How Harvey Fierstein's Bad Sex Led to Good Art
When Tony Award-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein was growing up in New York City in the 60s, he was surrounded by the beginnings of the gay rights movement, and protest art and avant-gard...
8 Juni 202227min
What Our Teachers Are Carrying
At the beginning of the calendar year, when Omicron was surging across much of the country, we asked those of you that are educators to tell us what led to your profession in the midst of another diff...
25 Maj 202231min
Maria Hinojosa on Partying, Partnership, and Her New Pulitzer
Journalist Maria Hinojosa and the staffs of Futuro Media and PRX recently won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Audio Reporting for the podcast "Suave." For Maria, winning this accolade took years of hard wo...
18 Maj 202228min
How Much Climate Anxiety Helps?
If you're like me, you might have a hard time getting to the end of articles that predict climate catastrophe. You might put a lot of faith in technology to save us, and you certainly don't want to th...
11 Maj 202232min
"There’s Never a Perfect Time to Say, 'I’m Blind'"
Back in 2021, we asked you to tell us about the hard conversations you were struggling to have in honor of the release of my book, Let's Talk About Hard Things. One of the people I talked to was a lis...
4 Maj 202233min
Anna Sale Introduces Dead End: A New Jersey Political Murder Mystery
Anna talks with her WNYC colleague Nancy Solomon about her new podcast, Dead End: A New Jersey Political Murder Mystery. New Jersey politics is not for the faint of heart. But the brutal killing of Jo...
29 Apr 20220s
Siblinghood
For all the things we share with our brothers and sisters -- parents, genes, a childhood -- most of us have also wondered at one point or another how we could possibly be related to our siblings. As w...
27 Apr 202244min
Hard: Softening Expectations
Carson Tueller became paralyzed from the chest down after an accident in 2013. "I absolutely know that there is a sense of loss and grieving that comes when you lose physical function," he told Death,...
13 Apr 202232min
