Archives for The Speakeasy with Dorian

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December 5, 2005: Longtime chronicler of the modern pharmaceutical industry and the politics of medicine Greg Critser visits. And Graeme Gibson, author of The Bedside Book of Birds : An Avian Miscellany. | Listen (RealAudio) | Listen (MP3 (128K))

November 28, 2005: USCD sociologist Andrew Scull discusses Henry Cotton, director of a New Jersey mental hospital who was unfortunately obsessed with the idea that mental disorders were caused by infections. And 5 minutes with Stanley Kubrick (OK, 4 minutes and 52 seconds) | Listen (RealAudio) | Listen (MP3 (128K))
November 21, 2005: Musician, film critic and all-around renaissance guy Bruce Bennett (also known for his stints on WFMU's The Hound show) visits to talk about the best films around. | Listen
November 14, 2005: Author Salman Rushdie whose latest novel is "Shalimar the Clown". Afterwards, the amazing Charles Burns talks about Black Holes. | Listen
November 7, 2005: Painter Joan Snyder. A Survey of her work will open at the Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham, MA, and a new monograph of her work has just been published by Harry N. Abrams. | Listen

October 31, 2005: Science writer Brian Hayes talks about Infrastructure and the industrial landscape, then jazz harmonica master Hendrik Meurkens checks in. | Listen
October 24, 2005: Time for DUCK HUNTING WITH DICK, with Dorian and cohost Ken Smith. This week, JOE CONASON, author of The Raw Deal. | Listen
October 17, 2005: An exploration of the bizarre life of Dare Wright, author of extremely strange children's book "The Lonely Doll" with author Jean Nathan, whose new book is called (aptly enough) "The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll." | Listen
October 10, 2005: Is the American Dream in reality a Pipe Dream? Author Barbara Ehrenreich visits the show to talk about this, and her new book, Bait and Switch. Jerry Johnson, one of the striking miners in Barbara Kopple's epic film, Harlan County, U.S.A. | Listen
October 3, 2005: Film Commentator Amy Taubin returns to the program to dicuss David Cronenburg's "A History of Violence" and Premire magazine film critic and blogger Aaron Hillis. | Listen

September 26, 2005: Filmmaker Bill Morrison and musician Alan Licht. | Listen
September 19, 2005: JANE SMILEY on her explorations in reading and Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel and RICHARD PENA of the Film Society of Lincoln Center on the upcoming 43rd New York Film Festival. | Listen
September 12, 2005: Jon Elliston, news editor for the Asheville, NC Mountain Xpress, and author of Disaster in the Making, an investigative report on FEMA, joins Dorian & Ken Smith for Duck Hunting with Dick. | Listen
September 5, 2005: Photographer Danny Lyon on "The Destruction of Lower Manhattan". | Listen
September 5, 2005: Ken Smith and Dorian step in for Glen with an hour's worth of strange and obscure 45's. | Listen

August 29, 2005: The New York Times' chief art critic, Michael Kimmelman, on the art of life and vice versa, and his new book, "The Accidental Masterpiece". | Listen
August 22, 2005: Journalist Chris Mooney on The Republican War on Science and author and producer Alain Silver on samurai films. | Listen
August 15, 2005: Indie film kingmaker John Pierson and filmmaker Steve James (Stevie, Hoop Dreams) visit the show to talk about James' latest film, Reel Paradise. | Listen
August 8, 2005: McSweeney's editor at large and general literary guy Sean Wilsey visits the show to talk about his book "Oh the Glory of It All". | Listen
August 1, 2005: Peter Whybrow on his book "American Mania: When More Is Not Enough;" and Amy Taubin, writer for Film Comment, on director Wong Kar-Wai's new film, 2046. | Listen

July 25, 2005: Photographers David Godlis and Roberta Bayley talk about CBGB's, then filmmaker Les Blank on "Burden of Dreams," his documentary on Werner Herzog's epic struggles in making the film "Fitzcarraldo". | Listen
July 18, 2005: Duck Hunting with Dick, with cohost Ken Smith | Listen
July 11, 2005: Abbott Gleason, Professor of History at Brown University, talk about "On Nineteen Eighty-Four: Orwell and our future and author T.C. Boyle on Kinsey. | Listen
July 4, 2005: Historian Diana Preston, author of "Before The Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima." | Listen

June 27, 2005: Annette Insdorf, Professor of Film in the School of the Arts at Columbia University, discusses Francois Truffaut's classic 1962 film Jules and Jim (Jules et Jim). | Listen
June 20, 2005: Poet James Tate visits the show. His latest book is Return to the City of White Donkeys : Poems | Listen
June 13, 2005: Ken Smith joins Dorian as they speak with Gore Vidal on the Conyers report and more. | Listen
June 6, 2005: Magnum photographer Bruce Gilden on shooting in the streets of New York and elsewhere, followed by Graham Dorrington, British aeropspace engineer who is the subject of the Werner Herzog documentary WHITE DIAMOND, now playing at Film Forum and elsewhere. | Listen

May 30, 2005: Library of America Editor Geoffrey O'Brien visits the studios to talk about his book "Sonta for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears." | Listen
May 23, 2005: "The Men Who Stare at Goats." Journalist Jon Ronson takes on the wacky world of the military's psychological operations & Director Mark Wexler talks about his latest film, TELL THEM WHO YOU ARE, a documentary on his father, cinematographer Haskell Wexler | Listen
May 16, 2005: The creators of "Carnivourous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger" Authors Margaret Mittelbach and Michael Crewdson and illustrator Alexis Rockman talk about their new book. | Listen
May 9, 2005: Mark Achbar, director of the film "The Corporation" and Kim Hendrickson of the Criterion Collection on Michelangelo Antonioni's L'ECLISSE. | Listen
May 2, 2005: NATION art critic and Columbia University Emeritus Professor of Philosophy *Arthur Danto* talks about his latest book, Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life. | Listen

April 25, 2005: Duck Hunting With Dick, with Ken Smith as cohost. | Listen
April 18, 2005: Artist Chuck Close (rebroadcast). | Listen
April 11, 2005: Joe Flaherty: You may know him as Guy Caballero or or Sammy Maudlin. That's right - it's SCTV's Joe Flaherty!! | Listen
April 4, 2005: Duck Hunting With Dick, with Ken Smith as cohost. | Listen

March 28, 2005: Kevin Guilfoile, authoer of the cloning thriller Cast of Shadows and Geoffrey O'Brien talks about the classic samurai film "The Sword of Doom," which was just released on DVD. | Listen
March 21, 2005: Duck Hunting with Dick. Ken Smith and Dorian discuss the latest congressional and Bushian hijinks, the IMAX scandal, and more! Special visit by Dr. Richard Lutz, the Rutgers oceanographer who was the Science Director on VOLCANOES. | Listen
March 14, 2005: 2005 WFMU Marathon with co-host Ken Smith | Listen
March 7, 2005: 2005 WFMU Marathon with co-host Gaylord Fields | Listen

February 28, 2005: Psychiatrist Peter Whybrow talks about his book "American Mania: When More is Not Enough". Also, Oliver Hirschbiegel, director of "Downfall", an Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Film which documents Hitler's final days in the bunker. | Listen
February 21, 2005: Two-time Booker Prize winner Peter Carey on his newest book, the nonfiction "Wrong About Japan : A Father's Journey with His Son." Plus: Who the Hell's In It? Filmmaker/author Peter Bogdanovich talks about his favorite actors and actresses. | Listen
February 14, 2005: Dolores Hayden, prof of architecture and American Studies at Yale, on the phemonenon of urban sprawl & Sarah Greenough, curator & head of the Dept of Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, on their exhibition of the photography of Andre Kertesz. | Listen
February 7, 2005: David Thompson: The author and film critic returns to The Speakeasy to talk about The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood. | Listen

January 31, 2005: Ken Smith returns for the roundup on Condi's confirmation, Cheney's reemergence, the Coronation, and other things political on Duck Hunting with Dick. | Listen
January 24, 2005: Jason Moran, called "the most provacative thinker in modern jazz," (Rolling Stone) visits the Speakeasy to talk about the piano, jazz, and his sixth and latest album, Same Mother. | Listen
January 17, 2005: Sam Lipsyte, the author of The Subject Steve , Venus Drive , and his latest book, Home Land, visits the studios live. | Listen
January 10, 2005: Former Green Room regular John Dowling, Gund Professor of Neuroscience and Harvard College Professor at Harvard University, returns to talk about The Great Brain Debate: Nature or Nurture? | Listen
January 3, 2005: Ken Smith Co-Hosts on "Duck Hunting with Dick" | Listen

December 27, 2004: Dorian and Gaylord's annual holiday hijinks | Listen
December 20, 2004: Richard Dawkins talks about creationism, the state of science, and his book, "The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution." And Michael Hirsh, author of "At War With Ourselves:Why America Is Squandering Its Chance to Build a Better World." | Listen
December 13, 2004: New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author Susan Orlean visits The Speakeasy to talk about "My Kind of Place - Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere." | Listen
December 6, 2004: Michael Scheuer, one of the Central Intelligence Agency's foremost experts on Osama bin Laden and the (formerly anonymous) author of "Imperial Hubris." | Listen

November 29, 2004: Ken Smith on his new book, "Junk English 2" | Listen
November 22, 2004: Jazz critic and author of "Weather Bird" Gary Giddins and former Marine HN Andrew Schmidt, who was abused and harrassed during his time in the military, discusses a horrible situation which is more widespread than the high-profile Tailhook incident. | Listen
November 15, 2004: Catherine O'Hara discusses her work on SCTV and on the films "A Mighty Wind", "Best in Show", etc. Filmmaker Mike Leigh discusses his latest, "Vera Drake". | Listen
November 8, 2004: Ken Smith joins Dorian for post-election elegies. | Listen
November 1, 2004: Duck Hunting With Dick, with Ken Smith as cohost. | Listen

October 25, 2004: The Daily Show's correspondent Ed Helms joins Dorian & Ken to discuss democracy inaction and America (The Book). Also appearing, Peter Davis, director of the Academy Award winning film "Hearts and Minds." | Listen
October 18, 2004: Mark Crispin Miller, author of "Cruel and Unusual" joins Dorian and co-host Ken Smith. | Listen
October 11, 2004: Duck Hunting With Dick, with Ken Smith as cohost. | Listen
October 4, 2004: Richard Pena from the NY Film Festival; later, Ken Smith joins Dorian for listener calls on the presidential debate. | Listen

September 27, 2004: Who better to go duck hunting with than John Nichols, author of "DICK: The Man Who Is President"? Ken Smith cohosts. | Listen
September 20, 2004: Chocolatier Jacques Torres and regular Paul Slansky are guests. | Listen
September 13, 2004: Three-time Academy Award-winning editor/sound editor Walter Murch, who worked on such films as Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, and the newly re-released THX 1138. | Listen
September 6, 2004: Paul Slansky joins Dorian and Ken for another week of Duck Hunting with Dick. | Listen

August 30, 2004: The return of Paul Krugman of the New York Times OpEd pages. And Ken Smith. | Listen
August 23, 2004: Congressman Jim McDermott (D- Washington) joins Dorian and co-host Ken Smith for a Duck Hunting with Dick extravaganza. | Listen
August 16, 2004: Legendary Magnum photographer Rene Burri and author Carl Hiaasen. | Listen
August 9, 2004: Prepare to go Duck Hunting with Dick as radio personality and author Jim Hightower ("Let's Stop Beating Around the Bush") joins Dorian and co-host Ken Smith. | Listen
August 2, 2004: Joe Garden, Mike Loew, and Randy Ostrow, aka The Better Citizenship Bureau, on "Citizen You! -- Helping Your Government Help Itself." | Listen

July 26, 2004: Author Peter Cowie on his book "Revolution: The Explosion of World Cinema in the Sixties." | Listen
July 19, 2004: Steven Heller, Senior Art Director at the New York Times Book Review and cochair of the MFA design dept at the School of Visual Arts returns to talk about design and the election, politics, symbols, icons, and related topics. | Listen
July 12, 2004: Duck Hunting With Dick. Dorian and cohost Ken Smith welcome Dr. Gerald Keusch, Boston U's Asst Provost for Global Health and Assoc. Dean for Global Health, who discusses the Bush Administration's hampering scientific board appointees. | Listen
July 5, 2004: Director Mark Achbar and writer Joel Bakan on the film and book THE CORPORATION; also, Mark Haddon, author of "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time". | Listen

June 28, 2004: Kim Hendrickson of The Criterion Collection on Pier Paolo Pasolini's classic film MAMMA ROMA and others. | Listen
June 21, 2004: Ken Smith joins Dorian for another Duck Hunting with Dick , the Speakeasy's politiacal hour. This week's guest Thomas Frank, foounding editor of THE BAFFLER and author, most recently, of "What's the Matter with Kansas?". | Listen
June 14, 2004: Artist/photographers Mike and Doug Starn talk about their work and new book, ATTRACTED TO LIGHT. | Listen
June 7, 2004: Author Susan Jacoby on the ever-vanishing secular tradition in our society, as documented in her book, "Freethinkers.". | Listen

May 31, 2004: Photographer Philip Jones-Griffiths, whose book "Vietnam Inc." was instrumental in showing the American public what was going on during that war, talks about his new series of prints and book "Agent Orange." | Listen
May 24, 2004: Dorian and cohost Ken Smith go DUCK HUNTING WITH DICK, the Speakeasy's political hour! This week featuring Paul Slansky of The George W. Bush Quiz Book. | Listen
May 17, 2004: NJ Congressman Rush Holt (12th district NJ) discusses verifiable voting and missile defense, and Magnum photographer Martin Parr on his work. | Listen
May 10, 2004: Columbia University's Herbert J. Gans on DEMOCRACY AND THE NEWS, his book, and a repeat of chef Daniel Boulud. | Listen
May 3, 2004: Author and humorist Ken Smith, of "Junk English" fame, cohosts our new political segment, "Duck Hunting with Dick." Guests are Stanford computer scientist and verifiedvoting.org founder David Dill and Paul Slansky, author of The George W. Bush Quiz Book. | Listen

April 26, 2004: Fresh from completing a specially commissioned mural at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, artist Alexis Rockman visits the show. | Listen
April 19, 2004: Kathleen Cleaver of Yale University's African American Studies department and Co-director of the Human Rights Research Fund talks about her upcoming forum, "Freedom in America: Human Rights vs. USA Patriot Act" on April 24, at Yale Law School Auditorium. | Listen
April 12, 2004: Photograper Mitch Epstein talks about his latest work (and book), FAMILY BUSINESS, which documents the demise of his father's business and his hometown. | Listen
April 5, 2004: War photographer Ron Haviv of the VII photo agency and author S.T. Joshi on H.L. Mencken and MENCKEN"S AMERICA. | Listen

March 29, 2004: Author Nicholson Baker on his latest book, A BOX OF MATCHES, and David R. Cutler, Harvard Professor of Economics talks about improving (or saving) the country's health care system as explained in his book, YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE. | Listen
March 22, 2004: Photojournalist Eugene Richards on his new book, Fat Baby | Listen
March 15, 2004: Week 2 of the 2004 Marathon with Co-Host Kelly Jones and guest Marc Joseph | Listen
March 8, 2004: SPECIAL MARATHON SHOW with cohost Robin, live interview with Mel Stuart, director of WILLIE WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, WATTSTAX, and others, as well as clips from former shows. | Listen
March 1, 2004: Underwater photog David Doubilet on his book "Fish Face", & Chairman of the Union of Concerned Scientists Kurt Gottfried on the Bush admin's withholding or misrepresentation of vital scientific information, & Restoring Scientific Integrity in Policymaking | Listen

February 23, 2004: Magnum Photographer Susan Meiselas on her work documenting the Dani ,an indigenous people of the West Papuan highlands, carnival strippers, and others. Her work will be featured in the "Magnum's New Yorkers" exhibition at the Museum of the City of NY. | Listen
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February 9, 2004: Phil Stern talks about "A Life's Work" (his exhibition at the Staley Wise Gallery in SoHo, and also the title of his book published by PowerHouse) documenting his photojournalism during WWII and candid photos of jazz greats and Hollywood legends. | Listen
February 2, 2004: Artist Chuck Close talks about process and collaboration, both conceptually and the as the title of his show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which highlights his printmaking work. | Listen

January 26, 2004: Filmmaker/ artist Bill Morrison and composer Michael Gordon, who collaborated on the film DECASIA and the upcoming projects LIGHT IS CALLING and GOTHAM. | Listen
January 19, 2004: Author Richard Price (repeat) | Listen
January 12, 2004: Steve McCurry talks about Tibet and his latest book of photography, "The Path to Buddha." | Listen
January 5, 2004: Photographer Elliott Erwitt talks about his work, the Magnum Agency, and photography in general and Geoff Dyer, author of "Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It". | Listen

December 29, 2003: Guest Ken Smith | Listen
December 28, 2003: Fill-in for Gaylord | Listen
December 22, 2003: Legendary chef Daniel Boulud, owner of the restaurants Daniel, Cafe Boulud, and DB, and author of many cookbooks as well as "Letters to a Young Chef", talks about his life and work. Plus Bay area photographer Michael Light on his latest book, "100 Suns" | Listen
December 15, 2003: Economist, Princeton Prof & columnist Paul Krugman on current affairs and his new book, "The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century". And Oxford U's evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins on about his latest book, "A Devil's Chaplain". | Listen
December 8, 2003: Listen
December 1, 2003: Peter Koechley and Joe Garden of The Onion | Listen

November 24, 2003: Enter the wild world of writer/artist Bruce McCall, who will be in the WFMU studios to talk about his new book "All Meat Looks Like South America: The World of Bruce McCall". | Listen
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November 10, 2003: Military historian John Keegan discusses Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda. Photographer Simen Yohan, whose new pictorial narrative series "Breeding Ground" is showing in Manhattan. | Listen
November 3, 2003: Painter and illustrator Marshall Arisman, chair of the master of fine arts illustration program at the School of Visual Arts and winner of their 2003 Masters Series Award, on his work. | Listen

October 27, 2003: Photographer Mary Ellen Mark on her book TWINS, published by Aperture Press, on view at Kennedy Boesky Photographs until Nov. 8. Jeff Nagel, twin of Steve Nagel, on the yearly Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio, and being in Mary Ellen Mark's project. | Listen
October 20, 2003: Artist James Rosenquist, whose work can be seen in a retospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. | Listen
October 13, 2003: Engineer and author Henry Petroski on design & his latest book, "Small Things Considered: Why Design | Listen
October 6, 2003: It's Us Again with Dorian & Gaylord. | Listen

September 29, 2003: Photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia talks about the work in his exhibition & book, "A Storybook Life". | Listen
September 22, 2003: Malcolm Daniel, Curator of photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, talks about the Met's new show on French daguerrotypes, and NEW YORKER film critic Anthony Lane on the movies and his book, "Nobody'd Perfect". | Listen
September 15, 2003: Dr. Edward Teller from 1999. | Listen
September 8, 2003: Otto Penzler, editor of "Best American Crime Writing" and Joseph Epstein, author of a new collection of short stories, "Fabulous Small Jews", as well as the nonfiction "Snobbery". | Listen
September 1, 2003: Peter Galison, Harvard University Professor of Physics and History of Science talks about his latest book, "Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps", which details the real world background which influenced the theory of relativity. | Listen

August 25, 2003: Comic artist Peter Kuper ( www.peterkuper.com ) talks about his latest book, a graphic novel adaptation of Kafka' METAMORPHOSIS (Crown), and also about World War 3 Illustrated, a political comix magazine he co-founded, and more. | Listen
August 18, 2003: Phortographer Jeff Meremelstein talks about the art of street photography and his new book, "No Title Here" (powerHouse Books). | Listen
August 11, 2003: Magician and debunker extrordinaire James Randi visits The Speakeasy via tele(phone)kinesis to talk about the latest in paranormal claims. | Listen
August 4, 2003: rerun: Novelist Richard Price | Listen

July 28, 2003: Steven Heller, Art Director of the New York Times Book Review and author of over 70 books on graphic design, talks about his newest , MERZ TO EMIGRE AND BEYOND: Avant-Garde Magazine Design of the Twentieth Century (Phaidon Press). | Listen
July 21, 2003: Editor of The Nation, Victor Navasky visits to discuss the Hollywood blacklist and his book, "Naming Names." | Listen
July 14, 2003: Joe Garden and others from The Onion (www.theonion.com) will be live in the studio to shock and awe. | Listen
July 7, 2003: Listen

June 30, 2003: Scholar/author Edward Tenner on the past and future of body technology and his new book, "Our Own Devices." | Listen
June 23, 2003: Benjamin Cavell on his debut short story collection, RUMBLE, YOUNG MAN,RUMBLE and Richard Pena, Programming Director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, discusses the HEROIC GRACE: CHINESE MARTIAL ARTS film series. | Listen
June 16, 2003: Susan J. Napier, professor of Japanese Literature and Culture at the U of Texas at Austin, discusses the art and culture of Anime. Mel Stuart, director of WATTSTAX, WILLIE WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY and others. | Listen
June 9, 2003: Peter Howe, photojournalist, NYTimes Magazine picture editor, Life magazine Director of Photography, and VP of photography and creative service at Corbis talks about combat photography and the personalities involved, and his book, "Shooting Under Fire". | Listen
June 2, 2003: Diane Ravitch talks about textbook censorship and her new book, "The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn". | Listen

May 26, 2003: Author Richard Ford on his latest, A Multitude of Sins". | Listen
May 19, 2003: Photographer Jonathan Torgovnik talks about Bollywood, photojournalism, India, and his book, Bollywood Dreams. | Listen
May 12, 2003: Robert Lanham, author of "The Hipster Handbook" and filmmaker Guy Maddin (Dracula:Pages from a Virgin's Diary). | Listen
May 5, 2003: Sir Martin Rees, UK Astronomer Royal on his latest book "Our Final Hour"; and Jay Cantor, author of "Great Neck" | Listen

April 28, 2003: Listen
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April 14, 2003: Edward Rothstein, the New York Times Cultural Critic at Large and author of Visions of Utopia | Listen
April 7, 2003: Legendary for his advertising and political campaigns, and provocative Esquire covers of the 60's, George Lois talks about his work and his new book, $ellebrity. | Listen

March 31, 2003: photographer David Levinthal joins Dorian live in the studio. | Listen
March 24, 2003: Steve James, the director of the highly acclaimed HOOP DREAMS discusses his new film, "STEVIE" Also, Director Kevin McMahon, whose feature-length documentary MCLUHAN's WAKE will air on the Sundance Channel. | Listen
March 17, 2003: Multimedia artist Matthew Barney, whose Cremaster Cycle films and works are being exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in a giant retrospective, talks about his work and influences. | Listen
March 10, 2003: Excerpts from past guests and some upcomings, with cohost Glen Jones | Listen
March 3, 2003: Marathon show with co-host the Cosmic Cowboy | Listen

February 24, 2003: Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy, author of Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption | Listen
February 17, 2003: Geoff Dyer author of "Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It" | Listen
February 10, 2003: Writer Richard Price | Listen
February 3, 2003: "The Tenacity of the Cochroach" author Stephen Thompson of The Onion's AV Club and filmmaker Frederick Wiseman on his latest, "the Last Letter". | Listen

January 27, 2003: Guest Dr Richard L. Garwin | Listen
January 20, 2003: Reairing of interview with Lawrence K Altman, author of "Who Goes First? The Story of Self-Experimentation in Medicine" | Listen
January 13, 2003: Physicist Charles Falco on working with artist David Hockney and film director George Romero. | Listen
January 6, 2003: Photographer Gregory Crewdson on his recently published book "Twilight" | Listen

December 30, 2002: Film critic David Thompson | Listen
December 23, 2002: Special FUN holiday edition of the Speakeasy with filmmaker Bill Morrison and Gretchen Warden, director of the Mutter Museum | Listen
December 16, 2002: Former Marine, Pentagon and Rand Corp analyst, and the person responsible for releasing the Pentagon Papers DANIEL ELLSBERG talks about politics, Iraq, and his new book, "Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers". | Listen
December 9, 2002: CHRISTA LANG FULLER and JEROME RUDES talk about filmmaker Samuel Fuller, and DANIEL JONAH GOLDHAGEN on his new book, "A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair". | Listen
December 2, 2002: Historian of technology Jonathan Spira discussing the history and future of technology, including photography and info imaging. | See the playlist | Listen

November 25, 2002: New York Times Jazz Critic Ben Ratliff | Listen
November 18, 2002: Glenn Kenny: a contributer to the book "A Galaxy Not So Far Away: Writers and Artists on Twenty-Five Years of Star Wars." Costumes NOT neccesary. | Listen
November 11, 2002: KATHLEEN CLEAVER, Black Panther Party 1967 to 1971, talks about her times with the Panthers and the new book of photos from these times "Black Panther 1968", published recently by the Greybull Press. | Listen
November 4, 2002: Underground comics star Kim Deitch, discussing his new book "The Boulevard of Broken Dreams." | Listen

October 28, 2002: The writers of THE ONION drop by the studio for some laughs and talk about The Onion Ad Nauseum (seriously). | Listen
October 21, 2002: Francine Prose author of "The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women &the Artists They Inspired"; Directors Kirby & Amy Ziering Kofman on their new film, "Derrida"; plus David Malin, scientific advisor on the book "Heaven and Earth" | Listen
October 14, 2002: William Grimes, author of "Straight Up or On the Rocks: The Story of the American Cocktail" | Listen
October 7, 2002: Jonathan Safran Foer, author of "Everything Is Illuminated". | Listen

September 30, 2002: Shabana Azmi: Indian actress, activist, and member of Parliament | Listen
September 23, 2002: Photographer Bruce Davidson | Listen
September 16, 2002: Author Ted Conover author of "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" | Listen
September 9, 2002: Photographer Steve McCurry | Listen
September 2, 2002: NYU Media Studies Professor Mark Crispin Miller discusses "The Bush Dyslexicon" | Listen

August 26, 2002: Northwestern University's Joseph Epstein on "Snobbery: The American Version" | Listen
August 19, 2002: Max Kozloff, curator of "New York: Capital of Photography" exhibition at the Jewish Museum NYC | Listen
August 12, 2002: The New York Times' Ethicist, Randy Cohen | Listen
August 5, 2002: Bob McCoy of the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices | Listen

July 29, 2002: Filmmaker Paul Morrisey and David Schwartz, curator of Film at the American Museum of the Moving Image | Listen
July 22, 2002: Funnyman Steve Mirsky of Scientific American | Listen
July 15, 2002: Author / boxer Robert Anasi | Listen
July 8, 2002: Cartoon voices! June Foray (Rocky the Squirrel, Natasha) and Don Messick (Scooby Doo) | Listen
July 1, 2002: Ken Smith talks Junk English | Listen

June 24, 2002: Alan Lightman on his novel, "The Diagnosis" | Listen
June 17, 2002: Documentary Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman and Thelma Schoonmaker, film editor | Listen
June 10, 2002: Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Russo on "Empire Falls" | Listen
June 3, 2002: Memorial rebroadcast of interview with paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould | Listen

May 27, 2002: Sociobiologist E.O.Wilson | Listen
May 20, 2002: Laura Zigman, author of Her | Listen
May 13, 2002: Ben Marcus, author of Notable American Women | Listen
May 6, 2002: Peter Ward & Alexis Rockman, authors of Future Evoloution. | Listen

April 29, 2002: Author of Mental Hygiene, and Junk English, Ken Smith, B.A. | Listen
April 22, 2002: Author Of The Fletch Crime Novel Series, Gregory Mcdonald | Listen
April 15, 2002: Todd Gitlin, Professor Of Culture, Journalism & Sociology at New York University, and author of Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives. | Listen
April 8, 2002: Author and Enginneer Henry Petroski | Listen
April 1, 2002: Michael Hardt, Associate Professor of Literature at Duke University & Co-Author of Empire discusses new interpretations of globalization | Listen

March 25, 2002: Bruce Jay Friedman author of several novels (Stern, About Harry Townes, Violencia! A Musical Novel, others), screewriter (including Oscar-nominated screenplay for Splash), and playwrite (Steambath) | Listen
March 18, 2002: NY Times restaurant critic William Grimes on his latest book My Fine Feathered Friend | Listen
March 11, 2002: Marathon show with co-host Brian and guests Bruce McCall, Theodore Postol, and Richard Ford | Listen
March 4, 2002: Marathon show with guest James D. Watson and cohost Rob Weisberg | Listen

February 25, 2002: Author Richard Ford on his new short story collection, A Multitude of Sins | Listen
February 18, 2002: Famed sociobiologist E.O. Wilson talks about the future of life. | Listen
February 11, 2002: Peter Carey on his latest fiction, True History of the Kelly Gang | Listen
February 4, 2002: Pianist and author Stuart Isacoff on his book Temperament: The Idea that Solved Music's Greatest Riddle | Listen

January 28, 2002: Listen
January 21, 2002: Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy discusses the ultimate racial epithet and his latest book | Listen
January 14, 2002: Claudia Dreifus on her new book Scientific Conversations: Interviews on Science from the New York Times | Listen
January 7, 2002: Author Ted Conover on the hobo lifestyle and his books | Listen

December 31, 2001: Dorian & Gaylord relive fun on the air from years past | Listen
December 24, 2001: Author Joseph Heller (repeat) and holiday music | Listen
December 17, 2001: Art Spiegelman & Francoise Mouly on Little Lit for kids | Listen
December 10, 2001: Producer/writer Mike Wilkins on the making of The Independent | Listen
December 3, 2001: Ken Smith (humor & language) | Listen

November 26, 2001: Martin Rees (astronomy) and Ross King (architecture) | Listen
November 19, 2001: James Bamford - National Security Agency | Listen
November 12, 2001: Frederick Crews (literary criticism) | Listen
November 5, 2001: Bruce McCall (humor & advertising) | Listen

October 29, 2001: Rush Holt (anthrax update) and Jim Crace (appetite) | Listen
October 22, 2001: Clare Fox and Tony Gilland (science in society) | Listen
October 15, 2001: William Vollman (new historical fiction) | Listen
October 8, 2001: Ray Carney (John Cassavetes) and Richard Pena (NY Film Festival) | Listen
October 1, 2001: T.C Boyle (new short story collection) | Listen

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