Columnist Jimmy Breslin poses in his New York apartment May 7, 2002.

Bonus Weekend Podcast: Trisha Brown, Robert Silvers, Jimmy Breslin

The Leonard Lopate Show | Mar 25, 2017

For this week’s Bonus Weekend Podcast, we are revisiting our conversations with some notable people who passed away recently. In 1995 Leonard spoke with MacArthur Award Winning dancer Trisha Brown. She brought grace and simplicity and fun to her choreography -- performing on rooftops and sideways on walls. In 2008 Leonard spoke with Robert Silvers founder of The New York Review of Books, one of the premier intellectual journals in America. And that same year, the legendary New York newspaper columnist Jimmy Breslin talked about his latest book, a fascinating tale of the American mafia.

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