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Ibram X. Kendi
Ibram X. Kendi
Our guest on the podcast today is Ibram X. Kendi, here to talk about his new book How to Be an Antiracist. Kendi is a ... Read more
20 Aug 2019
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Jon Meacham
Jon Meacham
Historian, journalist, editor and biographer Jon Meacham has never shied away from challenging subjects. American Lion,... Read more
23 May 2018
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Kelly Corrigan
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The bestselling memoirist Kelly Corrigan joins us in this episode to talk about Tell Me More, her thought-provoking new ... Read more
10 Jan 2018
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Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende
Ever since her sweeping family and political epic The House of the Spirits was published to acclaim in 1982, the Chilean... Read more
6 Dec 2017
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Michio Kaku
Michio Kaku
Human colonies on Mars, laser beams shooting digital copies of ourselves into space, and freezing your age at thirty: do... Read more
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Ina Garten
Ina Garten
It's hard to believe that The Barefoot Contessa cookbook was published as recently as 1999, because its author, Ina Gart... Read more
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Doris Kearns Goodwin
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Doris Kearns Goodwin is one of the most celebrated chroniclers of the lives of American presidents, the author of multip... Read more
21 Sep 2018
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Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell
On today's episode of the B&N Podcast we were joined by one of the most influential writers in the world, whose book... Read more
10 Sep 2019
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George Will
George Will
In today's episode we're joined by a writer who has come since his early days in journalism become one of the signature ... Read more
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Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay
Whether Roxane Gay is writing fiction or essays and memoir, it often seems as if there’s no territory she can’t make her... Read more
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Ann Patchett
Ann Patchett
Today our guest is the spellbinding storyteller Ann Patchett, joining us to talk about her new novel The Dutch House. ... Read more
25 Sep 2019
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Ocean Vuong
Ocean Vuong
"Writing your own story is perhaps the truest enactment of the American dream." Today on the B&N Podcast, we're talk... Read more
12 Jun 2019
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Hoda Kotb
Hoda Kotb
The television journalist Hoda Kotb is not only familiar to millions of viewers who join her every morning as the anchor... Read more
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Celeste Ng
Celeste Ng
In the summer of 2014, Celeste Ng's debut novel Everything I Never Told You became a nationwide bestseller and was tagge... Read more
13 Sep 2017
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Colson Whitehead: The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead: The Nickel Boys
The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of The Underground Railroad returns to the B&N Podcast fo... Read more
15 Jul 2019
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Elizabeth Gilbert on City of Girls
Elizabeth Gilbert on City of Girls
Our guest today is Elizabeth Gilbert, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Magic and Eat Pray Love here to d... Read more
4 May 2020
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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In this episode our guest is the fascinating writer and thinker Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of the bestsellers The Bla... Read more
3 Jul 2018
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Ron Chernow
Ron Chernow
Ron Chernow had already written multiple award-winning biographies of figures like George Washington and J.P. Morgan whe... Read more
18 Oct 2017
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Dennis Lehane
Dennis Lehane
Sitting down to talk with the writer Dennis Lehane, one of the biggest challenges is how not to stumble into spoilers. T... Read more
17 Aug 2017
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Erik Larson on The Splendid and The Vile
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Our guest today is Erik Larson, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake jo... Read more
25 Feb 2020
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