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11/17/14 — 11/16/14
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Episode 184: William Gibson : The Peripheral
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11/10/14 — 11/16/14
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Episode 183: Azar Nafisi : The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books
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11/03/14 — 11/09/14
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Episode 182: Dana Cowin : Mastering My Mistakes in the Kitchen: Learning to Cook with 65 Great Chefs and Over 100 Delicious Recipes
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10/27/14 — 11/02/14
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Episode 181: Paolo Bacigalupi : The Doubt Factory
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10/20/14 — 10/26/14
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Episode 180: Brian J.Showers : Old Albert: An Epilogue and Dreams of Shadow and Smoke
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10/13/14 — 10/19/14
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Episode 179: William T. Vollmann : Last Stories and Other Stories
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10/13/14 — 10/19/14
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Episode 178: Alix Christie : Gutenberg's Apprentice
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10/06/14 — 10/12/14
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Episode 177: Maureen Corrigan : So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures
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09/29/14 — 10/05/14
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Episode 176: Lawrence Wright : Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David
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09/22/14 — 09/28/14
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Episode 175: Rebecca Alexander : Not Fade Away: A Memoir of Senses Lost and Found
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09/15/14 — 09/21/14
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Episode 174: Luren Beukes : Broken Monsters
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09/15/14 — 09/21/14
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Episode 173: Walter Mosley : Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore
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09/15/14 — 09/21/14
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Episode 172: Lisa See : China Girls
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09/08/14 — 09/14/14
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Episode 171: Nick Harkaway : Tigerman
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07/07/14 — 07/13/14
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Episode 170: Roz Chast : Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
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06/23/14 — 06/29/14
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Episode 169: Alan Furst : Midnight in Europe
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06/23/14 — 06/29/14
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Episode 168: Sarah Lotz : The Three
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06/16/14 — 06/22/14
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Episode 167: Steven Galloway : The Confabulist
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06/09/14 — 06/15/14
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Episode 166: Geoff Dyer : Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush
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06/02/14 — 06/08/14
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Episode 165: Colson Whitehead : The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky and Death
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05/26/14 — 06/02/14
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Episode 164: Kaui Hart Hemmings : The Possibilities
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05/19/14 — 05/25/14
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Episode 163: Kent A. Kiehl, PhD : The Psychopath Whisperer: The Science of Those Without Conscience
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05/12/14 — 05/18/14
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Episode 162: Justin Go : The Steady Running of the Hour
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05/05/14 — 05/11/14
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Episode 161: Matt Taibbi : The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
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04/28/14 — 05/04/14
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Episode 160: Ben Tarnoff : The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature
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04/28/14 — 05/04/14
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Episode 159: Ayelet Waldman : Love & Treasure
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04/21/14 — 04/27/14
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Episode 158: Mona Simpson : Casebook
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04/14/14 — 04/20/14
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Episode 157: Lorrie Moore : Bark
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04/14/14 — 04/20/14
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Episode 156: Michael Katakis : A Thousand Shards of Glass
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03/31/14 — 04/06/14
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Episode 155: David Rich : Middle Man
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03/24/14 — 03/30/14
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Episode 154: Carol Cassella : Gemini
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03/17/14 — 03/23/14
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Episode 153: Dave Barry : You Can Date Boys When You're Forty: Dave Barry on Parenting and Other Topics He Knows Very Little About
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03/10/14 — 03/16/14
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Episode 152 : Ian Rankin : Saints of the Shadow Bible
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02/24/14 — 03/02/14
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Episode 151 : Michio Kaku : The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance and Empower the Mind
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02/17/14 — 02/23/14
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Episode 150 : Annie Jacobsen : Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America
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02/17/14 — 02/23/14
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Episode 149 : Jeff VanderMeer : Annihilation
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02/10/14 — 02/16/14
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Episode 148 : Jenny Offill : Dept.of Speculation
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02/03/14 — 02/09/14
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Episode 147 : Kelly Corrigan : Glitter and Glue: A Memoir
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01/27/14 — 02/02/14
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Episode 146 : Jane Pauley : Your Life Calling: Reimagining the Rest of Your Life
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01/20/14 — 01/26/14
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Episode 145 : John Rizzo : Company Man: Thirty Years of Crisis and Controversy in the CIA
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01/20/14 — 01/26/14
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Episode 144 : Riane Eisler : The Chalice & the Blade
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01/13/14 — 01/19/14
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Episode 143 : Chang-rae Lee : On Such a Full Sea
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01/13/14 — 01/19/14
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Episode 142 : Nathan Ballingrud : North American Lake Monsters
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01/06/14 — 01/12/14
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Episode 141 : David Sedaris : Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
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12/30/13 — 01/05/14
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Episode 140 : Tad Williams : Happy Hour in Hell
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12/30/13 — 01/05/14
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Episode 139 : Russell Banks : A Permanent Member of the Family
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12/23/13 — 12/29/13
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Episode 138 : T. C. Boyle : T.C. Boyle Stories II
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12/16/13 — 12/22/13
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Episode 137 : Bill Sessions : Flannery O'Connor, A Prayer Journal
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12/09/13 — 12/15/13
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Episode 136 : Frankk Schaetzing : [limit]
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11/25/13 — 12/01/13
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Episode 135 : Susan Stinson : Spider in a Tree
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11/18/13 — 11/24/13
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Episode 134 : Christopher Rice : The Heavens Rise
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11/18/13 — 11/24/13
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Episode 133 : Anne Rice : The Wolves of Midwinter
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11/04/13 — 11/10/13
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Episode 132 : Dan Simmons : The Abominable
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10/28/13 — 11/03/13
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Episode 131 : Bill Bryson : One Summer: America, 1927
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10/21/13 — 10/27/13
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Episode 130 : Margaret Atwood : MaddAddam
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10/21/13 — 10/27/13
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Episode 129 : Hannah Kent : Burial Rites
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10/14/13 — 10/20/13
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Episode 128 : Paul Harding : Enon
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10/14/13 — 10/20/13
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Episode 127 : Nicholson Baker : Traveling Sprinkler
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10/07/13 — 10/13/13
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Episode 126: Jonathan Lethem : Dissident Gardens
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09/30/13 — 10/06/13
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Episode 125: Temple Grandin : The Autistic Brain
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09/30/13 — 10/06/13
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Episode 124: Mark Epstein : The Trauma of Everyday Life
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09/23/13 — 09/29/13
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Episode 123: Connie Willis : Blackout & All Clear
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09/23/13 — 09/29/13
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Episode 122: Marisha Pessl : Night Film
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09/16/13 — 09/22/13
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Episode 121: Jojo Moyes : The Girl You Left Behind
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09/16/13 — 09/22/13
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Episode 120: Ian Tregillis : The Milkweed Triptych
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09/09/13 — 09/15/13
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Episode 119: Margot Leitman : Gawky: Tales of an Extra Long Awkward Phase
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09/09/13 — 09/15/13
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Episode 118: Alfredo Corchado : Midnight In Mexico: A Reporter's Journey Through a Country's Descent into Darkness
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09/02/13 — 09/08/13
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Episode 117: Benjamin Percy : Red Moon
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08/19/13 — 08/25/13
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Episode 116: Walter Mosley : Little Green
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08/12/13 — 08/18/13
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Episode 115: Ivy Pochoda : Visitation Street
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08/05/13 — 08/11/13
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Episode 114: Phillip Meyer : The Son
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08/05/13 — 08/11/13
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Episode 113: Gabriel Roth : The Unknowns
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07/29/13 — 08/04/13
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Episode 112: Lisa Lutz : The Last Word
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07/29/13 — 08/04/13
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Episode 111: Koethi Zan : The Never List
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07/22/13 — 07/28/13
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Episode 110: Andrew Sean Greer : The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells
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07/15/13 — 07/21/13
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Episode 109: Brendan I. Koerner : The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking
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07/15/13 — 07/21/13
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Episode 108: Austin Grossman : You
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07/08/13 — 07/14/13
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Episode 107: Ryan Coonerty : The Rise of the Naked Economy: How to Benefit from the Changing Workplace
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07/08/13 — 07/14/13
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Episode 107: Ryan Coonerty : The Rise of the Naked Economy: How to Benefit from the Changing Workplace
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07/01/13 — 07/07/13
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Episode 106: Helene Wecker : The Golem and the Jinni
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06/24/13 — 06/30/13
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Episode 105: Joe Hill : NOS4A2
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06/24/13 — 06/30/13
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Episode 104: Nathaniel Rich : Odds Against Tomorrow
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06/17/13 — 06/23/13
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Episode 103: Annalee Newitz : Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
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06/17/13 — 06/23/13
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Episode 102: Higher Mysteries : Laurie R. King, Sharan Newman, Julia Spencer-Fleming and Zoe Ferraris
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06/10/13 — 06/16/13
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Episode 101: Michael Pollan : Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
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06/03/13 — 06/09/13
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Episode 100: Karen Joy Fowler : We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
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05/27/13 — 06/02/13
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Episode 99: Kate Atkinson : Life After Life
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05/13/13 — 05/19/13
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Episode 98: John Langan : The Wide Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies
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05/06/13 — 05/12/13
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Episode 97: Mary Roach : Gulp.
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04/29/13 — 05/05/13
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Episode 96: Glennon Doyle Melton : Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed
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04/22/13 — 04/28/13
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Episode 95: Ben Katchor : Hand Drying in America
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04/15/13 — 04/21/13
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Episode 94: Danielle Trussoni : Angelopolis
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04/08/13 — 04/14/13
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Episode 93: Stephen Kessler : Scratch Pegasus
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04/01/13 — 04/07/13
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Episode 92: Ruth Ozeki : A Tale for the Time Being
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04/01/13 — 04/07/13
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Episode 91: Lawrence Wright : Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
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03/25/13 — 03/31/13
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Episode 90: MacKenzie Bezos : Traps
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03/18/13 — 03/24/13
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Episode 89: Hugh Howey : Wool
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03/04/13 — 03/10/13
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Episode 88: Karen Russell : Vampires in the Lemon Grove
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02/25/13 — 03/03/13
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Episode 87: Robert R. McCammon : I Travel By Night
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02/18/13 — 02/24/13
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Episode 86: Gregory D. Johnsen : The Last Refuge: Yemen, al-Qaeda, and America's War in Arabia
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02/11/13 — 02/17/13
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Episode 86: Dave Barry : Insane City
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02/11/13 — 02/17/13
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Episode 85: Dave Barry : Insane City
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02/04/13 — 02/11/13
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Episode 84: Cory Doctorow : Homeland
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01/28/13 — 02/03/13
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Episode 83: Ian Rankin : Standing in Another Man's Grave
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01/21/13 — 01/27/13
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Episode 82: Tracy Kidder : Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction
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01/14/13 — 01/20/13
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Episode 81: Jojo Moyes : Me Before You
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01/07/13 — 01/13/13
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Episode 80: Laird Barron : The Croning and The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
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12/31/12 — 01/06/13
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Episode 79: Fariba Nawa : Opium Nation: Child Brides, Drug Lords, and One Woman's Journey Through Afghanistan
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12/10/12 — 12/16/12
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Episode 78: Lee Child : A Wanted Man
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12/03/12 — 12/09/12
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Episode 77: Susannah Cahalan : Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
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11/26/12 — 12/02/12
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Episode 76: Justin Cronin : The Twelve
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11/19/12 — 11/25/12
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Episode 75: Charles Burns and Chris Ware : The Hive and Building Stories
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11/19/12 — 11/25/12
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Episode 75: Charles Burns and Chris Ware : THe Hive and Building Stories
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11/12/12 — 11/18/12
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Episode 74: Craig Childs : Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Everending Earth
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11/05/12 — 11/11/12
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Episode 73: Louise Erdrich : The Round House
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10/29/12 — 11/04/12
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Episode 72: Tom Wolfe : Back to Blood
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10/22/12 — 10/28/12
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Episode 71: Debra Dean : The Mirrored World
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10/15/12 — 10/21/12
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Episode 70: Jeffrey Toobin : The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court
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10/08/12 — 10/14/12
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Episode 69: Bishop Gene Robinson : God Believes in Love: Straight Talk about Gay Marriage
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10/01/12 — 10/07/12
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Episode 68: Robert D. Kaplan : The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
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09/24/12 — 09/30/12
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Episode 67: D. T. Max : Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
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09/24/12 — 09/30/12
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Episode 66: Michael Lewis : The Environmeddlers
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09/17/12 — 09/23/12
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Episode 65: David Rich : Caravan of Thieves
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09/10/12 — 09/16/12
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Episode 64: Tad Williams : The Dirty Streets of Heaven
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09/03/12 — 09/09/12
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Episode 63: Charles Yu : Sorry Please Thank You
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08/27/12 — 09/02/12
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Episode 62: Laura Lippman : And When She Was Good
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08/27/12 — 09/02/12
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Episode 61: Karen Kondazian : The Whip
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08/20/12 — 08/26/12
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Episode 60: Tim Powers : Hide Me Among the Graves
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08/13/12 — 08/19/12
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Episode 59: Brian Castner : The Long Walk
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08/06/12 — 08/12/12
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Episode 58: James P. Blaylock : Zeuglodon
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07/30/12 — 08/05/12
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Episode 57: Alan Cheuse : Paradise, or, Eat Your Face
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07/23/12 — 07/29/12
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Episode 56: Deborah Harkness : Shadow of Night
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07/23/12 — 07/29/12
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Episode 55: Carlos Ruiz Zafón : The Prisoner of Heaven
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07/09/12 — 07/15/12
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Episode 54: Christopher Hayes : Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
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07/02/12 — 07/08/12
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Episode 53: Glen Duncan : Talulla Rising
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07/02/12 — 07/08/12
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Episode 52: Anthony Swofford : Hotels, Hospitals and Jails
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07/02/12 — 07/08/12
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Episode 51: Daniel H. Wilson : Amped
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06/25/12 — 07/01/12
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Episode 50: Peter Carey : The Chemistry of Tears
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06/18/12 — 06/24/12
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Episode 49: Richard Ford : Canada
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06/11/12 — 06/17/12
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Episode 48: Leonard Mlodinow : Subliminal
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06/04/12 — 06/10/12
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Episode 47: Walter Mosley : The Gift of Fire
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05/28/12 — 06/03/12
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Episode 46: John Irving : In One Person
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05/21/12 — 05/27/12
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Episode 45: Marika Blossfeldt :Essential Nutrition: Recipes from My Estonian Farm
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05/14/12 — 05/20/12
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Episode 44: David Vann :Dirt
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05/07/12 — 05/13/12
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Epsiode 43: Christopher Mooore : Sacré Bleu
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04/30/12 — 05/06/12
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Episode 41: T.M. Luhrman : When God Talks Back
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04/23/12 — 04/29/12
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Episode 41: Richard Zacks and Gregg Jones : Island of Vice and Honor in the Dust
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04/16/12 — 04/22/12
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Episode 40: Ben Marcus and Heidi Julavits : The Flame Alphabet and The Vanishers
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04/09/12 — 04/15/12
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Episode 39 Whitley Strieber : Solving the Communion Enigma: What is to Come
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04/01/12 — 04/08/12
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Episode 38: Tim Dorsey and C. J. Box : Pineapple Grenade and Force of Nature
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03/26/12 — 04/01/12
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Episode 37: Matt Ruff and Alex Gilvarry : The Mirage and From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant
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03/19/12 — 03/25/12
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Episode 36: Kim Harrison : A Perfect Blood
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03/12/12 — 03/18/12
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Episode 35: William Landay : Defending Jacob
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03/05/12 — 03/11/12
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Episode 34: Anne Rice : The Wolf Gift
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02/27/12 — 03/04/12
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Episode 33: Michael Gazzaniga : Who's in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain
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02/20/12 — 02/26/12
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Episode 32: Thomas Frank : Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right
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02/13/12 — 02/19/12
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Episode 31: Eric Weiner : Man Seeks God
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02/06/12 — 02/12/12
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Episode 30: Thrity Umrigar : The World We Found
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01/30/12 — 02/05/12
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Episode 29: Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel : Lunatics
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01/23/12 — 01/29/12
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Episode 28: Sara Paretsky : Breakdown
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01/16/12 — 01/22/12
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Episode 27: John Lescroart : The Hunter
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01/09/12 — 01/15/12
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Episode 26: Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith : Van Gogh: The Life
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01/02/12 — 01/08/12
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Episode 25: Jonathan Lethem : The Ecstasy of Influence
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12/26/11 — 01/01/12
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Episode 24: Robert K. Massie : Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
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12/19/11 — 12/25/11
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Episode 23: David Vann : Last Day on Earth: A Portrait of the NIU School Shooter
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12/12/11 — 12/18/11
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Episode 22: Sue Grafton : V is for Vengeance
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12/05/11 — 12/11/11
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Episode 21: Scott Wallace
: The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes
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11/28/11 — 12/04/11
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Episode 20: Charles Frazier
: Nightwoods
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11/21/11 — 11/27/11
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Episode 19: Jeff Herzberg and Zoe Francois
: Artisan Pizza and Flatbread in Five Minutes a Day
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11/14/11 — 11/20/11
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Episode 18: Karl Marlantes
: What It Is Like To Go To War
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11/07/11 — 11/13/11
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Episode 17: Lawrence Lessig
: Republic, Lost
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10/31/11 — 11/06/11
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Episode 16: Michael Reynier
: Five Degrees of Latitude
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10/24/11 — 10/30/11
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Episode 15: Russell Banks
: Lost Memory of Skin
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10/17/11 — 10/23/11
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Episode 14: Lisa Randall
: Knocking on Heaven's Door
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10/10/11 — 10/16/11
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Episode 13: Erin Morgenstern
: The Night Circus
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10/03/11 — 10/09/11
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Episode 12: Neal Stephenson
: REAMDE
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09/26/11 — 10/02/11
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Episode 11: Lev Grossman
: The Magician King
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09/19/11 — 09/25/11
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Episode 10: George Pelecanos
: The Cut
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09/12/11 — 09/18/11
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Episode 9: Laurie R. King
: Pirate King
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09/05/11 — 09/11/11
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Episode 8: Michael Harvey and David Levien
: Midwestern Noir: We All Fall Down and 13 Million Dollar Pop
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08/29/11 — 09/04/11
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Episode 7: Alan Cheuse
: Song of Slaves in the Desert
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08/15/11 — 08/21/11
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Episode 6: Ernest Cline
: Ready Player One
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08/08/11 — 08/14/11
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Episode 5: Simon Rich
: Elliot Allagash
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08/01/11 — 08/07/11
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Episode 4: Mark Seal
: The Man in the Rockefeller Suit
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07/24/11 — 07/31/11
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Episode 3: David Eagleman
: Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
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07/11/11 — 07/17/11
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Episode 2: Erik Larson
: In the Garden of Beasts
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07/04/11 — 07/10/11
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Episode 1: Donald Ray Pollock
: The Devil All the Time
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