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The Current Climates
On today’s show: New York Times business columnist Ron Lieber takes your calls on how to survive the current economic crisis. Then, Gourmet magazine editor-in-chief Ruth Reichl reassesses her relationship with her mother. And, Colson Whitehead on his autobiographical fourth novel, "Sag Harbor." Plus, novelist and psychiatrist Nawal El Saadawi on the status of women in the Arab world.
Your Money
New York Times business columnist Ron Lieber has a few suggestions on how investors can survive the current economic climate. He’ll be taking your calls today at 212-433-WNYC.
You can read Lieber’s "Your Money" columns in the Times here.
Not Becoming My Mother
Gourmet magazine editor-in-chief Ruth Reichl investigates her mother’s life through letters and diaries in her book Not Becoming My Mother and Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way.
Event: Ruth Reichl will be reading and signing books
Thursday, April 30, at 7:30 pm
Barnes & Noble, Lincoln Triangle
1972 Broadway, at 66th Street
Sag Harbor
In his autobiographical fourth novel Sag Harbor, Colson Whitehead explores the desperate adolescent quest for reinvention and the elusive nature of identity at an elite Manhattan prep school in 1985.
Events: Colson Whitehead will be reading and signing books
Wednesday, April 29, at 7:00 pm
Barnes & Noble, Tribeca
97 Warren Street, at Greenwich Street
Nawal El Saadawi
For more than 50 years, novelist, psychiatrist and activist Dr. Nawal El Saadawi has written books that focus on identity, sexuality and the legal status of women in the Arab world. She continued working despite threats to her life, imprisonment and, ultimately exile from her native Egypt.
Event: Nawal El Saadawi will deliver the 4th Annual Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture as part of the PEN World Voices Festival
Sunday May 3, at 6:30 pm
Cooper Union
7 East 7th Street
Tickets: $15; $10 for PEN members
More information and tickets here.
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A number of this year’s National Book Award winners have appeared on The Leonard Lopate Show. Click here to see the list!
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