Now What? With Carole Zimmer

Andrew McCarthy was still a teenager when he acted in his first film and became a member of what's called the Brat Pack. That's the group of actors including Demi Moore and Molly Ringwald who starred ...

13 Juni 202336min

She's a long-time activist for women's rights and she's also a Founding Editor of Ms. Magazine. Letty Cottin Pogrebin is the author of 12 books including How to Make it In a Man's World. Her latest is...

30 Maj 202343min

It's hard for me to believe that "Now What?" has just celebrated its 100th episode. We marked the occasion with a first: a conversation taped in front of a live audience at the Center for Fiction in B...

16 Maj 20231h 9min

Jeannette Walls' memoir The Glass Castle became an international bestseller that sold over 5 million copies. Walls' father Rex was an alcoholic who dreamed of inventing a gold-detecting gizmo that wou...

3 Maj 202341min

She was my first guest on "Now What?" and now she's come back to help me celebrate the 100th episode. There's no one quite like Gloria Steinem. But don't call her an icon. She doesn't like it. Gloria ...

12 Apr 202331min

She comes from a famous musical family. And she's always felt like she was number 4 on the totem pole behind her brother Rufus, her father Loudon Wainwright III and her mother Kate McGarrigle. These d...

29 Mars 202342min

Tig Notaro had been doing stand-up for more than 10 years when she got up on stage in 2012, grabbed the mic and began her set with these words: "Hello, Good evening. Hello. I have cancer." Many critic...

15 Mars 202335min

Bruce Jackson grew up in a public housing project in Manhattan and got arrested when he was 10. Some of his friends became drug dealers but Jackson went on to become the first person in his family to...

1 Mars 202344min