Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Global English: Finance from WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show by listenerservices@wnyc.org (WNYC, New York Public Radio)

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Leslie Dunton-Downer, author of The English is Coming!: How One Language is Sweeping the World, joins us again to explore some of the words ...

30 Issues: Arianna Huffington & Cornel West on Obama and His Base from WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show by listenerservices@wnyc.org (WNYC, New York Public Radio)

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Arianna Huffington, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post.com and the author of Third World America: How Our Politicians Are...

Stephen Sondheim from WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show by listenerservices@wnyc.org (WNYC, New York Public Radio)

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Stephen Sondheim, whose career has spanned more than half a century, discusses his process of writing lyrics, his relationship with his ment...

Books of The Times: The Inner Lives of Airports and Those Who Wander Through Them from NYT > Books by By DWIGHT GARNER

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There’s a funny, revealing moment in Alain de Botton’s new book, “A Week at the Airport,” when he discovers that the largest bookstore at He...
Tuesday, October 26, 2010

The Daily Show - October 25, 2010 - Austan Goolsbee

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Austan Goolsbee Episode #15134 Austan Goolsbee discusses the difficulties in lowering the unemployment rate and getting credit to small busi...

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

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William Upski Wimsatt, hip hop and graffiti writer, founder of the League of Young Voters and the author of Please Don't Bomb the Suburb...

James Franco and 7 other actors turned novelists - The Week Magazine

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Franco's first collection of short stories has received mixed reviews. But critics have only rarely been kind to literary thespians POST...

The Colbert Report - October 25, 2010 - Nicholas Negroponte

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October 25, 2010 - Nicholas Negroponte Views: 27,377 Aired: 10/25/10 Episode 06134 Stephen celebrates his fifth anniversary, and Nicholas Ne...

Navy Puts Out Graphic Novel About Corpsmen, The Medics Who Also Fight - NPR (blog) - Bill Chappell -

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The U.S. military has used video games to help train their personnel — and to help boost recruiting. Now the experiences of Navy corpsmen ha...

Local books on Jimi Hendrix, Seahawks, Al Franken - Seattle Times

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"This is Not Florida: How Al Franken Won the Minnesota Recount" by Jay Weiner (University of Minnesota Press, $24.95). A blow-by-b...