Frank McCourt: 'Tis

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To Two Little Sisters of the Poor

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Radio: One Woman's Family in War and Pieces

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Reading My Father: A Memoir

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The Outskirts of Hope: A Memoir of the 1960s Deep South

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Brothers: 26 Stories of Love and Rivalry

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The Golden Willow

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The Unpossessed City: A Novel

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Summary of Jack Kerouac's On the Road

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The Land of Flickering Lights: Restoring America in an Age of Broken Politics

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Fall of Frost

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Nobody's Son: A Memoir

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Little Rock Nine 40th Anniversary

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Oral History

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Tobacco Road

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Essential Welty: Powerhouse and Petrified Man

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Angela and the Baby Jesus

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The Prussian Officer

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'Tis: A Memoir

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This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone

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Double Take

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An Open Boat

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O, Pioneers!

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White Dog Fell from the Sky

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Learn German with Paul Noble for Beginners – Complete Course: German Made Easy with Your 1 million-best-selling Personal Language Coach

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Write for Life: Creative Tools for Every Writer (A 6-Week Artist's Way Program)

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Learn Spanish with Paul Noble for Beginners – Complete Course: Spanish Made Easy with Your 1 million-best-selling Personal Language Coach

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Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds

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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

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Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World

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On Writing Well Audio Collection

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Learn French with Paul Noble for Beginners – Complete Course: French Made Easy with Your 1 million-best-selling Personal Language Coach

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How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

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Summary: How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen By David Brooks: Key Takeaways, Summary and Analysis

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From Start to Finish: The Transformative Power of Story

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The Secrets of Successful Public Speakers: How to Improve Confidence and Credibility in Your Communication

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Win Your Case: How to Present, Persuade, and Prevail--Every Place, Every Time

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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

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Mastering Logical Fallacies: The Definitive Guide to Flawless Rhetoric and Bulletproof Logic

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How to Write Your First Novel: The Stress-Free Guide to Writing Fiction for Beginners

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Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking

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Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

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Pity the Reader: On Writing With Style

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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way

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The Six Cs of Effective Storytelling

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The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us

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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

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We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter

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The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection Pile

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All the President's Men

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Summary: Quiet by Susan Cain

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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: Level 5, B2+

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Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition: A Guide to Narrative Craft

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Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

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Zahi Hawass and Kent Weeks: Golden Age of the Pharaohs: Much of what we've learned over the past half-century about the ancient Egyptians, we've learned from these two archaeologists. They've both made major discoveries and have played a crucial role in protecting the pyramids and burial sites for future generations. Zahi Hawass is a National Geographic explorer, and once oversaw all of antiquities Egyptian government. But beyond that, he has drawn millions of tourists to visit Egypt, with his many books and television documentaries. He wears a signature hat, and is famous for his outsized personality. Kent Weeks is a more professorial type. He is retired now, but for 60 years lived and breathed the life of the Pharaohs. He created what many consider the most important preservation effort ever undertaken in Egypt: The Theban Mapping Project. It catalogued every tomb and every shard of pottery unearthed in The Valley of the Kings. We hear just what motivated each of them to spend

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GONE AT MIDNIGHT-Jake Anderson: 21 year-old Vancouver student Elisa Lam was last heard from on January 31, 2013, after she checked into downtown L.A.’s Cecil Hotel—a 600-room building with a nine-decade history of scandal and tragedy. The next day, Elisa vanished. A search of the...

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Philippine-American War | Into the Jaws of a Dragon | 1

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Best Of - Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind: Gordon Lightfoot has died, at the age of 84. He spoke with the Academy of Achievement last year, and we featured that interview in an episode. To honor the legendary singer and songwriter, we are re-posting the episode today. Gordon Lightfoot had a slew of international hits in the 1960's and 70's, including "If You Could Read My Mind," "Sundown" and The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." His songs were also performed by some of the biggest stars of that time, including Jerry Lee Lewis, The Grateful Dead, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, and Barbra Streisand. Lightfoot was still writing and performing into his 80's. In this interview you will find him as charming a raconteur as you might expect, given the nature of the songs he writes. He talks about his childhood in a small town in Ontario, and about his path to the top of the music industry. He describes the quirks of his songwriting process, and explains why he changed the words of "E

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What It's Like to Write a Madonna Biography: A conversation with Mary Gabriel, whose substantial new biography offers a comprehensive and surprising look at Madonna'a life and career.

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Revisiting Stephen Colbert: Grateful for Grief

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Beth Macy on 'Dopesick'

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Episode 221 - Cry, the Beloved Country

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Best of - Johnny Cash: True To His Own Voice: He had a voice that could make a mountain quake. And his impact on the world of music is legendary. As fans prepare to celebrate the arrival of a new Johnny Cash album -- recorded live in 1968 but never released -- we take a second listen to the very first episode of What It Takes. You'll hear the deeply introspective Cash near the end of his career (1993). He reflects on how he overcame considerable personal obstacles and turned his failures into the stepping stones to success. He also talks about the first music he remembers, the voice teacher who advised him to stop taking lessons, and the source of his creativity.

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Love, Loss and Parenting

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Twenty Thousand Hertz- Golden: Two stories about the transformative power of silence from our friends at Twenty Thousand Hertz

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Frank McCourt: Teacher Man: No one could tell a story better than Frank McCourt. His first book, Angela's Ashes, remains one of the most compelling accounts of poverty, alcoholism, and the longing for a better life. It won a Pulitzer Prize, and transformed McCourt from a modest immigrant and a lifelong high school teacher, into a literary celebrity. In this episode, you'll hear McCourt hold forth with tremendous humor and that lyrical voice - about the miseries of his childhood in Ireland, as well as his passion for teaching and writing.

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Episode 379: Joshua Yaffa: Joshua Yaffa is a Moscow correspondent for The New Yorker. His first book is Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia.

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What Was Alcatraz?

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Dana Spiotta Talks About ‘Wayward’: Spiotta discusses her latest novel, and Ash Davidson talks about her debut, “Damnation Spring.”

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Episode 255: Matthew Klam: Matthew Klam is a journalist and fiction writer. His new novel is Who Is Rich?. “The New Yorker had hyped me with this “20 Under 40” thing…and when the tenth anniversary of that list [came], somebody wrote an article about it. And they found everybody in

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Does your doctor care about you?

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A Conversation With Sarah Edmondson & Anthony Ames About Escaping NXIVM & Mental Health: Sickboy Podcast: Sarah Edmondson and Anthony "Nippy" Ames are cult escapees and whistleblowers featured in Escaping NXIVM. In this clip from the Sickboy podcast, Sarah and Nippy sit down with the Sickboy hosts to dive deep into their experience with escaping a cult and how it affected their mental health. The full interview and more episodes are available at smarturl.it/sickboycbc

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Robert Gottlieb on ‘Garbo’ and ‘Babbitt’: Gottlieb talks about his own new biography and the work of Sinclair Lewis, and Carl Bernstein discusses “Chasing History.”

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How To Save Your Soul In America - with R. Eric Thomas

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Blake Bailey on Writing His Life of Philip Roth: Bailey talks about his new biography, and Julia Sweig discusses “Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight.”

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The Founding of Jamestown: 415 years ago this month, 104 English men and boys landed in North America and established a settlement they called Jamestown in Virginia.

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Episode 489: The Evangelical Empire Strikes Back & Barna Briefs with David Kinnaman: After the mess that was 2020, we had such high hopes for 2021. Were our expectations met? Phil and Skye look back on the year when the evangelical empire dug in its heels. Those opposed to #MeToo and Black Lives Matter responded by labeling empathy a...

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Interview with Miriam Toews

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Nikole Hannah Jones and Adam Rubin work to make kids' books more approachable

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‘1619,’ Episode 5: The Land of Our Fathers, Part 2

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Rivka Galchen Reads “How I Became a Vet”: Rivka Galchen reads her story “How I Became a Vet,” which appeared in the March 13, 2023, issue of the magazine. Galchen is the author of three books of fiction, including the story collection “American Innovations” and the novel “Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch,” which was published in 2021. 

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#1399 Myths are written by the victors, history by the scholars: Air Date 2/16/2021 Today we take a look at the competing histories fighting for dominance in the minds of Americans; the mythologized and romanticized history as represented by the "patriotic" framing of history from the 1776 Commission report and the...

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Navalny’s legacy: The death of Vladimir Putin's largest opponent, Alexei Navalny, has rocked hopes of democracy in Russia. We speak with The Post's David M. Herszenhorn, who covered Navalny in Russia, about the impact of his death and Putin's tightening grip on power.

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We Don't Know Ourselves: Fintan O'Toole on contemporary Ireland as a model for an open 21st century society