
In conversation with Sarah Marshall, journalist, writer, and co-host of the podcast You're Wrong About.In June 1980, two young middle-class women who had been hitchhiking to a natu...
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Garth Greenwell | Cleanness from 2020-01-17T11:10:27
In conversation with Carmen Maria Machado, most recently author of In the Dream House''A subtle observer of human interactions''with''an inborn ability to cast a spell''(New York T...
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Andrew Bacevich | The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory from 2020-01-16T13:14:51
Praised for their''clarity of expression . . . devastating directness''and''coruscating wit''(Washington Post), Andrew Bacevich's bestselling books include The Limits of Power, America's War for th...
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Liz Moore | Long Bright River from 2020-01-15T12:08:47
In conversation with Mike Newall, metro columnist at the Philadelphia Inquirer''Incisive, insightful, and compassionate''(Boston Globe), Liz Moore is the author of the acclaimed no...
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Elaine Sciolino | The Seine: The River That Made Paris from 2019-12-13T12:20:01
A former Paris bureau chief and contributing writer for the New York Times, Elaine Sciolino is acclaimed for her''deliciously detailed and smart''(Vogue) chronicles of French culture and history. H...
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Salman Rushdie | Quichotte from 2019-12-11T07:09:50
In conversation with novelist and musician Wesley Stace''One of the major literary voices of our time''(San Francisco Chronicle), Salman Rushdie is the author of more than a dozen ...
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William D. Cohan | Four Friends: Promising Lives Cut Short from 2019-12-06T08:01:06
William D. Cohan is the bestselling author of The Last Tycoons, an inside history of Lazard Frères&Co., one of the country's most venerable investment banks. A former longtime Wall Street mergers a...
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AndréAciman | Find Me from 2019-12-04T13:11:09
In conversation with writer and film critic Gary KramerAndréAciman is the author of the nationwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name, a novel that chronicles the bittersweet love sto...
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Ronan Farrow | Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators from 2019-11-27T06:52:17
In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6ABC Action News morning edition New Yorker writer Ronan Farrow has won the Pulitzer Prize for public service, a National Magazine Award, and a George...
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Deirdre Bair | Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me from 2019-11-22T09:49:41
Deirdre Bair won the National Book Award for her''blockbuster biography''of Samuel Beckett,''the best introduction to an enigmatic giant of 20th-century literature''(Christian Science Monitor). Her...
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Jon Dorenbos | Life Is Magic: My Inspiring Journey from Tragedy to Self-Discovery from 2019-11-20T08:39:05
In conversation with Larry Platt, co-founder/co-executive director of The Philadelphia Citizen and former editor of the Philadelphia Daily News and Philadelphia Magazine and co-author of Li...
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Jeanine Basinger | The Movie Musical! from 2019-11-20T08:36:13
In conversation with Carrie Rickey, former film critic for the InquirerMentor to some of contemporary cinema's top directors (Joss Whedon and Michael Bay) and founder of the depart...
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Susan Orlean | The Library Book from 2019-11-15T08:35:24
A staff writer for the New Yorker since 1992, Susan Orlean won wide acclaim for the 1998 New York Times bestseller The Orchid Thief, the story of a renegade Florida swamp plant poacher that was ada...
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Saeed Jones | How We Fight for Our Lives with Clifford Thompson | What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man's Blues from 2019-11-13T12:07:43
Saeed Jonesis the author of the''hard and glaring and brilliant''(NPR Book Review) poetry collection Prelude to Bruise, winner of the 2015 Stonewall Book Award/Barbara Gittings Lit...
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Carmen Maria Machado | In the Dream House from 2019-11-08T06:53:57
In conversation with Emma Eisenberg, author of the forthcoming book The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in AppalachiaCarmen Maria Machado's bestselling debut s...
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Erica Armstrong Dunbar | She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman from 2019-11-06T12:01:43
In conversation with Lorene Cary, author of Black Ice, The Price of a Child, Ladysitting and the forthcoming Arden Theatre production ofListen
Paul Hendrickson | Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright from 2019-11-05T12:30:41
Paul Hendrickson's books include Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934–1961, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; Sons of Mississippi, winner of the National Book ...
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Sally Field | In Pieces from 2019-11-04T10:52:33
In conversation with Marty Moss-Coane, host of WHYY's Radio TimesThe winner of two Academy Awards and three Primetime Emmy Awards, screen icon Sally Field is acclaimed for roles in...
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Sean Brock | South: Essential Recipes and New Explorations from 2019-10-31T13:54:45
In conversation with author events editor and producer Jason FreemanPraised as''an absolutely transformative figure''by the late Anthony Bourdain, Sean Brock is the founding chef o...
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Joey Baldino and Adam Erace | Dinner at the Club: 100 Years of Stories and Recipes from South Philly's Palizzi Social Club from 2019-10-30T12:07:17
In conversation with Michael Klein, editor/producer of inquirer.com/food and@phillyinsiderOriginally a meeting place for South Phill...
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James B. Stewart | Deep State: Trump, the FBI, and the Rule of Law from 2019-10-24T13:39:20
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist James B. Stewart is the author of the number-one New York Times bestseller Den of Thieves, the story of the most notorious insider-trading ring in financial histor...
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Hoda Kotb | I Really Needed This Today: Words to Live By from 2019-10-21T10:32:48
The co-anchor of the flagship hour of the venerable Today show, Hoda Kotb has also been a Dateline correspondent for the past 21 years. Her New York Times–bestselling books include Ten Years Later ...
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Adam Rippon | Beautiful on the Outside from 2019-10-18T12:32:25
In conversation with award-winning broadcaster, Tracey MatisakThe first openly gay U.S. male athlete to win a winter Olympics medal, Adam Rippon earned bronze as part of the figure...
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Tim O'Brien | Dad's Maybe Book from 2019-10-16T11:37:48
In conversation with Andy Kahan, director, author events''As good as any piece of literature can get''(Chicago Sun Times), Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried was a finalist for ...
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Susan Rice | Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For from 2019-10-11T12:04:06
In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6ABC Action News morning editionU.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 2009 to 2013 and President Obama's national security advisor...
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Richard Vague | A Brief History of Doom: Two Hundred Years of Financial Crises from 2019-10-08T13:02:05
In conversation with Joe Torsella, State Treasurer for the Commonwealth of PennsylvaniaVenture capitalist and longtime Philadelphia-area philanthropist Richard Vague serves on the ...
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Imani Perry | Breathe: A Letter to My Sons from 2019-10-07T10:24:37
In conversation with Tracey Matisak, award-winning broadcaster and journalistDr. Imani Perry is the author of Looking for Lorraine, a work of''masterly syntheses of research and an...
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Gabby Rivera | Juliet Takes a Breath from 2019-10-02T12:00:06
In conversation with Laurie Halse Anderson, bestselling author of Speak, Shout, Fever 1793, and the Seeds of America trilogyIntroduced by the Poet Laureate of Philadelphia,...
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Ta-Nehisi Coates | The Water Dancer from 2019-09-27T13:03:47
SPOILER ALERT. A number of critical plot points are exposed during the discussion.In conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David Blight, author of Frederick D...
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Malcolm Gladwell | Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know from 2019-09-27T12:38:01
With''an uncanny ability to simplify without being simplistic''(Seattle Times), Malcolm Gladwell synthesizes academic research and critical analysis with engaging prose and relatable anecdotes to f...
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Billy Bragg | The Three Dimensions of Freedom from 2019-09-24T13:21:46
In conversation with Ian Zolitor, host of The Folk Show on WXPNIntroduced by Cynthia SchemmerLegendary English singer-songwriter Billy Bragg's more than 40-year musical career meld...
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Edwidge Danticat | Everything Inside from 2019-09-20T12:24:20
In conversation with Glory Edim, author and founder ofWell-Read Black GirlIn''fiercely beautiful''novels, memoirs, and essay collec...
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Téa Obreht | Inland from 2019-09-20T08:24:37
In conversation with Sara Nović, author of Girl at War and America is ImmigrantsThe Tiger's Wife, Téa Obreht's bestselling debut novel, won the 2011 Orange Prize and was a National...
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Jonathan Safran Foer | We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast from 2019-09-18T13:22:48
Renowned for placing''his reader's hand on the heart of human experience''(Philadelphia Inquirer), Jonathan Safran Foer is the bestselling author of the frenetically irreverent, emotionally urgent ...
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Amy Gutmann and Jonathan D. Moreno | Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven But Nobody Wants to Die: Bioethics and the Transformation of Health Care from 2019-09-18T12:09:30
In conversation with Action News anchor, Jim GardnerDr.Amy Gutmannis President of the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also a professor of political scienc...
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Paul Tough | The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us from 2019-09-13T09:54:36
Paul Tough is the author of the bestselling How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, a''persuasive wake-up call''(People) to the deprivations of knowledge suffered ...
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Richard Russo | Chances Are . . . with Amy Hempel | Sing to It: New Stories from 2019-08-07T10:21:05
Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for his novel Empire Falls,Richard Russois acclaimed for capturing the''foolishness of this lonely world, but also the humor, friendship and love ...
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Terry McAuliffe | Beyond Charlottesville: Taking a Stand Against White Nationalism from 2019-08-06T11:41:18
In conversation with award-winning journalist, Tracey Matisak. The Democratic governor of Virginia from 2014 to 2018, Terry McAuliffe''won praise even from Republicans for his tireless salesmansh...
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Richard A. Clarke and Robert K. Knake | The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats from 2019-07-19T11:30:36
In conversation with Michael A SmerconishVeteran counterterrorism czar and one of the world's leading experts on cyberspace security,Richard A. Clarkeworked for se...
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Julie Salamon | An Innocent Bystander: The Killing of Leon Klinghoffer from 2019-07-17T08:26:37
Exploring an astonishing range of genres and subject matter, Julie Salamon is the author of a score of novels, children's books, and nonfiction books. Initially a longtime banking reporter and film...
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Andrew Shaffer | Hope Rides Again: An Obama Biden Mystery from 2019-07-16T12:51:54
They're back! In Andrew Shaffer's sequel to the New York Times bestseller Hope Never Dies, the bromantic thriller that saw the former president and vice president tumble down a Delaware rabbit hole...
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Mary Pope Osborne | Magic Tree House: To the Future, Ben Franklin! with Natalie Pope Boyce from 2019-07-15T12:09:41
Mary Pope Osborne is the prolific author of the beloved Magic Tree House series of children's books. Featuring time-traveling brother and sister Jack and Annie, the wildly popular books have been t...
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Jennifer Weiner | Mrs. Everything from 2019-07-10T11:55:46
''One of the biggest names in popular fiction''(USA Today), Jennifer Weiner is the beloved number-one New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen novels-including Good in Bed, All Fall D...
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Rachel Louise Snyder | No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us from 2019-06-27T12:40:41
The recipient of an Overseas Press Award for her contributions to This American Life, Rachel Louise Snyder is the author of No Visible Bruises. A''gut-wrenching''(Esquire) and intimate investigatio...
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Elaine Welteroth | More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say) from 2019-06-26T11:42:03
In conversation withRakia Reynolds, founder and CEO of Skai Blue Media The firebrand former editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue and the first African American ever to hold the post of ...
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Jason Baumann | The Stonewall Reader with Mark Segal, Karla Jay and Joel Hall from 2019-06-24T09:02:42
On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the riots that started the fight for American LGBTQ+ rights, The Stonewall Reader highlights some of the movement's most iconic moments and figures in the year...
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Frank Langfitt | The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China from 2019-06-21T07:15:53
In conversation with Bill MarimowAs NPR's Correspondent in Shanghai, Frank Langfitt created a free-taxi service where he offered rides in exchange for passenger's stories and candi...
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Esi Edugyan | Washington Black from 2019-06-19T11:55:29
Esi Edugyan's novel Half-Blood Blues, the story of a World War II–era mixed-race jazz band's abducted star trumpeter, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, among other honors. She is also the a...
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Mark Kram Jr. | Smokin'Joe: The Life of Joe Frazier from 2019-06-18T12:33:50
In conversation with longtime radio host Steve RossMark Kram Jr. won the 2013 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing for Like Any Normal Day, the tragic story of two brothers b...
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Jacob Shell | Giants of the Monsoon Forest: Living and Working with Elephants from 2019-06-12T11:35:30
In conversation with Nikil Saval, an editor of n+1 and author of Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace A professor of geography and urban studies at Temple University, Jacob Shell is the autho...
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Nicole Dennis-Benn | Patsy with Rebecca Makkai | The Great Believers from 2019-06-07T09:45:58
Here Comes the Sun,Nicole Dennis-Benn's debut novel about a young Jamaican struggling to protect her sister and village as she experiences feelings for another woman, was a finalis...
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James Ellroy | This Storm from 2019-06-05T08:29:38
In his bestselling L.A. Quartet mysteries and the Underworld USA trilogy, James Ellroy''has vigorously redefined the well-shadowed turf of contemporary crime fiction''(Atlanta Journal Constitution)...
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James Patterson | Unsolved in conversation with Elin Hilderbrand from 2019-06-04T12:36:21
In conversation with nos. 1 bestselling author Elin HilderbrandJames Patterson holds the Guinness World Record for the most number-one New York Times bestsellers, and his books hav...
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Rick Atkinson | The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775–1777 from 2019-05-31T09:29:02
Rick Atkinson won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for An Army at Dawn, the first volume in his Liberation trilogy, a''densely researched but supremely readable''(New York Times Book Review) history of the ...
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John Waters | Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder from 2019-05-30T12:12:36
In conversation with Jason Freeman, producer and editor of author eventsJohn Waters's transgressive movies include Pink Flamingos, Hairspray, Cry-Baby, Serial Mom, and Cecil B. Dem...
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Eve Ensler | The Apology from 2019-05-23T13:29:34
One of Newsweek's''150 Women Who Shake the World''and the Guardian's''Top 100 Women,''Tony Award–winning playwright Eve Ensler is a performer, activist, and author. Her phenomenon The Vagina Monolo...
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Adam Gopnik | A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism from 2019-05-22T11:37:10
A staff writer at The New Yorker for more than three decades, Adam Gopnik is the author of Paris to the Moon, The Table Comes First, and At the Strangers'Gate, an''elegant''memoir of his 1980s move...
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David Brooks | The Second Mountain from 2019-05-17T09:43:17
A''clever and insightful inspector of the American scene''(Wall Street Journal), David Brooks has written an op-ed column for The New York Times since 2003. A former editor and columnist at The Wee...
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Tommy Orange | There There: A Novel with Rachel Kushner | The Mars Room from 2019-05-17T04:53:38
''Masterful. . . . A devastating debut novel''(The Washington Post),Tommy Orange's There There has been lauded as a new American treasure by some of the country's greatest writers ...
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George Packer | Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century from 2019-05-15T13:09:34
George Packer won the 2013 National Book Award for The Unwinding, a biographical examination of the seismic shifts in economics and politics over the past three decades that have brought the United...
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Madhur Jaffrey | Madhur Jaffrey's Instantly Indian Cookbook: Modern and Classic Recipes... from 2019-05-13T08:27:18
In conversation with Anusha Balasubramanian. Anusha spends her days as an executive assistant at a Philadelphia investment firm, but her greatest passions are books, cooking, and her mother's idli....
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Susan Hockfield | The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution from 2019-05-09T13:04:45
The first woman and the first life scientist to head the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. Susan Hockfield now serves as the esteemed institution's President Emerita. A pioneering neurosci...
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Lorene Cary | Ladysitting: My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century from 2019-05-08T13:22:36
''A powerful storyteller, frankly sensual [and] mortally funny"(New York Times), Lorene Cary is the author of the novels Pride, The Price of a Child, If Sons, Then Heirs, and the memoir Black Ice. ...
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Susan Choi | Trust Exercise: A Novel with Myla Goldberg | Feast Your Eyes from 2019-05-03T08:15:55
Excavating the hidden corners of the human heart and acclaimed for their''nuance, psychological acuity, and pitch-perfect writing''(Los Angeles Times),Susan Choi's novels include t...
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One Book, One Philadelphia | Criminal Justice Reform Panel from 2019-05-02T06:48:24
Inspired by the themes in the One Book, One Philadelphia 2019 selection, Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward, a panel of formerly incarcerated community advocates were joined in conversation by Dis...
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Nicole Weisensee Egan | Chasing Cosby: The Downfall of America's Dad from 2019-05-01T07:23:38
In conversation with Annette John-Hall, cohost and producer of The Why on WHYY A 14-year veteran crime reporter for the Philadelphia Daily News, Nicole Weisensee Egan was the first journalist to ...
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Tyler Kepner | K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches from 2019-04-30T12:44:34
The national baseball writer for the New York Times since 2010, Tyler Kepner began his career as a teenager, interviewing players for a homemade magazine that garnered him national attention. His f...
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Melinda Gates | The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World In conversation with John Green from 2019-04-26T07:55:53
Ranked by Forbes as the third most powerful woman in the world, Melinda Gates has been on a 20-year mission to solve some of the world's most pressing problems. Through her work as co-chair of the ...
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Mark Bowden | The Last Stone: A Masterpiece of Criminal Interrogation from 2019-04-25T12:22:46
In conversation with Catherine M. Recker.''One of the most intense, visceral''(Philadelphia Inquirer) writers of our time, Mark Bowden is a national correspondent for The Atlantic ...
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Julia Alvarez | In the Time of the Butterflies: 25th Anniversary Edition from 2019-04-24T11:24:04
In conversation withConcepción de León, the digital staff writer for the Books desk at The New York Times. She also writes"El Espace,"a news and culture column for Latino. A''one...
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Janny Scott | The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father from 2019-04-23T12:16:27
In conversation with Bruce Weber, former obituary writer for the New York Times and author of the books As They See'Em: A Fan's Travels in the Land of Umpires and Life is A Wheel: Memoirs of a Bike...
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Emily Bazelon | Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration from 2019-04-22T11:49:05
In conversation with State Representative Christopher M. Raab Emily Bazelon is the author of Sticks and Stones,''a humane and closely reported exploration''(Wall Street Journal) of school bullyin...
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Bill McKibben | Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? from 2019-04-17T08:23:30
''The world's best green journalist''(Time), Bill McKibben gave one of the earliest cautions about global warming with his 1989 book The End of Nature. His many other bestselling books about the en...
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Mary Norris | Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen from 2019-04-16T11:59:57
''A rollicking adventure into the origins of the apostrophe, the proliferation of profanity in American culture, and everything in between''(San Francisco Chronicle), Mary Norris's bestselling Betw...
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Patricia Marx and Roz Chast | Why Don't You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It?: A Mother's Suggestions from 2019-04-12T10:07:41
A 30-year contributor to The New Yorker,Patricia Marxis the author of several books including Starting From Happy and Him Her Him Again the End of Him, both of which were Thurber P...
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Kwame Onwuachi | Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir from 2019-04-11T12:47:41
In conversation with Chef Elijah Milligan A former Top Chef star, the executive chef at Washington D.C.'s popular Kith and Kin, and a Forbes and Zagat's 30 Under 30 honoree, Kwame Onwuachi is one...
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Richard Blanco | How to Love a Country: Poems from 2019-04-10T12:26:40
Richard Blanco made history four times at Barack Obama's second presidential inauguration: He was the first immigrant, the first Latino, the youngest person, and the first openly gay person to be t...
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Dave Barry | Lessons from Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog from 2019-04-09T12:45:30
A 30-year writer at the Miami Herald whose column was syndicated in more than 500 newspapers, humorist Dave Barry won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1988. His more than 30 New York Times best...
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Robert A. Caro | Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing from 2019-04-08T12:12:38
In conversation withDick Polman,"Writer in Residence"at the University of Pennsylvania, national political columnist at WHYY News and contributor to The Atlantic Standing at''the...
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Michael Dobbs | The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught In Between from 2019-04-05T13:20:02
A longtime foreign correspondent for The Washington Post, Michael Dobbs reported on some of the most important events of our time. His many books include Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Sovi...
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Valerie Jarrett | Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward from 2019-04-04T12:37:46
In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6ABC Action News morning edition''The ultimate Obama insider''(New York Times), Valerie Jarrett was the longest serving advisor in the ...
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Barry Lopez | Horizon from 2019-04-03T09:51:02
Barry Lopez won the National Book Award for Arctic Dreams, a''rich, abundant, vigorously composed''(Boston Globe) meditation on his travels in the barren but beautiful far North. His other work inc...
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Cecile Richards | Make Trouble: Stand Up, Speak Out, and Find the Courage to Lead-My Life Story from 2019-04-01T07:26:42
In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6ABC Action News morning edition
A ''heroine of the resistance'' (Vogue), Cecile Richards was the president of Planned Parent...
Nathan Englander | Kaddish.com with Thomas Mallon | Landfall from 2019-03-28T13:36:56
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 winne...
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Albert Woodfox | Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement. My Story of Transformation and Hope from 2019-03-27T11:02:18
In conversation with award-winning journalist Tracey Matisak.
Falsely accused and convicted of a 1972 robbery in which a white guard was killed, Albert Woodfox served more than four decad...
Adam Rutherford | Humanimal: How Homo sapiens Became Nature's Most Paradoxical Creature A New Evolutionary History from 2019-03-25T10:48:54
''A heady amalgam of science, history, a little bit of anthropology and plenty of nuanced, captivating storytelling'' (The New York Times Book Review), Adam Rutherford's A Brief History of Everyone...
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Carolyn Forché | What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance from 2019-03-20T06:02:05
In 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 ...
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Lidia Bastianich | My American Dream: A Life of Love, Family, and Food from 2019-03-19T11:31:19
Renowned 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 jud...
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Frans de Waal | Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves from 2019-03-15T11:06:06
Esteemed 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...
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Darius James | Negrophobia: An Urban Parable from 2019-03-13T07:38:34
In 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. ...
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David Treuer | The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present from 2019-03-08T09:44:05
An 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, Th...
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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 from 2019-03-06T07:34:15
In 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 popu...
Don Winslow | The Border from 2019-03-01T06:06:43
The 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 F...
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Sigrid Nunez | The Friend: A Novel with Keith Gessen | A Terrible Country: A Novel from 2019-02-27T08:18:21
Sigrid 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 b...
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Steve Luxenberg | Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation from 2019-02-22T09:23:20
A 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 ...
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Pete Buttigieg | Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future from 2019-02-20T07:31:26
In 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 ...
Bernard-Henri Lévy | The Empire and the Five Kings: America's Abdication and the Fate of the World from 2019-02-15T09:45:19
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.
Howard Schultz | From the Ground Up: My Journey to Reimagine the Promise of America from 2019-02-15T08:36:06
In conversation with William Kristol, founder and former editor-at-large of The Weekly Standard.
The former chairman and CEO of Starbucks, Howard Schultz led the java gia...
Victor LaValle with Justina Ireland, Sam J. Miller, and Alice Sola Kim | A People's Future of the United States: Twenty-five Visionary Stories from 2019-02-14T12:16:02
Amidst a climate of division, tumult, and fear, what will the United States look like tomorrow? In A People's Future of the United States, 25 diverse writers synthesize hopeful, cynical, prescient ...
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Chris Wilson | The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose from 2019-02-08T07:04:30
In conversation with State Representative Jordan A. Harris
Convicted of murder at 18 and sentenced to life in prison with no hope of release, Chris Wilson began to impro...
Feminista Jones | Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets with DaMaris B. Hill | A Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing from 2019-02-06T09:36:51
Social worker, public speaker, community activist, and blogger Feminista Jones is the author of the novel Push the Button and the poetry collection The Secret of Sugar Water. She w...
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Jane Brox | Silence: A Social History of One of the Least Understood Elements of Our Lives from 2019-02-01T08:11:45
Penning ''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 Cr...
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Bridgett M. Davis | The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers from 2019-01-30T07:12:26
Bridgett M. Davis is the author of Into the Go-Slow, the acclaimed story of a young woman traveling from Detroit to Nigeria as she mourns the death of her sister, and Shifting Through Neutral, a fi...
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Dani Shapiro | Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love from 2019-01-28T12:16:42
In 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 o...
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Kristen Roupenian | You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories from 2019-01-18T07:05:54
Kristen Roupenian holds a PhD in English from Harvard and an MFA from the University of Michigan. Originally published in The New Yorker in 2017, her story ''Cat Person'' garnered national attentio...
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Ha Jin | The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai (Li Po) from 2019-01-18T07:05:35
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.
One Book, One Philadelphia Kickoff Event | Featuring Jesmyn Ward from 2019-01-17T12:26:18
One Book, One Philadelphia 2019 kicks off with a reading and conversation between Jesmyn Ward, author of the One Book featured selection Sing...
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In Conversation With The Rosenbach: The Legacy of the Thirteenth Amendment with Michele Norris from 2019-01-17T09:51:53
Michele Norris is a Peabody Award-winning journalist, founder of The Race Card Project and Executive Director of The Bridge, The Aspen Institute's new program on race, identity, connectivity and in...
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Gregory B. Jaczko | Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator from 2019-01-15T08:02:55
The Chairman of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission from 2009-2012, Dr. Gregory Jaczko oversaw the U.S. government's response to Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster. An NRC commissioner ...
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Mary Schmidt Campbell | An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden from 2019-01-02T04:20:47
President of Spelman College since 2015, and dean emerita of the Tisch School of the Arts, Mary Schmidt Campbell served as the vice chair of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities dur...
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Kirsten Gillibrand | Bold and Brave: Ten Heroes Who Won Women the Right to Vote from 2018-12-14T07:25:24
In conversation with award-winning journalist Tracey Matisak.
On the eve of the one-hundredth anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment, which granted women the right to vote, New York Sena...
Gary Shteyngart | Lake Success from 2018-12-07T09:12:34
''Ridiculously witty and painfully prescient'' (Time), Gary Shteyngart is the author of the culturally reflective novels The Russian Debutante's Handbook, Absurdistan, and Super Sad True Love Story...
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Maxwell King | The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers with David Newell ''Mr. McFeely'' of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood from 2018-12-07T09:11:39
In conversation with award-winning journalist Tracey Matisak
It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood as we welcome Maxwell King, author of The Good Neighbor, a personal, professional, an...
Imani Perry | Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry from 2018-12-07T09:10:53
A professor of African American studies, public affairs, and gender and sexuality studies at Princeton University, Dr. Imani Perry is the author of More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and...
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David Levering Lewis | The Improbable Wendell Willkie: The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country, and Conceived a New World Order from 2018-12-07T09:09:53
In conversation with Sam Katz, civic entrepreneur and executive producer of History Making Productions
Professor emeritus of history at New York University, David Levering Lewis won the P...
Chris Hedges | America: The Farewell Tour from 2018-12-07T09:07:43
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges is the author of a dozen books, including the bestsellers War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, Empire of Illusion, Wages of Rebellion, and Days of De...
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Deborah Harkness | Time's Convert from 2018-12-07T09:07:16
Working ''her own form of literary alchemy by deftly blending fantasy, romance, history, and horror'' (Chicago Tribune), Deborah Harkness is the no. 1 New York Times bestselling author of the witch...
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Sandeep Jauhar | Heart: A History from 2018-12-07T09:05:44
Exploring little-known, behind-the-scenes work in hospitals and the all-too-human lives of doctors, Dr. Sandeep Jauhar is a practicing cardiologist and author of two bestselling medical memoirs, In...
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Rebecca Traister | Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger from 2018-12-07T09:05:19
In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6ABC Action News morning edition
Rebecca Traister is the author of All the Single Ladies, The New York Times bestselling book...
John Kerry | Every Day Is Extra from 2018-12-07T09:04:30
In conversation with Michael Smerconish
John Kerry is a decorated combat veteran thrice wounded in the line of duty, a five-term United States senator from Massachusetts,...
Ray Didinger | The Eagles Encyclopedia: Champions Edition with Mark Leibovich | Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times from 2018-12-07T08:56:03
Fly Eagles fly! Five-time Pennsylvania Sportswriter of the Year Ray Didinger updated his and late co-writer Robert S. Lyons's bestselling The Eagles Encyclopedia-''the definitive b...
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Ben Fountain | Beautiful Country Burn Again: Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution from 2018-12-07T08:55:17
In conversation with Dick Polman, "Writer in Residence" at the University of Pennsylvania, national political columnist at WHYY News and contributor to The Atlantic
Ben F...
Joseph Ellis | American Dialogue: The Founders and Us from 2018-12-07T08:54:49
In conversation with Jason Freeman, author events producer and editor
A ''sure-handed and entertaining guide through the thickets of argument, personality and ideology ou...
Jill Soloway | She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy from 2018-12-07T08:53:22
In conversation with Hannah Gadsby
The Emmy and Golden Globe-winning creator of the Amazon series Transparent, Jill Soloway is the director of the feature film Afternoon ...
Ben Macintyre | The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War from 2018-12-07T08:51:40
Praised for his ''elegant, jaunty, and very British high style'' (New York Times), Ben Macintyre is the bestselling author of A Spy Among Friends, Agent Zigzag, Operation Mincemeat, and Double Cros...
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Barbara Kingsolver | Unsheltered from 2018-12-07T08:49:46
With a ''special gift for the vivid evocation of landscape and of her characters' state of mind'' (New York Times Book Review), Barbara Kingsolver is the author of The Poisonwood Bible, a finalist ...
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Julián Castro | An Unlikely Journey: Waking Up From My American Dream from 2018-12-07T08:49:19
In conversation with award-winning broadcaster and journalist Tracey Matisak
Former San Antonio mayor and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development during President Obam...
Mitch Albom | The Next Person You Meet in Heaven: The Sequel to The Five People You Meet in Heaven from 2018-12-07T08:48:27
''A writer with soul'' (Los Angeles Times) who captures the delicacies of the human condition, author, journalist, screenwriter, and nationally syndicated columnist Mitch Albom is best known for th...
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Michael Solomonov and Steven Cook | Israeli Soul: Easy, Essential, Delicious from 2018-12-07T08:46:19
In conversation with Sam Sifton
Acclaimed for ''cooking that bursts with freshly ground spices and complex flavors'' (New York Times), Michael Solomonov brought Middle Ea...
René Redzepi and David Zilber | The Noma Guide to Fermentation from 2018-12-07T08:45:32
René Redzepi is chef and co-owner of Copenhagen's Michelin two-star restaurant Noma, recognized an astounding four times as the best in the world. He is one of Time's 100 Most Influential People in...
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Nathaniel Philbrick | In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown from 2018-12-07T08:44:49
''One of America's foremost practitioners of narrative nonfiction'' (The Wall Street Journal), Nathaniel Philbrick is the author of the National Book Award-winning In The Heart of the Sea, an accou...
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Lynsey Addario | Of Love & War from 2018-12-07T08:44:10
Often focusing on armed conflict, human rights issues, and women's roles in traditional societies, Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Lynsey Addario's work regularly appears in The New York Tim...
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Anthony Tommasini | The Indispensable Composers: A Personal Guide from 2018-12-07T08:43:46
Covering orchestras, opera, major international festivals, and a wide variety of contemporary music, Anthony Tommasini is the chief classical music critic for The New York Times. His books include ...
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H.W. Brands | Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants from 2018-12-07T08:43:17
''Master storyteller'' (Christian Science Monitor) H. W. Brands was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his bestselling biographies of Benjamin Franklin (The First American) and Franklin Roosevel...
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Daniel Torday | Boomer1 with Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah | Friday Black: Stories from 2018-12-07T08:42:38
Exploring the nature of family and loss through the derring-do of a Czechoslovakian war hero, Daniel Torday's novel The Last Flight of Poxl West won the National Jewish Book Award,...
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Jeff Tweedy | Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc. from 2018-12-07T08:35:46
In conversation with Talia Schlanger, host of World Cafe on WXPN
Jeff Tweedy is the lead vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist for the Grammy Award-winning rock band Wilco,...
David W. Blight | Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom from 2018-12-07T08:35:25
David W. Blight's many books of history include American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, and two annotated editions of Frederick D...
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Jabari Asim | We Can't Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival from 2018-12-07T08:34:49
Editor-in-chief of The Crisis magazine, the NAACP's flagship periodical, and a former editor and syndicated columnist at the The Washington Post, Jabari Asim is a professor of creative writing at E...
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Andrew Delbanco | The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War from 2018-12-07T08:34:28
''America's best social critic'' (Time), Andrew Delbanco is the author of numerous books that explore American history, character, and ideals, including The Real American Dream: A Meditation on Hop...
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Margaret George | The Splendor Before the Dark: A Novel of the Emperor Nero with Madeline Miller | Circe from 2018-12-07T08:34:01
Margaret George's fictional biographies of towering world figures-brimming ''with lust, violence, cruelty and lively conversation'' (Detroit Free Press) while adhering as closely a...
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Elaine Pagels | Why Religion?: A Personal Story from 2018-12-07T08:33:09
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 G...
Gary Giddins | Bing Crosby: Swinging on a Star: The War Years, 1940-1946 from 2018-12-07T08:32:19
Gary Giddins is the author of the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Visions of Jazz: The First Century, ''a grand, brilliant history" (The New York Times Book Review). Jazz columnist at Th...
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Nelson Díaz | Not from Here, Not from There/No Soy de Aquí ni de Allá: The Autobiography of Nelson Díaz from 2018-10-15T12:15:27
In conversation with Sabrina Vourvoulias, journalist, short story author and novelist
Introduced by Henry Cisneros
A 1972 Temple University Law School graduate,...
Jill Lepore | These Truths: A History of the United States from 2018-09-21T07:04:09
An historian whose ''discipline is worthy of a first-class detective'' (New York Review of Books), Jill Lepore is the author of the National Book Award finalist Book of Ages, the story of Benjamin ...
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Andrew Shaffer | Hope Never Dies: An Obama Biden Mystery from 2018-07-31T08:56:36
Crockett and Tubbs. Murtaugh and Riggs. Tango and Cash. Obama and Biden. In Hope Never Dies, this time it's personal as the former President and Vice President are on the case in this high-stakes t...
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Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha | What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City from 2018-07-26T08:13:42
The dramatic story of the Flint water crisis-the signature environmental disaster of our time-and an inspiring tale of scientific resistance by a relentless physician who stood up to power.
William Hogeland | Autumn of the Black Snake: The Creation of the U.S. Army and the Invasion That Opened the West from 2018-07-16T13:02:52
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Blending dramatic historical narrative with critical interpretation in order to make surprising connections to cont...
Joshua Ferris | The Dinner Party with Jim Shepard | The World to Come from 2018-07-16T13:01:55
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Then We Came to the End, Joshua Ferris's ''truly affecting novel about work, trust, love, and...
Thomas E. Ricks | Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom from 2018-07-16T13:00:02
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Military historian and journalist Thomas E. Ricks won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his Wall Street Jo...
Yaa Gyasi | Homegoing with Kei Miller | Augustown from 2018-07-16T12:59:17
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Yaa Gyasi's breakout debut novel Homegoing, a multigenerational tale that ''brims with compassion'' ...
Patricia Lockwood | Priestdaddy: A Memoir from 2018-07-16T12:56:52
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Patricia Lockwood, ''The Poet Laureate of Twitter'' (unofficial), is the author of 2014's groundbreaking Motherland...
David Baron | American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World from 2018-07-16T12:56:16
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As NPR's science correspondent, David Baron received awards from the National Academy of Sciences, the American Medica...
Richard Russo | Everybody's Fool and Trajectory from 2018-07-16T12:54:25
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Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for his novel Empire Falls, Richard Russo is acclaimed for capturing the ''foolishne...
Douglas Brunt | Trophy Son in conversation with Megyn Kelly from 2018-07-16T12:53:07
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In conversation with Megyn Kelly, host of Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly
Ghosts of Manhattan, Douglas Brunt's...
Harvey Sachs | Toscanini: Musician of Conscience from 2018-07-16T12:52:04
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Music historian Harvey Sachs's many books include The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824, a biography of Arthur Ru...
Mark Bowden | Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam from 2018-07-16T12:50:49
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In conversation with Bill Marimow, editor at large, The Philadelphia Inquirer
''One of th...
Zinzi Clemmons | What We Lose from 2018-07-16T12:49:41
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A cofounder and former publisher of Apogee Journal and a contributing editor for Literary Hub, Zinzi Clemmons has h...
Kevin Hearne | Besieged with Chuck Wendig | Star Wars: The Aftermath Trilogy and Fran Wilde | Updraft from 2018-07-16T12:42:51
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In conversation with Dena Heilik, Department Head of Philbrick Hall, the fiction ...
Lawrence Wright | The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State from 2018-07-16T12:41:14
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In conversation with Dick Polman, "Writer in Residence" at the University of Pennsylvania, and national polit...
Loudon Wainwright III | Liner Notes: On Parents & Children, Exes and Excess, Death & Decay, & a Few of My Other Favorite Things with Eileen Myles | Afterglow (a dog memoir) from 2018-07-16T12:39:19
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With a career spanning four decades, 26 studio albums, and untold scores of concerts, Loudon Wainwrig...
Edward Snowden in Conversation with Jeremy Scahill | The Surveillance State Then and Now from 2018-07-16T12:34:32
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In 2013 NSA contractor Edward Snowden shook the pillars of the worldwide intelligence community when he revealed a tr...
Nicole Krauss | Forest Dark with Nathan Englander | Dinner at the Center of the Earth from 2018-07-16T12:32:37
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A ''fiction pioneer, toying with fresh ways of rendering experience and emotion'' (NPR), Nicole Krau...
Stephen Greenblatt | The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve from 2018-07-16T12:26:08
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, Stephen Greenbl...
Tom Perrotta | Mrs. Fletcher from 2018-07-16T12:25:17
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''A daring chronicler of our most profound anxieties and human desires'' (Washington Post), Tom Perrotta is the aut...
Adam Gopnik | At the Strangers' Gate: Arrivals in New York from 2018-07-16T12:23:59
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In conversation with Meg Wolitzer, bestselling author of The Interestings among many novels. ...
Michael Solomonov and Steven Cook | Federal Donuts: The (Partially) True Spectacular Story from 2018-07-16T12:22:57
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Lauded for bringing the Middle Eastern, North African, Mediterranean, and Eastern European influences from Solomonov'...
William Taubman | Gorbachev with Yuri Slezkine | House of Government from 2018-07-16T12:22:09
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William Taubman won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Khrus...
Salman Rushdie | The Golden House with Claire Messud | The Burning Girl from 2018-07-16T12:20:15
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''A master of perpetual storytelling'' (The New Yorker), Salman Rushdie is the author of a do...
Steven Johnson | Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World from 2018-07-16T12:05:31
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Exploring the intersection of science, technology, and experience, Steven Johnson is the author of the bestselling W...
Melissa Fleming | A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival from 2018-07-16T12:04:44
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Melissa Fleming is Head of Communications and Chief Spokesperson for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refuge...
Michael Eric Dyson | Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America from 2018-07-16T12:03:44
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In conversation with Dr. James Peterson, Director of Africana Studies and Associate Professor of English at Lehigh Uni...
Jason Rekulak | The Impossible Fortress from 2018-07-16T12:02:54
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In conversation with comedian Doogie Horner
Jason Rekulak is the publisher of Philadelphia-based Quirk Bo...
Daniel C. Dennett | From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds from 2018-07-16T12:02:04
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''Perhaps America's most widely read (and debated) living philosopher'' (New York Times), Daniel C. Dennett is the a...
George Saunders | Lincoln in the Bardo* from 2018-07-16T12:00:44
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Having garnered wide readership and critical praise for his surreal, darkly funny fiction, ''it's no exaggeration t...
Mark Danielewski | The Familiar Volume 4: Hades from 2018-07-16T11:59:52
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Mark Danielewski is best known for his 2000 debut novel House of Leaves, a profoundly unconventional love story of ter...
Leading Voices: Amanda Steinberg | Worth It: Your Life, Your Money, Your Terms* from 2018-07-16T11:59:01
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In conversation with longtime broadcaster and journalist, Tracey Matisak
One of Forbes' 21 new American ...
Robert Darnton | A Literary Tour de France: The World of Books on the Eve of the French Revolution from 2018-07-16T11:51:01
Cultural historian Robert Darnton is the author The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History. His many other books include The Business of Enlightenment, Berlin Journal, Th...
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Erica Armstrong Dunbar | Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge from 2018-07-16T11:49:36
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Named the first director of the Program in African American History at the Library Company of Philadelphia, Erica Arm...
Bob Roth | Strength in Stillness: The Power of Transcendental Meditation from 2018-07-16T11:48:10
Counting Fortune 500 CEOs, veterans with PTSD, Michael J. Fox, inner-city youth, and Oprah Winfrey among his eclectic student body, Bob Roth is one of the world's most respected teachers of Transce...
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Elizabeth LaBan and Melissa DePino | Pretty Little World from 2018-07-16T11:48
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In conversation with John Timpane
Elizabeth LaBan is the author of The Restaurant Critic's...
Christina Baker Kline | A Piece of the World from 2018-07-16T11:47:13
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Christina Baker Kline is the author of The Orphan Train, the no. 1 New York Times bestseller and 2015 One Book, One Ph...
Michio Kaku | The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth from 2018-07-16T11:46:42
''Erudite and compelling'' (Chicago Tribune), theoretical physicist and futurist Dr. Michio Kaku is a renowned popularizer of science and co-founder of String Field Theory, continuing Einstein's qu...
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Jorge Ramos | Stranger: The Challenge of a Latino Immigrant in the Trump Era from 2018-07-16T11:45:34
In conversation with longtime broadcaster and journalist, Tracey Matisak.
The anchorman for Noticiero Univision for more than 30 years, eight-time Emmy-winning broadcaster and columnist J...
Judy Collins | Cravings: How I Conquered Food from 2018-07-16T11:42:11
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In conversation with Laura Kovacs, associate director, author events
Popularly beloved as ''Judy Blue Eyes...
Yiyun Li | Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life from 2018-07-16T11:41:26
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In conversation with Carmen Machado, author of the forthcoming story collection Her Body and Other Parties.
Yi...
James Rahn with Diane McKinney-Whetstone and Tom Teti | Rittenhouse Writers: Reflections on a Fiction Workshop from 2018-07-16T11:40:15
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The founder and head of the Rittenhouse Writers' Group for its nearly 30-year existence, James Rahn
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Mohsin Hamid | Exit West with Pankaj Mishra | Age of Anger: A History of the Present from 2018-07-16T11:39:33
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''One of his generation's most inventive and gifted writers'' (New York Times), Mohsin Hamid is th...
Melissa Clark | Dinner: Changing the Game from 2018-07-16T11:38:25
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In conversation with Maureen Fitzgerald, Food Editor, The Philadelphia Inquirer
One of America's most belov...
Camille Paglia | Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism from 2018-07-16T11:37:39
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''At once outrageous and compelling, fanatical and brilliant'' (The Washington Post), Camille Paglia is the author of...
Cheech Marin | Cheech Is Not My Real Name: ...But Don't Call Me Chong from 2018-07-16T11:37
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In conversation with Andy Kahan, director, author events
In addition to the reams of Cheech and Chong comed...
Richard Holmes | This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer from 2018-07-16T11:35:14
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''Almost unfairly gifted both as a writer of living, luminous prose and as a tireless researcher'' (Time), Richard Ho...
Chris Hayes | A Colony in a Nation from 2018-07-16T11:34:12
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Chris Hayes is the titular host of MSNBC's news and opinion show All In with Chris Hayes. Formerly a frequent fill-in ...
Roxane Gay | Difficult Women from 2018-07-16T11:33:45
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Roxane Gay's ''commanding debut'' (The New Yorker) novel An Untamed State, the tale of a willful Haitian kidnap victim,...
Steve Coll | Directorate S.: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016 from 2018-07-16T11:33:44
A staff writer for The New Yorker, Steve Coll is the author of The Bin Ladens, a history of the eponymous clan and its most infamous member; the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars; and Private Empir...
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Lamont ''U-God'' Hawkins | Raw: My Journey into the Wu-Tang from 2018-07-16T11:32:48
In conversation with A.D. Amorosi, reporter Philadelphia Style Magazine and The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Lamont ''U-God'' Hawkins is one of the founding members of the Wu-Tang Clan, ''the mo...
Kory Stamper | Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries from 2018-07-16T11:32:18
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A lexicographer for the Merriam-Webster dictionary, Kory Stamper discusses the subtleties of the English language in...
Leading Voices: Mo Gawdat | Solve for Happy: Engineering Your Path to Joy* from 2018-07-16T11:31:33
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In conversation with longtime broadcaster and journalist, Tracey Matisak
The Vice President of Business In...
Anne-Marie Slaughter | The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World from 2018-07-16T11:30:34
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In conversation with Dick Polman, "Writer in Residence" at the University of Pennsylvania, and national political ...
Walter Mosley | Down the River Unto the Sea from 2018-07-16T11:30:26
Introduced by Sonia Sanchez.
Walter Mosley is best known for the Easy Rawlins mystery series featuring the hard-boiled detective and World War II vet living in L.A.'s Watts neighborhood. His d...
Colum McCann | Letters to a Young Writer: Some Practical and Philosophical Advice from 2018-07-16T11:29:40
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In conversation with Jason Freeman, program associate, author events
Colum McCann won the 2009 National Boo...
Ian Buruma | A Tokyo Romance: A Memoir from 2018-07-16T11:29:29
''One of those rare historian-humanists who bridge East and West'' (Wall Street Journal), Ian Buruma is the author of The Missionary and the Libertine; Murder in Amsterdam; Year Zero: A History of ...
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Mary Frances Berry | History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times from 2018-07-16T11:28:44
The Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Mary Frances Berry is one of America's most respected legal historians and human-rights advocates....
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Lauren Grodstein | Our Short History with Tom McAllister | The Young Widower's Handbook from 2018-07-16T11:28:20
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Employing ''agile prose and clever observations'' (New York Times Book Review), Lauren Grodstein...
Wendy Lesser | You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn from 2018-07-16T11:27:14
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''Consistently engaging, sly, witty, understated...and written with simple elegance'' (The New York Observer), Wendy ...
Anna Badkhen | Fisherman's Blues: A West African Community at Sea with Min Jin Lee | Pachinko from 2018-07-16T11:27:01
With an artist's eye and a ground-level view of people in extremis across the world, writer Anna Badkhen offers ''rich and lucid prose [that] illustrates her journey as vividly as ...
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Dr. Willie Parker | Life's Work: From the Trenches, a Moral Argument for Choice from 2018-07-16T11:26:23
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In conversation with Dr. James Peterson, Director of Africana Studies and Associate Professor of English at Lehigh Un...
Misty Copeland | Ballerina Body: Dancing and Eating Your Way to a Leaner, Stronger, and More Graceful You from 2018-07-16T11:25:49
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In conversation with Tracey Matisak
The first African American principal dancer in the 75-year history o...
Peter Carey | A Long Way from Home with Alan Hollinghurst | The Sparsholt Affair from 2018-07-16T11:25:26
A writer who ''luxuriates in language'' (San Francisco Chronicle), Peter Carey is the author of 15 quirky and daring novels, including Parrot and Olivier in America, Bliss, Oscar a...
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Jessamyn Stanley | Every Body Yoga: Let Go of Fear. Get On the Mat. Love Your Body from 2018-07-16T11:25:14
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An internationally acclaimed yoga teacher whose body-positive approach encourages students to ask ''How do I feel?''...
Joan Nathan | King Solomon's Table: A Culinary Exploration of Jewish Cooking from Around the World from 2018-07-16T11:24:06
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Joan Nathan is the author of 11 bestselling culinary guides, including The New American Cooking and Jewish Cooking in...
Joe Beddia | Pizza Camp: Recipes from Pizzeria Beddia from 2018-07-16T11:23:28
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In conversation with Andrew Knowlton, Bon Appétit
Joe Beddia is the owner and chef of Philly's own Pizzeri...
David Grann | Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI from 2018-07-16T11:20:39
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David Grann is the no. 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lost City of Z, the ''brilliant...impressively resea...
David Callahan | The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age from 2018-07-16T11:20
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Blending liberalism with old values, David Callahan's many nonfiction books include Fortunes of Change, The Moral C...
Caitlyn Jenner | The Secrets of My Life from 2018-07-16T11:18:43
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In conversation with Buzz Bissinger, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of four books, inc...
Elizabeth Strout | Anything Is Possible* from 2018-07-16T11:17:13
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In conversation with Laura Kovacs, associate director, author events
Possessed of ''a ma...
Richard Ford | Between Them: Remembering My Parents from 2018-07-16T11:15:53
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In conversation with Andy Kahan, Ruth W. and A. Morris Williams director of author events.
''A talent as str...
Gabourey Sidibe | This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare from 2018-07-16T11:11:12
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In conversation with longtime broadcaster and journalist, Tracey Matisak
Gabourey Sidibe received a Best A...
Amy Goodman | Democracy Now!: Covering the Movements Changing America from 2018-07-16T11:10:10
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After more than 20 years of bringing attention to progressive issues underreported by the mainstream media, Amy Goo...
Jo Nesbø | The Thirst: A Harry Hole Novel from 2018-07-16T11:08:58
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Starring a hard-bitten and self-destructive maverick Oslo police detective, Jo Nesbø's ''maddeningly addictive'' (Vani...
Paula Poundstone | The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness from 2018-07-16T11:07:47
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Paula Poundstone's decades-long stand-up comedy career has included multiple HBO specials, an Emmy Award, two com...
China Miéville | October: The Story of the Russian Revolution from 2018-07-16T11:06:55
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In conversation with Joel Nichols, Data Strategy & Evaluation Administrator, Strategic Initiatives...
Colm Tóibín | House of Names from 2018-07-16T11:04:44
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''His generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power'' (Los Angeles Times), Colm Tóibín i...
Dennis Lehane | Since We Fell from 2018-07-16T11:03:41
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Dennis Lehane's ''raw, harrowing, and unsentimental'' (Washington Post Book World) bestselling crime novels include M...