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Reza Aslan, Aimee Bender, Howard Gordon, Heather Graham, Jamie Ray Newman, Sholeh Wolpe, Gideon Yago, Necar Zadegan, Hamid Saeidi
November 9, 2010
Fiction/Literature, Religion/Spirituality, Social Sci/Politics
Ludo Lefebvre, Roy Choi
October 17, 2012
Arts & Entertainment
Richard Montoya, Myriam Gurba, Erin Aubry Kaplan, Philip Littell, Héctor Tobar, Brenda Varda, Alie Ward
June 13, 2012
California/The West, Essay/Memoir, History/Bio
Yanis Varoufakis, Alex Cohen
May 17, 2018
Current Events
Rosa Brooks, Christy Lopez
February 18, 2021
Essay/Memoir, Social Sci/Politics
Stephen Mitchell
March 18, 2009
History/Bio, Religion/Spirituality
Father Gregory Boyle
May 13, 2010
Essay/Memoir, California/The West, Social Sci/Politics
Alice McDermott, Brighde Mullins
October 10, 2013
Fiction/Literature
John Lahr, Armistead Maupin
October 7, 2014
Arts & Entertainment, Essay/Memoir, Fiction/Literature, History/Bio
Terry Tempest Williams
April 27, 1997
California/The West, Essay/Memoir, Fiction/Literature
Lorrie Moore, Brighde Mullins
April 9, 2014
Arts & Entertainment, Fiction/Literature
Rabbi Sharon Brous, Father Gregory Boyle
January 30, 2024
Essay/Memoir
Walter Kirn, George McGovern, James Q. Wilson, Robert Vare
October 18, 2007
Social Sci/Politics
Wayne Koestenbaum
April 10, 2012
Fiction/Literature, Arts & Entertainment, History/Bio
Sarah Lyall
September 16, 2008
History/Bio, Essay/Memoir
Denis Dutton
January 7, 2009
Arts & Entertainment, History/Bio, Science/Nature
Eli Broad
May 22, 2012
Business/Tech, History/Bio
Kristina Wong, Jessica Arana, Māhealani Flournoy, Laura Karlin
February 6, 2023
Arts & Entertainment
Temple Grandin
May 22, 2013
Arts & Entertainment, Essay/Memoir, Fiction/Literature, History/Bio, Science/Nature, Social Sci/Politics, Technology
Allan Adler, Lawrence Lessig, David Drummond, Fontayne Holmes, Jonathan Kirsch, Gary Wolf
June 12, 2006
Fiction/Literature, Arts & Entertainment, Business/Tech, Social Sci/Politics
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