Author Talks on Podcasts

The Leonard Lopate Show (iTunes – feed – web site), coming out of New York City, has recently aired a good series of interviews with authors of new, important books. Lopate knows how to give a good interview. Give a listen.

• Arnold Rampersad on his new book, Ralph Ellison: A Biography (mp3)
  • Lopate conducts a uniquely well informed interview with this Stanford author.
• Al Gore on The Assault on Reason (iTunes – mp3)
  • What does the Iraq war and our policy toward global warming have in common? Anyone care to take a guess?
• Carl Bernstein on A Woman in Charge (iTunes – mp3)
  • "Woman" refers here to Hillary Clinton.
• Khaled Hosseini on A Thousand Splendid Suns  (mp3)
  • This is Hosseini’s bestselling follow-up (currently #2 on Amazon) to his bestselling previous novel, The Kite Runner.
• Robert Dallek on Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power (mp3)
  • Bestselling author Dallek (An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy) takes a new look at how Nixon and Kissinger ran American foreign policy from 1969-74.