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.
On today's show, scientists Jacquelyn Gill and Alan Townsend talk about the latest scientific discoveries about the way the planet is warming and what...
On today's Leonard Lopate at Large, Leonard has a conversation with Andrew Roberts on Winston Churchill, and Robert's new book Churchill: Walking with Destiny....
Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Tonya Pinkins and Anne Hamburger discuss their new collaboration “Truth and Reconciliation of Women,” a collection of 10-minute...