Upcoming Guests

MONDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2009

*Zachary Karabell on how American and Chinese economies have become one fused, co-dependent system (Superfusion)

*Celebrity chef David Chang with his first cookbook, Momofuku

*Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Allan Miller on spending one intimate year with acclaimed conductor, Valery Gergiev for “You Cannot Start Without Me, Valery Gergiev Maestro”

*Writer Donna Fenn (Upstarts!) and entrepreneurs Darren Paul and Shazi Vizram on how Gen Yers are changing the way of businesses

TUESDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2009

*Reporters Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe, who were both embedded during Sarah Palin’s campaign – and among the few to cover her, post-election in Alaska, on her sudden rise, triumphs, and missteps (Sarah From Alaska)


*Mary Karr with Lit, her followup memoir to Cherry

*Carrie Fisher on bringing her book, Wishful Drinking, to the stage in one-woman show

*Willem Dafoe, who can be seen on both the screen, in Lars von Trier’s “Antichrist,” and at the Public Theater, in “Idiot Savant” 

WEDNESDAY 4 NOVEMBER 2009

*David Plouffe, the architect of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, finally reveals his strategies behind the historic victory (The Audacity to Win)

*Frederick Wiseman takes us backstage at the Paris Opera Ballet, through his documentary, “La Danse”

*Joel Meyerowitz describes photographing each and every city park in the five boroughs (Legacy)

*Historian Niall Ferguson with a financial history of the world (The Ascent of Money)

THURSDAY 5 NOVEMBER 2009

*New Yorker columnist Ken Auletta tells the story of the Google Wave (Googled)

*Biographer Anne C. Heller on the life, and cult behind Ayn Rand (Ayn Rand and the World She Made)

*Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan on the story behind Joe Papp (Free for All)

*Underreported

FRIDAY 30 OCTOBER 2009

*Rosemary Harris and Jan Maxwell on starring in the new production of the George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber play, “The Royal Family”

*Hafez Nazeri, who’s Iran’s most influential young composer, on his upcoming Carnegie Hall performance

*Singer/songwriter Carole King on why she’s been testifying about the environmental bill NREPA

*Please Explain