All Of It with Alison Stewart

[REBROADCAST FROM APRIL 30, 2021] We air highlights from our virtual book club series, “Get Lit with All Of It,” with Nobel Prize Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro. His New York Times bestselling novel, Klara and the Sun, follows the story of an 'Artificial Friend' named Klara. Klara is a highly intelligent AI purchased by a teenager named Josie, whose mother ultimately has unusual plans for Klara's role in the family.

Missed the event? Watch it in full here.

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.

We air highlights from our July Get Lit with All Of It virtual book club event. Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Madison McFerrin joined us for an interview and two special performances. 

Missed the event? Watch it in full here.

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.

We air highlights from our July "Get Lit with All Of It" book club event. We read  The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris. Harris joins us to discuss her new thriller, which is set in the world of book publishing.

Missed the event? Watch it in full here.

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.

This year’s BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival launched last weekend with a concert featuring Ari Lennox, and a surprise appearance from J Cole. Lia Camille Crockett, executive producer for BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn, joins us to preview the rest of the free summer concert series. After our conversation with Crockett, we’re joined by trumpet player Theo Croker, to preview his BRIC performance tonight, and share an exclusive update about his soon-to-be announced album.

The festival continues through September. 

[REBROADCAST FROM MARCH 30, 2021] Musician and activist Buffy Sainte-Marie joins us to discuss her remarkable life and career. Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography, by Andrea Warner, is now out in paperback.

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Sainte-Marie will be performing as part of the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival on August 6. 

Mikki Shepard, NYC FREE Festival Producer and former Executive Producer of the Apollo Theater, joins us to preview the upcoming month-long NYC FREE festival. Hosted on the recently completed Little Island park on the Hudson River, the festival will feature a mix of musicians, comedians, dancers, painters, and performances.

The festival is free and open to the public from August 11 to September 5.

[REBROADCAST FROM FEBRUARY 25, 2021] Last year, Billie Eilish became the youngest artist to sweep the major Grammy categories with her album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? The candid new documentary, "Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry," follows the trajectory of her stardom, which began with a song she uploaded to Soundcloud when she was 14 years old. Director RJ Cutler joins us to discuss making the film.

Director Hogir Hirori and producer Antonio Russo join us to discuss their acclaimed documentary, "Sabaya," which follows a group attempting to rescue kidnapped Yazidi women and girls being held by ISIS in the Al-Hol camp in Syria.

A note to listeners: Hirori is originally from Iraqi Kurdistan and fled to Sweden in 1999, where he lives in Stockholm. For this interview we’ll be hearing him speak in Swedish and his answers are going to be interpreted by Hanna Valenta.

[REBROADCAST FROM MARCH 31, 2021] The artist Julie Mehretu joins us to discuss her mid-career survey show at The Whitney Museum of American Art, which opened on March 25 and is titled simply, "Julie Mehretu." The exhibit spans over two decades and features almost 70 works on both canvas and paper. The selected pieces reveal Mehretu's wide range of source material and her commitment to finding new avenues of expression within abstract painting. The exhibit runs through August 8. 

Director Todd Stephens joins us to discuss his new film, "Swan Song," along with actor Udo Kier. Kier stars as former hairdresser Pat Pitsenbarger, who escapes his small-town Ohio nursing home after learning that his former client's dying wish was for Pat to style her final hairdo. "Swan Song" will be released in select theaters nationwide August 6 and via VOD August 13.