All Of It with Alison Stewart

We air highlights from the musical portion our Get Lit with All Of It April book club event with Pulitzer Prize winning author Jennifer Egan, which took place in the Greene Space on May 2! We were also joined by the Grammy award-winning Steve Earle, who just finished with the hit off-Broadway show, "Coal Country," and is looking forward to his new album out this month, Jerry Jeff. Earle also provided us with a special performance. 

We air highlights from our Get Lit with All Of It April book club event with Pulitzer Prize winning author Jennifer Egan, which took place in the Greene Space on May 2! Egan joined us to discuss her latest novel and our book club selection, The Candy House, and to take questions from the audience.

Actress, cook, and all around fabulous New Yorker Debi Mazar stops by to discuss her latest TV series, the Mike Myers comedy, "The Pentaverate."

In 2020, Major League Baseball reclassified seven Negro League teams as major league, meaning the statistics of those players will become part of the MLB's official historical record. The recognition is due in no small part to author, historian, and co-founder of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Phil Dixon, whose most recent book is called, John "Buck" O'Neil: The Rookie, His Words, His Voice. Dixon joins to discuss the legacy of O'Neil as a player and manager in the Negro Leagues, and the importance of preserving the history of black baseball.

A new debut novel uses Filipino mythology to tell the story of Marina, a troubled young woman who is murdered. But after being killed, Marina becomes a mythological creature, an aswang, and decides to investigate her own murderer... and decide whether she should enact revenge. Author Melissa Chadburn joins us to discuss her debut novel, A Tiny Upward Shove, as part of our ongoing series, "2022 Debuts."

For the latest installment of our ongoing Full Bio series, we speak with Kostya Kennedy, author of a new biography about Jackie Robinson, called, True: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson. The book comes almost 75 years after Robinson made his professional baseball debut. On day three, we talk about the twilight of Robinson's career, his disagreements with Dodgers management, and his decision to retire.

Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy, creators of the popular Instagram account @lizandmollie, return to the show to discuss their new book, Big Feelings: How to Be Okay When Things Are Not Okay, a follow-up to their last book, No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work. Liz and Mollie join to give us some tips to deal with complicated and hard feelings, and take your calls to give advice.

Prolific jazz bassist Ron Carter turns 85 today. On May 10 he'll be celebrating his birthday with a career-retrospective concert at Carnegie Hall, called For the Love of Ron: Ron Carter and Friends. Carter, who was a member of Miles Davis's Second Great Quintet and has become the most recorded bassist of all time (at over 2200 recordings), joins us to preview the concert and reflect on his career.

Our May 2022 Get Lit with All Of It book club selection is Trust by Hernan Diaz! Diaz joins us for a preview conversation ahead of our forthcoming book club event. Trust tells the story of one man's massive fortune, and his failing mental health, in early 20th century New York City.

Actor D'Arcy Carden became beloved for her role as Janet on the hit comedy, "The Good Place." Now, she stars in Season 3 of the acclaimed HBO Max series, "Barry," and in the upcoming TV adaptation of "A League of Their Own." She joins us to discuss her new projects, and to look back at her career thus far.