Interviews & Live Events

Amor Towles joins us for an evening of conversation with Liesl Schillinger on this thrilling new work. With a reading by Tony Award-winning actor Boyd Gaines....

LIVE recordings of new, previously unreleased David Sedaris stories....

A compilation of classic tales by great American writers performed by terrific actors, with a lineup including Pulitzer Prize winners....

"I have a dream today." On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King spoke these words as he addressed a crowd of more than 200,000 civil rights protesters gathered at The Lincoln Memorial....

Mohammed Naseehu Ali, a native of Ghana, came to the United States when he was sixteen. His debut story collection, The Prophet of Zongo Street, was published in August....

The award-winning author discusses her unforgettable novel, first published in 1975, with author Gregory Maguire (Wicked)....

In this program, Les Brown provides a foundational key that can propel you to your next higher level....

Anthony Bourdain, Gabrielle Hamilton, and Eric Ripert are all well established, accomplished chefs. Here, they share their early cooking experiences and what made them want to be chefs forever....

What would life be like if you believed that every crisis is a blessing, that you're guided to meet the people who cross your path, and that everything happens for a reason....

A dashing lineup of elegant crime tales and gritty hardboiled detective stories, alternately menacing and cozy, with two exotic locales, and murder in the mix....

Everyone has a story. The following interview is taken from the best of Andrew Denton's award-winning Enough Rope series....

Selected Shorts: Travel Tales presents a collection of classic travel experiences....

At the age of 18, Iceberg Slim was initiated into "the life". Predominately in Chicago, he was incarcerated several times for pimpng, along with several other crimes....

Malcolm Gladwell, best-selling author and New Yorker staff writer, discusses making sudden, instinctive judgments, as written about in his new book, Blink....

Dubbed "the poet laureate of medicine" by The New York Times, Dr. Oliver Sacks is one of the great medical writers and storytellers of our time....

The authors of the essay collections Don't Get Too Comfortable (Rakoff) and I Was Told There'd Be Cake (Crosley) join up to examine our contemporary culture....

The New York Times best-selling author of the literary page-turner The Emperor's Children discusses her richly drawn new novel with Meghan O'Rourke ( The Long Goodbye)....

By turns funny, moving, romantic and surreal, and filled with unexpected twists and turns, each of the tales on this lineup has a magical element....

This darkly satirical drama by Gore Vidal finds two presidential contenders seeking the endorsement of an aging ex-president....

The number-one New York Times best-selling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, the Kane Chronicles, and the Heroes of Olympus series returns....

Writer, lecturer and feminist activist Gloria Steinem and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker sit down with Wilma Mankiller to discuss gender and politics in today's world....

Mr. Rushdie reads from his newest novel, Shalimar the Clown....

It's easy to feel insecure around art and its appreciation, as though we cannot enjoy certain artworks if we don't have a lot of academic and historical knowledge....

Hear a lecture given by young-adult author Alfred C. Martino to high-school students as he discusses the craft of writing and his novels....

Enjoy a collection of interviews featuring Elvis Presley from 1955 to 1977. A fantastic insight into the life of the King of Rock and Roll....

Stylish, trend-setting, and bold, Vine Talk's host Stanley Tucci invites a panel of celebrity friends to join him for engaging conversation and blind taste-tests....

If you are driving, pull over. If you are at work, close your door, unless you don't mind your colleagues seeing you doubled over, in tears, on your office floor...