Director Steven Soderbergh: Scene by Scene
Since 1989 (Sex, Lies, and Videotape), filmmaker Steven Soderbergh has been a pioneering voice in American cinema. Part free-wheeling iconoclast, part exacting technician. Today, we return to our conv...
29 Aug 202444min
We Are So Back (at the Movies) with Sean Fennessey (‘The Big Picture’)
We’re so back at the movies… with head of content at The Ringer and co-host of The Big Picture, Sean Fennessey! At the top, Sam and Sean discuss Sean Wang’s Dìdi (8:52), the father-daughter story at t...
25 Aug 20241h 31min
A Tea with Amelia Dimoldenberg of Chicken Shop Date
What’s the difference between an interview and a first date? For the past decade, Amelia Dimoldenberg has been walking that fine line on her hit YouTube series, Chicken Shop Date. The premise is in th...
18 Aug 20241h 3min
Author Vinson Cunningham on our ‘Great Expectations’ for 2024
Vinson Cunningham has been a staff writer at The New Yorker for the past eight years, covering theater, television, and politics. He joins us this week to unpack his personal debut novel Great Expecta...
11 Aug 20241h 25min
The Vision of Novelist Zadie Smith (‘The Fraud’)
Last fall, Zadie Smith published her prescient historical novel The Fraud. We return to our conversation with the beloved author this week, on the heels of our latest sit-down with writer Taffy Brodes...
4 Aug 20241h 8min
Writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner on Her ‘Long Island Compromise’
Taffy Brodesser-Akner (“Fleishman Is in Trouble”) is a staff writer at The New York Times, where she covers everything from The Eras Tour to Tom Hanks. She joins us today to unpack her new book Long I...
28 Jul 20241h 11min
Tom Hanks: A Retrospective
Today, we're revisiting our special conversation with actor Tom Hanks. We begin by discussing his debut novel, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece (5:58), his nomadic upbringing acr...
24 Jul 202457min
Talk Easy Presents Author Isabel Allende on ‘Wiser Than Me’
This week, on the heels of our live show with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, we’re presenting a special conversation from her podcast Wiser Than Me. The episode features award-winning author Isabel Allende (The...
21 Jul 20241h 16min
