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    Podcast
    October 5, 2006

    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…

    Podcast
    June 12, 2006

    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…

    Podcast
    June 8, 2006

    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…

    Podcast
    May 10, 2006

    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…

    Podcast
    May 1, 2006

    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…

    Podcast
    February 22, 2006

    March: A Novel

    Geraldine Brooks

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

    Podcast
    February 2, 2006

    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…

    Podcast
    December 13, 2005

    A Night Listener

    Armistead Maupin

    In this program presented by the  Hot Off the Press series, a predecessor to ALOUD, Armistead Maupin discusses his book,…

    Podcast
    November 8, 2005

    The Assassins’ Gate:
    America in Iraq

    George Packer

    Packer, award-winning staff writer for The New Yorker, explores the full range of ideas and emotions stirred up by our…

    Podcast
    November 2, 2005

    Fledgling

    Octavia Butler

    Butler, one of the world’s great science fiction writers, explores the limits of  “otherness” in her new novel — the…