Free Library Podcast

In his new book, Killing Yourself to Live, senior writer for Spin magazine and Esquire columnist Chuck Klosterman travels ... more

The year, 1940; the place, Philadelphia: After five days of rousing speeches and multiple ballots, Wendell Willkie won the... more

Former Assistant Secretary of Education, Mary Frances Berry became commissioner and vice chairman of the U.S. Commission o... more

A culinary innovator, Susanna Foo revolutionized Chinese cuisine, first in her popular Philadelphia restaurant, then in he... more

Andrea Mitchell is the chief foreign affairs correspondent for NBC News, a position she's held since November 1994. She re... more

Before the unprecedented success of her 1997 novel, The Red Tent, Anita Diamant authored several well-received books on mo... more

Richard Dawkins - known for his ''brilliance and wit'' (New Yorker) - is one of the most influential scientists of our tim... more

Join Robert Mankoff, cartoon editor of the New Yorker, for a rollicking visual journey through eight decades of socially a... more

Salman Rushdie is known for his witty examinations of an ever-changing sociopolitical landscape. Midnight's Children, his ... more

Beginning with a daring helicopter ride over the West Bank and climaxing with a hair-raising airlift into Baghdad, Where G... more