Upcoming Guests

MONDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2009

*New Yorker staff writer Michael Specter on why so many Americans have come to mistrust science and major institutions (Denialism)

*Wil Haygood on the life and times of Sugar Ray Robinson (Sweet Thunder)

*Thomas Keller, the chef/owner of Per Se and The French Laundry, with his latest cookbook, Ad Hoc at Home

*FRONTLINE correspondent Lowell Bergman with his documentary about the future of the consumer loan industry, "The Card Game"

TUESDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2009

*Les Leopold, director of the labor Institute and the Public Health Institute, debunks various myths blaming low-income home buyers and credit-card debt for the financial crash (The Looting of America)

*Director Richard ("The School of Rock") Linklater with his latest film, "Me and Orson Welles"

*Viggo Mortensen discusses his latest movie, "The Road," based on Cormac McCarthy’s novel

*Patrick Carr on why small towns are becoming deserted, and what it means for the rest of the country (Hollowing Out the Middle)

WEDNESDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2009

Guest host Amy Eddings

*Thomas Frank, who wrote What’s the Matter with Kansas, explores the conservative counter-culture movement in America, and its unlikely leader, Glenn Beck

*Janet Soskice on how two lady adventurers discovered the earliest known copies of the Gospels (The Sisters of Sinai)

*New Yorker staff writer John Colapinto on going undercover with one of the Michelin Guide’s inspectors at Jean Georges

*Word maven Patricia T. (Woe Is I) O’Conner tackles listener questions about our confounding English language

THURSDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2009

*Science writer Susan Allport on why Omega-3s were removed from the Western diet (The Queen of Fats)

*Wallace Shawn with a new book of Essays

*Benjamin Moser on the life and work of one of Latin America’s most popular, but least understood writers, Clarice Lispector (Why This World)

*Harvard University primatologist Richard Wrangham on how cooking made us human (Catching Fire)

FRIDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2009

*Taylor Branch with things President Bill Clinton thought and felt, but couldn’t say in public (The Clinton Tapes)

*Curators Tracey Bashkoff and Karole Vail on the Guggenheim Museum’s retrospective of "Kandinsky"

*Former US ambassador to the United Nations Madeleine Albright examines her life, and global politics, through her brooches (Read My Pins)

*Dr. Nicholas Christakis and Dr. James Fowler on ways we influence each other, more than we know (Connected)