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2007 Pulitzer Prize Winners
Recent interviews with Pulitzer winners
Listen to recent interviews with a few of the winners of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, Music, History and more.
Ornette Coleman Wins Pulitzer Prize
Soundcheck
April 17, 2007
Jazz saxophone legend Ornette Coleman has won this year's Pulitzer Prize. A look at the winning album today.
Jazz Great Ornette Coleman Wins 2006 Pulitzer Prize
April 16, 2007
The 2006 Pulitzer Prize announcements were made earlier this afternoon. Among the winners were David Lindsay-Abaire for his play “Rabbit Hole,” and the award for general nonfiction was given to L....
Lawrence Wright’s Trip to Al-Qaeda
The Leonard Lopate Show
March 30, 2007
Author and screenwriter Lawrence Wright’s new Al Gore-style presentation is My Trip to Al-Qaeda. He uses evidence, transcripts, and court documents to show how Al-Qaeda became a defining force in America's foreign policy and national psyche. Gregory Mosher directs the presentation, now playing at the Culture Project.
Bringing the Civil Rights Struggle to the Front Page
The Leonard Lopate Show
February 14, 2007
Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff explain how dedicated journalists--first the black press, then eventually the rest of the national media--brought the civil rights struggle to the forefront of the news.
The Race Beat is available for purchase at amazon.com
The Race Beat
On The Media
December 22, 2006
In the 1950s, the mainstream American press had very little experience covering segregation and its impacts. In a new book, The Race Beat, Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff tell the story of how the civil rights struggle gradually made its way onto the front pages.
On the Road Again
The Brian Lehrer Show
October 06, 2006
Lawrence Wright , staff writer for The New Yorker and author,
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Knopf, 2006)
- on his New Yorker Festival
performance piece, "My Trip to Al-Qaeda"
Ornette Coleman
Soundcheck
September 15, 2006
The saxophonist Ornette Coleman has been re-writing the rules of jazz for the past five decades. Known for being at the forefront of the free jazz movement, his work has influenced artists across musical genres. He's just released his first new recording in ten years, Sound Grammar. He's live in the studio.
Ornette Coleman's "SoundGrammar" at Amazon.com
The Looming Tower
The Leonard Lopate Show
September 11, 2006
Lawrence Wright examines the terrorist plans and intelligence failures leading up to the attacks on 9/11 in The Looming Tower.
Available for purchase at amazon.com
The Life of Henry Ward Beecher
The Leonard Lopate Show
June 27, 2006
Debby Applegate examines the life of Henry Ward Beecher—Harriet Beecher Stowe's brother, and one of America’s last important Puritan ministers—in The Most Famous Man in America.
Available for purchase at amazon.com.
An American Poetry Panel
The Leonard Lopate Show
April 11, 2006
David Lehman, editor of The Oxford Book of American Poetry, joins poets David Tucker (Late for Work) and Natasha Trethewey (Native Guard) for a discussion of what makes American poetry distinctive.
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