THE POWER OF LOVE from NPR: Selected Shorts

The Hungarian author and activist Tibor Dery must have drawn on his experiences as a political prisoner when he wrote "Love," which powerfully depicts a prisoner's return home. The reader is Keir Dullea. The second story on this program, Amy Bloom's "Silver Water," combines hilarity and heart-breaking sorrow in portraying a family with a schizophrenic daughter. The reader is Linda Lavin.

Download the podcast here. See also: Niki: The Story of a Dog (New York Review Books Classics), Love and Other Stories, Karoly Makk Collection - Love & Catsplay

Epidemics and Politics: Can Haiti Learn From History? from The Takeaway: Story of the Day by feedback@thetakeaway.org (Public Radio International and WNYC Radio)

Demonstrators in Haiti have been protesting an outbreak of cholera, which has killed more than 1,000 people and has hospitalized more than 16,000 in the past month. The riots began on Monday in northern and central Haiti, over suspicions that U.N. peacekeepers had brought the epidemic to the country from Nepal. But protesters have also used the issue to make a political statement, burning campaign posters of Jude Celestin, the candidate of President Rene Preval's Unity Party – just ahead of national elections coming up on November 28th, 2010. Haiti correspondent Jacqueline Charles, from the Miami Herald, joins to update us on the situation in the country. She is joined by Philip Alcabes, professor of public health at Hunter College in New York and author of "Dread - How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics," who says that diseases turn into "epidemics" when they meet with social and political crisis.

Download the podcast here. See also: Dread: How Fear and Fantasy have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to the Avian Flu, Dread, The Many Ways We Talk About Death in Contemporary Society: Interdisciplinary Studies in Portrayal and Classification, The American Scholar, Vol. 73, No. 2 (Spring 2004)

Kennedy, Reagan, Bush, Obama: A History of the Tax Cut from The Takeaway: Story of the Day by feedback@thetakeaway.org (Public Radio International and WNYC Radio)

The Bush-era tax cuts will be high on the agenda when the lame duck Congress reconvenes today. The cuts are scheduled to expire next year, but Republicans are pushing for the extension of both the "middle class" breaks, as well as those for couples earning more than $250,000 a year. They cite the huge budget deficit and a shaky economy as reasons to keep the cuts. Similar arguments led to prior historic tax cuts, from two politicians of different eras, parties and temperaments: John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. Joining us to analyse whether the fallout from those previous tax cuts could be an indicator of success this time around is Joel Slemrod, professor of economics at the University of Michigan and author of “Taxing Ourselves: A Citizen’s Guide to the Debate over Taxes." Washington correspondent Todd Zwillich explains the upcoming debate in Congress to get some or all of the tax cuts extended before January and the new Congress.

Download the podcast here. See also: Taxing Ourselves, 4th Edition: A Citizen's Guide to the Debate over Taxes, Do Taxes Matter?: The Impact of the Tax Reform Act of 1986, Taxing Ourselves - 2nd Edition: A Citizen's Guide to the Great Debate over Tax Reform

On The Money with Chris DiSimio from 91.7 WVXU from On The Money with Chris DiSimio from 91.7 WVXU Podcast

Authors Mary Buffett and David Clark are On the Money with Chris DeSimio discussing their new book, Warren Buffett and the Art of Stock Arbitrage.

Download the podcast of the WVXU radio show here. See also: Warren Buffett and the Art of Stock Arbitrage: Proven Strategies for Arbitrage and Other Special Investment Situations, Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements: The Search for the Company with a Durable Competitive Advantage, Buffettology: The Previously Unexplained Techniques That Have Made Warren Buffett The Worlds, The New Buffettology: The Proven Techniques for Investing Successfully in Changing Markets That Have Made Warren Buffett the World's Most Famous Investor

Maria Bartiromo on Covering the Financial Meltdown from WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show by listenerservices@wnyc.org (WNYC, New York Public Radio)

Maria Bartiromo, CNBC anchor, discusses her new book The Weekend That Changed Wall Street: An Eyewitness Account, and what's it's been like covering the financial meltdown.

Download the podcast here. See also: The Weekend That Changed Wall Street: An Eyewitness Account, Use the News: How to Separate the Noise from the Investment Nuggets and Make Money in Any Economy

The AV Club - December 2010 from PRI: The Sound of Young America

Keith Phipps and Nathan Rabin of The AV Club stop by to sift through pop culture and present their picks, which include a box set from Apple Records, a new cut of the classic film Metropolis, a book from The Onion columnist Jean Teasdale, and the documentary Best Worst Movie.

Download the podcast here. See also: The Onion Presents A Book of Jean's Own!: All New Wit, Wisdom, and Wackiness from The Onion's Beloved Humor Columnist, The Onion Presents A Book of Jean's Own!: All New Wit, Wisdom, and Wackiness from The Onion's Beloved Humor Columnist, Dalai Lama Renaissance (narrated by Harrison Ford) - PAL/International version

Decades Later, Chinese Consumers' Tastes Change from NPR: Business Story of the Day Podcast

Chinese consumers are spending. Karl Gerth, a professor at Oxford University, tells Steve Inskeep that Chinese consumerism already is changing the world. He writes about it in a new book called As China Goes, So Goes the World: How Chinese Consumers are Transforming Everything.

Download the podcast of the show here. See also: As China Goes, So Goes the World: How Chinese Consumers Are Transforming Everything, China Made: Consumer Culture and the Creation of the Nation (Harvard East Asian Monographs), Politics, Character, and Culture: Perspectives from Hans Gerth (Contributions in Sociology)

NYT: Book Review for 11/26/2010 from NYT Book Review

This week, Charles McGrath discusses William Trevor's new collection of short stories; Patricia Cohen reports on the digital humanities; Alexandra Jacobs and Julie Bosman discuss Steve Martin and his new book, "An Object of Beauty"; and Jennifer Schuessler has best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.

Download the podcast here. See also: Selected Stories, William Trevor: The Collected Stories

Atlas of San Francisco from KQED's Forum Podcast

Forum explores the many layers and different experiences of San Francisco with author Rebecca Solnit. Her new book, "Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas," reinvents the traditional atlas and presents 22 maps that reveal hidden connections and cultural experiences. She maps the sites of graveyard shift work from San Francisco's industrial 1960s with 6am bars that exist now, and 2008's murders are mapped with 2009's Monterey Cypress trees.

Download the Forum podcast here. Check this NY Times piece out, on the title. See also: Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Wanderlust: A History of Walking, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

The Moral Landscape from WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show by listenerservices@wnyc.org (WNYC, New York Public Radio)

Sam Harris, author of the new book, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values, makes a clear case for a morality based on the laws of science.

Download the podcast show here. See also: The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason, Letter to a Christian Nation (Vintage), Blame Hitchens, Dawkins & Harris--Essays of a New Atheist, The Irrational Atheist: Dissecting the Unholy Trinity of Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens