A member of the Del Fuegos, he went on to teach at NYU, work on Martin Scorsese’s George Harrison documentary, and write a biography of Tom Petty. During our conversation at the Princeton Public Library, he asserted that creative work is often the product of a miserable childhood. A counter-example offered by the audience: Leonard Nemoy, … Continue reading »
Monthly Archives: May 2016
Episode 130: Andrew Ross Sorkin
A financial columnist for the New York Times and a host of CNBC’s Squawk Box, he wrote the best selling Too Big To Fail and is a co-creator of the Showtime series Billions. We talk business ethics – I assert that there’s no such thing – and more at JCC Manhattan. Plus music from … Continue reading »
Episode 129: Ruben Santiago-Hudson
An actor and director – his staging of Dominique Morriseau’s “Skeleton Crew” is about to open at the Atlantic Theater – he rejects petty domestic drama, asserting that no writer who’s endured oppression would create such a scenario: “That’s why you never see a brother writing a play about falling in love with a goat … Continue reading »
Episode 128: Margo Jefferson
She won a Pulitzer for criticism for her work at the New York Times. Her memoir, Negroland, received the National Book Critics Circle Award, and she was a high school cheerleader. One of those three does not belong, but which one? We convened at the CUNY Graduate Center with musicians Jefferson Hamer and Eamon O’Leary – … Continue reading »