http://forum-network.org (c) 2009 WGBH Educational Foundation NPR API RSS Generator 0.93 en-us Weekly lecture by authors reading and discussing their latest works. Go on, live and learn by explor WGBH,WGBH FM,WGBH Forum Network Book Tour,Boston,Massachusetts Forum Network forumnetwork@wgbh.org Forum Network no http://media.npr.org/images/podcasts/thumbnail/icon_510191.jpg http://forum-network.org Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:28:10 -0500 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:28:10 -0500 http://forum-network.org http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/396/510191/120825086/WGBH_120825086.mp3 WGBH Station,Business Economics,Culture Identity,History,Literature Philosophy,People Places,Politics Public Affairs,North America,21st Century,Authors,Economics,WGBH,WGBH FM,WGBH Forum Network Book Tour,Boston,Massachusetts 55:10 no Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:29:10 -0500 http://forum-network.org http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/396/510191/120553533/WGBH_120553533.mp3 WGBH Station,Literature Philosophy,North America,21st Century,Human Rights,Community Building,Higher Education,Instructional,no_preroll,ethics,justice,libertarian,WGBH,WGBH FM,WGBH Forum Network Book Tour,Boston,Massachusetts 55:08 no The Simpsons, the reality show Fear Factor and Shakespeare's Hamlet — then asks students to debate which of the three experiences qualifies as the "highest" pleasure.]]> Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:41:29 -0500 http://forum-network.org http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/396/510191/120334385/WGBH_120334385.mp3 WGBH Station,Literature Philosophy,North America,21st Century,Human Rights,Corporate Ethics,Higher Education,Medical Ethics,Philosophy,no_preroll,business ethics,ethics,WGBH,WGBH FM,WGBH Forum Network Book Tour,Boston,Massachusetts 55:10 no The Simpsons, the reality show Fear Factor and Shakespeare's Hamlet — then asks students to debate which of the three experiences qualifies as the "highest" pleasure.]]> Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:31:50 -0500 http://forum-network.org http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/396/510191/120295719/WGBH_120295719.mp3 WGBH Station,Literature Philosophy,North America,21st Century,Human Rights,Corporate Ethics,Higher Education,Medical Ethics,Philosophy,no_preroll,business ethics,ethics,WGBH,WGBH FM,WGBH Forum Network Book Tour,Boston,Massachusetts 55:10 no an Fellowship in American History at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, taught at Columbia University and served as an advisor for the PBS series American Experience. His first book, Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War, won the Ambassador Book Award and the Peter Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship, and was a New York Times Notable Book.]]> Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:39:31 -0400 http://forum-network.org http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/396/510191/112492767/WGBH_112492767.mp3 WGBH,WGBH FM,WGBH Forum Network Book Tour,Boston,Massachusetts 78:55 no ie & Julia with Russ Morash, producer of Child's television show The French Chef, and chef Jasper White. Food writer Corby Kummer moderates this discussion of the film, which was written and directed by Nora Ephron and stars Meryl Streep and Amy Adams. Ephron's screenplay is adapted from two books: My Life in France, Child's autobiography, written with Alex Prud'homme, and a memoir by Julie Powell. In August 2002, Powell started blogging about her daily experiences cooking each of the 524 recipes in Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, which was first released as the book, Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen (Little, Brown, 2005). The paperback was later retitled Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously (Back Bay Books, 2006). This event is copresented by Sony Pictures and WGBH, from which The French Chef was broadcast from 1963-1973. "Just like becoming an expert in wine-you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford-you learn about great food by finding the best there is, whether simply or luxurious. The you savor it, analyze it, and discuss it with your companions, and you compare it with other experiences." -- Julia Child (Mastering the Art of—rench Cooking) "Julia Child began learning to cook when she was thirty-seven years old. She started because she wanted to feed her husband Paul. She started because though she'd fallen in love with great food late, when she did she'd fallen hard. She started because she was in Paris. She started because she didn't know what else to do." -- Julie Powell (The Julie/Julia Project bl—)]]> Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:34:07 -0400 http://forum-network.org http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/396/510191/111661151/WGBH_111661151.mp3 WGBH,WGBH FM,WGBH Forum Network Book Tour,Boston,Massachusetts 30:55 no urt is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the beloved memoirs Angela's Ashes and 'Tis.]]> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:13:13 -0400 http://forum-network.org http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/396/510191/106981232/WGBH_106981232.mp3 WGBH,WGBH FM,WGBH Forum Network Book Tour,Boston,Massachusetts 57:33 no vels, including Act of the Damned and The Natural Order of Things. He lives in Lisbon.]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:06:15 -0400 http://forum-network.org http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/396/510191/106825268/WGBH_106825268.mp3 WGBH,WGBH FM,WGBH Forum Network Book Tour,Boston,Massachusetts 58:26 no ht incarcerated college students through Boston University's Prison Education Program since 1999. Her poems have appeared in The Threepenny Review, The New Republic, and Slate. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center, and the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, she is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford university. She received a Mary C. Mooney Fellowship from the Boston Athenaeum.]]> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:24:00 -0400 http://forum-network.org http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/396/510191/106395605/WGBH_106395605.mp3 WGBH,WGBH FM,WGBH Forum Network Book Tour,Boston,Massachusetts 38:13 no kirk is a professor of English at the University of New Hampshire, the former director of its freshman English program, and the director and founder of its New Hampshire Literacy Institutes. The author of the award winning Performance of Self in Student Writing and the editor of Nuts & Bolts: A Practical Guide to Teaching College Composition, he has also written the more recent books, Teaching the Neglected "R" and Misreading Masculinity.]]> Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:12:22 -0400 http://forum-network.org http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/396/510191/105875634/WGBH_105875634.mp3 WGBH,WGBH FM,WGBH Forum Network Book Tour,Boston,Massachusetts 59:13 no