LFPL's At the Library Series
229 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsWelcome to LFPL's At the Library Series, an ongoing podcast featuring author talks, programs and events at the Louisville Free Public Library.
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Time Machine at Antikythera 10-25-2018
January 18, 2019 01:53 - 46.3 MBPresented in partnership with Phi Beta Kappa, Dr. John Hale, archaeologist and Director of Liberal Studies at the University of Louisville presents Time Machine at Antikythera: The World's Oldest Analog Computer. Learn how the world's oldest analog computer was discovered on an ancient Greek shipwreck!
Enemies - A Love Story 10-17-2018
January 18, 2019 01:49 - 50.2 MBJoin Kentucky Opera librettist Nahma Sandrow and composer Ben Moore to learn more about this darkly funny and deeply moving tale of hope, guilt, and despair. Can a man who has learned to hide truly come out of hiding? Can survivors love again?
Elizabeth Economy 9-18-2018
September 19, 2018 00:08 - 46 MBChinese president Xi Jinping is transforming China at home and abroad. Over the past five years, he has taken unprecedented steps to consolidate his authority; expand the Communist Party's role in China; and control more closely the exchange of ideas and capital between China and the outside world. Beyond its borders, Beijing has recast itself as a great power, seeking to reclaim its past glory and to create a system of international norms that better serves its more ambitious geostrategic o...
Magic Flute 8-29-2018
September 13, 2018 16:37 - 54.8 MBJoin Kentucky Opera and acclaimed lecturer, Dr. John Hale, as he explores the historical and mythological background of Mozart's beloved The Magic Flute. We go into the woods with Prince Tamino and his irreverent bird catcher pal, Papageno, in search of the perfect girl to marry. But not before being saved from a dragon, outsmarting the duplicitous Queen of the Night, and proving himself worthy through an epic set of challenges set forth by the mysterious high priest Sarastro! While most ba...
Beatriz Williams 7-18-2018
July 19, 2018 00:52 - 46.6 MBLove. Exile. Redemption. A perfect combination for a summer beach read. New York Times bestselling author Beatriz Williams' latest novel, The Summer Wives, is a postwar fable of love, class, power, and redemption set among the inhabitants of an island off of the New England coast, and a satisfying follow-up to her Schuyler Sisters series. Named a Best Book of Summer by Goodreads, BuzzFeed, and PopSugar, The Summer Wives will be in bookstores July 10. Beatriz Williams is the bestselling hist...
Louis Sell 6-14-2018
July 16, 2018 20:10 - 59 MBThe Craig Buthod Author Series is pleased to welcome veteran U.S. Foreign Service officer Louis Sell to the Main Library for a discussion of his new book From Washington to Moscow, which tells the history of U.S.-Soviet relations between 1972 and 1991 and explains why the Cold War came to an abrupt end. Drawing heavily on archival sources and memoirs, as well as his own experiences, Sell vividly describes events from the perspectives of American and Soviet participants. He attributes the USS...
Fallows 5-22-2018
July 16, 2018 19:16 - 49.8 MBJames Fallows is a national correspondent for The Atlantic. He, and his wife Deborah Fallows, are the authors of the forthcoming book, Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America, a vivid portrait of the civic and economic reinvention taking place in America, town by town and generally out of view of the national media. Traveling across America in a single-engine prop airplane, the Fallowses have visited dozens of towns—meeting hundreds of civic leaders, workers, immigrants,...
Peter Brown 3-15-2018
July 13, 2018 20:16 - 34.5 MBFrom bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Peter Brown comes The Wild Robot Escapes, a heartwarming and action-packed sequel to his New York Times bestseller The Wild Robot, about what happens when nature and technology collide. Brown is the 2013 Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator of Creepy Carrots! and his other children's books—including The Curious Garden, Children Make Terrible Pets, and Mr. Tiger Goes Wild—are all New York Times bestsellers.
Mark Weinberg 3-15-2018
June 19, 2018 18:34 - 57.3 MBFormer special advisor and press secretary to President Ronald Reagan, Mark Weinberg, shares an intimate, behind-the-scenes look inside the Reagan presidency—told through the movies they watched together every week at Camp David. Movie Nights with the Reagans is a nostalgic journey through the 1980s and its most iconic films, seen through the eyes of one of Hollywood’s former stars: one who was simultaneously transforming the Republican Party, the American economy, and the course of the Cold...
Bruce Katz 3-13-2018
March 16, 2018 21:36 - 55.8 MBBruce Katz 3-13-2018 A look at "how cities can thrive in the age of populism" with author Bruce Katz and Mayor Greg Fischer Power is shifting in the world: downward from national governments and states, to cities and metropolitan communities; horizontally to networks of public, private, and civic actors; and globally through capital, trade, and innovation. In the new book, The New Localism, co-author and urban expert at the Brookings Institution Bruce Katz reveals how cities are emerging, ...
Women in Four Traditions 3-8-2018
March 16, 2018 20:13 - 82.8 MBWomen in Four Traditions: Journey Toward Wholeness Women in Four Traditions: Journey Toward Wholeness is a forum featuring four female religious leaders—Dr. Riffat Hassan (Islam), Sister Mary Huber (Christianity), Dr. Marcia Segal (Judaism), and Rev. C.J. Wright (Native American tradition)—as they identify some of the greatest challenges women face in their respective religious traditions and explore how positive teachings can be used to overcome challenges due to societal injustice and opp...
Guy Winch 2-26-2018
March 15, 2018 00:46 - 50.4 MBPsychologist and author Guy Winch Guy Winch is a licensed psychologist, author, and keynote speaker. His TED Talk, "Why We All Need to Practice Emotional First Aid," has been viewed over 5 million times. Winch's latest book, How to Fix a Broken Heart, focuses on two types of emotional pain that are often marginalized—romantic heartbreak and the heartbreak that results from the loss of a cherished pet—and reveals how these two grief experiences impact our brain and our behavior, and the step...
How to Tame a Fox 2-15-2018
March 14, 2018 18:18 - 53.2 MBHow to Tame a Fox and Build a Dog with Dr. Lee Dugatkin University of Louisville professor and author Lee Dugatkin shares the fascinating story of the science, politics, adventure, and love behind the research of a dedicated team of researchers in Siberia domesticating silver foxes to study the evolution of the dog in real time. Dr. Lee Dugatkin is a professor and university scholar in the biology department at UofL.
The Barber of Seville 1-24-2018
March 02, 2018 22:18 - 49.3 MBMaybe you know it as a classic of opera comedy or maybe you know it thanks to a Bugs Bunny cartoon, but either way, The Barber of Seville is a crowd-pleasing favorite. This comedy tells of a count, his love, and the clever barber whose mistakes and successes lead the characters on a merry romp. Join conductor Robert Tweten as he describes what it's like to musically manage Rossini's one and only Figaro.
Ann Martin 1-12-2018
January 25, 2018 18:45 - 25.1 MBCarmichael's Kids, in partnership with the Louisville Free Public Library, are excited to welcome Newbery Honor Award winner Ann M. Martin to the Main Library. Martin is the New York Times-bestselling author of Rain Reign and many other award-winning novels, including the much-loved Baby-Sitters Club series. In her novel Rain Reign, Martin tells the story of Rose, a girl struggling with Asperger's syndrome, and the bond she shares with her beloved dog, Rain.
Nate Blakeslee 12-12-2017
December 13, 2017 21:31 - 40.1 MBFrom award-winning author Nate Blakeslee comes the gripping true story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrated Yellowstone wolf, and the people who loved and feared her. American Wolf: A True Story Of Survival And Obsession In The West is a riveting multigenerational saga of hardship and triumph that tells a larger story about the ongoing culture clash in the West - between those fighting for a vanishing way of life and those committed to restoring one of the country's most iconic lan...
Blaine Harden 11-13-2017
November 16, 2017 17:37 - 58.7 MBBlaine Harden has served as The Washington Post's bureau chief in Northeast Asia, Eastern Europe, and Africa. He was a national correspondent for The New York Times and has contributed to The Economist, PBS Frontline, Time, and Foreign Policy. His latest book, King of Spies, tells the gripping account of the most powerful American spy you've never heard of, whose role at the center of the Korean War—which gave rise to the North Korean regime— is essential to understanding one of the most int...
Dead Man Walking 10-26-2017
November 07, 2017 23:33 - 47 MBKentucky Opera Lecture Series: Dead Man Walking with author Sister Helen Prejean and composer Jake Heggie Faith. Justice. Redemption. These may be familiar operatic themes, but Dead Man Walking is no ordinary opera: the story revolves around a nun and her journey to advise a condemned prisoner on death row. Set in contemporary Louisiana, the opera is based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Sister Helen Prejean and composed by Jake Heggie. Join special guests Principal Conductor Jo...
Suki Kim 10-18-2017
October 19, 2017 19:40 - 61.8 MBThe UofL Center for Asian Democracy and the World Affairs Council of Kentucky and Southern Indiana and the Louisville Free Public Library present Suki Kim - Undercover in North Korea 2017 Annual Lecture in Asian Democracy Suki Kim is the New York Times bestselling author of Without You, There Is No Us. The book chronicles the six months Kim spent teaching English to the 19-year-old sons of North Korea's ruling class at a brand-new university staffed only by foreigners. She is the only writ...
Jerry Abramson 10-12-2017
October 13, 2017 21:17 - 52.6 MBPhi Beta Kappa of Kentuckiana presents Louisville to the White House with Jerry Abramson Join Jerry Abramson for his story of how a Seneca High School grad who grew up working at his family's three-aisle grocery store in the Smoketown neighborhood committed his life to public service. He will share experiences from serving for over two decades as Mayor of the "old" City of Louisville and the first Mayor of the "Newly Expanded" City of Louisville; as Lt. Governor of Kentucky with Governor St...
Jonathan Eig 10-10-2017
October 13, 2017 20:47 - 42.8 MBNew York Times bestselling author and journalist Jonathan Eig LFPL is pleased to welcome back Jonathan Eig as part of the Craig Buthod Author Series. His latest book, Ali: A Life, has been lauded as the most comprehensive and definitive biography of Muhammad Ali that has ever been published. Ken Burns calls Jonathan Eig "a master storyteller" and Eig's books have been listed among the best books of the year by The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Sports Illustrated. Join him for a dis...
Richard McGregor 9-25-2017
September 26, 2017 20:03 - 47.8 MBAward-winning journalist and former Beijing and Washington Bureau Chief for the Financial Times Richard McGregor The confrontational course on which China and Japan are set is no simple spat between neighbors and the fallout could cause an economic tsunami affecting manufacturing centers, trade routes, and political capitals on every continent. Richard McGregor's latest book, Asia's Reckoning, takes us behind the headlines to show how American power will stand or fall on its ability to hold...
Deborah Diesen 9-9-2017
September 11, 2017 23:51 - 13.7 MBJoin beloved children's author Deborah Diesen for a discussion of her latest work: The Pout-Pout Fish and the Bully Bully Shark.
John Hale 8-30-2017
September 06, 2017 16:35 - 55.9 MBThis Kentucky Opera Lecture Series features UofL professor and archaeologist John Hale discussing Ariadne auf Naxos and the mythology that forms the basis of Strauss' classic opera. Download Dr. Hale's presentation at lfpl.org/podcast.html
Edward Balleisen 7-13-2017
September 05, 2017 23:57 - 57.3 MBJoin Duke University professor Edward Balleisen - author of Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff - for a lively conversation about America's con artists, crooks, and cheats. He is joined by consumer rights attorney Stephanie Willis; Benjamin Long, the head of the Office of Consumer Protection in the Kentucky Attorney General's office; and University of Louisville professor of history Thomas Mackey.
Frederick Smock 7-11-2017
August 31, 2017 00:54 - 49.9 MBAn Evening with Kentucky Poet Laureate Frederick Smock
Sidney Blumenthal 6-6-2017
August 30, 2017 23:36 - 55.8 MBWriter, journalist, and former Clinton advisor Sidney Blumenthal Contentious campaigning has always been a facet of US politics, and no one knows that better than Sidney Blumenthal. Journalist, author, and former senior advisor to President Bill Clinton, Blumenthal has seen it all up close. But his latest book, Wrestling With His Angel: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, takes a long look back through history in order to highlight the savvy decisions that catapulted Lincoln into the nat...
Maureen Chiquet 5-25-2017
August 30, 2017 00:20 - 46 MB"Women, Leadership and Success" with former Chanel CEO Maureen Chiquet Maureen Chiquet, the former global CEO of Chanel, is an expert on much more than fashion. Join her at the Main Library for a discussion of her new book: Beyond the Label: Women, Leadership and Success on Our Own Terms, an insightful read that blends Chiquet's own story with advice on creating a life that's uniquely your own.
Chris Whipple 4-24-2017
August 30, 2017 00:07 - 34.4 MBFilled with shrewd analysis and never-before-reported details, Chris Whipple's latest book, The Gatekeepers, offers an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the White House Chiefs of Staff, whose actions and inactions have defined the course of our country. Chris Whipple is an acclaimed writer, journalist, documentary filmmaker, and a multiple Peabody and Emmy Award-winning producer at CBS's 60 Minutes and ABC's Primetime.
Lauren Tarshis 4-19-2017
August 29, 2017 23:59 - 27.9 MBNew York Times bestselling children's author Lauren Tarshis presented by Carmichael's Kids Children's author Lauren Tarshis is the New York Times bestselling author of the I Survived series. These fast-paced historical fiction books for kids in grades 3 to 5 focus on a historical disaster from the perspective of a boy or girl who lived to tell the tale. Join her for a discussion of the latest book in the series Tornado Terror: True Tornado Survival Stories and Amazing Facts from History and...
Jill Jonnes 4-14-2017
August 29, 2017 23:56 - 48.4 MBAs nature’s largest and longest-lived creations, trees play an extraordinarily important role in our cities. Today, four-fifths of Americans live in or near urban areas, surrounded by millions of trees of hundreds of different species. Despite their ubiquity and familiarity, most of us take trees for granted and know little of their fascinating natural history or remarkable civic virtues. Jill Jonnes’s Urban Forests tells the captivating stories of the founding mothers and fathers of urban ...
Kentucky and the Great War with David Bettez 4-6-2017
June 19, 2017 14:27 - 50.8 MBOn April 6, 1917, the United States declared war on Germany. Many Americans were indifferent to what was going on “over there” but German Americans—some living in Louisville—were very concerned. Listen as Dr. David Bettez explains how Kentucky answered the call to arms during this “war to end all wars.”
Scott Sonenshein 3-22-2017
April 27, 2017 20:42 - 38 MBDrawing from examples in business, education, sports, medicine, and history, Rice University professor Scott Sonenshein's latest book Stretch provides a groundbreaking approach to succeeding in business and life using the science of resourcefulness. Through his research in psychology and management, Sonenshein examines why some people and organizations succeed with so little, while others fail with so much. His award-winning research, teaching, and consulting has helped Fortune 500 executiv...
Jessica Gordon Nembhard 3-5-2017
April 08, 2017 20:30 - 78 MBLFPL and the University of Louisville Brandeis Law School present economist and author Dr. Jessica Gordon Nembhard Jessica Gordon Nembhard's groundbreaking book Collective Courage chronicles African American cooperative business ownership and its place in the movements for Black civil rights and economic equality. Through her research, Gordon Nembhard finds that African Americans, as well as other people of color and low-income people, have benefitted greatly from cooperative ownership and ...
Elliot Ackerman 2-23-2017
April 06, 2017 20:06 - 32.2 MBAmerican writer Elliot Ackerman is based out of Istanbul, where he has covered the Syrian Civil War since 2013. His writings have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The New York Times Magazine, among others. A former Marine, Ackerman served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan where he received the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for Valor, and the Purple Heart.
Brian Jay Jones 12-13-2016
December 14, 2016 21:35 - 50.1 MBJoin biographer Brian Jay Jones for a discussion of his latest book George Lucas: A Life, detailing the incredible life story of the Star Wars and Indiana Jones creator. Jones is the New York Times bestselling author of Jim Henson: The Biography and the award-winning Washington Irving: An American Original.
James Shapiro 11-17-2016
November 23, 2016 21:03 - 47.7 MBIn partnership with the University of Louisville, the LFPL welcomes renowned Shakespeare scholar and author James Shapiro for a discussion of "Shakespeare in America." A Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, Shapiro specializes in Shakespeare and the Early Modern period. This event is part of Will in the Ville - bringing together more than 45 arts, cultural, and educational organizations throughout Louisville and Southern Indiana with aims to make Louisvill...
Natasha Trethewey 11-15-2016
November 16, 2016 02:25 - 56.6 MBPulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey, whose work explores racial identity in America, speaks at the Main Library as Spalding University’s Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program's Distinguished Writer in Residence.
James Rebanks 11-9-2016
November 10, 2016 20:44 - 42.5 MBJoin bestselling author and international sensation James Rebanks for a discussion of The Shepherd's Life with Kentucky's own Wendell Berry.
Greg Mitchell 11-2-2016
November 05, 2016 23:53 - 37.7 MBJoin author Greg Mitchell for a discussion of his latest book, THE TUNNELS: Escapes Under the Berlin Wall and the Historic Films the JFK White House Tried to Kill, a riveting Cold War narrative chronicling two harrowing attempts to rescue East Germans via tunnels below the Berlin Wall, the U.S. television networks that financed and filmed them, and the Kennedy administration’s attempt to suppress both films.
Nick Bruel 10-25-2016
October 26, 2016 23:13 - 28.7 MBNew York Times bestselling author and illustrator of Boing! and the Bad Kitty series Nick Bruel
Clara Bingham 9-27-2016
October 26, 2016 17:06 - 46.8 MBClara Bingham is a former Newsweek White House correspondent and Louisville native. Join her for a discussion of her latest book, Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul, the story of the turbulent year when the sixties ended and America teetered on the edge of revolution.
Mark Cirino 8-31-2016
September 19, 2016 21:17 - 40.7 MBJoin author Mark Cirino for a discussion of his latest book, Hidden Hemingway: Inside the Ernest Hemingway Archives of Oak Park. Thoroughly researched, and illustrated with more than 300 color images, Hidden Hemingway includes never-before-published photos, letters, bullfighting memorabilia, and adolescent diaries of one of America's most famous and celebrated authors.
History Of Women's Suffrage In Louisville 8-18-2016
September 07, 2016 17:35 - 30.6 MBMarsha Weinstein discusses the History Of Women’s Suffrage In Louisville.
The Cannabis Conundrum 8-4-2016
August 16, 2016 18:16 - 53.5 MBCannabis has been cultivated for thousands of years for durable fibers, nutritious seeds, and psychoactive drugs. Most Cannabis research in the U.S. focuses on the effect of the drug on the human body, but there is much more to Cannabis than the drug. Dr. George Weiblen - scientific director of the Bell Museum of Natural History and Planetarium at the University of Minnesota - is one of few researchers permitted by the federal government to study the genetics of Cannabis and his research cha...
Joshua Kendall 6-7-2016
July 11, 2016 11:51 - 42.5 MBIf being a dad is a full-time job, being a father and the president of the United States is a whole other ballgame. And yet nearly every president has performed both roles, leading Joshua Kendall to write First Dads, an original take on family, politics, and the politics of family.
Geoff Dyer 5-23-2016
July 07, 2016 19:49 - 33.5 MBThe latest work from award-winning author Geoff Dyer explores questions of place and identity, asking us to travel with him around the world and through memory. Join us for a discussion of White Sands, a poignant yet funny collection of essays.
Tim Shanahan 5-17-2016
July 07, 2016 18:23 - 41.5 MBIn a discussion of his first-ever book, Tim Shanahan will reflect on his forty-year friendship with Louisville’s own Muhammad Ali. Running with the Champ chronicles the real-life adventure of knowing a celebrity athlete, full of stories of Ali’s generosity, athleticism, and famous friends.
Walter Borneman 5-10-2016
May 11, 2016 15:50 - 43.8 MBA nationally recognized historian, Walter Borneman has written extensively on America’s military history and been published in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, among others. Join him for a discussion of his latest book, MacArthur at War, examining the divisive General Douglas MacArthur as he led the U.S. Army’s Pacific campaign during World War II.
Darrin Lunde 4-21-2016
April 26, 2016 21:00 - 44.3 MBHunter, adventurer, statesman, and conservationist—perhaps no U.S. president is more popularly associated with nature and wildlife than Theodore Roosevelt. Join Smithsonian natural historian Darrin Lunde as he shares his new book, The Naturalist: Theodore Roosevelt, A Lifetime of Exploration, and the Triumph of American Natural History, a captivating new account of how Theodore Roosevelt’s lifelong passion for the natural world set the stage for America’s wildlife conservation movement.