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Laurie Gwen Shapiro’s The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage That Made an American Icon
Season 2 Episode 51
Laurie sits down with Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel to dig into what they don't tell you in the children's books about the life and death of the world's …
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 50: Stanley Greenberg’s Waterworks: The Hidden Water System of New York
The photographer sits down with Lizzie Walsh and Harry Siegel to talk his decades shooting the city’s incredible, almost invisible water sys…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 49: J. Hoberman’s Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde—Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop
Hoberman talks with Alyssa Katz about an era when ‘the cheap rents were essential. And the fact that there were areas of the city, of Manhat…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 48: Jay and Eli Neugeboren’s Whatever Happened to Frankie King
Writer Jay Neugeboren and his son, illustrator Eli Neugeboren, talk with Harry Siegel about a Brookltyn Basketball legend who withdrew from …
1 year, 3 months ago
Episode 47: Elon Green’s The Man Nobody Killed: Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart's New York
Elon Green talks with Rachel Holiday Smith and Harry Siegel about the direct line from the Transit Police beating Michael Stewart to death i…
1 year, 3 months ago
Episode 46: Jonathan Lethem’s Brooklyn Crime Novel
Lethem talks with Brian Berger and Harry Siegel about his excellent and almost undefinable Brooklyn Crime Novel, and how COVID led him to ag…
1 year, 3 months ago
Episode 45: Amy Sohn’s The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age
Amy Sohn talks with Harry Siegel about how the American government's original anti-sex law, suppressing as obscene information about birth c…
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 44: Joel Kokin’s Urban Supremacy Suspicions
Joel Kotkin discusses Americans’ demonstrated preference for suburban life, the waning of “urban supremacy,” and much more with Alyssa Katz,…
1 year, 6 months ago
Episode 43: Ross Perlin’s Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
Ross Pellin sat down with Haidee Chu and Harry Siegel to discuss his work mapping the languages spoken here in what may be the most linguist…
1 year, 9 months ago
Episode 42: Jill Gill’s Site Lines: Lost New York 1954-2002
“They all disappear. That's the thing. It's extremely ephemeral” — Jill Gill, the 91-year-old author of Site Lines: Lost New York 1954-2022,…
1 year, 11 months ago