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, director Toby Talbot (who was married to the late Lincoln Plaza founder, New Plaza Cinema film curator Gary...
Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Michael Patrick MacDonald discusses the latest political developments in England and Ireland, including Brexit and beyond, with Leonard....
Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Lewis H. Lapham discusses the magazine Lapham’s Quarterly , his prodigious career and a new edition of his...