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24 Episodes 2014 - 2015
Episode 1
Thu, Oct 2, 2014
Evan interviews Lawrence Wright, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and staff writer for The New Yorker. His newest book is Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David, a day-by-day account of the 1978 Camp David Accords.
Episode 2
Thu, Oct 9, 2014
Evan talks with Lizz Winstead, the co-creator, former writer and former correspondent for The Daily Show. She also co-founded Air America Radio. Winstead is now well known as one of the country's top political satirists.
Episode 3
Thu, Oct 16, 2014
Evan speaks with Mark Bittman, an opinion columnist and lead food writer for The New York Times. He's written several books including the groundbreaking Vegan Before 6P.M. (VB6), which introduced Americans to the Flexitarian diet.
Episode 4
Thu, Oct 23, 2014
Evan interviews author Ian McEwan. McEwan has won numerous awards, including the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976, the Man Booker Prize in 1998 for his novel Amsterdam and the WH Smith Literary Award in 2002 for his novel Atonement.
Episode 5
Thu, Oct 30, 2014
Evan interviews Bob Woodward, one of America's most prominent investigative reporters and non-fiction writers. Woodward is Associate Editor at The Washington Post, where he's worked since 1971. He has written 16 national best-selling books.
Episode 6
Thu, Nov 6, 2014
Evan interviews Ross Douthat. Ross is a conservative Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times and has authored a number of books, most recent being Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics.
Episode 7
Thu, Nov 13, 2014
Evan interviews Katha Pollitt, award-winning author and columnist for The Nation. Her most recent book, Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights, discusses women's reproductive rights.
Episode 8
Thu, Nov 20, 2014
Evan interviews Nicholas Kristof, who is a journalist, author and op-ed columnist for The New York Times. His books (co-written with his wife Sheryl WuDunn) primarily focus on poverty, health, and human rights in the developing world.
Episode 9
Thu, Dec 18, 2014
Evan interviews Martin Amis, a prolific author whose credits include London Fields, The Rachel Papers, Time's Arrow and The Information. His fourteenth novel, The Zone of Interest, is a controversial satire set at Auschwitz.
Episode 10
Thu, Jan 8, 2015
Evan interviews James Ellroy, an author known for his noir crime fiction, including L.A. Confidential and The Black Dahlia. His latest novel, Perfidia, is set in Los Angeles during World War II, as Japanese internment camps begin forming.
Episode 11
Thu, Jan 15, 2015
Joyce Carol Oates is one of the most distinguished and critically-acclaimed fiction writers in America. Her works include We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde and The Accursed. Her latest collection of writings is Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories.
Episode 12
Thu, Jan 29, 2015
Evan talks with William Gibson, the acclaimed science fiction novelist, essayist, and screenwriter, known for coining the term "cyberspace." Gibson has been called the "noir prophet" of the "cyberpunk" community.
Episode 13
Thu, Mar 19, 2015
Evan interviews best-selling author and journalist S. C. Gwynne. Gwynne's most recent book is Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson is a finalist for the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award.
Episode 14
Thu, Mar 26, 2015
Evan interviews David Axelrod, political strategist and former Senior Advisor to President Obama. Axelrod ran both of Obama's presidential campaigns and has worked for other big name Democratics, including Hillary Clinton and John Edwards.
Episode 15
Thu, Apr 2, 2015
Evan talks with Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney, who's latest film, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, is based on Lawrence Wright's book by the same name.
Episode 16
Thu, Apr 9, 2015
Evan interviews Hendrik Hertzberg, Senior Editor and Staff Writer at The New Yorker. Hertzberg's The Talk of the Town series has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary 6 times, and won the award in 2006.
Episode 17
Thu, Apr 16, 2015
Kim Gordon is a founding member of Sonic Youth and author of the best-selling memoir Girl in a Band. The memoir chronicles her childhood in California, her time in New York in the '80s and '90s, and the rise of Sonic Youth.
Episode 18
Thu, Apr 23, 2015
Evan interviews Salman Khan, founder of Khan Academy, a non-profit providing online instruction to people all over the world.
Episode 19
Thu, Apr 16, 2015
Bernie Sanders is a United States Senator from Vermont who describes himself as a Socialist, serves as an Independent, and may run for president as a Democrat in 2016. Sanders is the longest-serving Congressional Independent in US history.
Episode 20
Thu, May 14, 2015
Evan interviews stand-up comedian, writer, and podcast host Marc Maron. His podcast "WTF with Marc Maron" is regularly one of the most popular on iTunes. His eponymous IFC show Maron returns this month.
Episode 21
Thu, May 21, 2015
Former Congressman Barney Frank represented the Fourth District of Massachusetts for over three decades. One of the most prominent gay politicians in U.S. history, he was the first sitting member of Congress to enter a same-sex marriage.
Episode 22
Thu, May 28, 2015
Evan talks with Cokie Roberts, best-selling author and current contributor to NPR's Morning Edition and a Political Commentator for ABC News. She's won numerous awards and was inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame.
Episode 23
Thu, Jun 18, 2015
Evan talks to Pulitzer Prize-winning author, historian, and public speaker, Taylor Branch, who is best known for his Civil Rights era trilogy America in the King Years. He also wrote The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President.
Episode 24
Thu, Sep 3, 2015
Evan interviews TV sports commentator, and philanthropist, Andy Roddick, whose namesake foundation is celebrating its fifteenth anniversary. Roddick was formerly a world champion professional tennis player.