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Back to SearchDavid Tereshchuk, "A Question of Paternity: My Life As an Unaffiliated Reporter" (Envelope Books, 2024)
Episode 81
Today I talked to David Tereshchuk about his memoir A Question of Paternity: My Life As an Unaffiliated Reporter (Envelope Books, 2024)
Tereshchuk lea…
1 year, 11 months ago
Sara Glass, "Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir" (Atria, 2024)
Episode 569
Growing up in the Hasidic community of Brooklyn’s Borough Park, Sara Glass knew one painful truth: what was expected of her and what she desperately …
1 year, 11 months ago
Janusz Korczak, "How to Love a Child and Other Selected Works" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2018)
Episode 568
How to Love a Child and Other Selected Works (Vallentine Mitchell, 2018) is the first comprehensive collection of Korczak's works translated into Eng…
1 year, 11 months ago
Paul M. Renfro, "The Life and Death of Ryan White: AIDS and Inequality in America" (UNC Press, 2024)
Episode 194
In the 1980s, as HIV/AIDS ravaged queer communities and communities of color in the United States and beyond, a straight white teenager named Ryan Wh…
1 year, 11 months ago
Rachel Zimmerman, "Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide" (SFWP, 2024)
Episode 227
Note: This episodes contains references to suicide.
When a state trooper appeared at Rachel Zimmerman's door to report that her husband had jumped to …
1 year, 11 months ago
James M. Bradley, "Martin Van Buren: America's First Politician" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 264
Despite serving as the 8th president of the United States, Martin Van Buren gets little consideration for his impact on American history. In his new …
1 year, 11 months ago
John Duffus, "Backstage in Hong Kong: A Life with the Philharmonic, Broadway Musicals and Classical Superstars" (Blacksmith Books, 2024)
Episode 211
Today, the Hong Kong Philharmonic is one of the world’s great symphony orchestras. But when John Duffus landed in Hong Kong in 1979 as the Philharmon…
1 year, 11 months ago
Karine Rashkovsky, "An Improbable Life: My Father's Escape from Soviet Russia" (Cherry Orchard Books, 2024)
Episode 585
From evading the KGB and disassembling a downed American plane to narrowly escaping a life sentence in Siberia, Reuven Rashkovsky’s story is a grippi…
1 year, 11 months ago
Douglas J. Engelman, "A Boy Broken: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Mental Illness, Loss, and a Search for Meaning" (2023)
Episode 393
In A Boy Broken: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Mental Ilness, Loss, and a Search for Meaning (2023), Dr. Douglas J. Engelman takes us through …
1 year, 11 months ago
Avi Shlaim, "Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew" (Oneworld, 2024)
Episode 563
In July 1950, Avi Shlaim, only five, and his family were forced into exile, fleeing from their beloved Iraq into the new state of Israel.
Now the rump…
1 year, 11 months ago