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  • 4.6 (112 ratings)
    The New Yorker Festival - Richard Dawkins: Disciple of Darwin
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    The New Yorker Festival - Richard Dawkins: Disciple of Darwin

    • ORIGINAL (1 hr and 22 mins)
    • By Richard Dawkins
    • Narrated By Henry Finder
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    Richard Dawkins holds the Charles Simonyi Chair of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford. His books include the best-selling The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable, The Ancestor's Tale, and A Devil's Chaplain, a collection of essays. He has received the International Cosmos Prize and the Kistler Prize.

    Brad says: "Excellent!"
  • 4.4 (103 ratings)
    Dueling Anthologists Billy Collins and Garrison Keillor at the 92nd Street Y
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    Dueling Anthologists Billy Collins and Garrison Keillor at the 92nd Street Y

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    • By Billy Collins, Garrison Keillor
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    Billy Collins, former United States poet laureate, and Garrison Keillor, host of A Prairie Home Companion, return to the Y to read favorite poems from their new anthologies 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day (Mr. Collins) and Good Poems for Hard Times (Mr. Keillor).

    Sarah says: "a fresh look at poetry"
  • 4.5 (79 ratings)
    Christopher Hitchens in Conversation with Salman Rushdie
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    Christopher Hitchens in Conversation with Salman Rushdie

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    • By Christopher Hitchens
    • Narrated By Salman Rushdie
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    Over the course of his 60 years, Christopher Hitchens has been a citizen of both the United States and the United Kingdom. He has been both a socialist opposed to the war in Vietnam and a supporter of the U.S. war against Islamic extremism in Iraq. He has been both a foreign correspondent in some of the world's most dangerous places and a legendary bon vivant. He is a fervent atheist, raised as a Christian, by a mother whose Jewish heritage was not revealed to him until her suicide.

  • 4.3 (55 ratings)
    Ken Follett: The History of the Thriller at the 92nd Street Y
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    Ken Follett: The History of the Thriller at the 92nd Street Y

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    • By Ken Follett
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    Ken Follett uses his gift for storytelling to present a detailed account of the thriller's place in history and literature. Follett is the author of more than a dozen best-selling novels, including Eye of the Needle, The Pillars of the Earth, and Whiteout. He is also president of the Dyslexia Institute, a member of the National Literacy Trust, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

    Terry says: "Use as a preamble to Pillars of the Earth"
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  • 4.5 (47 ratings)
    Neil Gaiman in Conversation with Chip Kidd: Sandman 20th Anniversary Celebration
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    Neil Gaiman in Conversation with Chip Kidd: Sandman 20th Anniversary Celebration

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    • By Neil Gaiman
    • Narrated By Chip Kidd
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    The New York Times best-selling author, Neil Gaiman, discusses Sandman, the acclaimed comic book series widely considered to be one of the most original and artistically ambitious series of the modern age. Sandman is a rich blend of modern myth and dark fantasy in which contemporary fiction, historical drama and legend are seamlessly interwoven.

  • 4.7 (45 ratings)
    The New Yorker Festival - American Obsession with Precociousness
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    The New Yorker Festival - American Obsession with Precociousness

    • ORIGINAL (1 hr and 27 mins)
    • By Malcolm Gladwell
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    Malcolm Gladwell has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1996. He is the author of The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference and Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, which was published this year. Both books grew out of articles that first appeared in the magazine. Mr. Gladwell will discuss other works in progress as well.

    Mary says: "Entertaining and Insightful"
  • 4.3 (31 ratings)
    Thalia Book Club: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell with Author Susanna Clarke
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    Thalia Book Club: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell with Author Susanna Clarke

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    • By Susanna Clarke
    • Narrated By Neil Gaiman
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    Susanna Clarke discusses her remarkable debut novel, the BookSense Book of the Year, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell with her friend, novelist Neil Gaiman. Set in an alternate version of England in the early 1800s, an England in which the people yearn to recapture the practical magic of an earlier era, this fantasy novel combines the wit of Jane Austen with rollicking adventure and hilarious scholarly footnotes.

  • 4.3 (28 ratings)
    George Carlin with Judy Gold at the 92nd Street Y
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    George Carlin with Judy Gold at the 92nd Street Y

    • UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 28 mins)
    • By George Carlin
    • Narrated By Judy Gold
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    Recently passed, George Carlin was a comedian famous for his "Seven Dirty Words" routine. To his credit are nearly 20 albums, five Grammy awards, and two Cable Ace Awards, and more HBO specials than anyone. He authored several books, including The New York Times best seller Brain Droppings and Napalm & Silly Putty. In this interview, he speaks with Judy Gold about his life and his comedy, and answers questions from the audience.

    L says: "Couldn't finish it"
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    Essential Vonnegut Interviews
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    Essential Vonnegut Interviews

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    • By Kurt Vonnegut
    • Narrated By Kurt Vonnegut, Walter James Miller
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    Over the course of Kurt Vonnegut's career as a writer, he has sat down many times with radio host and interviewer Walter James Miller to conduct in-depth discussions of his work and the world. Now the best of these interviews have been collected in an audiobook for the first time. This is the perfect audio collection for the Vonnegut fan who wants to understand the writer as he was, is, and will be.

  • 4.3 (23 ratings)
    Adam Gopnik and Malcolm Gladwell: Surveying Mankind from China to Peru
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    Adam Gopnik and Malcolm Gladwell: Surveying Mankind from China to Peru

    • ORIGINAL (1 hr and 18 mins)
    • By Adam Gopnik, Malcolm Gladwell
    • Narrated By Daniel Sullivan, Henry Timms
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    New Yorker essayist Adam Gopnik and sociologist Malcolm Gladwell revisit their debates about healthcare, education, media, and a variety of other subjects. The event, introduced by Daniel Sullivan, general consul of Canada, and Simon Center director Henry Timms is followed by an extensive Q&A.

    Dr Deb says: "Delightful Conversation"
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    The New Yorker Festival - Anarchy and Animation: Cartoon Chaos Theory
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    The New Yorker Festival - Anarchy and Animation: Cartoon Chaos Theory

    • ORIGINAL (1 hr and 21 mins)
    • By Brad Bird, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and others
    • Narrated By Tad Friend
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    Brad Bird is a director at Pixar Animation Studios and the writer and director of the Academy Award-winning animated feature The Incredibles. He also wrote and directed The Iron Giant and served as executive consultant on the TV series The Simpsons and King of the Hill. He completed his first animated film at the age of 14.

    Greg says: "This was a good listen!"
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    Dennis Prager: The Case for Judaism
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    Dennis Prager: The Case for Judaism

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    • By Dennis Prager
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    Nationally syndicated radio talk show host Dennis Prager - described in Jewish Week as "one of the three most interesting minds in American Jewish life" - offers compelling arguments in favor of Judaism, developed over many years of speaking to people from virtually every religion and culture.

    Sean Mcphillips says: "amazing insightful"

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  • Thalia Book Club: 'To Kill a Mockingbird' 50th Anniversary Celebration - Readings, Discussion and Audience Q&A

    "TOTAL BS!!"

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    This is NOT the book!!!! RIP OFF!!! Don't waste your money, this is just some guys talking about the book...

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  • "Short and sweet!!"

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    Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

    I loved The Help! I listened to this after I finished "The Help" because I wanted a little more of Kathryn Stockett's own story. Really, she is so sweet and genuine.
    It is a joy hearing her talk about the making of The Help. However, this was an interview audio and I don't know that I would listen to more than a short piece of an interview on a single book or movie.

    The interview covers some back story about the voice talent on the audio book and some news on the movie and such.


    If you’ve listened to books by Kathryn Stockett before, how does this one compare?

    no I haven't


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    not the interview, unless it was added to the 'end' of the movie - like how a movie came to be sort of thing.

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    An Interview with Kathryn Stockett, Author of 'The Help'

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    • By Kathryn Stockett
    • Narrated By Diana Dapito
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    Kathryn Stockett is the best-selling author of The Help, Audible's 2009 pick for Audiobook of the Year. In this interview she tells us about her role in choosing the book's narrator, and reveals what she's working on next.

    Celestial Starz says: "Short and sweet!!"

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    • Narrated By Stephen Colbert, Isaiah Sheffer, Jayne Anne Phillips, and others
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    Authors and actors including Stephen Colbert, Libba Bray (award winning young-adult novelist Going Bovine, winner of 2010 Printz Award), Oskar Eustis (Artistic Director at The Public Theater), Kurt Andersen (novelist and Studio 360 Host), Jayne Anne Phillips (novelist and National Book Award finalist Lark & Termite), filmmaker Mary McDonagh Murphy (author of the upcoming book Scout, Atticus, and Boo), and others pay tribute to the Pulitzer prize-winning classic novel about racial injustice and loss of innocence in a small Southern town.

    Casey says: "This is not the full story."
  • Thalia Kids' Book Club: Wendy Mass' 'The Candymakers'
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    • By Wendy Mass
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    The author of the beloved books Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life and A Mango-Shaped Space talks with the 2010 Newbery Award-winner Rebecca Stead (When You Reach Me) about her latest novel - a delectable concoction of mystery, friendship, and humor told from the point-of-view of four narrators who find themselves in a candy-filled world of surprises.

  • Anthony Bourdain, Eric Ripert, and Gabrielle Hamilton on 'How I Learned to Cook' at the 92nd Street Y
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    • By Anthony Bourdain, Eric Ripert, Gabrielle Hamilton
    • Narrated By Michael Ruhlman
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    Anthony Bourdain, Gabrielle Hamilton, and Eric Ripert are all well established, accomplished chefs; they share their early cooking experiences, what influenced their cooking styles, and what made them want to be chefs forever. Bourdain is the executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles, the author of the best-selling book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, and the host of the popular Food Network series, A Cook's Tour.

    Katherine says: "Great Insight and fun to listen!"
  • Jim Wallis, Alan Dershowitz, and Amy Sullivan on the Separation of Church and State: Is it in Jeopardy?
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    • By Jim Wallis, Alan Dershowitz, Amy Sullivan
    • Narrated By Jon Meacham
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    Explore the relationship between church and state, and the role of faith in politics. Jim Wallis is an evangelical preacher and the author of God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It. Alan Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the editor of a collection of essays entitled What Israel Means to Me. Amy Sullivan, a contributing editor at The Washington Monthly, is writing a book about religion and the left.

  • Mr. Media: The Mark Margolis Interview
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    • By Mark Margolis
    • Narrated By Bob Andelman
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    If you've been watching the AMC drama Breaking Bad over the years, you've had the privilege of seeing some extraordinary performances by the lead actors, Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul and Anna Gunn. But some of the greatest moments have been of the smaller, more isolated type. Like the ones featuring my guest today, Mark Margolis, who plays - or should I say played - Hector "Tio" Salamanca. You remember Hector, the notorious, bloodthirsty bastard we met as an old man and later in flashbacks as a young badass.

  • Mr. Media: The Margo Martindale Interview
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    • By Margo Martindale
    • Narrated By Bob Andelman
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    Imagine stretching a rubber band between the index finger on one hand and the thumb on the other. Now visualize pulling your fingers as far apart as possible. That's it...keep pulling...and pulling...OUCH! Somebody will always get hurt when you do that. That's what I pictured happening upstairs to Margo Martindale's character, Janice Trimble, in her new movie, Scalene. And that's just in the opening minutes.

  • The Beatles Tapes: Rare Interviews
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    • By John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and others
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    This is an audio album of interviews with each of the four members of The Beatles: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. The wit of the Beatles shines through in these audio vignettes fromn the 1960s.

  • Mr. Media: The Max Alan Collins Interview
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    • By Max Alan Collins
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    Collins became a next generation Mickey Spillane, creating memorable titles and characters of his own such as Road to Perdition and Quarry. He's worked in all kind of media, from scripting Dick Tracy daily comic strips from 1977-93 to writing the novelizations of movies such as Saving Private Ryan, Air Force One and American Gangster and creating his own one-man show Eliot Ness: An Untouchable Life. The crowning achievement of his career, however, may have been when Mickey Spillane - the best-selling mystery writer of the 20th century - chose Collins to be his literary executor.

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  • Mr. Media: The Danny Trejo Interview
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    • By Danny Trejo
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    Of course there are stereotypes in Hollywood! Look up "Scary Mofos" in any dictionary and you'll find a picture of actor Danny Trejo. Even when he's smiling, he's frightening. (No disrespect, sir.) Mention his name in casual conversation and watch the visceral fear come rising up in someone's eyes. As the master thespian Jon Lovitz once said, "Acting!" Yeah, maybe.

  • Mr. Media: The Kevin Brown Interview
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    Mr. Media: The Kevin Brown Interview

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    • By Kevin Brown
    • Narrated By Bob Andelman
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    In addition to continuing in his role as Dotcom alongside Grizz Chapman as Tracy Jordan's posse on NBC's 30 Rock, comedian Kevin Brown's standup career has truly blossomed and it keeps him out on the road whenever Tina Fey doesn't need him on the award-winning sitcom.

  • Mr. Media: The Philippe Quint Interview
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    Mr. Media: The Philippe Quint Interview

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    • By Philippe Quint
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    Let me see. The last time I stopped what I was doing to listen a world class violinist was… Okay, it hasn't happened yet. But after watching Philippe Quint move gracefully between classic violin and pop-jazz in David Grubin's new indie film Downtown Express, it is definitely more likely to happen in the future.

  • Mr. Media: The Paige Howard Interview
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    Mr. Media interviews Paige Howard. Yes, yes, Paige Howard is one of those Howards. Sister of Bryce - who played Gwen Stacy in Spider-Man 3, niece of Clint, granddaughter of Rance and, yup, daughter of Ron and Cheryl. That had to be said, I'm told, because Paige hasn't accrued enough screen credits yet where you wlll drop what you're doing when you hear the name "Paige Howard". But if you have time, take a look at her performance in a new film called Cheesecake Casserole.

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  • Mr. Media: The George Kennedy Interview
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    • By George Kennedy
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    It's easy to point out that George Kennedy, in a career spanning five decades, worked with some of the greatest names in Hollywood history. Paul Newman. Cary Grant. Kirk Douglas. Frank Sinatra. Leslie Nielsen. Bettie Davis. Clint Eastwood. John Wayne. Maggie Smith. Peter Ustinov. Carol Burnett. David Niven.

  • Mr. Media: The Michelle Borth Interview
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    Mr. Media: The Michelle Borth Interview

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    • By Michelle Borth
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    The ironic thing about Michelle Borth's role as Jamie, a woman whose fiancé won't commit to monogamy in the new HBO series "Tell Me You Love Me," is that she is the kind of sexy, intoxicating woman that could probably drive the best-intentioned married man to cheat on his wife.

  • Mr. Media: The Jon Gries Interview
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    • Narrated By Bob Andelman, Jon Gries
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    Back in '82, I used to be able to throw a pigskin a quarter mile. What actor doesn't dream of at least one role for which they will forever be remembered? For Jon Gries, no doubt, that character is "Uncle Rico" in the 2004 cult classic high school comedy Napoleon Dynamite. Uncle Rico is a ball of confusion, hard-packed with conflicting characteristics, the classic enigma hiding inside a mystery hiding in plain sight.

  • Mr. Media: The Jonathan Katz Interview
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    Mr. Media: The Jonathan Katz Interview

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    • By Jonathan Katz
    • Narrated By Bob Andelman
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    Jonathan Katz is neither a doctor nor a cartoon. But he has been known to be one entertaining funnyman. His old show on Comedy Central, Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, was perhaps best known for two elements during its six-year run: its squiggly animation and the remarkable list of guests who sat on Dr. Katz's couch, including Ray Romano, Conan O'Brien, Jon Stewart and Louis C.K. Now Katz is back with a new animated show, Explosion Bus.

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