Episode 10: Lenny Shiller's Famous Cars, and the Search for a Lost Father
Lenny Shiller owns some of the most recognizable cars around; his vintage vehicles have been appearing in movies for years (often with Lenny at the wheel). We’ll visit the garage in Brooklyn they call...
25 Dec 201555min
Episode 9: Christmas Skies Full of Drones, and Donald Trump's Ultimate Luxury
Mark Singer had the temerity to write about Donald Trump, and Trump wanted revenge -- but just who came out on top? Sofia Coppola talks about working with Bill Murray on a Christmas special. And we of...
18 Dec 201555min
Episode 8: The Missing Boater, and Robert Glasper
On shows as different as “Jessica Jones,” “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” and “Game of Thrones,” characters confront sexual violence in ways never shown before on television. Emily Nussbaum, The New York...
11 Dec 201555min
Episode 7: The Mayor and the Mormon Church, and Roger Angell
High school students in Queens mount a fraught election simulation, Salt Lake City’s openly gay mayor-elect talks about the Mormon Church, and Roger Angell speaks to David Remnick about writing in his...
4 Dec 201555min
Episode 6: Two Writers and a Rock Star Onstage
Two interviews recorded live at the 2015 New Yorker Festival: Patti Smith talks with David Remnick about how her writing and music are intertwined, with a live performance of “Because the Night”; the ...
27 Nov 201555min
Episode 5: City Slickers and Soul Food
George Booth started drawing cartoons when he was three-and-a-half years old. (His first was a race car stuck in the mud.) Now nearly ninety, he’s been contributing to The New Yorker for over forty-fi...
20 Nov 201555min
Episode 4: Surfing Lessons in a Warming World
What is it like to grow up with twenty siblings? When Sue and Hector Badeau considered the lives of children in foster homes, which are often traumatic, they felt that had to do something, and eventua...
13 Nov 201555min
Episode 3: Hacking for the Masses, and Gloria Steinem
The hacker group Lizard Squad ruined Christmas for a lot of people last year when it hacked into Sony and Microsoft servers and rendered new PlayStations and Xboxes temporarily unusable for online gam...
6 Nov 201555min
