The Leonard Lopate Show

JFK’s Trusted Advisor

JFK called his advisor Ted Sorensen his “intellectual blood bank.” Ted Sorensen looks back on their work together, and tells us what he thinks JFK’s true legacy is. His new memoir is Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History.

Event: Ted Sorensen will be interviewed by James Mustich
Monday, May 12 at 7 pm
Barnes & Noble Union Square
33 East 17th Street

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The Sorrows of an American

Siri Hustvedt’s new novel, The Sorrows of an American, follows a New York psychoanalyst who returns to his Minnesota home town to sort through his deceased father’s papers.

Events: Siri Hustvedt will be speaking and signing books
Tuesday, May 13 at 7 pm
Tribeca Barnes & Noble
97 Warren Street (at Greenwich Street)

Siri Hustvedt will be in conversation with Deborah Baker
Thursday, May 15 at 7 pm
192 Books
192 10th Avenue (at 21st Street)

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Lullabies & Wildflowers

Actress, singer and songwriter Melissa Errico’s latest album is "Lullabies & Wildflowers." Much of it is inspired by her becoming a mother.

Event: Melissa Errico will be singing her complete album, "Lullabies & Wildflowers"
Tuesday, May 13 at 4 pm
Tribeca Barnes and Noble
97 Warren Street (at Greenwich Street)

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America on the Verge

Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi says that America is a nation on the verge of a nervous breakdown. He traveled across the country in the post-9/11 era and wrote about what he found in The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire.

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