LFPL's "At the Library" Podcast
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Welcome 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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David Rohde, author of Beyond War: Reimagining American Influence in a New Middle East. |
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Blaine Harden, author of Escape from Camp 14: One man's remarkable odyssey from North Korea to freedom in the West. |
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Deb Perelman, author of The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook. |
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What's Next: The Make Movement with Dale Dougherty |
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Jon Gertner, author of The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation. |
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Fred Kaplan, author of The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War. |
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Science in the Garden Short Course with Dr. Paul Cappiello - for class outline and links to the podcast - click here. |
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The Changing Role of Theater in America Short Course with Zan Sawyer-Dailey- for class outline and links to the podcast - click here. |
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What's Next: Biomedical Engineering with Dr. Stuart Williams |
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Hanna Rosin, senior editor of The Atlantic and author of The End of Men. |
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Robert Massie, The New York Times bestselling author of Catherine the Great. |
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What's Next: Climate Change with Dr. Keith Mountain |
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Jeneen Wiche, local writer and gardening enthusiast, discusses "Preserving Food the Old-Fashioned Way." |
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Patricia Cohen, NY Times reporter and author of In Our Prime: The Invention of Middle Age. |
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Gail Collins, NY Times columnist and bestselling author of As Texas Goes: How the Lone Star State Hijacked the American Agenda. |
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Thomas Mallon, former editor of GQ and author of Watergate: A Novel. |
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James Fallows, journalist and author of China Airborne. |
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Jonathan D. Sarna, award-winning historian and author of When General Grant Expelled the Jews. |
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Michael Duffy, executive editor of TIME and co-author of The Presidents Club. |
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George Dyson, science historian and author of Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe. |
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Boom Time: My Creative Life - Do you have a creative alter ego to balance your day job – or do you dream of one? Then this is the program for you. |
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Boom Time: My Farm Life - Talk featuring city folks with farm lives on the side with Tommee Clark, Debbie Galloway, Tomese Buthod, Ramsi Kamar, and Harland Smith. |
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Boom Time: My Life As Lifeline- Odds are 1 in 3 that you might help care for an ill or aging family member. Advice from experts and people who have experienced it. |
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Gabrielle Hamilton, award-winning chef and NY Times bestselling author, discusses Blood, Bones & Butter. |
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Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer discusses "The State of the Local Food Economy" with the audience at LFPL and Seed Capital Kentucky's livestream of the TedX Manhattan conference. |
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Stacy Schiff, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, discusses Cleopatra: A Life (interviewed by UofL professor and archaeologist Dr. John Hale). |
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Lee Child is the #1 internationally bestselling author of thirteen Jack Reacher thrillers, including his latest in the series, The Affair. |
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Ingrid Betancourt is a former Colombian senator and bestselling author of Even Silence Has An End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle. |
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Marc Freedman is founder and CEO of Civic Ventures, a think tank on baby boomers, and author of The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife. |
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Dr. Laura L. Carstensen is the founder of Stanford University’s Longevity Center and author of A Long Bright Future: An Action Plan for a Lifetime of Happiness, Health and Financial Security. |
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Amanda Little, author of Power Trip: The Story of America’s Love Affair with Energy, with award-winning film producer and sustainability advocate Gill Holland. |
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Bobbie Ann Mason, Kentucky native and award-winning author, follows an American World War II pilot shot down over Occupied Europe in her latest novel, The Girl in the Blue Beret. |
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Janny Scott is an award-winning reporter. Her latest book, A Singular Woman, explores the life of the woman who most shaped Barack Obama - his mother. |
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Kenneth Slawenski's book J. D. Salinger: A Life tells the inside story, from his dramatic encounters with luminaries like Ernest Hemingway and Laurence Olivier, to the stunning triumph of The Catcher in the Rye, which would both make him world-famous and hasten his retreat into the hills of New Hampshire. |
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Steven Levy is a senior writer at Wired, and was formerly senior editor and chief technology correspondent for Newsweek. His latest book, In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works and Shapes Our Lives tells the story behind the most successful and admired technology company of our time. |
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Parag Khanna has explored more than 100 countries over the course of his career, which has included stints at the Brookings Institution and the Council on Foreign Relations. His latest book, How to Run the World, is a bold account of our current global crisis and a road-map for creating a truly stable world. |
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