All Of It with Alison Stewart

Mike Schur, creator of "Parks and Rec" and "The Good Place," joins us to discuss his new book How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question, a humorous but serious guide to ethics.

[REBROADCAST FROM October 27, 2021] Despite receiving relatively little commercial success in their original 10-year run, The Velvet Underground have become one of the most influential and iconic bands in rock history, instantly recognizable from their Andy Warhol-produced banana album cover. A new documentary from director Todd Haynes takes a fresh look at the band and its legacy. Haynes joins to talk about "The Velvet Underground," in theaters now and available to stream on Apple TV+.

On January 25, thirty years ago, artists and journalists collaborated to host the Barbed-Wire Kisses panel at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival, which helped spur a new LGBTQ+ film movement, New Queer Cinema. Amongst the panel members were filmmakers like Derek Jarman and Todd Haynes, artists Sadie Benning and Isaac Julien, and critic B. Ruby Rich. Journalist Erik Piepenburg joins us to discuss the panel and its legacy, which he looks at in his new piece "The Day New Queer Cinema Said: Let’s Do This," which also features discussion with some of the original panel members.

Writer Ricky Tucker’s new book, And the Category Is...: Inside New York's Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community, takes readers behind the curtain into the ballroom community spotlighting its icons, values and history. Tucker joins us to talk the new book, which is out today, January 25.

WNYC's news editor Kate Hinds joins to discuss the stories and top headlines the newsroom is following this week.

Philly born and Brooklyn-based saxophonist and composer Immanuel Wilkins made some waves with his debut jazz album, Omega. Now, he's back with his sophomore release, called, The 7th Hand. Wilkins joins us for a Listening Party to discuss the record, which is out on January 28.

New York Times and Daily Beast columnist Wajahat Ali mixes personal stories with national politics and cultural commentary in his new memoir, Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American. Ali joins us to discuss his book and preview Wajahat Ali & Friends, an event of Asian-American storytelling, comedy and music at Symphony Space.

The film “CODA” tells the story of Ruby Rossi, the only hearing member of her Gloucester family. The rest of the Rossi family relies on Ruby as an interpreter and as a deckhand on her family's fishing boat, but all Ruby wants to do is sing. We speak with writer and director Sian Heder, and Academy Award-winning actress Marlee Matlin, who stars as Jackie Rossi in the film. “CODA” is available to stream now on Apple TV Plus, and has been nominated for two SAG Awards.

"American Auto" is the latest workplace comedy from writer and showrunner Justin Spitzer and stars Ana Gasteyer as the new CEO of a Detroit-based car company. Both will join to talk about the show and it's take on corporate culture in advance of its premiere on NBC's Peacock streaming channel.

Some of the best books from 2021 were works of translated literature, whether it was the memoir The Copenhagen Trilogy or Karl Ove Knausgaard's latest. And there are lots of exciting translated works coming up 2022. Corinne Segal, a senior editor at Literary Hub and a big fan of translated literature, joins us for a Review/Preview to recommend the best of 2021 and upcoming translated books.Corinne's Picks: Published in 2021The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency, Tove Ditlevsen (tr. from Danish by Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favala Goldman)An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures, Clarice Lispector (tr. from Portuguese by Stefan Tobler) Slipping, Mohamed Kheir (tr. from Arabic by Robin Moger) Cowboy Graves, Roberto Bolaño (tr. from Spanish by Natasha Wimmer) Imminence, Mariana Dimópulos (tr. from Spanish by Alice Whitmore) The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories, Mariana Enriquez (tr. from Spanish by Megan McDowell) In the Eye of the Wild, Nastassja Martin (tr. from French by Sophie R. Lewis) When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamín Labatut (tr. from Spanish by Adrian Nathan West)Whereabouts, Jhumpa Lahiri (tr. from Italian by Jhumpa Lahiri)Upcoming in 2022The Books of Jacob, Olga Tokarczuk (tr. from Polish by Jennifer Croft) The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century, Olga Ravn (tr. from Danish by Martin Aitken) All the Lovers in the Night, Mieko Kawakami (tr. from Japanese by Sam Bett and David Boyd) Portrait of an Unknown Lady, María Gainza (tr. from Spanish by Thomas Bunstead) A Very Old Man: Stories, Italo Svevo (tr. from Italian by Frederika Randall)Chilean Poet, Alejandro Zambra (tr. from Spanish by Megan McDowell) Yoga, Emmanuel Carrère (tr. from French by John Lambert)