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GOOD PEOPLE
- Topic
- Fiction
- Play
- in MP3
- Author
- David Foster Wallace
- Publication
- 2007 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Pamela Lewis
- Length
- 20 minutes
THE FIRST SENSE
- Topic
- Fiction
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- in MP3
- Author
- Nadine Gordimer
- Publication
- 2006 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Pamela Lewis
- Length
- 22 minutes
HEY, JOE
A day in the life of Joe, a New Orleans teenager.- Topic
- Fiction
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- in MP3
- Author
- Ben Neihart
- Publication
- 1994 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Length
- 16 minutes
THE MOSES OF HER PEOPLE
Review of three Harriet Tubman biographies: "Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom" by Catherine Clinton, "Bound for the Promised Land" by Kate Clifford, and "Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories" by Jean M. Humez.- Topic
- Book Reviews
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- in MP3
- Author
- James M. McPherson
- Publication
- 2004 The NY Review of Books
- Read by
- Length
- 20 minutes
PAINTING BY NUMBERS
Gustave Courbet and the making of a master.- Topic
- Book Reviews
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- in MP3
- Author
- Peter Schjeldahl
- Publication
- 2007 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Pamela Bogart
- Length
- 20 minutes
PRINCE OF ST. GERMAIN
How Boris Vian brought cool to Paris.- Topic
- Arts and Humanities
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- in MP3
- Author
- Dan Halpern
- Publication
- 2007 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Pamela Bogart
- Length
- 17 minutes
THE WIVES OF OTHERS
Are stay-at-home mothers putting themselves - and feminism - at risk?- Topic
- Book Reviews
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- in MP3
- Author
- Rebecca Mead
- Publication
- 2007 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Pamela Bogart
- Length
- 11 minutes
THE TROJAN SOFA
- Topic
- Fiction
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- in MP3
- Author
- Bernard MacLaverty
- Publication
- 2006 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Pamela Lewis
- Length
- 38 minutes
TV DINNERS
The rise of food television.- Topic
- Food
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- in MP3
- Author
- Bill Buford
- Publication
- 2006 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Melissa Stewart
- Length
- 30 minutes
WHOSE LITTLE GIRL ARE YOU?
A childhood in another time.- Topic
- Memoir
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- in MP3
- Author
- Paula Fox
- Publication
- 2001 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Vi Benner
- Length
- 42 minutes
WHAT IF PIZARRO HAD NOT FOUND POTATOES IN PERU?
The humble roots of history- Topic
- History and Biography
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- in MP3
- Author
- William H. McNeill
- Publication
- 2001
- Read by
- .
- Length
- 31 minutes
THE DEATH THAT SAVED EUROPE
The Mongols Turn Back, 1242- Topic
- History and Biography
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- in MP3
- Author
- Cecelia Holland
- Publication
- 2000
- Read by
- .
- Length
- 23 minutes
CLASH OF THE TIME LORDS
Who will own the measure of our days?- Topic
- Science and Technology
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- in MP3
- Author
- Michelle Stacey
- Publication
- 2006 Harper's Magazine
- Read by
- Melissa Stewart
- Length
- 61 minutes
LITTLE HOTTIES
Barbie's new rivals.- Topic
- Business and Economics
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- in MP3
- Author
- Margaret Talbot
- Publication
- 2006 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Melissa Stewart
- Length
- 46 minutes
TALKING TURKEY
The man who communicates with gobblers.- Topic
- Arts and Humanities
- Play
- in MP3
- Author
- Bill Buford
- Publication
- 2006 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Melissa Stewart
- Length
- 32 minutes
NOAH'S MARK
Webster and the original dictionary wars.- Topic
- History and Biography
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- in MP3
- Author
- Jill Lepore
- Publication
- 2006 The New Yorker
- Read by
- Melissa Stewart
- Length
- 35 minutes