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Wired for Books MP3 Page
by Don Swaim
Available on: Digital Download
Listen to the voices of many of the best writers of the English language. These uncut, behind-the-scenes interviews were the foundation of Don Swaim's long-running CBS Radio show, Book Beat.
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The Literature of Crisis
by Marsh McCall
Available on: Digital Download
Most human lives contain major turning points: crises that transform an individual’s future development...
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In Depth: Tom Wolfe
by Tom Wolfe
Available on: Online Video
On Sunday, December 5th, author Tom Wolfe was our guest on In Depth.
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Virgil's Aeneid: Anatomy of a Classic
by Susanna Braund
Available on: Digital Download
The central text in the canon of Latin literature is Virgil’s Aeneid, an epic poem in twelve books composed more than two thousand years ago under the Roman emperor Augustus.
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Climbing Parnassus
by Tracy Lee Simmons
Available on: Online Audio | Online Video
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute Lecture Program assists in sponsoring lectures each year at the college, university, and preparatory school levels.
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Andrei Codrescu Lecture on Writing and Publishing
by Andrei Codrescu
Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
Lecture by Andrei Codrescu focusing on writing and publishing, especially as it relates to his experience in Romania.
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Entitled Opinions from Stanford University
by Robert Harrison
Available on: Digital Download
Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature) - hosted by Professor Robert Harrison - is a weekly literary talk show that ranges broadly on issues related to literature, ideas, and lived experience.
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In Depth: Harold Bloom
by Harold Bloom
Available on: Online Video
Live on Sunday May 4th our In Depth guest will be Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and Berg Professor of English at New York University.
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The True King: Tolkien and the Medieval
by Bradley J. Birzer
Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio | Online Video
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute Lecture Program assists in sponsoring lectures each year at the college, university, and preparatory school levels.
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Hollywood and the Three Lies
by Michael Medved
Available on: Online Audio
Michael Medved is a film critic, best-selling author and national television personality whose specialty is Hollywood and the effect of popular culture on American society.
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Lewis & Tolkien
by Christopher Mitchell
Available on: Video Download | Online Video
Professor Christopher Mitchell of Wheaton College opens the door to insights and events publicly observed in the lives of writers C. S. Lewis and J.R. R. Tolkien...
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Writers on Writing
by T. Coraghessan Boyle
Available on: Digital Download
American poets, novelists, and humorists reflect on the essential elements that drive their craft.
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William S. Burroughs Lecture on Public Discourse
by William Burroughs
Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
A lecture by William S. Burroughs on public discourse, with an introduction by Allen Ginsberg.
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Emerson and the Examined Life
by Robert Pinsky
Available on: Online Audio | Online Video
Join award-winning author and poet, Robert Pinsky, and Emerson scholars, Richard Geldard and David M. Robinson, in celebrating the bicentennial of Ralph Waldo Emerson with a live reading from famous American essays including Self-Reliance, The Oversoul and The American Scholar.
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Jay Gatsby and the Myth of American Origins
by Leo Marx
Available on: Online Video
America’s supreme economic, political and military power in the world is matched,
says Leo Marx, by “correspondingly ardent, patriotic, nationalistic …thinking of a large number of Americans…
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Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
by Jerome K. Jerome
Available on: Digital Download
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, published in 1886, is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome.
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