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A Memoir

Gore Vidal

The inimitable raconteur, essayist, novelist, playwright, historian, critic and screenwriter travels in memory through the arenas of literature, television, film,…

Deadwood:
Stories of the Black Hills

David Milch

The creator/executive producer and cast members of HBO’s Deadwood discuss the themes and motivations that run through the series –…

The Light of Evening: A Novel

Edna O'Brien

The great Irish novelist–known as a pioneer for her frank portrayals of women–discusses her daring new work that explores the…

Mary Gordon on A Writer’s Life

Mary Gordon

Gordon, one of America’s master story-tellers, probes the lives of her characters and how the workings of the world- both…

The Battle Over Books:
Authors and Publishers Take on the Google Books Library Project

Allan Adler, David Drummond, Fontayne Holmes, Jonathan Kirsch, Lawrence Lessig, Gary Wolf

A provocative discussion about the competing interests and issues raised by The Google Books Library Project, and whether a universal…

Life as Art, Art as Life

Harvey Pekar

Pekar, known for his autobiographical slice-of-life comic book series American Splendor, is also the author of Ego & Malice: The…

In Defense of Food

Michael Pollan

The author of the national bestseller The Omnivore’s Dilemma returns with a manifesto for our times: what to eat, what not to…

Tête-à-Tête: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre

Hazel Rowley

Rowley, a distinguished biographer and Obst, legendary producer of films such as Sleepless in Seattle, offers an intimate look at…

March: A Novel

Geraldine Brooks

Geraldine Brooks – in conversation with Carla Kaplan, Professor of English, USC – is the author of a luminous second…

The Coming Reformation of Islam:
A Conversation

Reza Aslan

Join two brilliant scholars of religion for a fascinating discussion on the internal conflict within Islam over the scope and…