Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on November 1st, 2006.

Caryl Phillips was born in St. Kitts, brought up in Leeds, England, and now lives in New York City. He is the author of three works of non-fiction and eight novels, as well as the editor of two anthologies. His latest novel, Dancing In The Dark, re-imagines the remarkable, tragic, little-known life of Bert Williams (1874-1922), the first black entertainer in the United States to reach the highest levels of fame and fortune. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has won the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Lannan Fellowship.

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Length: 1:08:26; Size: 31.4 MB

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on October 25th, 2006.

Mary Oliver's poetry, with her lyrical connection to the natural world, has firmly established her in the highest realm of American poets. She is renowned for her evocative and precise imagery, which brings nature into clear focus, transforming the everyday world into a place of magic and discovery. Her recent books include Owls and Other Fantasies, Why I Wake Early, and New and Selected Poems, Volume Two. As poet Stanley Kunitz has said, "Mary Oliver's poetry is fine and deep; it reads like a blessing." Oliver lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

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Length: 1:24:06; Size: 38.5 MB

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on October 11th, 2006.

Robert Coover has been described by The New York Times as, "one of America's quirkiest writers, if by 'quirky' we mean an unwillingness to abide by ordinary fictional rules and a conviction that a novel is primarily a verbal artifact unconvertible to other media." His novel, The Public Burning, is a long and fantastic fictional account of the events surrounding the executions for espionage of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in 1952, whose principal narrator identifies himself as the then-Vice President of the United States, Richard Milhous Nixon. His other publications include Spanking the Maid, Gerald's Party, Pinocchio in Venice, and Briar Rose.

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Length: 1:25:48; Size: 39.4 MB

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on September 27th, 2006.

Sy Hersh, the brilliant investigative journalist, has broken news stories that include the Abu Ghraib prison abuses, the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, and the CIA's bombing of Cambodia. Here he tells stories of how he gathers his source material and offers his thoughts on the present and future in the Middle East before joining in conversation with Democracy Now's Amy Goodman.

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Length: 1:57:54; Size: 27.2 MB

Recorded in Santa Fe on June 28th, 2006.

Andrew Bacevich who was awarded the inaugural Lannan Notable Book of the Year Award in 2005 for The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced by War, offers from his nonpartisan perspective, a concise and thoughtful history of American imperial ambition before joining in conversation with Lewis Lapham, long-time editor of Harper’s magazine.

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Length: 1:10:53; Size: 34 MB

Recorded in Santa Fe on May 31st, 2006.

"'Developing countries' is the name that experts use to designate countries trampled by someone else's development." So says Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan writer and essayist, passionate advocate of human rights and justice, critic of globalization, and one-time political exile to Argentina and Spain. After reading from his work, Galeano joins in conversation with the legendary essayist and critic, John Leonard.

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Length: 1:10:52; Size: 34 MB

Recorded in Santa Fe on March 9th, 2005.

Rikki Ducornet, author of six novels to date, writes sensuous, imaginative, complicated fables, mixing reality and exotic dreams. In this program, she reads from her novel, The Fan-Makers Inquisition, before joining in conversation with fiction writer, Joanna Scott.

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Length: 1:09:04; Size: 33.2 MB

Recorded in Santa on February 16th, 2005.

Louise Glück was appointed the 2003 Poet Laureate of the U.S. and received a Pulitzer Prize for her work in 1993. In this program, she reads three new unpublished poems as well as a selection of poems from previous volumes, before joining in conversation with fellow poet, James Longenbach.

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Length: 1:13:57; Size: 35.5 MB

Recorded in Santa Fe on April 20th, 2005.

George Saunders, called by The Atlantic Monthly, "the most talented goof-off writing fiction today" has two books of short stories, Pastoralia and Civilwarland in Bad Decline. He reads here from the stories, "My Guilty Pleasures" and "A Barber's Unhappiness", before joining in conversation with Michael Silverblatt, host of Bookworm.

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Length: 1:19:03; Size: 37.9 MB

Recorded in Santa Fe on May 17th, 2006.

Born and raised on the south side of Chicago, Stuart Dybek writes of characters so ethnic and working-class that they would have appealed to Nelson Algren and his poolroom pals. In his novels, short stories, and poetry, Dybek reflects the magic of ethnicity and the power which oral storytelling has to fashion new myths. After reading from his work, Dybek joins in conversation with Michael Silverblatt, host and producer of the premier literary talk show on radio, Bookworm.

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Length: 1:10:52; Size: 34.0 MB