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Opera and Cheesecake

Wednesday, May 31, 2006

I hosted the two most recent episodes of the Nextbook podcast. The visit with composer Leonard Lehrman dwells on how he’s completed Marc Blitzstein’s unfinished works, but before Lehrman gets there his description of his own first opera is my favorite bit of tape of the year. Then there’s a tour of the S&S Cheesecake [...]

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Macaroons v. Peeps

Monday, April 3, 2006

For Nextbook’s Passover podcast, producer Julie Subrin and I stopped by Economy Candy on the Lower East Side and spoke with owner Jerry Cohen. His fruit slices taste better than most. Listen.

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A conversation with Ian Buruma

Monday, February 27, 2006

I interviewed Ian Buruma about his uncle, the film director John Schlesinger, for the Nextbook podcast. Read an excerpt from Conversations With John Schlesinger, or get the mp3.

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Frey, Wilkomirski, Oprah, Wiesel

Monday, January 23, 2006

I’ve been watching the James Frey story unfold, noting the similarities between this scandal and the debunking of Binjamin Wilkomirski’s Fragments—the publishers’ shrugs, supporters standing by him, and today’s NYTimes lists some prescient skeptics. When Elie Wiesel became part of the story, I decided to weigh in.

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