Tell Me What You’re Reading
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Tell Me What You’re Reading
Talking about books on the streets of New York, in the mountains of the Catskills and on the road. I find that when I ask people about what they’re reading, they tend to start talking about books generally and then start talking to others about books. Encouraging the discussion of books cannot be a...
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Ep. # 54: Susan Brown: The Secrets of the Great Writers/ Hit Lit/ Ulysses
Susan Brown is a professional editor, writing coach, and book doctor. She’s had forty years of teaching college creative writing and book editing, and...
No. 55: The Merry Wives of Windsor
I had a delightful discussion with Hank Neimark, one of the Directors and Eric Hefler, who plays Falstaff, in The Bird-On-A-Ciff’s Woodstock Shakespea...
Tell Me What You're Reading #53: Jenni Knight discusses Autoportrait by Edouard Leve
Jenni Knight, an artist in residence at the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony (Bard MFA grad with a background in sculpture, drawing, painting and working with N...
Ep. #52 Jeffrey Gurock - Marty Glickman -The Life of an American Sports Legend
Jeffrey Gurock is the author of a great new comprehensive biography of the premier voice of New York sports from the 1940s through the 1990s. The book...
Ep. #51 Elizabeth Lesser: Broken Open/ Marrow/ Our Town / Tom Lake/ Omega Institute
Elizabeth Lesser discussed on my Podcast the founding of Omega Institute - internationally recognized for its wellness, spirituality, creativity, and...
Ep. #50 Amy Shearn and Hannah Oberman-Breindel - To the Lighthouse
I enjoyed talking with Amy Shearn and Hannah Oberman-Breindel this summer when they were in the Artist-in-Residence writing program at Woodstock’s Byr...
Ep. # 49 Carol Graham: Passion! In Park Slope, a “cozy” murder mystery
Our Woodstock friend Carol Graham recently told me that her new book was just about to be published. She said something like, “Howard, this is not lik...
Ep. #48 David Gordon commemorates Cormac McCarthy and The Road
On an Upper Byrdcliffe Road walk in Woodstock this past summer, I noted to my friends, Perry Beekman and David Gordon, the recent death of Robert Gott...
Ep. #47 An Ecotopia Conversation with Artist Kelly M O’Brien
Carol and I walked up the road in early September to visit the Open Studios of the Artists-in-Residence Program at Woodstock’s Byrdcliffe Arts Colony....
Ep. #46 Steph Kent: Hamnet - A Novel of the Plague + The Call Me Ishmael Project
Steph Kent, co-founder, with her husband Logan Smalley, of the Call Me Ishmael project joined me to discuss Hamnet, by Maggie O’Farrell, the book I ha...
Ep. #45 Tony Wolf: “Tales From The Wolf”
My friend Tony Wolf and I discussed “Tales From The Wolf”, Tony’s memoir about his years living in Greenpoint, and including a compilation of his New...
Ep. #44: Erica Obey - The Brooklyn North Murder
Our discussion about Erica Obey’s mystery novel, the Brooklyn North Murder, turned into a discussion of The Typology of Detective Fiction, by Bulgaria...
Ep. #43: Tom Vartanian: The Unhackable Internet: How Rebuilding Cyberspace Can Build Real Security and Prevent Financial Collapse
Tom pulls no punches in his new book as he vividly and colorfully, and also convincingly, describes our cyber security vulnerabilities. As he explains...
Ep. #42: Katharine L. McKenna - The Paleontologist's Daughter
Carol and I recently attended a lovely dinner party hosted by Abigail Sturges and other supporters of the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild. On its website,...
Ep. #41: Alison Gaylin/ Wendy Corsi Staub - domestic psychological thrillers, etc.
My podcast guests are Alison Gaylin , a bestselling mystery writer who has been nominated for the Edgar Award four times, and has won the award in the...
Ep. #40: Todd Spire of Esopus Creel
Todd Spire is a licensed fly fishing guide and instructor, and is the owner of Esopus Creel, a company devoted to fly fishing in the Catskill Mountain...
Ep. #39: Jen Maxfield - More After the Break: A Reporter Returns to Ten Unforgettable News Stories
Jen Maxfield is an Emmy® Award winning correspondent for NBC 4 New York. She covers breaking news and general assignment stories in New Jersey, and is...
Ep. #38: A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Discussion with the Woodstock Shakespeare Festival directors
Our friend Maxine Davidowitz recently introduced me to Hank Neimark, telling me that Hank was getting ready to work on the Summer 2022 Woodstock Shake...
Ep. #37: L. Mark Weeks - Bottled Lightning; Moby Dick; the writing process; etc.
My guest for this episode is Mark Weeks, a friend and former colleague at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. Mark has practiced law at Orrick in New York...
Ep. #36: Trinh Q. Truong - The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen
My guest for this episode is Trinh Q. Truong. Trinh came to the U.S. from Vietnam with her mother about 20 years ago. During what we in the U.S. refer...
Ep. #35: Tom Vartanian - 200 Years of American Financial Panics - Crashes, Recessions, Depressions, and the Technology That Will Change It All.
Tom Vartanian discusses his recent book, 200 Years of American Financial Panics - Crashes, Recessions, Depressions, and the Technology That Will Chang...
Ep . #16 Kate McGloughlin - Requiem for Ashokan - The Story Told in Landscape
Kate McGloughlin is a painter and printmaker (and storyteller), and during her long career, she has exhibited in notable galleries and museums around...
Ep. #34: Brian E. Denton - War and Peace (Tolstoy)
My guest for this episode is Brian E. Denton. Brian has been reading Tolstoy’s great novel War and Peace every year for the last ten years, one chapte...
Ep. # 33: Jim Finnegan (Again): Shuggie Bain, by Douglas Stuart; etc.
My friend Jim Finnegan (who was my guest on episode #3 of our podcast) discusses Shuggie Bain, by Douglas Stuart; a tough book but a great read. An un...
Evelyn Lerman - A Tribute. Discussing “A Dressmaker's Threads: The Life and The Legacy of My Russian Immigrant Mother"; and discussing the life and legacy of Evelyn as well
Special Edition (March 31, 2021) Our friend Evelyn Lerman wrote a loving biography titled “A Dressmaker's Threads: The Life and The Legacy of My Russi...
No. 31: Charlotte Cross - Reading to write, and novels about "marginalized characters" (The Brides of Dracula, etc.)
Charlotte Cross of Oxford, England is working on a tale of the “Brides of Dracula”, following in the footsteps of other novels that have given voice t...
Ep. #29: Andrew Wilcox - Richard Ravitz and Paul Volcker memoirs, Lewis’ The Fifth Risk, JFK, Nixon, and Lepore’s masterpiece, These Truths, A History of the United States
Andrew Wilcox discusses So Much to Do: A Full Life of Business, Politics, and Confronting Fiscal Crises, a memoir by Richard Ravitz, former head of th...
Ep #28: Andrew Rice - Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bronx is Burning 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City
Andrew Rice discusses Jonathan Mahler's book, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bronx is Burning 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a Ci...
Ep #27: Rob Chesnut - Intentional Integrity - How Smart Companies Can Lead an Ethical Revolution— and Why That’s Good for All of Us
Rob Chesnut discusses his new book Intentional Integrity - How Smart Companies Can Lead an Ethical Revolution— and Why That’s Good for All of Us, and...
Ep. #26 Allen Guy Wilcox – A Gentleman in Moscow
Allen Guy Wilcox, founding Artistic Director of The Theater at Woodshill, a not for profit summer Shakespeare festival in central New York, discusses...
Ep. #25: Camilla Calhoun - The White Moth
Camilla Calhoun discusses The White Moth, a beautifully told, moving and lovely memoir, both historical and very personal. Much of the story takes pla...
Ep. # 24: 2020 Book Club - Kendra Dodson Breitsprecher, owner/editor of Dayton Leader newspaper in Iowa, discusses bios written by Dem Pres. caucus candidates.
When Andrea Phillips, who was then Vice Chair of the Iowa Democratic Party, started a book club to encourage her fellow Iowans to read the books writt...
Ep. #23 Uli Beutter Cohen: Mona Eltahawy, Alexander Chee, Ocean Vuong, Erin Williams, Lauren Duca
After discussing the Subway Book Review project in our Episode 22, Uli Beutter Cohen and I discussed five books that Uli has recently read and recomme...
Ep. #22 Subway Book Review: Uli Beutter Cohen
For the last five years, Uli Beutter Cohen has been talking with people on New York City subways about the books she sees them reading on the subway....
Ep. #21 Tracy Sidesinger - What My Mother and I Dont Talk About
Tracy Sidesinger, a clinical psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist in New York City, discusses “What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifte...
Ep. # 20 The Call Me Ishmael Project; Steph Kent and Logan Smalley
Call Me Ishmael is a New York City-based project that invites readers to call and leave a voicemail message about their favorite book. Thousands of re...
Ep. #19 Visiting Days, by Gretchen Primack
While visiting the Golden Notebook bookstore in Woodstock last summer, my daughter Melanie and I met and struck up a conversation with bookseller, aut...
Ep. #18 Pride Month/ Stonewall 50: The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
In connection with the celebration by my law firm, @Orrick, of Pride Month and the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, I dis...
Ep. #17 Josh Raff discusses four sets of "paired" books, and more.
A discussion by a serious and thoughtful,reader of four sets of "paired" books - Song of a Captive Bird + The Age of Light/ Churchill & Orwell: The Fi...
Ep. #15 Sophie McManus: The Art of Time in Fiction
Sophie McManus (master's degree in fiction writing/ teaching writing at Sarah Lawrence College; author of critically acclaimed novel, The Unfortunates...