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WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show: Episodes

Sue Monk Kidd, author of <em>The Secret Life of Bees</em> and <em>The Mermaid Chair,</em> and her daughter, Ann Kidd Taylor, discuss writing a dual memoir, <em>Traveling with Pomegranates.</em> The book offers the distinct perspectives of two women, mother and daughter, one in her 50s and one in her ...
The artist and architect Maya Lin talks about her career, from designing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., to her latest earth sculpture, Storm King Wavefield, her design for the new <a href="http://www.mocanyc.org/" target="_blank">Museum of Chinese in America,</a> and other projects. ...
Charles Siebert explores how humans can inflict mental disorders on animals, particularly great apes. In his book <em>The Wauchula Woods Accord: Toward a New Understanding of Animals,</em> he looks at how the approximately 3,000 chimps in this country, from performers to research laboratory subjects, ...
Historian and biographer Caroline Moorehead looks at Madam de la Tour du Pin, who was groomed as a lady in waiting to Marie Antoinette and who kept a vivid account of the collapse of the French Old Regime in her diaries. <em>Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin</em> combines ...
Ellen Ruppel Shell traces our national obsession with the bargain from the Industrial Revolution to the modern assembly line, and from chain stores to big-box retailers who value convenience and low-prices over quality. In her book <em>Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture,</em> she examines our desire ...
Suzanne Simons takes us on a first-ever inside look at Blackwater USA, the world's largest private military contractor, and takes a close look at its founder, Erik Prince. Her book <em>Master of War: Blackwater USA’s Erik Prince and the Business of War</em> reveals that Blackwater USA, now called Xe, ...
On an August morning in 1974 a mysterious tightrope walker suspended himself between the Twin Towers. That event has become the backdrop for Colum McCann's latest novel <em>Let the Great World Spin</em>.<div class="feedflare">
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Alice Eve Cohen on her memoir <em>What I Thought I Knew,</em> about her unexpected pregnancy, at 44, that was originally diagnosed as an abdominal tumor. She recounts the shock of the pregnancy, the complications and risks it brought on, and the difficult decisions she faced.<div class="feedflare">
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Arianna Huffington, cofounder and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post, talks about how corporate corruption and greed have led to the economic crisis. She wrote <em>Pigs at the Trough</em> in 2003, and now, six years later, she’s updated it. The book is a harsh indictment of corporate corruption ...
We talk to City Hall magazine reporter Sal Gentile about how the New York Independence Party is in turmoil at the state and local level as various interest groups vie for control of it and its important ballot line.
<p>We spoke to Mr. Gentile about State Senator Pedro Espada’s early political career ...
Word-obsessed writer Ammon Shea explains why he spent a year reading every word of the Oxford English Dictionary. In <em>Reading the OED</em> he reveals what he discovered along the way.<div class="feedflare">
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Helen Scales explains how the illusive seahorse has mesmerized scientists, artists, and storytellers throughout history. In <em>Poseidon's Steed,</em> she travels from Indonesia's sea grass meadows and coral reefs to the back streets of Hong Kong, where there’s a thriving black market trade in seahorses.<div ...
When the CIA Inspector General's report on interrogation practices was released last week the Obama administration also announced that it would make two important changes to detainee policy: that it would revive the practice of "extraordinary rendition" and also that it would create a new "High Value ...
Last week's release of the CIA Inspector General's report on interrogation practices has set off a firestorm of political controversy. The report might never have seen the light of day if it weren't for a Freedom of Information Act request by the ACLU. We're joined by ACLU staff attorney Amrit Singh, ...
Actor and playwright Wallace Shawn discusses how he finds pathos in the political and personal challenges of everyday life. His book <em>Essays</em> challenges us to look at our own behavior in an honest light. He also talks about <strong>"My Dinner with Andre,"</strong> which he co-wrote with Andre ...
Renowned Harvard University primatologist Richard Wrangham argues that cooking is the major factor in human evolution. In <em>Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human,</em> he shows that the shift from raw to cooked foods was the key factor in human evolution.<div class="feedflare">
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Benjamin Moser examines the life of Clarice Lispector, who looked like Marlene Dietrich, wrote like Virginia Woolf, and was one of the most popular but least understood Latin American writers. His book <em>Why This World</em> tells how Lispector, a precocious Ukrainian girl matured into a great writer. ...
Susan Allport, author of <em>The Queen of Fats: Why Omega-3s Were Removed from the Western Diet and What We Can Do to Replace Them,</em> looks into why the disappearance of omega-3s from our diet may be responsible for the high rates of obesity, heart disease, cancer. Her article <a href="http://www.prevention.com/cda/article/the-vanishing-youth-nutrient/6dec72fe5deb2210VgnVCM10000030281eac____/news.voices/in.the.magazine/september.2009.issue/0/0/1" ...
<em>New York Times</em> restaurant critic Frank Bruni explains how he learned to develop a healthy love of food after decades of wrestling with his weight. His memoir <em>Born Round</em>, he gives an account of his tumultuous lifelong struggle with his weight and how he learned to embrace food without ...
In her memoir <em>Lies My Mother Never Told Me,</em> Kaylie Jones, acclaimed author and the daughter of James Jones, who wrote <em>From Here to Eternity,</em> tells the story of her relationship with her famous, hard-drinking father and her alcoholic mother.
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