Sheila Nevins and Tina Brown - Summer Staff Picks
It’s summer, and every other week, members of the Here’s The Thing staff are selecting their favorite interviews from the archives. This week, we revisit Alec’s interviews with two extraordinary women...
12 Juli 20221h 8min
James Burrows: Like Father, Like Son
Television director James Burrows has been working since the 1970s on beloved series like Taxi, Cheers, Friends, Frasier, and Will & Grace. He has directed over 1,000 hours of television, co-created t...
5 Juli 202239min
Alex Ross: Music vs. Noise
Alex Ross has been a music critic at The New Yorker since 1996. His beat is classical music, but his work spans literature, history, the visual arts, film, and ecology. The MacArthur Genius Grant reci...
28 Juni 202238min
Sarah Polley Rewrites Her Story
Sarah Polley is a storyteller – and a remarkable one. Whether as a precocious child actor in Road to Avonlea and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, as a documentarian unpacking her family history in ...
21 Juni 202246min
Abe Laboriel Jr. Keeps Time for Sir Paul
Abe Laboriel Jr. is the drummer on speed dial for some of the biggest names in the music business, including Eric Clapton, k.d. lang, Eddie Vedder, Melissa Etheridge…and Paul McCartney, as member of M...
14 Juni 202243min
From Paris To the Moon with Adam Gopnik
Writer and essayist Adam Gopnik has been called “one of the greatest thinkers and wordsmiths of our age.” He is best known as a staff writer for The New Yorker, to which he has contributed non-fiction...
7 Juni 202242min
Rufus Wainwright Sings with the Muses
Singer, songwriter, and composer Rufus Wainwright continues to surprise and delight with a new tour and album, Rufus Does Judy at Capitol Studios, paying homage to one of his heroes, Judy Garland, and...
31 Maj 202239min
Todd Rundgren, His Music and “Psychonautics"
Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Todd Rundgren is in a class all his own. Whether scoring Top 40 hits, playing all of the instruments ...
24 Maj 202241min
