Regular guest Ruth Reichl, editor of Gourmet magazine, is back. She’s joined by Thanksgiving food sleuth Ian Dengler - he can read a person’s family background by looking at what they eat on Thanksgiving. Then Deirdre Bair sifts through the confusing legacy of psychoanalyst Carl Jung. Journalist David Kocieniewski and
detective Vincent Armanti talk about corruption in the NYPD. And Alberto Fuguet talks about his latest novel, The Movies of My Life.
Ian Dengler and Ruth Reichl
Food historian Ian Dengler can read your past by looking at your plate. He and Ruth Reichl dissect Thanksgiving culinary traditions and explain why they’re clues to your family background.
Music: The Canadian Brass Swingtime “Blue Rondo a la Turk”
Deirdre Bair
Deirdre Bair has written biographies of Samuel Beckett, Anais Nin, and Samuel Beckett. She’s just finished another big one: her latest is Jung, a close look at one of the most original thinkers of the 20th century.
Music: Intersection Soundtrack composer James Newton Howard
Events: Deidre Bair will be reading ...
David Kocieniewski
David Kocieniewski’s true crime story, The Brass Wall, looks into the frightening details of an assignment in an area of the Bronx notorious for ties to organized crime. He’s joined by highly-regarded detective Vincent Armanti, who was almost killed because of the botched NYPD operation.
Music: Kiss The ...
Alberto Fuguet
Alberto Fuguet’s latest novel, The Movies of My Life, is about a seismologist’s memories of his dual Californian and Chilean childhood and the movies that sustained him.
Music: Close Encounters of the Third Kind composer John Williams
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