“Democracy Now” co-host Juan Gonzales has called Monona Rossol a hero for her work in helping to cope with the environmental disaster that arose in lower Manhattan following the tragic events of September, 11, 2001. The chemist, artist, and industrial hygienist is the founder and of Arts, Crafts and Theater Safety, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to providing health and safety services to the arts, and the Health and Safety Director for the Local 829 union of of the United Scenic Artists International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. In this episode of “Leonard Lopate at Large,” Monona talks to Leonard about the dangerous toxins we encounter in our daily lives.

Michael Rechtshaffen of the Los Angeles Times recently wrote "for those who have ever wondered about that domed white, flying saucer-shaped structure perched on a particularly sparse patch of Landers, Calif., the provocative, if slight, documentary, ‘Calling All Earthlings,’ heeds the call...Jonathan Berman finds no shortage of cooperative family members, historians, conspiracy theorists, healers and artists (singer Eric Burdon among them) in an area long associated with off-the-grid living." Don't miss a conversation for UFO believers and skeptics alike when Leonard talks to Jonathan about what the latest research and first-hand accounts tell us about the search for extraterrestrial life in the universe.

Michael Rechtshaffen of the Los Angeles Times recently wrote "for those who have ever wondered about that domed white, flying saucer-shaped structure perched on a particularly sparse patch of Landers, Calif., the provocative, if slight, documentary, ‘Calling All Earthlings,’ heeds the call...Jonathan Berman finds no shortage of cooperative family members, historians, conspiracy theorists, healers and artists (singer Eric Burdon among them) in an area long associated with off-the-grid living." Don't miss a conversation for UFO believers and skeptics alike when Leonard talks to Jonathan about what the latest research and first-hand accounts tell us about the search for extraterrestrial life in the universe.

Michael Rechtshaffen of the Los Angeles Times recently wrote "for those who have ever wondered about that domed white, flying saucer-shaped structure perched on a particularly sparse patch of Landers, Calif., the provocative, if slight, documentary, ‘Calling All Earthlings,’ heeds the call...Jonathan Berman finds no shortage of cooperative family members, historians, conspiracy theorists, healers and artists (singer Eric Burdon among them) in an area long associated with off-the-grid living." Don't miss a conversation for UFO believers and skeptics alike when Leonard talks to Jonathan about what the latest research and first-hand accounts tell us about the search for extraterrestrial life in the universe.

On Tuesday's "Leonard Lopate at Large," critic, essayist, fiction writer, poet and professor of writing at Columbia University Phillip Lopate (who also happens to be Leonard's brother) joins us for the premiere installment of our Underread Book Club with a discussion of Ivan Turgenev’s late masterpiece “Virgin Soil.” When it was published in 1877, "Virgin Soil" made Turgenev world famous; a month after it was published 52 young men and women were arrested in Russia on charges of revolutionary conspiracy and a shocked public in France, Britain and America turned to the novel for enlightenment. Its effect on American readers was enormous. Turgenev’s 1860s Russian radicals may remind you of 1960s American radicals and the political discussions often sound like the arguments being made today.

On Tuesday's "Leonard Lopate at Large," critic, essayist, fiction writer, poet and professor of writing at Columbia University Phillip Lopate (who also happens to be Leonard's brother) joins us for the premiere installment of our Underread Book Club with a discussion of Ivan Turgenev’s late masterpiece “Virgin Soil.” When it was published in 1877, "Virgin Soil" made Turgenev world famous; a month after it was published 52 young men and women were arrested in Russia on charges of revolutionary conspiracy and a shocked public in France, Britain and America turned to the novel for enlightenment. Its effect on American readers was enormous. Turgenev’s 1860s Russian radicals may remind you of 1960s American radicals and the political discussions often sound like the arguments being made today.

On Tuesday's "Leonard Lopate at Large," critic, essayist, fiction writer, poet and professor of writing at Columbia University Phillip Lopate (who also happens to be Leonard's brother) joins us for the premiere installment of our Underread Book Club with a discussion of Ivan Turgenev’s late masterpiece “Virgin Soil.” When it was published in 1877, "Virgin Soil" made Turgenev world famous; a month after it was published 52 young men and women were arrested in Russia on charges of revolutionary conspiracy and a shocked public in France, Britain and America turned to the novel for enlightenment. Its effect on American readers was enormous. Turgenev’s 1860s Russian radicals may remind you of 1960s American radicals and the political discussions often sound like the arguments being made today.

On Monday’s show, Leonard talks to one of America’s premier investigative journalists, Seymour “Sy” Hersh. Perhaps best known for exposing what came to be known as the My Lai Massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, which earned him the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, Sy has also reported on the US military's mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the U.S. military’s killing of Osama bin Laden. His journalism and publishing awards also include five George Polk Awards, two National Magazine Awards, and more than a dozen other prizes for investigative reporting. Don’t miss this conversation with a man who changed the course of US history with his reporting at least twice.

On Monday’s show, Leonard talks to one of America’s premier investigative journalists, Seymour “Sy” Hersh. Perhaps best known for exposing what came to be known as the My Lai Massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, which earned him the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, Sy has also reported on the US military's mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the U.S. military’s killing of Osama bin Laden. His journalism and publishing awards also include five George Polk Awards, two National Magazine Awards, and more than a dozen other prizes for investigative reporting. Don’t miss this conversation with a man who changed the course of US history with his reporting at least twice.

On Monday’s show, Leonard talks to one of America’s premier investigative journalists, Seymour “Sy” Hersh. Perhaps best known for exposing what came to be known as the My Lai Massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, which earned him the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, Sy has also reported on the US military's mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the U.S. military’s killing of Osama bin Laden. His journalism and publishing awards also include five George Polk Awards, two National Magazine Awards, and more than a dozen other prizes for investigative reporting. Don’t miss this conversation with a man who changed the course of US history with his reporting at least twice.