• Glory Edim with Aminatou Sow: Gather Me
    Nov 12 2024

    Glory Edim, the founder of Well-Read Black Girl, discusses her new memoir, Gather Me, an ode to the power reading has had on her life and to books’ ability to help us understand ourselves.

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    55 mins
  • Clara Bingham with Farai Chideya: Revolutionary Foremothers
    Nov 5 2024

    Clara Bingham discusses her new book, The Movement, the first oral history of the decade that built the modern feminist movement.

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    58 mins
  • Ayana Elizabeth Johnson with Steve Connell: What If We Get It Right?
    Oct 29 2024

    Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, the beloved marine biologist and policy expert imagines an inspiring landscape of possible climate futures.

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Ada Limón and Peter Sís: In Praise of Mystery
    Oct 22 2024

    The U.S. Poet Laureate and Caldecott honoree Illustrator discuss their transcendent picture book featuring a poem that will travel into space aboard NASA’s Europa Clipper.

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    55 mins
  • Richard Powers with Marlon James: Playground
    Oct 15 2024

    Author Richard Powers discusses his latest novel, Playground, which intertwines tales of technology, race, friendships, and the environment.

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    58 mins
  • Library Talks: Eliza Griswold, Hahrie Han with Andrea Elliott: 'Circle of Hope' and 'Undivided'
    Oct 8 2024

    Not all evangelical churches fit the stereotypes. In their latest books, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Eliza Griswold and the Inaugural Director of the SNF Agora Institute, Hahrie Han, bear witness to two churches who break the mold. In Circle of Hope, Griswold chronicles the ravaging and ultimately destructive results to a group of progressive-leaning Philadelphia evangelicals who attempt a racial reckoning. In Undivided, Han follows four members of a conservative Midwest church whose lives are radically altered for the better by a six-week program designed to tackle racial injustice among their ranks.

    Griswold and Han discuss their books with journalist Andrea Elliott and examine how their stories shed light on the complexity of contemporary American evangelism.

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    58 mins
  • Library Talks: DéLana R. A. Dameron with Renée Watson: Redwood Court
    Oct 1 2024

    DéLana R.A. Dameron is in conversation with author Renée Watson about her debut novel Redwood Court.

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Connie Chung with Walter Isaacson
    Sep 25 2024

    Connie Chung talks with Walter Isaacson about her new memoir, Connie. The book delves into her storied career as the first Asian woman to break into an overwhelmingly white, male-dominated television news industry. Chung is the first woman to co-anchor the CBS Evening News and the first Asian to anchor any news program in the U.S.

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    1 hr