Time and Space and Philip Glass: The Iconic Artist Talks at BAM
In 1976, the New York premiere of Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s “Einstein on the Beach” captivated audiences, polarized critics and put b...
Radio and PodcastLive Radio & Podcasts
Arts
Talk to Me from WNYC
The latest articles from Talk to Me
Episodes
20 of 135 episodes
Unhappy Family: Geoffrey Rush and Fred Schepisi Discuss "The Eye of the Storm" at the 92nd Street Y
Geoffrey Rush is one of Australia’s most celebrated exports, a protean character actor whose roles have ranged from the mentally frail piani...
Wanting What You Can't Have: Happy Ending at Joe's Pub
Host and curator Amanda Stern concluded this season’s Happy Ending Music & Reading series at Joe’s Pub on July 11 with an evening themed aro...
Fighting Words: Churchill's Granddaughter Offers a Model for Leadership
“If you are going to go through hell, keep going.” This is just one of the many robust adages coined by Sir Winston Churchill during World W...
A Reporter's Perspective on War at PEN World Voices
The PEN America Center’s organizational focus is the effect of world events on the safety and freedom of expression of writers, so the topic...
Rushdie Talk on Censorship Wraps Up PEN Festival
The 2012 PEN World Voices Festival ended with a talk about censorship at the Cooper Union by novelist Salman Rushdie ( Midnight's Children ,...
Getting Your Irish On at the PEN World Voices Festival
Comparisons are invidious, but Hugo Hamilton is clearly a successor to the late Frank McCourt, author of the celebrated “Angela’s Ashes,” in...
Jennifer Egan on How to Create Your Own Rules at PEN
Earlier in May, Jacob Weisberg, editor-in-chief for the Slate group, and author Jennifer Egan discussed Egan’s Pulitzer Prize-winning, genre...
Doctorow, Atwood and Amis on America and its Role in Global Political Culture
One of the highlights of this year's PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature was a talk between writers E.L. Doctorow, Margare...
Who Will Rule Britannia? Patrick Jephson Weighs in at Bonham’s
Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her 86th birthday on April 21, and the entire Commonwealth is preparing to honor her on the occasion of her Di...
Authors Conjure Up 'Strange Places' in Readings at Happy Ending
The theme for the Happy Ending Music and Reading Series at Joe's Pub in March was Strange Places. Listen to the extraordinary — and absurd —...
Bringing At-Risk Teens Closer to Home: A Forum on Juvenile Justice at The New School
The Center for New York City Affairs hosted a forum on February 2 to review the connection between child welfare and juvenile justice in New...
The Fire in Him: John Hurt Sets Krapp's Record Straight
If there is a lesson to be learned from the post-curtain talk between John Hurt — who has just finished a limited run at the Brooklyn Academ...
Talk to Me: Behaving Badly at Happy Ending
The Happy Ending Music and Reading series has formed a partnership with the arts colony Yaddo located in Saratoga Springs, New York, to pres...
Connected by a 'River of Smoke': Amitav Ghosh and Jonathan Spence at The Asia Society
The Asia Society inaugurated its new Asian Arts & Ideas series this month with “The ‘Chindia’ Dialogues,” a three-day forum that examined th...
Lovely Bones: Celebrating Anne Sexton at the Cornelia Street Café
The poet Anne Sexton took her own life in 1974, but had she lived, this year would have marked her 83rd birthday. Reason enough, thought the...
Lydia Davis and Eliot Weinberger Have High School Reunion at KGB Bar
Two famed poets, essayists and translators — Lydia Davis and Eliot Weinberger — recently read from new work at the True Story: Non-Fiction r...
The Asia Society Presents Oral Histories from Burma
While diplomats and academics met at the General Assembly of the United Nations on the East Side of Midtown Manhattan, the Asia Society host...
Janet Malcolm and Ian Frazier Talk Shop at The New Yorker Festival
Late last month, journalist Janet Malcolm had a conversation with New Yorker writer Ian Frazier at The New Yorker Festival . Malcolm's writi...
Wrestling with Words: Poet Philip Schultz Talks about Dyslexia
Philip Schultz, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Failure," among other books of verse, has written an unexpected work of prose called "...