378 stories by "WNYC"
Two-time James Beard Award winners Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg join us to discuss their new book Kitchen Creativity: Unlocking Culinary Genius"with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Ideas from t…
Journalist and author David Neiwert joins us to discuss his latest book Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump. As an investigative reporter, David Neiwert has been t…
Actors Elizabeth McGovern, Charlotte Parry, and Anna Baryshnikov join us to discuss starring in the Broadway revival of  J.B. Priestley's "Time and the Conways." The play moves between…
On Tuesday, Joy Behar was on our show to talk about her new book The Great Gasbag. She was funny, sharp, and opinionated, as she's always been, and we decided for our Bonus Weekend Podcast t…
Jeff Goodell, journalist and contributing editor at Rolling Stone, joins us to discuss his book The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World. …
Michael Kirk explains why Russia interfered in the 2016 election. Reed Tucker explores the decades-long battle between Marvel and DC Comics. John Leguizamo on returning to Broadw…
Actor and comedian John Leguizamo has returned to Broadway with his new show "Latin History for Morons" at Studio 54. The 90-minute solo play explores how Latinos have been marginal…
The July 17, 2014 video of Eric Garner's death on a Staten Island sidewalk at the hands of a police officer was seen by millions, and the circumstances around his death became part …
Jacques d'Amboise founded the National Dance Institute in 1976 while working as a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. His goal was to spread arts education and dance to younge…
Andy Serkis has played numerous career-defining roles as an actor including as Gollum from the "Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" movies, and as Caesar in the new "Planet of the A…
Jere Van Dyk investigates his 2008 kidnapping in Afghanistan. Marc Maron mines his podcast "WTF" for words of advice. Alan Cumming and Grant Shaffer discuss their new children's …
Acclaimed stage and film actor Alan Cumming and illustrator Grant Shaffer join us to talks about their new children's book The Adventures of Honey & Leon. It tells the story of the autho…
Hal Prince is a Broadway legend whose career spans 70 years. He has won 21 Tony Awards as a producer and director for productions that include: "Cabaret," "Fiddler on the Roof," "Sweeney Tod…
Grammy Award-winning singer, musician and songwriter Art Garfunkel joins us to discuss his memoir What Is It All But Luminous: Notes from an Underground Man. Hal Prince is a Broadway lege…
Hal Prince on his career and the show, "Prince of Broadway." Tova Mirvis on the difficulties of becoming non-Orthodox. Annie Polland and Andrea Velez on the Tenement Museum's exh…
Tova Mirvis was born and raised in a tight-knit Orthodox Jewish family where she followed the rules and rituals of daily life, got married and quickly started a family. But as she docu…
Hal Prince is a Broadway legend whose career spans 70 years. He has won 21 Tony Awards, including eight for directing, eight for producing the year's Best Musical, two as Best Producer of a …
Singer Jamie Leonhart performs songs from her new show "Estuary: an artist/mother story" live in our studio! She's joined by husband and musician Michael Leonhart. In "Estuary: an artist/mot…
Cognitive neuroscientist Jonathan Skariton joins us to discuss his debut novel Séance Infernale. The novel presupposes that movies weren't the invention of Thomas Edison or the Lumiére bro…
James Delbourgo, Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University, joins us to discuss his book Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum. He tells the stor…
In 2007, journalist Deborah Campbell traveled to Damascus to report on the flow of Iraqi refugees into Syria following the fall of Saddam Hussein. While there, she hired an Iraqi refugee …
TJ Brennan and Finbarr O'Reilly join us to discuss their dual memoir Shooting Ghosts: A U.S. Marine, a Combat Photographer, and Their Journey Back from War. It chronicles of their friendship…
Award-winning memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn joins us to discuss his new book An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic. When Daniel's father, 81-year-old Jay Mendelsohn, decided t…
Bestselling author Nicole Krauss joins us to discuss her latest novel Forest Dark. It tells the story of 68-year-old Jules Epstein, a man who has recently divorced his wife of 30 years, reti…
Two years ago, Manoush Zomorodi and her team at the WNYC podcast Note to Self recruited thousands of listeners to join their "Bored and Brilliant" challenge. It was an attempt to get listene…
