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- Ashley C. Ford's 'Somebody's Daughter'
[REBROADCAST FROM June 16, 2021] Writer, podcaster, and web series host, Ashley C. Ford, joins us to discuss her highly anticipated memoir, Somebody's Daughter.
20 min - 'Listening Party' with Theo Croker
Grammy-nominated trumpeter Theo Croker recently released a new album, BLK2LIFE || A FUTURE PAST. The self-produced album features Wyclef Jean, Ari Lennox, Kassa Overall, and many more. Croker joins us for a Listening Party.
19 min - Kate Has a Plan — Oct. 5, 2021
WNYC planning editor Kate Hinds joins us for our ongoing series, "Kate Has a Plan," to discuss the stories the newsroom is following this week.
9 min - 'Nuclear Family' with Ry Russo-Young
“Nuclear Family,” a new docuseries on HBO, chronicles the story of a lesbian couple who created a family in the early 80’s through surrogacy before it was a common practice and the tensions and legal fights that emerged when one of the donors wanted custody. Ry Russo-Young was the child at the center of the fight and she also serves as the film’s director. She’ll be here to discuss her story, her complicated relationship with her family, and the production of the series.
20 min - 'Review/Preview': Fall Books
Arianna Rebolini, Former Buzzfeed Book Editor and now publisher of her own newsletter, "Reading Habits,” joins to share some of the fall book releases she’s looking forward to in our latest installment of “Review/Preview.”
Arianna's Recs:
THE PERISHING by Natashia Deon (fantasy/historical fic) — Deon is a practicing criminal attorney and somehow has also managed to write two phenomenal novels. This one is hard to summarize neatly but it's essentially about a Black woman in 1930s LA who realizes she's immortal when she starts receiving "memories" from different time periods—past and future—and meets a man she's certain she's connected to. It grabs you right away, maybe the best opening chapter I've read all year, and that energy never falters.NEW YORK, MY VILLAGE by Uwem Akpan (lit fic) — I tend to think the publishing world overestimates readers' interest in books about publishing, but Akpan's debut novel—about Ekong, a Nigerian editor doing a fellowship with a small press in NYC—is such a fresh take, a really sharp skewering of this self-serious, highly competitive world (in publishing but also, broadly, in NYC) and is especially good at calling out the racism that comes from people who are certain they aren't racist. It's also really enlightening about Nigerian history—Ekong is in the US working on an anthology about the Biafran War and Akpan weaves in a lot of that historical context, so I personally ended up really learning a lot about something I had no awareness of.THE MAN WHO DIED TWICE by Richard Osman (mystery) — This is the second book in Osman's Thursday Murder Club series, and it's really just a classic, very charming, very fun whodunnit. The Thursday Murder Club is a group of friends in their 70s who live in a retirement community and meet weekly to discuss cold cases—and then, of course, happen to solve one of them. In this sequel, the foursome get wrapped up in a multi-million dollar diamond robbery gone wrong and find themselves in a get-the-killer-before-he-gets-you situation.BEWILDERMENT by Richard Powers (lit fic/cli-fi) — Powers is such a beautiful writer whose love of the natural world comes through so powerfully in his work—in this one, a widowed astrobiologist (Theo) is trying to help his 9-year-old son, Robin, deal with the trauma of his mother's sudden death, while also managing his intense anxiety about the destruction of the planet and behavioral problems that keep getting him in trouble at school. Their relationship is really moving, and it cuts to the core of the climate crisis—what life/world are leaving for our children?FUZZ: WHEN NATURE BREAKS THE LAW by Mary Roach (nature/nonfic) — Another nature book, this one from the incredibly entertaining science writer Mary Roach. FUZZ gets into the ways humanity clashes with animals and the (ridiculous!) ways we try to maintain control, try to pretend we can force the natural world to live by our arbitrary laws. Roach is the best at taking something that could be dry and making it impossible to put down.1000 YEARS OF JOYS AND SORROW by Ai Weiwei (memoir) — This one's a memoir but is as much about Weiwei's father —one of China's most prestigious poets! I had no idea!—as it is about Weiwei himself. Talking about his own artistic development, his ability to leave China and pursue those dreams in the US after his father, exiled to working camps after the Cultural Revolution, had his creative life cut short, Weiwei makes clear how and why art and politics are inextricable.THE SENTENCE by Louise Erdrich (lit fic/magical realism) — Anything Erdrich does is gold, imo. This one is a little meta (it's about a group of indigenous booksellers in a Minneapolis bookstore called Birchbark Books, i.e. Erdrich's Minneapolis bookstore) and a little wacky (an annoying customer who dies on All Souls' Day 2019 and then spends the next year haunting Birchbark Books) but it's the perfect blend of funny and heavy. That year is, of course, a tumultuous year in Minneapolis, and watching these characters deal with the literal haunting alongside metaphorical hauntings (generational trauma, police brutality, systemic racism) is illuminating.12 min - 'Review/Preview': Fall TV
Our resident TV expert, Vulture staff writer Kathryn Van Arendonk, joins us to preview the fall TV season and shares which shows she’s especially excited about.
11 min - Ken Burns and Rasheeda Ali on 'Muhammad Ali' Documentary
Recently at The Atlantic Festival, Alison spoke with Ken Burns and Rasheeda Ali about the new four-part PBS documentary, "Muhammad Ali," co-directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon. We air the full conversation for our All Of It listeners. "Muhammad Ali" is on PBS streaming platforms until October 9.
36 min - Liane Moriarty on 'Apples Never Fall'
Liane Moriarty is the author behind the massive bestsellers (turned into television hits) Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers. In her latest novel, Moriarty follows four siblings… two are convinced their father has something to do with the recent mysterious disappearance of their mother. The other two are convinced he’s innocent. Moriarty joins us to discuss the novel, Apples Never Fall.
23 min - Get Lit Preview: Lauren Groff
Acclaimed author Lauren Groff joins us for a preview conversation highlighting her new novel and our "Get Lit with All Of It" October selection, Matrix. The novel tells the story of Marie de France, a 12th century nun who is expelled from the court of Eleanor of Aquitaine, only to find power as the prioress of a failing abbey. Matrix is a National Book Award nominee and a New York Times bestseller. Groff will join us for our virtual book club event on Wednesday, October 27 at 7 pm.
To find out more about our Get Lit with All Of It book club, and our partnership with the New York Public Library, click here, and follow us on Instagram at @allofitwnyc.
14 min - New Staten Island Minor League Baseball Team
A new minor league baseball team is coming to Staten Island, and the owners are asking for help to pick the new team’s name. We’ll take calls with listeners' suggestions, and their Staten Island pride. Curbed reporter Joe DeLessio joins to talk about what makes a name quintessentially Staten Island.
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About All Of It with Alison Stewart
From the publisher's feed
All Of It with Alison Stewart is a show about culture and its consumers.
ALL OF IT is a show about culture and context.
ALL OF IT is a show about culture and the culture.
Our aim is to engage the thinkers, doers, makers, and creators, about the what and why of their work. People make the culture and we hope, need, and want the WNYC community to be a part of our show. As we build a community around ALL OF IT, we know that every guest and listener has an opinion. We won’t always agree, but our varied perspectives and diversity of experience is what makes New York City great.
ALL OF IT will be both companion for and curator of the myriad culture this city has to offer. In the words of Cristina De Rossi, anthropologist at Barnet and Southgate College, London:
"Culture encompasses religion, food, what we wear, how we wear it, our language, marriage, music, what we believe is right or wrong, how we sit at the table, how we greet visitors, how we behave with loved ones, and a million other things."
...In other words, ALL OF IT.
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Join us for ALL OF IT with Alison Stewart, weekdays from 12:00 - 2:00PM on WNYC.
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