07-10-14-A
(was 06-11-05-B)

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LIONS, WITCHES & WIZARDS
Peter Pan Redux - Geraldine McCaughrean
Endymion Spring - Matthew Skelton
Fantasy Boom - Sharyn November
Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer

07-10-14-B

(was 06-10-22-A)

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THE MIND, MUSIC & MATH
Your Brain on Music - Daniel Levitin
Suicide Comedy - Nick Hornby
Mental Illness Stories - Adam Haslett
Math & Madness - Janna Levin
Children's Brains & Music - Daniel Levitin

07-10-21-A
(was 06-06-04-A)

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BABY BRAINIACS
Spelling Bees - James Maguire
Maternal Ambivalence - Ayelet Waldman
Indigo Children - John Leland
Geography Bee Winner - Andrew Wojtanik

07-10-21-B
(was 06-12-03-B)

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MAPPING THE IMAGINATION
California Visionaries - Erik Davis
Mapping & Writing - Peter Turchi
Post 9/11 Kid Lit - Chitra Divakaruni
World's 1st Geological Map - Simon Winchester
Indian Cooking - Madhur Jaffrey

07-10-28-A

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WOMEN IN WAR
1st Lt. Nicole Smith - First black woman Apache helicopter pilot in US Army.
Carolin Emcke - Journalist on her letters home from war.
Hilla Medalia - On her documentary To Die in Jerusalem about a 17 year-old female Palestinian suicide bomber and the 17 year-old Israeli girl that she killed.
Elizabeth Samet – On teaching literature at West Point.
Fredrick Whitehurst - A US Army Intelligence Officer during the Vietnam War who, against orders, smuggled out the diary of an enemy soldier. The diaries are now a bestseller in Vietnam.

07-10-28-B

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THE NEW FEMINISM
Katha Pollitt is a poet, essayist, and columnist for "The Nation," and the author of "Learning to Drive."
Susan Faludi, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and author of "The Terror Dream."
Stacy Holman Jones is the author of "Torch Singing."
Wangari Maathai was awarded the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize

07-11-04-A

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EAST MEETS WEST PART ONE:
CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS?
Mohsin Hamid is a Reluctant Fundamentalist
Sasha Abramsky, Lee Harris, & -Ziauddin Sardar engage in a Clash of Civilizations Round-Up
Salman Ahmad is a Pakistani Rock Star
Margaret MacMillan talks about Nixon in China

07-11-04-B

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VOICES
Wesley Stace (John Wesley Harding) has written a novel about ventriloquism
Daniel Smith talks about auditory hallucinations
Jim Gaffigan is a comedian who uses the "inner voice" in his standup work
Anne Karpf tells us what the human voice says about who we are
Steve Nieve & Muriel Teodori talk about their opera "Welcome to the Voice"

07-11-11-A

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EAST MEETS WEST PART TWO:
DHARMA DAYS, YOGA NIGHTS
Elizabeth Gilbert talks about Seeking Spirituality
Bob Spitz discusses Beatles in India
Lama Surya Das, Sharon Salzberg, Tara Brach & Jon Kabat-Zinn are American Buddhists
Robert Bly has translated the Poet-Saint Kabir

07-11-11-B

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TALK THE LINE
Christine Kenneally explores the evolution of language
Stephen Paulus explains how a composer sets poetry to music
Julie Barlow tells the story of the French language
Jim Ridge creates an appearance onstage by Charles Dickens

07-11-18-A

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EAST MEETS WEST PART THREE:
THE NEW SILK ROAD
Colin Thubron revisits the Silk Road
Yo-Yo Ma talks about his Silk Road Project
Marian Salzman & Robyn Meredith on Rise of "Chindia"
Susan Friedman has e-mail with Iraq
Josh Rushing joins Al Jazeera in America

07-11-18-B

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07-11-25-A

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EAST MEETS WEST PART FOUR:
CULTURE IN THE CROSSROADS
Kumail Nanjiani questions Faith
Rachel DeWoskin is a Foreign Babe in Beijing
Eddy Moretti & Suroosh Alvi on Muslim Heavy Metal
David Kalat talks about J-Horror Films
Anne Allison discusses Japanese Toys
Mira Nair is an Indian filmmaker -

07-11-25-B

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FOOD STORIES
Dan Barber is a New York Chef who talks about killing a hog
Judith Jones - the legendary cookbook editor has written a memoir
Ray Turner is a connoisseur of eels
The Kitchen Sisters offer an audio review of "hidden kitchens"
Jane Hamilton may be the only bestselling novelist who also lives in an apple orchard

07-12-02-A

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EAST MEETS WEST: PART FIVE
ENCOUNTERING ISLAM
Tariq Ramadan knows about Muslims in Europe
Azhar Usman is a Muslim Comic -
Lupe Fiasco is a Muslim Hip Hop Artist -
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a critic of Islam
Ausma Khan publishes Muslim Girl Magazine

07-12-02-B

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TRANSGENDER IDENTITY
Aaron Raz Link and Hilda Raz are the co-authors of a collaborative memoir about Raz Link's surgical transformation from female to transsexual male.
Kelley Eskridge is the author of gender-bending speculative fiction
Jason Goodwin has written two novels about a eunuch detective in the Ottoman Empire
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge is an English performer, musician, writer and artist

07-12-09-A

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WHAT BOYS ARE MADE OF
Conn Iggulden wrote A Dangerous Book for Boys with his brother Hal
Michael Thompson is a psychologist who specializes in boys
John Van de Ruit has written a hilarious novel about a South African boys' school
Veronica Rueckert discovered wanting a girl and getting a boy has its own pleasures
Teddy Atlas trained boxers after a rough adolescence

07-12-09-B

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CULTURAL TOUCHSTONES
David Michaelis explores the extraordinary cartoonist Charles Schulz
Ashley Kahn loves Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue"
Historian William R. Drennan & Novelist Nancy Horan are both fascinated by the story of the murders at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin
Nick Abadzis has written a graphic novel about a dog on board Sputnik II

07-12-16-A

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THIS SADNESS
Jerome Wakefield asks "is sadness the same as depression?"
Joshua Shenk believes Lincoln's depression fueled his greatness?
Eric Steel spent a year filming the Golden Gate Bridge, and the people who jumped from it
Michael Nye took photographs of San Antonio's homeless, and asked them for their stories.

07-12-16-B
(was 06-12-10-B)

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EARLY CHRISTIANS
Kyle Bowser has produced an audio bible with an all-black cast
Garry Wills describes quite a different Paul from the one we're used to.
Tucker Malarkey has written a novel called "Resurrection" about the discovery of the Gnostic Gospels in Egypt in 1945.
Bart Ehrman says it was several hundred years before a single version of Christian truth was negotiated.
Tori Amos talks about reclaiming representatives of the sacred feminine tradition who weren't afraid of their own sexuality.

07-12-23-A
(was 06-09-03-A)

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NOIR
Stuart MacBride represents a kind of fiction called Tartan Noir
Steve Paulson reviews Scandinavian Crime Writers
The Residents present their serialized musical radio-drama podcast called "River of Crime."
Roger Ebert discusses film noir
Tom Reynolds has collected "The 52 Most Depressing Songs You've Ever Heard."

07-12-23-B
(was 06-08-13-A)

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WHEREVER YOU GO, THERE YOU ARE
Terri Jentz describes her attempted murder years ago in Oregon
Jason Roberts discovered a nineteenth century traveler who was blind but saw everything
Robert Sullivan has driven across the United States some thirty times.
Daniel Kalder describes the highlights of an anti-tourist's tour of the former Soviet Union.

07-12-30-A

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WALKING T HE WALK
Satish Kumar is a former Jainus monk and environmental activist
A.J. Jacobs decided to follow the Bible for year as literally as possible
Geoff Gilpin lived inside the Maharishi's movement for five years in the Seventies
Slam Poet Alix Olson is a word warrior

07-12-30-B

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BABY BOOMERS
Tom Brokaw remembers the 60'sMark Cain has spent a career in higher education. He is also an active writer and musician.
J. Walker Smith is president of Yankelovich, Inc., a marketing services consultancy
specializing in lifestyle trends and marketing productivity solutions.
Catherine Boldt is a member of The Gimpy Girls
Philip Roth is an award-winning, critically-acclaimed American novelist. His latest novel
is "Exit Ghost."