Lectures tagged "Authors"


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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Cosmic Conversation (Part 2)
Neil deGrasse Tyson
March 15, 2010
00:40:20
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium and charismatic host of the PBS series NOVA scienceNOW, addresses the controversy surrounding the institution's reclassification of Pluto as a dwarf planet.
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Cosmic Conversation (Part 1)
Neil deGrasse Tyson
March 15, 2010
00:58:43
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium and charismatic host of the PBS series NOVA scienceNOW, addresses the controversy surrounding the institution's reclassification of Pluto as a dwarf planet.
The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson
Jerome Charyn
March 9, 2010
00:36:08
Novelist and Finalist for the 2005 PEN/Faulkner Award Jerome Charyn reads from his new novel, The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson.
Sasa Stanisic: How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
Sasa Stanisic
February 23, 2010
01:18:00
Sasa Stanisic, a native of Bosnia who fled to Germany during the war in 1992, discusses his first novel, How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone.
Steve Yarbrough: Safe From the Neighbors
Steve Yarbrough
February 19, 2010
00:33:12
Award-winning novelist and finalist for the 2005 PEN/Faulkner Award, Steve Yarbrough reads from his newest novel, Safe from the Neighbors. Luke May teaches local history--his lifelong obsession--at his old high school in Loring, Mississippi.
Adam Haslett: Union Atlantic
Adam Haslett
February 18, 2010
00:38:52
Short story writer and debut novelist Adam Haslett reads from Union Atlantic. At the heart of Union Atlantic lies a test of wills between a young banker, Doug Fanning, and a retired schoolteacher, Charlotte Graves, whose two dogs have begun to speak to her.
Kevin Sampsell and Justin Taylor
Kevin Sampsell
February 17, 2010
00:43:39
Writer Kevin Sampsell and blogger Justin Taylor read from their new books. In 2008, Kevin Sampsell's estranged father died of an aneurysm.
Pinker and Goldstein: Science, Fiction, and God
Steven Pinker
February 17, 2010
01:23:00
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, philosopher and author of the new novel 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction, discusses mind-body problems with her husband, Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker.