A Conversation With E.A. Hanks
Elizabeth Anne Hanks is a writer. She's also the daughter of Tom Hanks. Her mother Susan was married to Tom Hanks before he became a movie star. Elizabeth grew up with her mother and older brother in ...
1 Apr 202555min
A Conversation With Pico Iyer
Pico Iyer is a travel writer and a novelist who has spent time in far flung places like Ethiopia, Tibet, North Korea, Bhutan and Nepal exploring the history, culture and food of diverse cultures. In c...
18 Mar 202554min
A Conversation with Jeffrey Toobin
Pardons are about presidential power. Many presidents wait until the end of their term to issue them. Not Donald Trump. He has pardoned more than 1500 people who took part in the assault on the U.S. C...
4 Mar 202534min
A Conversation with Laraine Newman
Picture this. It was my first job in radio. I decided to do a series about women and comedy. The idea coincided with the birth of Saturday Night Live. The first interview: Gilda Radner. We sat on the ...
17 Feb 202549min
A Conversation with Rick Steves
Rick Steves is a travel writer who's on a mission. His name appears on guidebooks to nearly every country on the continent including Croatia and Slovenia as well as France and Italy. His television se...
4 Feb 202537min
A Conversation with Alan Lightman
Alan Lightman likes to look at things very closely. Lightman is a physicist at MIT who has written 7 novels including the best-selling Einstein's Dreams. Lightman, who writes poetry in his spare time,...
20 Jan 202538min
A Conversation With Maira Kalman
Maira Kalman is one of those multi-talented people. She writes children's books and books for adults. She's also a contributor to the New York Times. She creates covers for the New Yorker and sets for...
7 Jan 202546min
The Best of "Now What" 2024
We're speeding towards the end of the year, a time for remembering and reflecting. When I think of "Now What?" I think of the extraordinary people I was privileged to speak with this year and that's w...
25 Des 20241h
