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Lulu in the Sky: A Daughter of Cambodia Finds Love, Healing, and Double Happiness
Lulu in the Sky: A Daughter of Cambodia Finds Love, Healing, and Double Happiness
Loung Ung
May 4, 2012
01:03:02
Loung Ung discusses her memoir, Lulu in the Sky: A Daughter of Cambodia Finds Love, Healing, and Double Happiness.
Alison Bechdel: Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama
Alison Bechdel: Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama
Alison Bechdel
May 2, 2012
00:45:23
Memoirist and cartoonist Alison Bechdel discusses her new memoir, Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama. Alison Bechdel’s memoir about her father, Fun Home, was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. Now, she presents a second tale of filial sleuthery, this time about her mother.
PEN Hemingway Awards 2012
Patrick Hemingway
April 1, 2012
01:19:38
Patrick Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway's sole surviving son, introduced the 2012 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, which was given to Teju Cole for his first novel Open City. In addition, the Laurence L.
Touré: Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness - What it Means to be Black Now
Touré: Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness - What it Means to be Black Now
Touré , author
January 26, 2012
00:59:48
Touré, writer, cultural critic, and TV personality discusses his newest book Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness: What it Means to be Black Now, which draws on interviews with over 100 prominent African-Americans from art to politics to journalism to academia - as well as his own thoughts and ex
Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right
Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right
Thomas Frank
January 5, 2012
00:46:15
Economic catastrophe usually brings social protest and demands for change.
Chris Matthews on JFK
Chris Matthews on JFK
Chris Matthews
November 30, 2011
01:03:00
Chris Matthews, host of Hardball, discusses his new biography, Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero, with former Boston Globe editor Marty Nolan.
The Fall of the Faculty: Governing Universities in the 21st Century
Benjamin Ginsberg
November 3, 2011
01:26:00
In his new book The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters, Ben Ginsberg discusses new patterns of governance that threaten universities’ missions.
Saving Elections from Politics
Bradley Smith
October 17, 2011
01:00:00
Having the government pay for political campaigns remains unpopular among liberal, conservative, and independent voters. Voters have rejected or repealed government-funded campaigns in Oregon, California, Alaska, Massachusetts, and Missouri. Bradley A.