All Of It with Alison Stewart

On November 19, Carnegie Hall will host "Music + Revolution: Greenwich Village in the 1960s," an event celebrating the place and time in music, curated by The Bongos frontman Richard Barone, featuring José Feliciano, Eric Andersen, Vernon Reid, and more musicians. Barone is also the author of a new book of the same name which details that moment in musical history. He joins us to discuss.

Have you noticed an uptick in bad subway behavior post COVID? People taking up seats, bringing enormous dogs on, not taking backpacks off? You're not alone. NYT transit reporter Ana Ley joins to discuss her latest article "Does Anyone Know How to Behave on the Subway Anymore?" and we take listener calls about their own rules for subway behavior.

James Blunt recorded "You're Beautiful" for his debut album in 2003, released it the following year, and by 2006 it hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100. (The song stayed on the charts for a total of 38 weeks.) Twenty years later, he looks back on his past in two new projects: his seventh album, Who We Used to Be; and the book, Loosely Based On A Made-Up Story: A Non-Memoir. Blunt joins us.

Writer, director, and poet Raven Jackson's debut feature film, "All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt," follows one girl, Mack, through different stages of her life in rural Mississippi over a fifty year period. The New York Times says the movie "announces the arrival of a filmmaker grounded in the lyrical beauty of her characters," and Jackson joins us to discuss. "All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt" is in select theaters now.

DOC NYC, America's largest documentary festival, returns with a selection of non-fiction cinema from around the world. Some of the films include attention-grabbing films like "Kokomo City," "The Walk" and "Four Daughters." The festival is running both in-person and online from Nov. 8th until Nov. 26th. DOC NYC artistic director Jaie Laplante and senior programmer Ruth Somalo join us to discuss the line up.

New Jersey-born and New York-based artist Mickalene Thomas is showing work at two art shows. The first, Je t’adore, runs in NYC at the Yancey Richardson Gallery through November 11, and features new work inspired by imagery of Black female erotica. The other show, Portrait of an Unlikely Space, at Yale University through January, mixes early portraiture of Black Americans with work by contemporary artists including Thomas. She joins us to discuss both.

In 1920, W.E.B Du Bois created the first American magazine addressing Black children. The Brownies' Book invited the era's most prolific Black creatives to submit material—poems, illustrations, songs—so that Black children could feel seen and represented (the magazine was the first to publish a Langston Hughes poem). A new collection, The New Brownies' Book: A Love Letter to Black Families, celebrates the history of the magazine alongside new material for children today. The book was created by married duo Dr. Karida L. Brown, a sociologist and Du Bois expert, and her husband, artist Charly Palmer. Brown and Palmer join us to discuss.

Mona Awad is our November Get Lit with All Of It book club author. She joins us to give a preview of her new novel, Rouge, which tells the story of a woman named Belle who investigates the mysterious death of her beauty-obsessed mother. Belle encounters the dangerous magic mirror that might have entranced her. Click here to borrow your free e-copy of the book and to grab your free ticket to our November 27 event with Mona Awad.

The new documentary, "Four Daughters," tackles the story of two sisters who left their family to join ISIS through an unusual method-- casting two actors to play the sisters and act out scenes alongside the real-life mother and remaining two sisters. Director Kaouther Ben Hania joins us to discuss the film, which is in theaters now.

In the new film "Dream Scenario," a normal family man named Paul finds himself an overnight celebrity when suddenly, across the world, people have dreams about him. The film stars Nic Cage and is written and directed by Kristoffer Borgli, who joins us to discuss "Dream Scenario," in theaters now.