
Books
Author answers hot-button questions on fracking, including climate impact
As Pennsylvania’s gas boom helps propel the United States away from coal-fired power, one energy researcher says the impact on climate change will be a wash.
7 years ago
Delaware artist Susan Benarcik brings the outdoors in with her unique artwork
During the day Susan Benarcik is an urban gardener, she loves nature and the outdoors, during the winter months she brings both indoors through her artwork.
7 years ago
Front row to American history, on a Kensington barstool
A new book about a Kensington veterans club is a small peephole onto the national stage.
7 years ago
Listen 5:35One of the oldest African-American children’s book fairs returns to Philly
One of the country’s oldest book fairs devoted to African-American children's literature returned to Philadelphia Saturday for its 26th year.
7 years ago
Philly author’s first novel featured at nation’s oldest African-American children’s book fair
The 26th Annual African-American Children’s Book Fair is set to host more than 3,500 readers at the Community College of Philadelphia Saturday.
7 years ago
Listen 5:19Max Boot’s “The Road Not Taken”
MAX BOOT, military historian and author, writes the story of Edward Lansdale —a bri ...
Air Date: February 1, 2018
Listen 49:29Elif Shafak’s “Three Daughters of Eve”
ELIF SHAFAK is an award-winning Turkish novelist who writes about women’s and min ...
7 years ago
Listen 35:30Elif Shafak’s “Three Daughters of Eve” / Trump’s address
Guest: Philip Bump, Elif Shafak ELIF SHAFAK is an award-win ...
Air Date: January 31, 2018
Listen 49:29One Book, One Philadelphia – a conversation with Jacqueline Woodson
Guest: Jacqueline Woodson We listen to Marty’s conversation with writer ...
Air Date: January 29, 2018
Listen 49:31There’s no right way to grieve
Guests: Megan Devine, Julia Cooper All of us will experience the death of a loved one in our lives, yet many of u ...
Air Date: January 26, 2018
Listen 49:29Sherman Alexie: “You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me”
Guest: Sherman Alexie SHERMAN ALEXIE’s relationship with ...
Air Date: January 19, 2018
Listen 49:29Wolff’s book resonates because Trump keeps confirming it
Wolff concluded that Trump is unfit to serve. And virtually everything that Trump has done and said since the book’s release has demonstrated that he got it right.
7 years ago
Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury”
Guest: Michael Wolff, Eddie Glaude Jr. Journalist ...
Air Date: January 16, 2018
Listen 49:27Poetry, race relations, and MLK
Guests: Tracy K. Smith, Jonathan Rieder, Michael Eric Dyson For today’s Martin Luther King Holiday, we’re goi ...
Air Date: January 15, 2018
Listen 50:28Philadelphia names new poet laureate
Raquel Salas Rivera, a gender-fluid, Puerto Rican writer, has been named Philadelphia's new city poet laureate.
7 years ago
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