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Distinguished authors and emerging writers from the ranks of University faculty, students and friends discuss and read their published works.

Episodes

  1. 09/19/2023

    Tales of the Eng Dynasty

    How BMCC's Alvin Eng found his soul as an ‘acoustic punk rock raconteur.’

    26 min

  2. 08/30/2023

    For Ava Chin, All Roads Lead to Mott Street

    CSI and Graduate Center professor Ava Chin uncovers her family's remarkable history and reveals the deeper history of exclusion that defined the Chinese American experience for a century in "Mott Street."

    36 min

  3. 02/01/2023

    A Young Writer Born of a Forgotten War

    Crystal Hana Kim says the Korean War is so deeply ingrained in her family's history--but so remote for Americans today--that it became the driving force for her to become a writer.

    21 min

  4. 11/08/2021

    A Daughter’s Memoir of Heritage, Trauma and Food

    National Book Award finalist Grace Cho talks about "Tastes Like War," a memoir of her quest to understand her mother's journey from Korean War bride in the Pacific Northwest to her struggle with schizophrenia.

    25 min

  5. 10/13/2021

    Smokin’ Joe, Out from Ali’s Shadow

    In "Sparring with Smokin' Joe," CUNY journalism professor Glenn Lewis recalls the epic rivalry between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali -- one that transcended sports, became a cultural and racial touchstone and ultimately defined Frazier's life inside and outside the ring.

    33 min

  6. 09/27/2021

    Rethinking Jimmy Carter

    Jimmy Carter is often thought of as a failed one-term president, but in his new political biography of Carter, The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter, CUNY's Kai Bird argues that Carter was a much more consequential president than he's given credit for.

    40 min

  7. 06/29/2021

    Strange But True: The Psychiatrist Who Believed in Alien Abduction

    Ralph Blumenthal's "The Believer" tells the beguiling story of John Mack, a renowned Harvard psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize winner whose career came to be defined by his study of people who said they'd had encounters with aliens. Mack believed them, and his life was never the same.

    40 min

  8. 03/09/2021

    A Searching Story of Love, Blood and Legacy

    Brooklyn College alumnus Robert Jones Jr.'s debut novel, "The Prophets," is a different kind of love story: It reaches across centuries, continents and cultures to tell a soulful story of love between two young men enslaved on a plantation in the antebellum American South.

    30 min

  9. 11/24/2020

    We Are the Wars We Wage

    In his novel Missionaries, Phil Klay--Hunter College MFA alum, Iraq War veteran and National Book Award winner--explores the globalization of war through the stories of four people caught up in the nearly 60-year conflict in Colombia.

    25 min

  10. 08/13/2020

    Still They Persisted: Inside the Long Battle to Adopt the ERA

    CUNY legal scholar Julie Suk discusses "We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment," her book about the women behind the long battle to enshrine full equal rights for women as a Constitutional amendment.

    35 min
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Distinguished authors and emerging writers from the ranks of University faculty, students and friends discuss and read their published works.

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  • Creator
    The City University of New York
  • Years Active
    2014 - 2023
  • Episodes
    10
  • Rating
    Clean
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