Word sleuth Patricia T. O’Conner tackles listeners’ linguistic mysteries. Then food expert Raymond Sokolov explains why some recipes are such classics that just about everyone should know how to make them. Biographer Graham Russell Gao Hodges and curator Charles Silver on the life and work of actress Anna May Wong (1905-1961). She embodied Asian womanhood for a generation of American and European audiences. And Joyce Carol Oates talks about rape.
Patricia T. O’Conner
Patricia T. O’Conner solves your word mysteries. Call 212-669-WNYC with questions on the English language.
Raymond Sokolov
With his new cookbook, The Cook’s Canon, Raymond Sokolov is trying to "train the palates of a generation whose connection with traditional food has been short-circuited.” Sokolov is the former food editor of the New York Times and the author of nine previous books.
Music: Rob Fisher and ...
Music: Rob Fisher and ...
Graham Russell Gao Hodges and Charles Silver
Graham Russell Gao Hodges’s new book is Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend. The book’s publication coincides with a retrospective showing six of Wong’s films at MoMA’s Gramercy Theatre from January 22-25, curated by Charles Silver.
Go to MoMA’s Gramercy Theatre’s website
Go to MoMA’s Gramercy Theatre’s website
Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates’ new novella is called Rape: A Love Story.
Read an excerpt of Rape in the Reading Room.
Music: The Hours Soundtrack composer Phillip Glass
Read an excerpt of Rape in the Reading Room.
Music: The Hours Soundtrack composer Phillip Glass
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