i'm your host, paula marantz cohen, speaking to you from the leonard pearlstein gallery of the antoinettehal college of media arts and design at drexel university. today, my guest is dr. sal mangione. dr. mangione obtained his m.d. from the catholic university of rome, then trained in internal medicine, pulmonary, and critical-care medicine at the medical college of pennsylvania. he's currently associate program director for the internal medicine residency and coordinator for the "history of medicine" lecture series at thomas jefferson university in

i'm your host, paula marantz cohen, speaking to you from the office of the phi beta kappa society inashington, d.c. my guest today is robert wilson, editor of the american scholar, the journal published by phi beta kappa. robert wilson is the author of the recent biography "mathew brady: portraits of a nation." robert wilson, welcome to "the drexel interview." >> thanks so much for having me. >> mathew brady is considered by many people as the

i'm your host, paula marantz cohen, speaking to you from the leonard pearlstein gallery in the antoinetteestphal college of media arts & design at drexel university. today, my guest is gary shteyngart, author of three acclaimed novels -- "the russian debutante's handbook," "absurdistan," and "super sad true love story," and his latest book, a memoir, entitled "little failure." this is the first of a two-episode interview. in this first episode, we'll talk about gary shteyngart's memoir and use it to discuss his life up through the publicatio