With a silvery statue of Andy Warhol now standing in Union Square until October, and soaring sales of Warhol’s work this past spring, the artist is still a presence. WNYC’s Sara Fishko has news of a new book that charts Andy Warhol’s life in New York, literally every step of the way, in this edition of Fishko Files…

Premiering this weekend is a new TV adaptation of “Mildred Pierce,” one of James M. Cain’s Depression-era, tough-guy novels. As WNYC’s Sara Fishko tells us, those books provided 1940s Hollywood with plenty of material for its dark dramas. Here is the next Fishko Files...

This fall has seen a new translation from Russian to English of Boris Pasternak’s “Doctor Zhivago.”   The art of translation has a lot to do with give and take --between two languages, and in this case, two translators.  Here is the next Fishko Files....

A new, highly praised English translation of Tolstoy's War and Peace hit bookstores this week. In this edition of the Fishko Files, Sara Fishko turns the pages of this great classic.

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You can now read about jazz in a kind of encyclopedia. It’s about 3 inches thick, with over 800 pages and 59 articles. WNYC’s Sara Fishko says leafing through it is – like the music itself – a positively non-linear experience. Here’s the next Fishko Files....

Poets have distinctive styles. As we read them, we become familiar with their inner voices. But what about their actual voices? As Sara Fishko tells us, a poet's voice isn't always related to the inner voice in the way we imagined it would be...here is the next Fishko Files...