Nicholas Lemann, moderator. With Christiane Amanpour, Jon Lee Anderson, Katherine Boo, and Rich Lowry.
Nicholas Lemann has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1999 and currently writes the Wayward Press column for the magazine. He is the dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. In his article "Fear and Favor", which appeared in the February 14th issue, he wrote about criticism of the media during the 2004 election.
Christiane Amanpour is CNN's chief international correspondent. Over the past 23 years, she has reported on most crises from the world's major conflict zones, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, Somalia, Rwanda, and the Balkans. Her coverage of the Balkans, from 1991 to 1997, won, among other awards, a News and Documentary Emmy and two Peabody Awards.
Jon Lee Anderson has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1999. He is the author of The Lion's Grave: Dispatches from Afghanistan, Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life, Guerrillas, and, most recently, The Fall of Baghdad. His Profile of Hamid Karzai, the President of Afghanistan, appeared in the June 6th issue of the magazine.
Katherine Boo is a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her article "The Marriage Cure", on governmentsponsored seminars to encourage marriage for the poor, received a National Magazine Award for Feature Writing last year. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2000 and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2002.
Rich Lowry joined the National Review in 1992, after finishing second in the magazine's youngwriters contest. In 1994, he moved to Washington to cover Congress, and in 1997, at the age of 29, he became editorinchief of the magazine. He is also a political analyst for Fox News and the author of Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years.
Malcolm Gladwell, bestselling author and New Yorker staff writer, discusses making sudden, instinctive judgments, as written about in his new book, Blink....
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Mr. Ron Carlson, Ms. Antonya Nelson, Ms. Marisa Silver
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Mr. Mark Rozzo
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Los Angeles Times
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The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them....
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Thalia Book Club Readers and writers meet for intimate conversations about compelling new books and favorite classics in fiction, essay, biography and more....
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Mr. Reza Aslan, Mr. Ilan Berman, Ms. Roxana Saberi
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Mr. Bruce Wallace
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Los Angeles Times
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The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them....
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What really happened between the Jews and Jesus at the time of the Passion? How is modern day Judaism shaped by its relationship with Christianity? These questions and more are tackled....
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Annie Proulx's books include the Pulitzer Prizewinning novel The Shipping News and the story collections Bad Dirt and Wyoming Stories....
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Writer, lecturer and feminist activist Gloria Steinem and Pulitzer Prizewinning author Alice Walker sit down with Wilma Mankiller to discuss gender and politics in today's world....
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Yogi Berra is a beloved American baseball personality. On the field, his exploits with the New York Yankees made him a vital part of the most successful sports franchise ever....
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Ms. Janelle Brown, Mr. Jennifer Gilmore, Ms. Cathleen Schine, Ms. Kate Walbert
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Ms. Veronique de Turenne
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Los Angeles Times
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The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them....
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Writer, lecturer and feminist activist Gloria Steinem and Pulitzer Prizewinning author Alice Walker sit down with Wilma Mankiller to discuss gender and politics in today's world....
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The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them....
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Edwidge Danticat discusses her deeply personal new memoir, a National Book Award finalist for 2007, with her friend, director Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs)...
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Steven Seagal about his faible for weapons, why he hates fellow actor Jean Claude van Damme, how he copes when destiny strikes, where and when he talks to Buddha....
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Anita Diamant talks about her place in the unfolding story of America's Jewish renaissance, both as a student of Judaism and as a writer/teacher....
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