Vanity Fair's Writers Reading
By Vanity Fair
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Podcast Description
Authors including Jay McInerney, Martha Sandweiss, Garry Wills, and Tracey Morgan read from their new books.
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Cait Murphy Reads from Scoundrels in Law | Cait Murphy Reads from Scoundrels in Law | 6/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wilbert Rideau reads from In the Place of Justice | Wilbert Rideau reads from his new book, In the Place of Justice. | 4/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Norris Church Mailer reads from A Ticket to the Circus | Norris Church Mailer reads from her new memoir. | 4/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nina Munk reads from Vanity Fair's The Great Hangover | The Great Hangover: 21 Tales of the New Recession from the Pages of Vanity Fair. | 3/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Francis Wheen reads from Strange Days Indeed | Francis Wheen examines the paranoia that pervaded the 1970s in his new book. | 2/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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David R. Dow reads from The Autobiography of an Execution | Attorney David R. Dow offers his candid take on America's criminal justice system in his new memoir. | 2/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Richard Reeves reads from Daring Young Men | Richard Reeves's captivating new book tells the story of the Berlin Airlift. | 1/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Garry Wills reads from Bomb Power | Historian, critic, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Garry Wills examines how the atomic bomb transformed the nation's executive office in his new book. | 12/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bridie Clark reads from The Overnight Socialite | Bridie Clark puts a Manhattan twist on Pygmalion in her new novel, The Overnight Socialite. | 12/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lynn Redgrave reads from Nightingale | Nightingale, a one-woman play written and performed by Lynn Redgrave, is inspired by an unfamiliar figure in the actress's iconic family: her maternal grandmother, Beatrice. | 11/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Terry Teachout reads from POPS: A Life of Louis Armstrong | In a new biography, Terry Teachout reveals the lesser known side of Louis Armstrong. | 11/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jonathan Safran Foer reads from Eating Animals | In his first work of nonfiction, author Jonathan Safran Foer takes a critical look at America's animal agriculture system. | 11/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Augusten Burroughs reads from You Better Not Cry | In his trademark wit and self-deprecating humor, author Augusten Burroughs compiles his favorite Christmas memories. | 10/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tracy Morgan reads from I Am The New Black | Being funny has always been Tracy Morgan's form of survival and escape, whether it be on the drug-fueled streets of his youth or in his rarified world as a star of NBC's award-winning sitcom 30 Rock. | 10/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kati Marton reads from Enemies of the People | Kati Marton watched the Hungarian secret police arrest her parents, both of them journalists who were declared enemies of the people by the communist state. | 10/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Joel Richard Paul reads from Unlikely Allies | In 1776, three strangers came together to save the American Revolution through espionage, backroom collusion, and secret diplomacy. | 10/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Edmund White reads from City Boy | In 1962, author and cultural critic Edmund White, now 69, passed on an opportunity to pursue a Ph.D. at Harvard and instead followed his lover, Stan, to New York City. | 10/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Diana, Liz, Amanda, and Dan Welch Read from The Kids Are Alright | After the mysterious death of their father in 1983, siblings Diana, Liz, Amanda, and Dan Welch clung to one another to survive a second tragedy: their mother's cancer diagnosis. | 10/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tad Friend reads from Cheerful Money | Tad Friend grew up in a wealthy family, but he was determined to break free from a world of privilege and forge his own journey. | 9/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Taylor Branch from The Clinton Tapes | Taylor Branch on Monica Lewinsky. | 9/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Joanna Greenfield reads from The Lion's Eye | In her new book, Joanna Greenfield recalls her adventure into the African wilderness. | 8/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kaylie Jones reads from Lies My Mother Never Told Me | Author Kaylie Jones recalls a life and mother-daughter relationship riddled with emotional abuse in her new memoir. | 8/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rebecca Solnit reads from A Paradise Built in Hell | Author Rebecca Solnit travels through five major North American disaster areas in her new book. | 8/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tracy Kidder reads from Strength in What Remains | In his new book, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder recalls the true story of Deo Niyizonkiza. | 8/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Richard Todd reads from The Thing Itself | Editor and culture critic Richard Todd examines the pursuit of authenticity in contemporary society in his new book. | 8/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Josephine Hart reads From The Truth About Love | A family collapses emotionally after the death of their teenage son in Josephine Hart's new novel. | 8/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Craig Nelson reads from Rocket Men | This historic journey of astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins is detailed in Craig Nelson's new book, Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon. | 6/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Michael M. Thomas reads from Love and Money | In his new novel, columnist Michael M. Thomas expounds on two of society’s most talked about topics. | 6/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Richard Brookhiser reads from Right Time, Right Place | Richard Brookhiser reads from his new book, Right Time, Right Place: Coming of Age with William F. Buckley Jr. and the Conservative Movement. | 6/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guts, by Robert Nylen, read by Richard Todd | Editor Richard Todd reads from Robert Nylen's new book, Guts. | 6/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gay Talese reads from Thy Neighbor's Wife | Upon publication of Thy Neighbor's Wife in 1981, Gay Talese was hailed as a pioneer of the study of sexuality, opening discussion on the previously taboo subjects of sex, swingers, and pornography. | 4/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jon Raymond reads from Livability | In this compelling short story from Livability: Stories (Bloomsbury), writer Jon Raymond reveals a character grappling with change, disillusionment, and a friendship gone awry. | 4/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tom Flynn reads from Bikeman | Journalist Tom Flynn decided to respond to the events of September 11, 2001, by writing an epic poem in which he recalled how, on that fateful day, he had hopped on his bicycle, braved the chaos, and headed down to the World Trade Center to cover the attacks for CBS News. | 4/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jay McInerney reads from How It Ended | After 17 years, Jay McInerney revisits his classic New York couple, Russell and Corrine Calloway, in The March, a new short story from his forthcoming book, How it Ended. It is February 2003 and it is Corrine who has now had an affair. After a brief but poignant encounter with her former lover on the day of a violent anti-war demonstration, the author expounds on the many levels of loss. | 3/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Paul McGeough reads from Kill Khalid | In September 1997, in Amman, Jordan, members from Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, attempted---and failed--to assassinate Khalid Missal, the new leader of Hamas. Their actions heightened tensions in an already unstable Middle East, and placed Jordan's King Hussein at the center of a high-stakes international negotiation, eventually involving direct intervention from President Bill Clinton. In this excerpt from his new book, Kill Khalid: The Failed Mossad Assassination of Khalid Mishal and the Rise of Hamas (March 24, The New Press/W.W. Norton), journalist Paul McGeough narrates the suspense-filled story of how Missal was spared--and Hamas emboldened. | 3/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Martha A. Sandweiss reads from Passing Strange | For decades, Clarence King lived a charming, public life. The notable white geologist and writer, who had helped map the American West, divided his time between White House dinners and social gatherings at Manhattan's most elite clubs. But in this excerpt from the new book Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line (The Penguin Press), historian Martha A. Sandweiss reveals the riveting secret King kept from his family???and the world???and only disclosed on his deathbed in 1901: Clarence King lived a double life as a black man, James Todd. Passing Strange Captions and credits: 1. Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line will be published February 9 by the Penguin Press. 2. Clarence King as director of the United States Geological Survey, 1879. Courtesy of The U.S. Geological Survey Photographic Library. 3. Ada King, 91, poses in her Kalmia Avenue home with her granddaughter, Thelma, at a party in honor of Thelma's wedding in 1952. Courtesy of Patricia Chacon. | 2/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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James Wolcott reads from Tommy Dearest | With Oscar Night only three weeks away, Vanity Fair has just published a film fanatics' dream--Vanity Fair's Tales of Hollywood (Penguin), edited by Graydon Carter--a rollicking new collection revealing the back stories behind the making of 13 iconic films. In this excerpt, the inimitable James Wolcott reveals the secrets of director Ken Russell's Tommy, the perverse 1975 big-screen adaptation of the Who's rock opera. | 1/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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William Langewiesche reads from House of War | After Ramush Haradinaj led Kosovo's fight for independence from Serbia, becoming provisional prime minister, he was tried for war crimes by the U.N. tribunal in The Hague. In a clash of 21st-century justice and 15th-century laws, Haradinaj came out the winner. | 11/6/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 38 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Listen before you post, VF.
The Craig Nelson reading is great, but the author clearly thinks the reading will be edited for coughs, repeats, restarts etc. It was posted unedited, therefore coming off a bit unprofessional. Seems like kind of a careless mistake on the part of those doing the recording and presenting. All one had to do was listen to the recording to know it wasn't ready for broadcast.
Excellent
Well chosen selection of authors, diverse and significant topics, my new favorite! Hearing the writer read his own material makes this more personal than your avg audiobook.
Necessary
Production not as polished as New Yorker, but provides a needed niche.
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