Today Leonard talks with Carter Strickland of The Trust for Public Land,
a national nonprofit that was founded in San Francisco in 1972, which works with communities to develop open space. Their New York office opened in 1978. State Director Carter Strickland has been leading the way in building these parks, including remaking 197 school playgrounds across the five boroughs.
Read more:Forest Hills Times – Carter Strickland Trust for Public Land
Today, Phillip Lopate will join us for an “Underread Book Club” discussion of Turgenev’s late masterpiece “Virgin Soil.” When it was published in1877, Turgenev...
Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Hugh Ryan discusses a largely untold history. Hugh Ryan’s “When Brooklyn Was Queer” is a groundbreaking exploration of...
Kathleen Hill and Steven Gaines join Leonard in-studio for a discussion about what makes a great memoir. Beginning with a “Best American” award-winning narrative,...