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You can listen again, or for the first time, to some of the authors that have been featured during WSHU’s popular live lecture series at the Edgerton Center for the Performing Arts and University Commons at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut. These recordings, available for listening on-line now or by podcast, include an introduction by a member of the WSHU news department, the author’s presentation and a question and answer session with the audience.




January 27, 2010: Amy Bloom, acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller Away, and of prizewinning stories, reads from and answers questions about her new book of interconnected stories about the complexities of love, family, and friends, Where the God of Love Hangs Out. (1:01:07) Listen




December 6, 2009: Investigative journalist and CNBC TV personality Charles Gasparino discusses the recent collapse of Wall Street, the subject of his new book, The Sellout: How Three Decades of Wall Street Greed and Government Mismanagement Destroyed the Global Financial System. Introduced by WSHU News Director Naomi Starobin. (1:11:56) Listen


November 18, 2009: Tracy Kidder, best-selling author of Mountains Beyond Moutains and Pulitzer Prize winner talks about his new book, Strength in What Remains, a powerful story about a young medical student who fled civil war in Burundi in 1994 for the uncertainty of New York City. (48:12) Listen





November 15, 2009: Michael Goldfarb, award-winning journalist and former NPR London Bureau chief discusses his new book, Emancipation: How Liberating Europe’s Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance. He writes, “The whole world knows the names of Marx, Freud, and Einstein, but very few people have an understanding of how the process of leaving the ghetto behind shaped them.” Introduced by WSHU’s All Things Considered host, Mark Herz. (1:05:13) Listen


October 25, 2009: Kati Marton, New York Times best-selling author and award-winning former NPR and network TV journalist talks about her new book, Enemies of the People: My Family’s Journey to America, a terrifying, real-life spy story about her family’s harrowing experiences during the Cold War in Hungary. Introduced by WSHU reporter Craig LeMoult. (46:35) Listen



October 18, 2009: Ira Joe Fisher, poet and CBS television personality reads from his new collection, Songs from an Earlier Century. His lyric poems will take you deep into the New England landscape. (1:08:38) Listen





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