Shakespeare and America, Phoenicia Diner Cookbook, Colin Quinn, Alligators in the Sewers, Morgan Parker
English and comparative literature professor at Columbia University, James Shapiro, discusses his new book, Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future.
Mike Cioffi, Chris Bradley, and Sara B. Franklin talk about their new book, The Phoenicia Diner Cookbook: Dishes and Dispatches from the Catskill Mountains.
Listeners call in to share their favorite restaurant.
[REBROADCAST] Comedian Colin Quinn joins us to talk about his play, “Colin Quinn: Red State Blue State,” which offers a satirical look at the hypocrisies in politics on both sides of the aisle and is available to watch on Netflix.
Corey Kilgannon, New York Times staff reporter, discusses his article, “The Truth About Alligators in the Sewers of New York.” And listeners call in to share and dispel their favorite urban myths.
[REBROADCAST] Poet Morgan Parker joins us to discuss her National Book Critics Circle award-winning book, Magical Negro, an archive of black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral grief, and an inventory of figureheads, idioms, and customs.
