Michelle Zauner (Japanese Breakfast) is Creating a Language of Her Own
Michelle Zauner (Japanese Breakfast) has long turned to music to make sense of the past. Today, she joins us to unpack all of the emotional terrain covered in her latest album, For Melancholy Brunette...
8 Jun 202559min
Writer Ocean Vuong’s Vision of the Future
Since his bestselling novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous debuted in 2019, Ocean Vuong has become one of the most beloved writers of his generation. He first sat with Sam in 2021 amid the pandemic. ...
1 Jun 20251h 28min
Graduation Week with Columbia Journalism Dean Jelani Cobb
Even before Jelani Cobb became Dean of the Columbia Journalism School, he was an educator. His reportage at The New Yorker (where he’s been writing about race and politics since 2012), steeped in hist...
25 Mai 20251h 15min
Play It Again: Sarah Silverman (‘PostMortem’)
To commemorate the release of her new, deeply personal Netflix special ‘PostMortem,’ we revisit our conversation with Sarah Silverman. At the top, we reflect on loss (7:16), her HBO special Sarah Silv...
21 Mai 202559min
Pulitzer Prize Winner Percival Everett (‘James’)
Earlier this month, writer Percival Everett was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for James, his subversive and singular reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. At the top, we discuss t...
18 Mai 202549min
Ira Glass on Three Decades of ‘This American Life’ Magic
Thirty years. Over 850 episodes. Nine Peabodys. One Pulitzer. And yet somehow, three decades in, This American Life (and its creator, Ira Glass) remains as innovative and timely as ever. We begin with...
11 Mai 20251h 25min
Penn Badgley: Here’s Looking at ‘You’
Television, perhaps more than movies, has a way of etching its stars in stone. And few actors seem to be able to break the mold more than once. Which is what makes Penn Badgley’s career—first on Gossi...
4 Mai 20251h 7min
The Many Lives of Viola Davis
Before Viola Davis (How to Get Away with Murder) became an EGOT-winning actor, she was an observer. Her work takes the human experience and transmutes it, offering a mirror and a window into ourselves...
27 Apr 20251h 9min
