Luc Sante, the author of work that includes Lowlife: Lures and Snares of Old New York and The Other Paris, whose most recent book is Maybe the People Would Be the Times published by Verse Chorus Verse Press in 2020, compares the nitty gritty Manhattan of his youth to the city for the rich that it has become and makes educated guesses about America's future.

Prolific author and French lit professor Sylvie Weil stops by to talk about her most recent book.

Myriam and I critique everything from the publishing world to presidential debates to the erotic nature of growing up Catholic.

Leila explores the "black melancholy" and "space as place" with me.

Bass player and vocalist Felice Rosser talks about being published in an early issue of Bomb, the then new underground Lower East Side magazine,  becoming the protege of writer Elizabeth Hardwick, the struggle to sit at a typewriter trying to finish a first book after having signed a contract with Simon & Schuster while really wanting to buy an instrument and start a band.