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Someday, will we be able to get our full day’s supply of vitamins in a cup of coffee? Will that be a GOOD thing? The Lopate Show continues its series “Future Imperfect” with Gourmet magazine editor Ruth Reichl and food industry writer Michael Pollan. They take a look into emerging food technology. Then essayist, poet and cultural critic Phillip Lopate talks about his recent book, Getting Personal, and revisits some scenes from his past. (Yes, Phillip is Leonard’s brother.) Franz Lidz tells about the lives of two wealthy New York brothers whose main occupation was filling up their brownstone with junk collections. And Caryl Phillips talks about A Distant Shore, his latest novel.
Experience the entire Future Imperfect project.
Experience the entire Future Imperfect project.
Ruth Reichl and Michael Pollan
Ruth Reichl and Michael Pollan discuss our space-age food future. Ruth Reichl is editor of Gourmet magazine. Michael Pollan is the author of The Botany of Desire, and he’s written many articles on the food industry, including the The New York Times Magazine piece called ‘The Futures of Food.”
Philip Lopate
Phillip Lopate is a master of the art of the personal essay. His recent book is Getting Personal.
Franz Lidz
When Homer and Langley Collyer died in 1947, their junk collection included bicycle parts, broken baby carriages, abandoned toys and Christmas trees, and a two-headed baby floating in formaldehyde. In his new book, Ghosty Men, Franz Lidz looks into the lives of these two brothers and their strange obsession with ...
Caryl Phillips
Essayist, critic and novelist Caryl Phillips shares his latest novel, A Distant Shore. It’s set in a housing estate in contemporary England and explores the relationship between an African man and an English woman.
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