Assistive Media | Topic: Popular Culture

THE ANTI-NETWORK

Brian Lamb and C-SPAN let the news reveal itself--without staging, stars, or sound bites.

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: James Lardner
Publication: 1994 The New Yorker
Read by: David Henry
Length: 42 minutes

THE IMAGE CULTURE

How, in time, will images influence our cultural memory

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: Christine Rosen
Publication: 2005 The New Atlantis
Read by: Vi Benner
Length: 54 minutes

DISAPPEARING DISHES

How Diana Kennedy is rescuing everyday food

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: Alma Guillermoprieto
Publication: 2005 The New Yorker
Read by: Vi Benner
Length: 17 minutes

CALLIOPE TIMES

A life in the circus

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: Edward Hoagland
Publication: 2000 The New Yorker
Read by: David Zinn
Length: 27 minutes

TAKING HUMOR SERIOUSLY

George Meyer, the funniest man behind the funniest show on T.V.

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: David Owen
Publication: 2000 The New Yorker
Read by: David Henry
Length: 47 minutes

WHY McDONALD'S FRIES TASTE SO GOOD

The rapid expansion of McDonald's and the popularity of its low-cost, mass-produced fries changed the way Americans eat.

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: Eric Schlosser
Publication: 2002 The Atlantic Monthly
Read by: Gail Farley
Length: 36 minutes

THE TUG OF NEWFANGLED SLOT MACHINES

Something to think about next time you're in the casino.

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: Rivlin
Publication: 2004
Read by: Deborah Pohrt
Length: 55 minutes

SEEKING HOME

You cannot deny you admire the way she looks.

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: Dorien Ross
Publication: 1991
Read by: Pamela Lewis
Length: 7 minutes

LUNCH AT MARTHA'S

Problems with the perfect life.

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: Jeffrey Toobin
Publication: 2002 The New Yorker
Read by: Linda Wilkins
Length: 33 minutes

LITTLE PEOPLE

When did we start treating children like children?

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: Joan Acocella
Publication: 2003 The New Yorker
Read by: Melissa Stewart
Length: 26 minutes

LIFE WITH DAUGHTERS:

Watching the Miss America Pageant

Topic: Popular Culture
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Publication: 1991 The Kenyon Review
Read by: Kathleen Sullivan
Length: 50 minutes

ENTER THE CHICKEN

Burkhard Bilger's cockfighting piece.

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: Burkhard Bilger
Publication: 2000 Harper's Magazine
Read by: Steven Schiff
Length: 49 minutes

DRY MARTINI

The ultimate cocktail, down cold

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: Roger Angell
Publication: 2002 The New Yorker
Read by: Jennifer McKnight
Length: 14 minutes

COUNTING AT DUSK

Why poetry matters when the century ends.

Topic: Popular Culture
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Publication: 1995 Fins De Siecle
Read by: Melissa Stewart
Length: 61 minutes

CARD TRICKS

Why laughter isn't enough for Hallmark.

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: David Owen
Publication: 2004 The New Yorker
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Length: 31 minutes

BACK TO THE BASEMENT

Ping-Pong: It's a whole new ball game

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: Franklin
Publication: 2003 The New Yorker
Read by: Adele Roy
Length: 34 minutes

GROSS POINTS

Is the blockbuster the end of cinema?

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: Louis Menard
Publication: 2005 The New Yorker
Read by: David Zinn
Length: 30 minutes

THE SILVER THIEF

The story of a burglar who was too good for his own good.

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: Stephen J. Dubner
Publication: 2004 The New Yorker
Read by: David Henry
Length: 45 minutes

BUMPING INTO MR. RAVIOLI

A theory of busyness, and its hero.

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: Adam Gopnik
Publication: 2002 The New Yorker
Read by: David Zinn
Length: 20 minutes

BURLESQUE

Its last impresario tells why it is the most American of all entertainments. (It's not because of the strippers.)

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: Ralph G. Allen
Publication: 2002 American Heritage
Read by: Michael Emlaw
Length: 32 minutes

COMPLICATIONS

The author thought that getting pregnant would be the hard part.

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: Wesserstein
Publication: 2000 The New Yorker
Read by: Susan Valeri
Length: 45 minutes

Countdown to a Baby

How hard could it be to get pregnant?

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: Michael Ryan
Publication: 2002 The New Yorker
Read by: Beth Torrey
Length: 42 minutes

HIGH STYLE

Writing under the influence.

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: John Lanchester
Publication: 2003 The New Yorker
Read by: Mary Roth
Length: 18 minutes

HONEST, DECENT, WRONG

The invention of George Orwell.

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: Louis Menand
Publication: 2003 The New Yorker
Read by: Dean Melmoth
Length: 42 minutes

IF YOU ASK ME

Etiquette through the ages.

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: Judith Thurman
Publication: 2002 The New Yorker
Read by: Kathleen Starling
Length: 21 minutes

LOCAL BOUNTY

Grandfather knows best

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: Calvin Trillin
Publication: 2003 The New Yorker
Read by: Linda Wilkins
Length: 18 minutes

MEET THE SHAGGS

Three girls from New Hampshire who became one of music's strangest legends.

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: Susan Orlean
Publication: 1999 The New Yorker
Read by: Scott Schuer
Length: 30 minutes

MONDO BOND

Forty years of 007

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: Lane
Publication: 2003 The New Yorker
Read by: Pamela Lewis
Length: 28 minutes

MOODY TOONS

The king of the Cartoon Network

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: Alec Wilkinson
Publication: 2002 The New Yorker
Read by: Pamela Lewis
Length: 29 minutes

MORNING IN AMERICA

The rise and fall of the National Lampoon.

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: Hendra
Publication: 2002 Harper's Magazine
Read by: Mary Roth
Length: 38 minutes

MOTHER COURAGE

Kids, careers and culture

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: Elizabeth Kolbert
Publication: 2004 The New Yorker
Read by: Melissa Stewart
Length: 17 minutes

SALT CHIC

Do different salts taste different?

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: Steingarten
Publication: 2002
Read by: Paulette Banks
Length: 20 minutes

SWINGING

Golf, it turns out, is a very risky business

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: David Owen
Publication: 1999 The New Yorker
Read by: Robert Miller
Length: 22 minutes

THE BEST PRETENDER

Jim Carrey calms down.

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: Franklin
Publication: 2001 The New Yorker
Read by: Melissa Stewart
Length: 41 minutes

THE DEATH BEAT

What happens when a bunch of obituary writers get together.

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: Mark Singer
Publication: 2002 The New Yorker
Read by: Gail Farley
Length: 26 minutes

THE INN CROWD

The food has been rated the best in the country, and the rooms are sublime. How did such a nice place make so many enemies?

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: Horwitz
Publication: 1999 The New Yorker
Read by: Clelia Steele
Length: 28 minutes

THE RED AND THE WHITE

Is it possible that wine connoisseurs can't tell them apart?

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: Calvin Trillin
Publication: 2002 The New Yorker
Read by: Mary Beth Carroll
Length: 19 minutes

THE WAR AGAINST THE BOYS

This we think we kno

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: Christina Hoff Summers
Publication: 2000 The Atlantic Monthly
Read by: Michael Emlaw
Length: 59 minutes

THE WEB OF THE GAME

Baseball's past and future.

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: Roger Angell
Publication: 1981
Read by: Ken Phifer
Length: 45 minutes

THE WHITE DRESS

What should nurses wear?

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: John Seabrook
Publication: 2002 The New Yorker
Read by: Paulette Banks
Length: 25 minutes

TURNING POINT

New Yorkers didn't much care for the twin towers until a nimble Frenchman named Philippe Petit danced across a wire between them

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: Rudolph Chelminski
Publication: 2002
Read by: Paulette Banks
Length: 20 minutes

TWIN PEAKS

Hermann Maier came back after a near-fatal crash; Bode Miller was waiting.

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: Burkhard Bilger
Publication: 2003 The New Yorker
Read by: Desmond Ryan
Length: 54 minutes

VICTORIA'S SECRET

A look at one of Prada's top saleswomen.

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: Mimi Swartz
Publication: 1998 The New Yorker
Read by: Melissa Stewart
Length: 27 minutes

WAITING FOR GHOSTS

The many careers of Joe Nickell, paranormal investigator

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: Burkhard Bilger
Publication: 2002 The New Yorker
Read by: Chris Purchis
Length: 36 minutes

WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF?

Terror is Stephan King's medium, but it's not the only reason he's so popular'and so frightening.

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: Mark Singer
Publication: 1998 The New Yorker
Read by: Chris Purchis
Length: 57 minutes

WHO SPEAKS FOR THE LAZY

Skirting success is harder than it looks

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: Arthur Crystal
Publication: 1999 The New Yorker
Read by: Gail Farley
Length: 22 minutes

PERSONALITY PLUS

Employers love personality tests. But what do they really reveal?

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Publication: 2004 The New Yorker
Read by: David Henry Erdody
Length: 36 minutes

THE SLOW LANE

Can anyone solve the problem of traffic?

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: John Seabrook
Publication: The New Yorker
Read by: Richard Wilson
Length: 46 minutes

UNDER ONE ROOF

The death and life of New York department store.

Topic: Popular Culture
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Author: Adam Gopnik
Publication: 2003 The New Yorker
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Length: 22 minutes