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Jane Mayer and George Packer on BlogTalkRadio

April 30, 2009

The J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project and the Columbia Journalism School presented a conversation on BlogTalkRadio between celebrated New Yorker writers Jane Mayer and George Packer.

Mayer's latest book, "The Dark Side: Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals," won the 2009 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize. In 2008, Mayer received The Chancellor Award, also administered by the Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism.

Packer, a former judge for the Lukas Book Prize, is the author most recently of "The Assassin's Gate: America in Iraq." His new book, "Interesting Times: Writings from a Turbulent Decade" is coming out this fall.

Both Mayer and Packer write frequently for The New Yorker.

Listen to their conversation moderated by Dean of Student Affairs Sree Sreenivasan.

Download the MP3 and listen to more conversations from the J-School here.