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Next Live Show: Steve Clay and M.C.Kinniburgh

Posted on June 7, 2025 by Randy Cohen

He is the founder of Grainery Books. She is a co-owner and a specialist in artists’ books. Together they fight crime in outer space with their robot dog, Sparky, and are curators of the exhibition After Words: Visual and Experimental Poetry in Little Magazines and Small Presses, 1960-2025. Much of this is true. Music: Hubby Jenkins.  Thursday, … Continue reading »

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525: Zalmen Mlotek, Steven Skybell

Posted on March 15, 2025 by Randy Cohen • Leave a comment

“Isaac Bashevis Singer called my mother the Sherlock Holmes of Yiddish songs,” says Zalmen. His family heritage and Steven’s splendid singing were big factors in the triumph of Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish. Presented by the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Continue reading »

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520: Jelani Cobb

Posted on February 8, 2025 by Randy Cohen • Leave a comment

Dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and a staff writer for The New Yorker, he says, “When people ask what I think is the foundational institution of democracy, I always say: ‘the public library.’” Enjoy it while we’ve got it. And what’s left of our democracy.  Continue reading »

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301: Larry Kramer

Posted on April 25, 2020 by Randy Cohen • Leave a comment

He wrote Ken Russell’s Women in Love, geeze, 50 years ago, then wrote plays (The Normal Heart) and novels (Faggots). Amidst the emerging AIDS epidemic, he helped found the Gay Men’s Health Crisis and Act Up. Accomplished, right? Not according to him. “I feel like I failed,” he says.  A life examined. Continue reading »

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Person Place Thing is produced with the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan and sponsored by WAMC Northeast Public Radio.  An interview show, it is based on this idea: people are particularly engaging when they speak not directly about themselves but about something they care about. Guests talk about one person, one place, and one thing that are important to them. The result?  Surprising stories from great talkers.

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