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.

One of the most anticipated books of the year is the English translation of Nobel winner Olga Tokarczuk’s magnum opus, The Books of Jacob. Jennifer Croft, her longtime translator, joins us to discuss the novel, her career, and the art of translation. Croft was awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize, alongside Tokarczuk, for her translation of Flights.