Podcasts by Live at Politics and Prose
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Rana Foroohar: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-12-06T17:17
Taking her title from Google’s early mantra, Foroohar, the award-winning CNN global economic analyst and Financial Times columnist and associate editor, chronicles how far Big Tech has fallen from ...
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Susan Choi: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-11-29T10:00
Choi’s first novel, The Foreign Student, won the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction; her second, American Woman, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and after that she was awarded the PEN...
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Carmen Maria Machado: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-11-22T16:30
Machado’s electrifying Her Body and Other Parties—a finalist for the National Book Award—expanded our sense of what a short story could be and do. Her powerful new book draws on a similarly wide ra...
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Lindy West: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-11-15T10:00
Lindy West, New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Shrill, provides a brilliant and incisive look at how patriarchy, intolerance, and misogyny have conquered not just politics, but Amer...
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Sherrod Brown: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-11-08T10:00
In this engaging political history, Brown, senior U.S. senator from Ohio, tells the story of twentieth-century progressive politics through the profiles of eight of the senators who occupied his ch...
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Jack Goldsmith: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-11-01T09:00
There have been many theories about the fate of Jimmy Hoffa, the longtime president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, since he disappeared in 1975. Many involve Charles “Chuckie” O’Bri...
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Ronan Farrow: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-10-25T09:00
In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the tru...
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Ta-Nehisi Coates: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-10-18T09:00
The Water Dancer is a bracingly original vision of the world of slavery, written with the narrative force of a great adventure. Driven by Coates’ bold imagination and striking ability to bring read...
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Olga Tokarczuk: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-10-11T09:00
Winner of the 2018 Man Booker International Prize, Flights is narrated by a compulsive traveler eager to analyze experience from the perspective of motion rather than stability, and she reports fro...
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Jacqueline Woodson: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-10-04T09:00
The 2018-‘19 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, Woodson is the award-winning author of dozens of books for children, young adults, and above, including the classic Brown Girl Dreami...
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Margaret Atwood: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-09-27T17:55
In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades with The Testaments. When the van door slammed on Of...
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Billy Bragg: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-09-20T18:01
Bragg’s extraordinary career as a singer-songwriter and activist has spanned over thirty-five years. In both his music—which includes cover versions of iconic protest songs and socialist anthems—a...
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Caitlin Zaloom: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-09-13T09:00
Based on a series of frank and personal discussions with students and parents across the nation, Zaloom‘s book documents how the struggle to finance college education is transforming middle-class l...
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Christopher Leonard: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-09-06T19:19
Awarded the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, Leonard’s monumental work of investigative reporting charts the five-decade rise of Koch Industries. One of the largest privately held multinati...
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Téa Obreht: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-08-30T22:26
Obreht made an unforgettable literary debut with The Tiger’s Wife, an international bestseller that won the 2011 Orange Prize and earned her a slot on The New Yorker’s prestigious “20 Under 40” lis...
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Jia Tolentino: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-08-23T09:00
Tolentino, a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2016, has quickly become one of the most exciting and authoritative critical voices of the millennial generation. Praised for her fierce intelligen...
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J. Michael Straczynski&Alexandra Fuller: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-08-16T17:05
Straczynski may be best known as the creator of the Babylon 5 and Sense8 TV shows, but his amazing four-decade career also encompasses screenwriting—Changeling, Thor, and World War Z—writing for se...
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Oyinkan Braithwaite: live at Politics and Prose from 2019-08-09T09:00
Now available in paperback, Braithwaite’s spectacular debut novel is the story of two sisters, Ayoola and Korede, and the secrets that bind them together. As the book opens, Ayoola has just killed ...
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Emily Nussbaum: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-08-02T09:00
Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer for criticism, Nussbaum writes about TV like the art that it is. Gathered from some fifteen years of work for The New Yorker, New York, and other publications—along wit...
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Michael Kellogg: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-07-26T18:34
Kellogg follows his revelatory study of medieval thought, The Wisdom of the Middle Ages, with a similarly wide-ranging and accessible look at the major intellectual and artistic advances during the...
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Asma T. Uddin: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-07-19T20:05
A religious liberties lawyer, founding editor-in-chief of altmuslimah.com, and executive producer for the docuseries, The Secret Life of Muslims, Uddin has devoted her career to defending people of...
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Michael Bennet: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-07-12T20:24
Bennet has represented Colorado in the U.S. Senate since 2009, earning a reputation as an independent thinker and a pragmatic centrist. In his closely observed analysis of today’s dysfunctional pol...
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Carl Hulse: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-07-05T09:00
Chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times, Hulse has covered legislative and judicial events for more than three decades. His important new book is a deeply reported account of the stru...
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Anna Fifield: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-06-28T09:00
Fifield, Beijing bureau chief for The Washington Post and former Seoul correspondent for the Financial Times, has visited North Korea a dozen times, becoming one of our most knowledgeable journalis...
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Raphael Bob-Waksberg: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-06-21T20:26
In his debut collection of stories, the creator and executive producer of the hit show BoJack Horseman—named by Thrillist magazine Netflix’s best original show ever—applies his distinctive dark hum...
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Ocean Vuong: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-06-14T09:00
Like the stunning poems of his collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, Vuong’s kaleidoscopic first novel speaks from the heart of multi-generational PTSD, charting the fate of a Vietnamese-American...
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Eve Ensler: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-06-07T20:44
Ensler is a Tony-award winning playwright, author, performer, and activist, best-known for The Vagina Monologues, which examined consensual and nonconsensual sex, reproduction, sex work, body image...
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Simon Tam: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-05-31T16:59
Tam founded his Asian-American dance rock band, The Slants, in 2006. Known for their community activism, the band dedicated itself to overturning stereotypes—a mission that started with the name, w...
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Casey Cep: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-05-24T09:00
After writing To Kill a Mockingbird and helping her lifelong friend Truman Capote research In Cold Blood, the late Harper Lee set to work on a true-crime book of her own. Never completed, the work ...
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George Packer: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-05-17T09:00
Packer’s biography of Richard Holbrooke (1941-2010) is also the story of the United States from the Vietnam War, where Holbrooke gained his first experience as an advisor, to the conflict in Afghan...
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Robert Caro: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-05-10T20:33
Robert Caro’s collection of personal essays is both a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes of his award-winning books and an engaging self-portrait of sorts by one of our most accomplished biograp...
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Anuradha Bhagwati: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-05-03T12:50
It wasn’t until she was in graduate school that Bhagwati, now a writer and activist, rebelled against the expectations her family had imposed on her and left the Ivy League to join the Marines. She...
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Preet Bharara: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-04-26T09:00
In Doing Justice, one-time federal prosecutor Preet Bharara uses case histories, personal experiences, and his own inviting writing and teaching style to show the thought process we need to best ac...
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Stacey Abrams: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-04-19T16:14
Leadership is hard. Convincing others—and yourself—that you're capable of taking charge and achieving more requires insight and courage. Lead from the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Rea...
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Valerie Jarrett: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-04-12T22:00
In Finding My Voice, Valerie Jarrett recounts her work ensuring equality for women and girls, advancing civil rights, reforming our criminal justice system, and improving the lives of working famil...
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Albert Woodfox: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-04-05T08:46
Convicted of armed robbery in his twenties, Woodfox was sentenced to fifty years in Angola prison. There he learned about the Black Panther’s code of living and commitment to social justice and joi...
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Amy Webb: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-03-29T09:00
One of our most respected and experienced futurists, Webb argues in her new book that the main danger posed by artificial intelligence is the power it gives the big corporations that control it. Ea...
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Elaine Shannon: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-03-22T09:00
A veteran investigative reporter and author of Desperados, the basis for Michael Mann's NBC miniseries Drug Wars, Shannon has written a riveting account of the career and eventual downfall of Paul ...
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Doug Jones: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-03-15T09:00
Taking his title from Martin Luther King, Jr.’s statement that "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice," Jones chronicles the arduous struggle to punish those responsibl...
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Don Winslow: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-03-08T10:00
Winslow’s crime thrillers have won audiences world-wide, and many—Savages, The Death and Life of Bobby Z, The Force—have been turned into acclaimed films. His latest book joins The Power of the Dog...
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Andrew McCabe: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-03-01T10:00
McCabe started working at the FBI in 1996 and served in many capacities, from street agent on the Eurasian Organized Crime Task Force to leading the Counterterrorism Division, the National Security...
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Pete Buttigieg: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-02-22T10:00
When Buttigieg left a successful business career to return to South Bend, Indiana, his hometown had been declared a “dying city” by Newsweek magazine. Elected mayor in 2011 and re-elected in 2015, ...
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Steve Luxenberg: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-02-15T16:23
Awarded the 2016 J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, Luxenberg’s second book is a deeply researched account of events leading up to the infamous “separate but equal” Plessy v. Ferguson decisio...
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Marlon James: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-02-08T10:00
Drawing from African history, mythology, and his own rich imagination, Marlon James’ new book, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, is a novel unlike anything that's come before it: a saga of breathtaking adve...
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Jason Rezaian: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-02-01T10:00
In July 2014, Washington Post Tehran bureau chief Jason Rezaian was arrested by Iranian police and accused of spying for America. Initially, Rezaian thought the whole thing was a terrible misunders...
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April Ryan's Race in America panel: Winter 2019 from 2019-01-25T10:00
April Ryan, Washington Bureau chief for American Urban Radio Networks and author of Under Fire, At Mama’s Knee, and The Presidency in Black and White returns for the sixth in an ongoing series of d...
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Kamala Harris: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-01-18T10:00
In her new book, The Truths We Hold, Senator Harris draws on her own career and the work of those who have most inspired her to offer a master class in problem solving, crisis management, and leade...
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Daniel H. Pink: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-01-11T10:00
Now in paperback, Pink’s fascinating study of timing starts with intriguing and seemingly inexplicable observations: why are prisoners eligible for parole more likely to get a favorable ruling earl...
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Susan Orlean: Live at Politics and Prose from 2019-01-04T10:00
At once a mystery, a cultural history, and a deeply personal love letter to reading, Orlean’s compelling new book starts with a disaster. On April 29, 1986, the Los Angeles Public Library went up i...
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2018 Year in Review from 2018-12-28T06:40
Nearly a thousand authors visited Politics and Prose last year; here’s a collection of some of our favorite moments from 2018- including Michael Arceneaux, Kristin Hannah, Alexander Chee, Roxane Ga...
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Congo Stories: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-12-21T10:00
In Congo Stories, John Prendergast and Fidel Bafilemba reveal how the people of Congo are fighting back against a tidal wave of international exploitation and governmental oppression to make things...
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Kristen R. Ghodsee: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-12-14T10:00
Expanding on her August 12, 2017 New York Times op-ed, Ghodsee looks at all facets of American women’s lives—relationships, parenting, work, politics—showing how each is harmed by unregulated capit...
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Elaine Pagels: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-12-07T10:00
When Pagels, author of groundbreaking studies of the Gnostic Gospels, was asked, “Why religion?" she found that her own life illuminates both why she’s made a career of studying religious texts as ...
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Bernie Sanders: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-11-30T10:00
Senator Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign was a beginning, not an ending. In Where We Go From Here: Two Years in the Resistance, New York Times bestselling author Bernie Sanders chronicles the ...
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Chris Gethard: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-11-23T18:46
The key to success, Gethard says, is failure. He knows this from experience. While he’s now the host of his own truTV talk show and the weekly podcast Beautiful Stories from Anonymous People, he al...
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Lisa Halliday: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-11-16T10:00
Halliday’s debut novel was one of the literary events of the year, earning uniformly rave reviews and a place on innumerable bestseller lists. Now available in paperback, the narrative ingeniously ...
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Kiese Laymon: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-11-09T10:00
Laymon’s novel, Long Division, was named to several Best Of lists in 2013 and his collection of autobiographical essays, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, showed him as a powerful ...
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David W. Blight: Live at Politics from 2018-11-02T09:00
Blight, the award-winning author of histories including American Oracle and Race and Reunion, is perhaps the foremost Frederick Douglass scholar at work today. He’s edited the annotated editions of...
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Rebecca Traister: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-10-26T09:00
Rebecca Traister is one of today’s most powerful feminist voices. She’s written about women in politics, media, popular culture, and at home, exploring the rise of single women in her bestselling A...
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Casey Gerald: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-10-19T09:00
Gerald’s extraordinary memoir cuts a swath through a dizzying number of socio-cultural sectors, enacting an American dream that questions the very assumptions behind it. Growing up in Dallas, Geral...
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Jose Antonio Vargas: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-10-12T09:00
An American by choice, Vargas came to the U.S. from the Philippines when he was twelve. He’s lived here for twenty-five years, but his status as undocumented has meant that he’s spent those years f...
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Joanne B. Freeman: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-10-05T09:00
As the national debate over slavery grew more impassioned in the 1840s and 1850s, local brush-fires throughout the nation anticipated the Civil War to come. The halls of Congress, too, saw their sh...
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Jules Feiffer: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-09-28T09:00
The finale to Feiffer’s inimitable noir trilogy is grand indeed. Told with Feiffer’s subtly-toned yet irrepressible graphics, this homage to noir that began with Kill My Mother and continued with C...
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José Andrés: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-09-21T09:00
Four days after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, José Andrés arrived on the island and started to cook. Andrés, whose 29 restaurants have earned him Michelin Stars and two James Beard “Outstanding ...
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John Kerry: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-09-14T09:00
John Kerry has devoted his life to public service. Since he testified in front of Congress as a decorated young Vietnam veteran disillusioned with the war, he’s placed himself at the heart of Ameri...
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April Ryan: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-09-07T09:00
Ryan has been a White House correspondent for the American Urban Radio Networks since the Clinton administration, but with Trump’s arrival she has become part of the story she’s covering. Her new b...
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Chris Hedges: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-08-31T09:00
A longtime foreign correspondent, Hedges has reported from more than fifty countries. His latest book is a profound exploration of one of the most troubled: today’s United States. Hedges, author of...
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Nick Pyenson: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-08-24T09:00
Pyenson is a paleontologist and “reading whale bones is what I do,” he says. These bones have told some amazing stories: whales outweigh dinosaurs and are the largest creatures ever to have lived o...
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Teach-In on Gun Control from 2018-08-17T09:00
P&P’s series of teach-ins addressing the most urgent political problems of our day returns with a discussion of gun control in the United States. What are the best ways to prevent further deaths by...
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Ibtihaj Muhammad: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-08-10T09:00
From being the only African-American Muslim wearing a hijab in her hometown of Maplewood, New Jersey, to being the first veiled American woman to compete for the U.S. in the Olympics, Muhammad has ...
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Ottessa Moshfegh: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-08-03T09:00
The unnamed narrator of Moshfegh’s compelling and unsettling novel is a woman who has everything: looks, a brand-new degree from Columbia, a job at an art gallery, an Upper East Side apartment, and...
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Terrance Hayes: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-07-27T09:00
Written during the first two hundred days of the Trump presidency, these charged sonnets mark “the umpteenth slump / In our humming democracy, a bumble bureaucracy.” Angry, sarcastic, and playful, ...
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Beck Dorey-Stein: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-07-20T09:00
A self-described political outsider, Dorey-Stein came to the Obama White House via Wesleyan, teaching high school English in Hightstown, New Jersey, and Craigslist. She worked as a White House sten...
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Mark Andersen and Ralph Heibutzki: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-07-13T09:00
The Clash was a paradox of revolutionary conviction, musical ambition, and commercial drive. We Are The Clash is a gripping tale of the band's struggle to reinvent itself as George Orwell's 1984 lo...
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Abdi Nor Iftin: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-07-06T09:00
No two immigration experiences are the same, and Iftin’s amazing story of chance, courage, and resilience began years before he came to the U.S. Growing up in Mogadishu, he was five in 1991 when So...
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John Carreyrou: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-06-29T09:00
Theranos, founded in 2003 by nineteen-year-old wunderkind Elizabeth Holmes, promised to revolutionize blood testing by developing technologies to miniaturize samples and so make testing fast, easy,...
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Yrsa Daley-Ward: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-06-22T09:00
In her second book, Daley-Ward combines the haunting lyricism of Bone with passionate, unsparing prose to tell the story of her life. Born to a Jamaican mother and a Nigerian father, Daley-Ward was...
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Lauren Groff: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-06-15T09:00
Groff has been one of our most exciting contemporary fiction writers since her phenomenal 2008 debut, The Monsters of Templeton. Her most recent novel, Fates and Furies, was a National Book Award f...
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Robert Kuttner: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-06-08T09:00
Kuttner’s astute analysis of the post-war “golden age” starts with measures including the New Deal and the Bretton Woods Agreement, showing how they allowed democracy and capitalism to be mutually ...
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Yanis Varoufakis: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-06-01T09:00
In his eye-opening memoir, Adults in the Room, Varoufakis, Greece’s former Finance Minister, recounts his frustrating struggle to resolve Greece’s debt crisis without resorting to austerity measure...
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Sarah Kendzior: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-05-25T09:00
A scholar and journalist based in St. Louis, Kendzior was alert to the struggles of America’s disaffected heartland well before the 2016 election. Writing on income disparity, labor exploitation, r...
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Jesmyn Ward: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-05-18T09:00
In 2011, Jesmyn Ward won the National Book Award for Salvage the Bones, and last year, she became the first woman to ever win twice. This time it was for Sing, Unburied, Sing, an American epic that...
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John Scalzi: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-05-11T09:00
Scalzi’s Lock In introduced the brutal, riveting game of Hilketa, in which players wield swords and hammers to try to decapitate each other. The violence is real, but the players are “threeps,” rob...
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Alan Stern and David Grinspoon: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-05-04T09:00
NASA launched the New Horizons craft on January 19, 2006. By July 24, 2015 it had covered 4.67 billion miles and transmitted a stream of amazing photos as it flew by Pluto at 32,000 miles per hour....
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Samantha Irby: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-04-27T09:00
Irby’s sharp and earthy debut collection of essays, now reissued, marked the arrival of a seriously talented and transgressive feminist humorist, one who’s risen into the stratosphere in the wake o...
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Anthony Ray Hinton: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-04-20T09:00
Hinton was twenty-nine when he was arrested on two counts of capital murder in Alabama in 1985. He was innocent, but he was also poor and black with an incompetent defense attorney. Hinton was conv...
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Cecile Richards: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-04-13T09:00
For the first time, Cecile Richards—president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America for more than a decade, daughter of the late Governor Ann Richards, and heroine of the resistance—tells...
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Nell Scovell: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-04-06T09:00
With more than thirty years of experience as a writer, producer, and director, Scovell knows how the entertainment industry works. She came to Hollywood as a bookish New Englander and worked her w...
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Sarah McBride: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-03-30T09:00
As McBride recounts in this stirring memoir, she identified as female from the start, but came out as a transgender woman only at the end of her term as American University’s student body president...
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Mary Frances Berry : Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-03-23T09:00
Berry’s bracing call-to-action combines progressive idealism with the pragmatism of a seasoned activist to argue that resistance effects important changes in all political climates. Berry, Geraldin...
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Dhonielle Clayton: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-03-16T09:00
In Orléans, people are born gray-skinned and ugly. Sixteen-year-old Camellia and her sisters are tasked with using magic to make them beautiful but for a price. However, as Camellia’s talents draw ...
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Robert Reich: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-03-09T10:00
Robert B. Reich has been one of America's leading political thinkers since he served as Bill Clinton's Secretary of Labor, for which Time Magazine named him one of the ten most effective cabinet se...
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Brittney Cooper: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-03-02T10:00
When mainstream culture stereotypes the anger of Black women as ugly or destructive, or when it dismisses “sassy” Black women by laughing them off, it does so because it knows this Black female rag...
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Isaac Butler&Dan Kois: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-02-23T10:00
Twenty-five years ago, Angels in America made its Broadway premier. It won the Pulitzer Prize for drama and the Tony Award for best play, but Tony Kushner’s landmark work was always more than just ...
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David Frum: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-02-16T10:00
Frum’s ninth book expands on his eye-opening March 2017 Atlantic column, “How to Build an Autocracy,” which argued that Trump is leading the nation into authoritarianism. An experienced Washington ...
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Johann Hari: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-02-09T10:00
Hari, author of Chasing the Scream, changed the terms of the debate about addiction with his influential TED talk, “Everything You Think You Know About Addiction Is Wrong.” In his second book he us...
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Leni Zumas: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-02-02T10:00
In the all-too-plausible future of Zumas’s second novel, the Personhood Amendment has outlawed abortion, a “pink wall” has gone up between the U.S. and Canada to prevent pregnant Americans from acc...
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Race in America 2018: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-01-26T10:00
Join April Ryan for the fifth in an ongoing series of discussions focusing on race in America. As in previous presentations, Ryan will moderate a panel of leading writers and commentators to exami...
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Linda Gordon: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-01-12T10:00
The KKK was founded in 1865 by Confederate veterans. After a few turbulent years and federal efforts to outlaw it, it faded with Reconstruction. Then it rose again in the 1920s. This second incarna...
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Bruce Bartlett: Live at Politics and Prose from 2018-01-05T10:00
Bartlett’s handbook for telling real facts from alternative versions is a practical tool for citizens concerned about the quality of the news they consume. Bartlett, who served in both the Reagan a...
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