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Truth vs. Style: Challenge of Valaida Snow
Candace Allan
October 5, 2005
01:18:59
Candace Allen discusses her first novel, Valaida, based on the life of entertainer and jazz trumpeter Valaida Snow.
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Spider's Web: Wind in the Willows Part 8
Frances Shrand
April 1, 1977
00:28:54
This 1977 reading of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows is from the Spider's Web radio series, one of WGBH's earliest productions aimed at promoting literacy. The Spider's Web debuted on 89.7 in 1970.
Boston Book Festival Series
Boston Book Festival Series
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Lectures curated around the Boston Book Festival celebrating the power of words to stimulate, agitate, unite, delight and inspire.
President Fillmore and the First White House Library
Catherine Parisian
October 11, 2007
01:00:19
Catherine Parisian discusses the founding of the White House Library, surveys its contents, and considers its significance in the context of 19th century American history.
Stewart O'Nan's The Good Wife
Stewart O'Nan
April 7, 2005
00:53:37
Stewart O'Nan, author of The Speed Queen and A Prayer for the Dying, discusses his newest novel, The Good Wife.
Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature
Lewis Dabney
October 13, 2005
01:10:57
Lewis Dabney lectures on his new book, Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature. From the Jazz Age through the McCarthy Era, Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) stood at the center of the American cultural scene. In his own youth a crucial champion of the young Ernest Hemingway and F.
Good City: Writers Explore 21st Century Boston
Paul S. Grogan
January 27, 2005
01:17:46
The Boston Foundation commissioned The Good City to provide a fresh image of Boston for newcomers to the city, such as those attending the Democratic National Convention and newly arriving coll
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Freedom's Power: The True Force of Liberalism
Paul Starr
October 3, 2007
01:01:35
Paul Starr delves into the history of liberal philosophy and asks what traditional liberalism has to offer modern America. Pulitzer Prize-winning author and co-founder of The American Prospect, Paul Starr, discusses Freedom's Power: The True Force of Liberalism.