The Leonard Lopate Show : Video
April's Book: Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Translated by Lydia Davis
Madame Bovary, one of the most celebrated novels ever written, defined the novel as an art form when it was published in 1875. Lydia Davis’s landmark translation of Flaubert’s work breathes new life ...
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Leaked Documents Shed New Light on Tax Havens
A leaked trove of 2.5 million financial records shed new light on the murky world of offshore tax havens and finance. Washington Post reporter ...
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February’s Book: The Power of Habit, by Charles Duhigg
Our habits—good and bad—shape our lives, and understanding how habits work is key to losing weight, being more productive, exercising regularly, and achieving ...
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Video: Questions for Tom Wolfe
The author of The Bonfire of the Vanities and the new novel Back to Blood sings a little, praises Michael Lewis, and cringes at the ...
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November's Book: The Bonfire of the Vanities, by Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe’s bestselling novel The Bonfire of the Vanities is a portrait of New York in the late 1980s—a city seething with racial ...
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Video: Alex Prud'homme on Collaborating with Julia Child
When Alex Prud'homme was here for the Lopate Show Book Club conversation about Julia Child's memoir My Life in France, he shared some ...
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Wyclef Jean Performs in Our Green Room
After Wyclef Jean's interview with Leonard, in which he said he wanted to sample Leonard on his next album, he sat down at the ...
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Wyclef Jean's Immigrant Story
Wyclef Jean recounts his path from his impoverished childhood in "Baby Doc" Duvalier's Haiti and the projects of Brooklyn to Newark to the stage ...
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August-September's Book: My Life in France, by Julia Child and Alex Prud'homme
Julia Child is widely credited with single handedly teaching America about the pleasures of good cooking with her groundbreaking cookbook Mastering the Art of French ...
