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.