Enoch Pratt Free Library Podcast
853 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsPodcast offerings from the Enoch Pratt Free Library / Maryland State Library Resource Center, featuring many author's appearances at the public library of Baltimore, MD.
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Leigh Goodmark
April 11, 2014 10:46 - 1 hour - 36.6 MBLeigh Goodmark talks about her book, A Troubled Marriage: Domestic Violence and the Legal System. The current legal response to domestic violence is excessively focused on physical violence and fails to provide protection from behaviors that are profoundly damaging, including psychological, economic, and reproductive abuse. In A Troubled Marriage, Leigh Goodmark looks at how the legal system's response to domestic violence developed, why that response is flawed, and what we should do to ch...
Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings
April 03, 2014 11:01 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBMeg Wolitzer's new book, The Interestings, was named a "best book of 2013" by Entertainment Weekly, Time, and the Chicago Tribune. In 1974 six teenagers at a summer arts camp become inseparable, and they remain friends over the decades in a changing New York City. Through these six complex characters, Wolitzer explores the meaning of talent and the roles that art, class, money, and even envy play in the course of friendships. Meg Wolitzer is the author of eight previous novels, including T...
Marianne Szegedy-Maszak
April 02, 2014 15:25 - 1 hour - 30.8 MBMarianne Szegedy-Maszak talks about her book, I Kiss Your Hands Many Times: Hearts, Souls, and Wars in Hungary. Marianne Szegedy-Maszak's parents, Hanna and Aladar, met and fell in love in Budapest in 1940. He was a rising star in the foreign ministry, a vocal anti-Fascist who was in talks with the allies when he was arrested and sent to Dachau. Hanna was the granddaughter of Manfred Weiss, the patriarch of an aristocratic Jewish family that owned factories, were patrons of intellectuals a...
Inspira: The Power of the Spiritual
March 31, 2014 11:19 - 41 minutes - 19 MB"Inspira" features playwright/performer Amanda Kemp and violinist Michael Jamanis in a production which blends African American history and poetry to introduce intergenerational audiences to the beauty and significance of spirituals. The production celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation and the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. Recorded On: Sunday, March 30, 2014
Terry Teachout, Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington
March 27, 2014 13:50 - 1 hour - 33.6 MBIn Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington, Terry Teachout reveals the many layers of a man as unique and complex as the music he created. Drawing on candid unpublished interviews with Ellington, revealing oral-history transcripts, and other little-known primary sources, Teachout tells Ellington's story as no one else ever has. Spanning the first three quarters of the 20th century, Ellington's life both reflected and shaped the dynamic cultural shifts of his time. Terry Teachout is a jazz musician,...
Poetry & Conversation: Brian Teare & Joshua Weiner
March 13, 2014 11:06 - 1 hour - 35.8 MBA former National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Brian Teare is the recipient of poetry fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and the American Antiquarian Society. He is the author of four books—The Room Where I Was Born, Sight Map, the Lambda Award-winning Pleasure, and Companion Grasses, one of Slate's 10 best poetry books of 2013. An Assistant Professor at Temple University, he lives in Philadelphia, where he makes books by hand for his micropress, Alb...
Ronald M. Shapiro
March 13, 2014 11:01 - 1 hour - 35.9 MBIn his stunning forty-year career as a premier negotiator in the worlds of law, sports, business, and politics, Ron Shapiro has found that if there is a single key to a successful outcome, it is also the one we most often fail to turn. Because whether you are making a budget request, interviewing for a job, selling but holding your price, ending a relationship, or talking to children about divorce, success in those and other crucial situations lies in thoroughly planned, highly effective co...
International Women's History Month Literary Festival - 2014
March 10, 2014 10:33 - 1 hour - 39 MBFour women writers discuss the intersection of place, time and culture in literature and in the lives of women. The conversation will be moderated by Linda A. Duggins of Hachette Book Group. Misty Copeland (Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina), the first African-American soloist in the last two decades at the American Ballet Theatre, has written a memoir about her inspiring journey to become a professional dancer. Deborah Johnson (The Secret of Magic) writes about the postwar American S...
The Art and Craft of Revision
March 04, 2014 10:14 - 1 hour - 45.8 MBActivities include looking at poems by professional poets which could stand to lose some lines, changing a word or two, and then applying the same principle to a poem of your own. Presented by Clarinda Harriss, Professor Emerita of English at Towson University. Recorded On: Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Race, Class, Power, and Organizing in East Baltimore
February 26, 2014 15:07 - 1 hour - 42.3 MBMarisela Gomez talks about her book, Race, Class, Power, and Organizing in East Baltimore, in which she examines the historical and current practices of rebuilding abandoned and disinvested communities in America. Copies of the book will be for sale at a book signing following the program. Recorded On: Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Ekphrastic poetry
February 20, 2014 09:16 - 1 hour - 48 MBActivities discussed during this poetry event include reading and discussing examples of ekphrastic poems (poems about other works of art). Presented by Clarinda Harriss, Professor Emerita of English at Towson University. Recorded On: Wednesday, February 19, 2014
“I am a camera”
February 18, 2014 09:26 - 1 hour - 34.5 MBActivities discussed during this poetry event include picturing an actual family photo in your mind. Presented by Clarinda Harriss, Professor Emerita of English at Towson University. Recorded On: Wednesday, February 12, 2014
John Rizzo
February 07, 2014 10:34 - 51 minutes - 23.4 MBJohn Rizzo talks about his new book, Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA. Company Man is John Rizzo's insider memoir of his career at the CIA under eleven CIA directors and seven Presidents. During a crisis, said former CIA Director George Tenet, "You don't call in the tough guys; you call in the lawyers." From 1976 to 2009, John Rizzo was the lawyer they called. He made legal calls on virtually every major CIA issue of the past 30 years, from rules governing wat...
Janis F. Kearney
February 06, 2014 10:34 - 1 hour - 28.3 MBJanis Kearney's book, Daisy: Between a Rock and a Hard Place, chronicles the life of civil rights legend Daisy Gatson Bates, including her role in the 1957 Little Rock Central High School integration crisis. Bates served as co-publisher with her husband of the award-winning Arkansas State Press newspaper and as the first and only female state president of the NAACP. In 1959 Daisy Gatson Bates won the NAACP Spingarn Award, along with the members of the Little Rock Nine. Janis Kearney, a gra...
Dr. Dolen Perkins-Valdez
February 04, 2014 10:23 - 1 hour - 27.7 MBDr. Dolen Perkins-Valdez talks about Twelve Years a Slave, the story of Solomon Northup. Twelve Years a Slave, published in 1853 and the inspiration for the 2013 motion picture, tells the story of a free-born African American from New York State who was kidnapped into slavery in 1841. A new edition of Northup's memoir, edited and with an introduction by Dr. Dolen Perkins-Valdez, was issued in November. Dolen Perkins-Valdez is the author of the bestselling novel, Wench, for which she recei...
Kaid Benfield
January 30, 2014 09:53 - 52 minutes - 24.2 MBKaid Benfield talks about his new book, People Habitat: 25 Ways to Think about Greener, Healthier Cities. With over 80 percent of Americans now living in cities and suburbs, getting our communities right has never been more important, more complicated, or more fascinating. Longtime sustainability leader Kaid Benfield shares 25 enlightening essays about the ecology of human settlement and how to make it better for both people and the planet. Kaid Benfield is Special Counsel for Urban Solut...
Sarah Arvio & Lia Purpura
January 29, 2014 15:50 - 1 hour - 37.6 MBSarah Arvio’snight thoughts: 70 dream poems & notes from an analysis(Knopf 2013) is a hybrid book: poetry, memoir and essay. Her earlier books areVisits from the SeventhandSono: cantos(Knopf, 2002 and 2006). She has been awarded the Rome Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and Guggenheim and Bogliasco Fellowships, among other honors. For two decades a translator for the United Nations in New York and Switzerland, she has also taught poetry at Princeton. A lifelong New Yorker,...
Jen Michalski
January 27, 2014 11:08 - 56 minutes - 26 MBJen Michalski talks about her new book, The Tide King. The Tide King won the 2012 Big Moose Prize. She is the author of two collections of fiction, From Here and Close Encounters, and a collection of novellas, Could You Be With Her Now. In 2013 she was named one of "50 Women to Watch" by the Baltimore Sun and won a "Best of Baltimore" for Best Writer from Baltimore Magazine. Sponsored by the Friends of the Enoch Pratt Free Library. Recorded On: Sunday, January 26, 2014
Wally Lamb
January 17, 2014 10:31 - 1 hour - 33.3 MBWally Lamb's new novel is a richly-layered exploration of a complicated family navigating dramatic changes in the present as it struggles to make sense of a thorny past. Epic in scope, yet intimate in its probing of its characters' inner lives, We Are Water bears all the hallmarks that have made Lamb's books contemporary classics. Wally Lamb is the author of four previous novels. His first two works of fiction, She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True, were New York Times bestsellers...
Vellamo: Folk Duo from Finland
January 16, 2014 09:18 - 1 hour - 47.1 MBVocalist Pia Leinonen and guitarist Joni Tiala combine the rich tradition of Finnish folksong with a "retro" sensibility, creating a magical acoustic experience. Recorded On: Tuesday, January 14, 2014
James Carville and Mary Matalin
January 15, 2014 10:17 - 1 hour - 28.3 MBJames Carville and Mary Matalin talk about their new book, Love & War: Twenty Years, Three Presidents, Two Daughters and One Louisiana Home. Twenty years after their bestselling All's Fair: Love, War, and Running for President, James Carville and Mary Matalin, the nation's best-known, most romantically mismatched and provocative political couple, return with a look at how they -- and America -- have changed in the last two decades. Recorded On: Friday, January 10, 2014
Rafael Alvarez and Dean Bartoli Smith
January 09, 2014 13:47 - 51 minutes - 23.5 MBBaltimore authors Rafael Alvarez and Dean Bartoli Smith talk about the writing life in Baltimore and their new books. Rafael Alvarez' new collection of Baltimore stories, Tales from the Holy Land, charts the secret histories of tugboat men, junk collectors, beautiful women, short order cooks and an artist who captures it all in house paint on the sides of abandoned buildings. In Never Easy, Never Pretty: A Fan, A City, A Championship Season, Dean Bartoli Smith writes about the Baltimore R...
Robert Kolker
December 13, 2013 11:03 - 50 minutes - 23.3 MBIn a compelling tale of unsolved murder and Internet prostitution, award-winning investigative reporter Robert Kolker delivers a haunting and humanizing account of the true-life search for a serial killer still at large on Long Island. In 2010 Shannan Gilbert went missing in the oceanfront community of Oak Beach. Seven months later four bodies, all wrapped in burlap, were found alongside a nearby highway, but none of them was Shannan's. All four women, like Shannan, were petite, in their tw...
Elaine Eff
December 09, 2013 09:22 - 55 minutes - 25.3 MBAs an urban folk art, painted screens flourished in Baltimore. In her new book, Elaine Eff looks at this iconic Baltimore tradition through the words and images of dozens of self-taught artists. Many screen artists trace their creations to the capable and unlikely brush of one Bohemian immigrant, William Oktavec. In 1913, this corner grocer began a family dynasty and inspired generations of artists who continue his craft to this day.The Painted Screens of Baltimore is illustrated with 300 b...
Chocolate & Romance 101
November 26, 2013 09:53 - 2 hours - 56.2 MBFrom sweet contemporary to sizzling paranormal romance, modern romance heroines are just as likely to save the world as heroes. Join Laura Kaye, Stephanie Draven, Christie Barth, Lea Nolan and Eliza Knight for an afternoon of chocolate and conversation with some of today's hottest romance authors. Eliza Knight has published historical romances, won several awards, has a family and lives on a small mountain. Stephanie Draven writes historical, paranormal, and contemporary romances, has wo...
Ray Kamalay's Musical Flea Market
November 20, 2013 10:12 - 1 hour - 61.2 MBWhether it's blues or Bach, ragtime or randy, hillbilly or hot, Ray Kamalay has built an historic repertoire of music that is both intriguing and fun. Kamalay, a professional musician for more than 35 years, brings his special collection of songs to Baltimore for all to enjoy. Recorded On: Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Hill Harper
November 15, 2013 14:47 - 1 hour - 30.9 MBAfter the publication of the bestselling Letters to a Young Brother, Hill Harper received many letters from inmates looking for a connection with a successful role model. His new book, Letters to an Incarcerated Brother, provides advice and inspiration for the thousands of African American men behind bars and the people who love them. Hill Harper has won three NAACP Image Awards for his portrayal of Dr. Sheldon Hawkes on "CSI:NY." He currently stars on USA Network's "Covert Affairs." He ha...
Yvonne J. Medley
November 15, 2013 08:52 - 53 minutes - 24.5 MBSet in Baltimore, Jubi Stone tells the story of nineteen-year-old Jubilee, a long-awaited gift to her now aging parents, James and Esther Stone. By the time she reaches her teens, however, Jubi is on a downward spiral of drug abuse and prostitution. Esther Stone's only hold on her child -- and the only road to this family's healing -- is prayer. When Jubi finds herself at the altar of the Forest Unity Church of Baltimore, time is running out for Jubi and her parents. Yvonne Medley is a fea...
Elizabeth Spires and Joelle Biele
November 13, 2013 11:07 - 1 hour - 33.2 MBElizabeth Spires is the author of six poetry collections: Globe, Swan’s Island, Annonciade, Worldling, Now the Green Blade Rises, and The Wave-Maker. She has also written six books for children, including The Mouse of Amherst and I Heard God Talking to Me: William Edmondson and His Stone Carvings. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, and other magazines and anthologies. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland, and is a professor of English a...
Wil S. Hylton
November 08, 2013 11:32 - 54 minutes - 24.8 MBIn the fall of 1944, an American bomber carrying eleven men vanished over the Pacific islands. According to mission reports, the plane when down in shallow water, but investigators could not find the wreckage. Witnesses saw the crew parachute to safety, but the men were never seen again. For 60 years, the U.S. government, the children of the missing men, and a maverick team of scientists and scuba divers searched the islands for clues. Vanished tells the true story of the missing men, their...
Carla Kaplan
November 07, 2013 13:28 - 1 hour - 31 MBThe 1920s in New York City was a time of freedom, experimentation, and passion -- with Harlem at the epicenter. White men could go uptown to see jazz and modern dance, but women who embraced black culture too enthusiastically could be ostracized. In Miss Anne of Harlem, Carla Kaplan focuses on these white women, collectively called "Miss Anne," who became Harlem Renaissance insiders. She profiles six of the unconventional, free-thinking women, some from Manhattan high society, many Jewish, ...
Barbara Babcock
November 04, 2013 12:24 - 1 hour - 32.7 MBWoman Lawyer tells the story of Clara Foltz, the first woman admitted to the California Bar. Famous in her time as a jury lawyer, public intellectual, leader of the women's movement, inventor of the role of public defender, and legal reformer, Foltz has been largely forgotten until recently. Barbara Babcock recreates Foltz's eventful life and also casts new light on the turbulent history and politics of the late 19th century and the many links binding the women's rights movement and other m...
Hailey Leithauser and Reginald Harris
November 04, 2013 11:06 - 1 hour - 35.9 MBHailey Leithauser's book, Swoop (Graywolf, 2013), was the winner of the Poetry Foundation's 2012 Emily Dickinson First Book Award and was named one of the top ten poetry titles of fall 2013 by Publishers Weekly, which describes it as "a frantic argument in favor of obvious beauty, of ornament, and of elaborate jokes, as barriers against something like despair." Leithauser's work appears widely in journals and anthologies, including the The Antioch Review, The Gettysburg Review, Poetry, the ...
Censorship, Privacy, and Surveillance
October 28, 2013 15:05 - 1 hour - 32 MBLearn About Recent Government Data Collection Programs and the Surrounding Legal Issues Free Presentation by The Washington Post's James McLaughlin (deputy general counsel) & Jeff Leen (investigations editor). Recorded On: Monday, October 28, 2013
Simon Winchester
October 25, 2013 13:58 - 1 hour - 32.2 MBBestselling author Simon Winchester chronicles how our disparate union of states came together as the American nation that exists today. The Men Who United the States follows the footsteps of America's most essential explorers, thinkers, and innovators, such as Lewis and Clark, the builders of the first transcontinental telegraph, and the civil engineer behind the interstate highway system. Simon Winchester is the author of many books, including The Professor and the Madman, The Man Who L...
Lin Hart
October 24, 2013 10:20 - 58 minutes - 26.8 MBReginald F. Lewis became the CEO of a billion dollar conglomerate, TLC Beatrice, while in his forties. What prepared him for his role as one of the world's most respected executives? Lin Hart grew up with Lewis in Baltimore and roomed with him at Virginia State University. Focusing on the ten years between 1956 and 1966, Hart draws on shared experiences and memories to tell Lewis' story: his will to succeed, his supreme confidence, and his unrelenting pursuit to move beyond the ordinary to ...
Pop Culture and Social Change
October 23, 2013 14:50 - 1 hour - 39.8 MBSoul Train, Black College Football, and Their Part in the Civil Rights Struggle Award-winning journalist Ericka Blount Danois is the author of Love, Peace, and Soul: Behind the Scenes of America's Favorite Dance Show SOUL TRAIN: Classic Moments. A graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, she teaches at the Philip Merrill School of Journalism at the University of Maryland. Samuel G. Freedman is the author of Breaking the Line: The Season in Black College Football ...
Michael Olesker
October 23, 2013 09:20 - 42 minutes - 19.3 MBFront Stoops in the Fifties tells the story of some of Baltimore's most famous icons from the "decade of conformity," including Jerry Leiber, Nancy Pelosi, Thurgood Marshall, and Barry Levinson. Michael Olesker marks the end of the Fifties with the assassination of President Kennedy. Focusing on the period leading up to this major turning point in U.S. history, he looks to the individuals living through this period, Baltimoreans who would later come to prominence in the Sixties. Michael O...
Gail Barrett
October 21, 2013 10:34 - 51 minutes - 23.4 MBCold-case detective Parker McCall has spent 15 years trying to solve his brother's murder. Now a chance photo of the killer in the newspaper sets him hard on the woman's trail. A former teenaged runaway, reclusive, award-winning photojournalist B.K. (Brynn) Elliot chronicles the harsh reality of life on the streets -- until a photo in the paper reveals her idenity, blowing the lid off her secret past. With a powerful murderer now dogging her heels, and her police officer stepfather determin...
Carl Hart
October 17, 2013 10:06 - 1 hour - 29 MBDr. Carl Hart shares his story of growing up in one of Miami's toughest neighborhoods and how it led him to his groundbreaking work in drug addiction. As a youth, Carl Hart studied just enough to stay on the basketball team. At the same time, he was immersed in street life. Today he is a cutting-edge neuroscientist -- Columbia University's first tenured African American professor in the sciences -- whose landmark, controversial research is redefining our understanding of addiction. Dr. Har...
Chuck Palahniuk's Adult Bedtime Stories
October 16, 2013 09:54 - 2 hours - 61.4 MBBestselling author Chuck Palahniuk talks about his new book, Doomed, the sequel to Damned. Madison Spencer, the liveliest and snarkiest dead girl in the universe, continues the afterlife adventure begun in Damned. Just as that novel brought us a brilliant Hell that only Palahniuk could imagine, Doomed is a dark and twisted apocalyptic vision that describes the ultimate showdown between Good and Evil. After a Halloween ritual gone awry, Madison finds herself trapped in Purgatory -- or, as ...
Susan Zuccotti
October 10, 2013 09:40 - 55 minutes - 25.4 MBHistorian Susan Zuccotti tells the story of Père Marie-Benoît, a courageous French Capuchin priest who risked everything to hide Jews in France and Italy during the Holocaust. From monasteries first in Marseille and later in Rome, Père Marie-Benoît worked with Jewish co-conspirators to build remarkably effective Jewish-Christian rescue networks. Acting independently without Vatican support but with help from some priests, nuns, and local citizens, he and his friends persisted in their cland...
Jana Kopelentova Rehak
October 09, 2013 10:09 - 1 hour - 29.1 MBMen and women disappeared, were arrested, imprisoned, interrogated, tortured, put on trial, convicted, and sentenced to forced labor camps in Czechoslovakia between 1948 and 1989. Czech Political Prisoners is the story of men and women who survived Czechoslovakian concentration camps under the Communist regime. Today, in the Czech Republic, as well as in other post-socialist countries, the desire to reconcile is not limited to survivors of camps, prisoners and dissidents. People from the ...
Proposal Writing Basics
October 08, 2013 14:31 - 1 hour - 54.9 MBFor those new to proposal writing, this class will cover: how the proposal fits into the overall grant seeking process; what to include in a standard proposal to a foundation; tips for making each section of your proposal stronger; and much more. Class Resources: Proposal Writing Basics Handout Wisdom Exchange Project Outline Recorded On: Monday, October 7, 2013
World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements
October 07, 2013 09:10 - 1 hour - 49.4 MBIn World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements, filmmaker Chris Farina tells how John Hunter created the "World Peace Game" for his students in Richmond, Virginia. The game teaches conflict resolution and collective problem solving and transforms students from a neighborhood public school to citizens of the world. The film reveals how a wise, loving teacher can unleash students' full potential. The film premiered at South by Southwest in 2010 and was shown on public television two years la...
David Nasaw
October 03, 2013 10:17 - 48 minutes - 22.1 MBJoseph Patrick Kennedy, patriarch of America's greatest political dynasty, is widely remembered as an indomitable, elusive, fatally flawed figure. In The Patriarch, historian David Nasaw reveals a man far more complicated than the popular portrait. Drawing on never-before-published materials from archives on three continents, Nasaw examines those parts of Joseph Kennedy's life that have long been shrouded in rumor and prejudice. Trained as a banker, Kennedy was also a Hollywood mogul, a sto...
Healthcare for All!
October 02, 2013 14:08 - 57 minutes - 26.5 MBOctober 1 marked the first day Marylanders could sign up for health insurance through the Maryland Health Connection, a creation of President Obama's health reform initiative. To learn more about the changes that are on the horizon and how to make sure that you and your family can access the full benefit of the new law, listen to this discussion with Suzanne Schlattman, Deputy Director for Development and Outreach at the Maryland Health Care for All! Coalition. Recorded On: Tuesday, Oct...
Grantseeking Basics
October 01, 2013 11:09 - 1 hour - 47.7 MBAre you new to fundraising and want to learn how the funding research process works, and what tools and resources are available? In this class we cover: what you need to have in place before you seek a grant; the world of grantmakers; the grantseeking process; and available tools and resources. Recorded On: Thursday, September 26, 2013
Keeping It Real
September 27, 2013 14:13 - 1 hour - 45.8 MBFor more than 25 years, Jean Thompson has been a private history scavenger and detective, pursuing what she calls "pieces of The Dream." "The Dream," as articulated by noted bibliophiles, historians and curators, is to reveal untold, hidden, forgotten or lost stories about the American experience in ways that instill cultural understanding and cultivate pride. The "pieces" that tell the stories include ephemera -- documents, photographs, advertising and other paper records, including items...
Saru Jayaraman
September 26, 2013 10:37 - 54 minutes - 25.2 MBHow do restaurant workers live on some of the lowest wages in America? And how do poor working conditions -- discriminatory labor practices, exploitation, and unsanitary kitchens -- affect the meals that arrive at our restaurant tables? Saru Jayaraman, who launched the national restaurant workers' organization Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, attempts to answer these questions by following the lives of restaurant workers in nine major U.S. cities. Blending personal narrative and ...