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Title: The New Yorker Festival - William Finnegan and Raymond R. Kelly

Author: William Finnegan, Raymond R. Kelly

Narrator: William Finnegan, Raymond R. Kelly

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-15-05

Publisher: The New Yorker

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Summary:

William Finnegan has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1987. His books include Dateline Soweto, A Complicated War, and Cold New World, all of which grew out of articles for the magazine. In his July 25th New Yorker piece, "The Terrorism Beat", he wrote about how the N.Y.P.D., under Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, is working to prevent terrorist attacks.

Raymond W. Kelly is the Police Commissioner of New York City. He first held this post from 1992 to 1994, and was reappointed in 2002. In the interim, he commanded the multinational police force in Haiti in 1994, and served as Under-Secretary of the United States Treasury and as U.S. Customs Commissioner. He has 31 years of experience in the New York Police Department.

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Title: The New Yorker Festival - John Updike Interviewed by David Remnick

Author: John Updike

Narrator: David Remnick

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-14-05

Publisher: The New Yorker

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Summary:

John Updike has contributed fiction, poetry, essays, and criticism to The New Yorker for the past half century. He is the author of more than 50 books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning novels Rabbit Is Rich and Rabbit at Rest, and, most recently, the novel Villages, parts of which first appeared in the magazine. His story "The Roads of Home" was published in the February 7th issue. Still Looking, a collection of his art essays, was published in October.

David Remnick is the editor of The New Yorker.

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Title: The New Yorker Festival - Edie Falco Talks with Jeffrey Toobin

Author: Edie Falco, Jeffrey Toobin

Narrator: Edie Falco, Jeffrey Toobin

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-13-05

Publisher: The New Yorker

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Summary:

Edie Falco has received three Emmys and two Golden Globes for her performance as Carmela Soprano on the HBO series The Sopranos. Her Broadway credits include Side Man,Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune, and 'night, Mother. She has acted in numerous films, winning the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Sunshine State, and will appear in the upcoming The Quiet,The Great New Wonderful, and Freedomland.

Jeffrey Toobin has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1993. He is also the senior legal analyst for CNN. He is the author of Too Close to Call, about the 2000 election; A Vast Conspiracy, about the Clinton sex scandal; and The Run of His Life, about the trial of O. J. Simpson.

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Title: The New Yorker Festival - Mike White Talks with Cressida Leyshon

Author: Mike White, Cressida Leyshon

Narrator: Mike White, Cressida Leyshon

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-13-05

Publisher: The New Yorker

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Summary:

Cressida Leyshon is the deputy fiction editor of The New Yorker.

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Title: The New Yorker Festival - American Obsession with Precociousness

Author: Malcolm Gladwell

Narrator: Malcolm Gladwell

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-13-05

Publisher: The New Yorker

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Summary:

Malcolm Gladwell has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1996. He is the author of The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference and Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, which was published this year. Both books grew out of articles that first appeared in the magazine. Mr. Gladwell will discuss other works in progress as well.

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Title: Sleater-Kinney Talk with James Surowiecki

Author: Sleater-Kinney, James Surowiecki

Narrator: Sleater-Kinney, James Surowiecki

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-13-05

Publisher: The New Yorker

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Summary:

Sleater-Kinney started out 10 years ago as a side project by the singer-guitarists Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein, both veterans of the Pacific Northwest music scene. Drummer Janet Weiss joined them in 1996. They have recorded seven albums, including Dig Me Out, One Beat, and, most recently, The Woods, which came out in May.

James Surowiecki has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2000 and currently writes the Financial Page for the magazine. His recent subjects include the impact of oil prices on the United States economy, aid to Africa, and the new economics of the music business.

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Title: The New Yorker Festival - Master Class in the Graphic Novel

Author: Charles Burns, Chris Ware

Narrator: Charles Burns, Chris Ware

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-13-05

Publisher: The New Yorker

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Summary:

Chris Ware's graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, parts of which first appeared in The New Yorker, was included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial. His collection The ACME Novelty Library is out this fall, and he is at work on two graphic novels. He began contributing drawings, comic strips, and cover art to the magazine in 1999.

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Title: An Interview with Simon Winchester

Author: Simon Winchester

Narrator: Simon Winchester

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-05

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Summary:

In this interview, Simon Winchester, the international best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa, talks about his new book, A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906. In it, Winchester vividly brings to life the earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. He also brings his inimitable storytelling abilities, as well as his unique understanding of geology, to this extraordinary event, exploring not only what happened in northern California in 1906 but what we have learned since about the geological underpinnings that caused the earthquake in the first place.

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Title: Warren Beatty

Author: Suzanne Finstad

Narrator: Suzanne Finstad

Format: Unabridged

Length: 23 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-30-05

Publisher: Books on Tape

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Celebrity Bios

Summary:

Through years of groundbreaking research, lauded biographer Suzanne Finstad gained unprecedented access to Beatty's family, close friends, and film colleagues, including such luminaries in the arts and politics as Jane Fonda, Goldie Hawn, Leslie Caron, Robert Towne, Mike Nichols, and Senators John McCain, George McGovern, and Gary Hart. Weaving hundreds of these candid interviews, photographs from private albums, personal letters, diaries, and the previously unpublished papers of the late Natalie Wood, and mentors such as directors Elia Kazan and George Stevens, playwrights Clifford Odets and William Inge, and agent Charles Feldman, Warren Beatty unveils the real Beatty, a complex, sensitive visionary torn between the "fairly puritanical, football-playing boy" from Virginia and his Hollywood playboy image.

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Title: Coming Home to Myself

Author: Wynonna Judd, Patsi Bale Cox

Narrator: Ellen Archer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-29-05

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Celebrity Bios

Summary:

Coming Home to Myself is the result of that emotional journey, a song of personal discovery that taught Wynonna Judd to love not just what she does, but who she is. From a truly exceptional woman comes an unexpected memoir of survival, strength, hope, and forgiveness, filled with an exultant and empowering message certain to resonate with those who have dreamed of finding themselves, and who only needed the courage and inspiration to begin their own journey.

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