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Playlist of Tears: The Catastrophe Hour Book Club Week 5

The next meeting of The Catastrophe Hour Book Club is scheduled for Wednesday, July 9, at 3:00 p.m. ET. We will discuss the fifth essay of the collec…

1 year, 2 months ago

Species Of Grief: The Catastrophe Hour Book Club Week 4

The next meeting of The Catastrophe Hour Book Club is scheduled for Wednesday, July 2, at 3:00 p.m. ET. We will discuss the fourth essay of the colle…

1 year, 2 months ago

Basically Dead: The Catastrophe Hour Book Club Week 3

The next meeting of The Catastrophe Hour Book Club is scheduled for Wednesday, June 25, at 3:00 p.m. ET. We will discuss the third essay of the colle…

1 year, 3 months ago

What Illness Can Teach Us About Uncertainty - Jonathan Gluck on his new memoir about cancer and coming to terms with not knowing

In his new memoir, An Exercise In Uncertainty, journalist and editor Jonathan Gluck chronicles more than 20 years of living with multiple myeloma, an…

1 year, 3 months ago

The Catastrophe Hour Book Club, Week Two - Same Life, Higher Rent

The next meeting of The Catastrophe Hour Book Club is scheduled for Wednesday, June 18, at 3:00 p.m. ET. We will discuss the second essay of the coll…

1 year, 3 months ago

Where Do Serial Killers Come From? Caroline Fraser on America's Murderland

This week I'm joined by Caroline Fraser, author of Prairie Fires, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of beloved author Laura Ingalls Wilder. Fraser…

1 year, 3 months ago

The Catastrophe Hour Book Club, Week One - The Broken-In World

The Catastrophe Hour Book Club begins June 11 with a discussion of the first essay in the book, The Broken-In World, an examination of divorce, loss,…

1 year, 3 months ago

Alma Deutscher's First Dance - The celebrated young composer collaborates with the American Contemporary Ballet

Alma Deutscher, often described as a modern-day Mozart, was a prodigy whose early accomplishments include composing a piano sonata at age six, a shor…

1 year, 3 months ago

Audio Essay: The End Of The Personal - Listen to an essay from The Catastrophe Hour

This week, I share an essay from The Catastrophe Hour. There's no audiobook available (yet), so I offer this reading of the final essay in the collec…

1 year, 3 months ago

How To Solve Crime - Peter Moskos on New York City's policing triumph

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1 year, 4 months ago