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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 11:00 am

Vladimir Nabokov’s last, unfinished work — just published, against his dying wishes. We’ll ask how it alters our view of Lolita’s creator.

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Friday, November 13, 2009 at 11:00 am

We’ll talk with author Jonathan Safran Foer about meat, vegetables and his tough new book, “Eating Animals.”

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Monday, October 12, 2009 at 11:00 am

Writer and civil rights lawyer Alia Malek tells the story of modern America through the eyes of old-school Arab-Americans and new-wave immigrants.

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Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 11:00 am

The best time to do everything. Buy a house. Go to Disneyland. Take a nap. We’ll get the scoop.

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Monday, September 21, 2009 at 11:00 am

De-coding Carl Jung. The secret diary of Jung’s own psychic travels goes public. We’ll open the Swiss vault that held the master’s journey.

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Friday, September 11, 2009 at 11:00 am

Nobel Prize-winning philosopher and economist Amartya Sen on a new theory of social justice.

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Thursday, September 10, 2009 at 11:00 am

Conservatives might not like it, but Sam Tanenhaus says their movement is, fundamentally, dead. We’ll hear his case and his critics.

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Wednesday, September 9, 2009 at 11:00 am

Novelist Nicholson Baker’s humorous take on poetry, rhyme, and the tortured lives of poets.

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Thursday, September 3, 2009 at 11:00 am

Anthropologist Tim Pauketat takes us back a thousand years to Cahokia, the ancient city on the banks of the Mississippi River.

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Monday, August 31, 2009 at 11:00 am

New York Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni has left his restaurant beat. We’ll ask about his new memoir, “Born Round,” and about how people eat when they eat out.

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Wednesday, August 19, 2009 at 11:00 am

A city boy goes goat farming. We’ll get close to land, cheese, and pasture with the author of “Goat Song.”

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Tuesday, August 18, 2009 at 11:00 am

Pulitzer Prize winning author Richard Russo on his new novel of midlife crackup and the search for happiness: “That Old Cape Magic.”

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Monday, August 17, 2009 at 11:00 am

Master storyteller Pat Conroy talks about his first novel in 14 years, “South of Broad,” and much more.

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Wednesday, August 12, 2009 at 11:00 am

Islam, immigration, and Europe’s demographic revolution. We’ll look at the new face of Europe.

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Friday, August 7, 2009 at 11:00 am

It’s been called “the biggest art fraud of the 20th century.” We’ll talk with the artist behind it, and the reporter who tells his story.

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Monday, August 3, 2009 at 11:00 am

Writer Robert Sabbag survived a 1979 plane crash. Now, he’s gone back to relive those minutes — and discover how they changed the lives of his fellow survivors.

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Friday, July 31, 2009 at 11:00 am

In his new book, Dave Eggers tells one man’s story in the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, and takes on post-9/11 America. He’ll join us.

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Friday, July 31, 2009 at 8:59 am

On moonless nights the men and boys of Jableh, a dusty fishing town on the coast of Syria, would gather their lanterns and set out in their quiet est boats. Five or six small craft, two or three fishermen in each. A mile out, they would arrange the boats in a circle on the black [...]

 
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 at 11:00 am

Alabama’s Winston Groom, author of “Forrest Gump,” takes on the Battle of Vicksburg.

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Friday, July 24, 2009 at 11:00 am

Forget summer heat. We’re talking glaciers, igloos, blizzards, and adventures in the world’s coldest places.

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On Point Today
The Pandora Effect
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We’ll talk with the founder of Pandora, the online music service that claims it knows what you’ll want to hear.

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Week in the News
Friday, November 20, 2009 image

Obama in China. Healthcare crunch time in the Senate. And the mammogram controversy rages on. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Recent Shows
Poker: America’s Game
Thursday, November 19, 2009 image

Poker and American history. How the game of presidents, cowboys, gangsters, and online gamblers helped shape America.

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Google vs. Murdoch
Thursday, November 19, 2009 image

Rupert Murdoch wants to block the search giant from scooping free content from his newspapers. We’ll look at the staredown.

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On Point Blog
Michael Wolff and Jeff Jarvis on Murdoch v. Google

We had a rousing discussion about Google vs. Murdoch, and what it says about the whole future of news, with Michael Wolff, Jeff Jarvis, and Steven Brill. Here’s what Wolff and Jarvis had to say about the delusions of both Murdoch and Google.

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Video: Google CEO Eric Schmidt

Last week, host Tom Ashbrook was on stage with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, asking him about some of the biggest technology and business issues of our time.

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California, here we come! And we need your questions!

On Point is headed west!
No, no. Not for good. Only for one show. But it’s a very special show!  The NPR station in Thousand Oaks, California – KCLU – is celebrating their 15th anniversary. We’re lucky to have been on their airwaves for nearly seven years, and they invited us out west to host a live [...]

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