Non-Fiction


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Kay Redfield Jamison: Nothing Was the Same
Kay Redfield Jamison
October 1, 2009
Johns Hopkins professor of psychiatry Kay Redfield Jamison discusses her new memoir, Nothing Was the Same. Jamison's first memoir, An Unquiet Mind, touchingly told the story of her struggle with mental illness.
Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor
Tad Friend
September 30, 2009
New Yorker staff writer Tad Friend as gives us a glimpse of Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor. Tad Friend has an illustrious family tree which also happens to include numerous alcoholics, depressives, and assorted eccentrics.
The Devil's Tickets
Gary Pomerantz
September 24, 2009
00:26:47
Gary Pomerantz discusses his narrative from the Roaring 20's, The Devil's Tickets: A Night of Bridge, a Fatal Hand and a New American Age , about a bridge-table killing and murder trial in Kansas City, and the contract bridge card game craze that swept America.
Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
Harvey A. Silverglate
September 24, 2009
Attorney and author Harvey Silverglate discusses Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent.
Jesse Sheidlower: The F-Word
Jesse Sheidlower
September 17, 2009
Oxford English Dictionary editor at large Jesse Sheidlower discusses his new, in-depth look at that most offensive, rhymes-with-pluck, four-letter English obscenity, The F-Word.
The Bonfire: The Siege and Burning of Atlanta
The Bonfire: The Siege and Burning of Atlanta
Marc Wortman
August 19, 2009
00:59:21
Reporter Marc Wortman depicts Atlanta's siege and fall in The Bonfire, a narrative history told through the eyes of Confederate and Union participants.
Lillian Ross on Ernest Hemingway
Lillian Ross
June 9, 2009
01:03:52
New Yorker writer Lillian Ross reflects on her famous 1950 profile of Ernest Hemingway. In celebration of the 110th anniversary of the Hemingway’s birth, Ross shares what she has learned about writing and writers throughout her career.
David Grann: Lost City of Z
David Grann
June 6, 2009
01:15:26
New Yorker writer David Grann talks about his adventure into the hazardous Amazon jungle to retrace the footsteps of the great Colonel Percy Fawcett, who ventured there in 1925 in search of t