Kathleen Hill and Steven Gaines join Leonard in-studio for a discussion about what makes a great memoir.
“One of These Things First” by Steven Gaines is a wry and poignant reminiscence of a 15-year-old gay Jewish boy in Brooklyn in the early sixties and his unexpected trajectory from a life behind a rack of dresses in his grandmother’s bra and girdle store, to Manhattan’s fabled Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, a fashionable Charenton for wealthy neurotics and Ivy League alcoholics.
Today, on Leonard Lopate at Large, fresh of the heels of Amazon’s retreat from building a new facility in the Long Island City neighborhood...
This weeks Leonard Lopate At Large features a discussion about the ecological interactions between plants and wildlife and the importance of sustaining native plants....
Today, Leonard’s conversation is with Itamar Kubovy, the executive producer for Pilobolus dance company. Pilobolus mission is to “create, perform, and preserve dances, applying...