Join Michael in his conversation with Grace Kessler Overbeke about her new book, First Lady of Laughs, The Forgotten Story of Jean Carroll, America’s First Jewish Woman Stand-up Comedian which tell the story of Jean Carroll, the first Jewish woman to become a star in the field we now call stand-up comedy.

Grace Kessler Overbeke is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre at Columbia College, Chicago with a focus on Comedy Studies. Previously, she served as the Perilman Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies at Duke University. She has also taught in less traditional academic settings such as the Cook County Department of Corrections and Miriam’s Kitchen Social Services Organization.

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Join Michael in his discussion with David Enrich about his new book Murder the Truth, Fear, The First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful, which details an ongoing assault from the right on New York Times v. Sullivan.

David is the business investigations editor for The New York Times and the bestselling author of Dark Towers among other books. He is the winner of numerous journalism awards.

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Join Michael in his conversation with Shigehiro Oishi about his new book Life in Three Dimensions, How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Make for a Fuller, Better, Life which offers insight into the question of what makes for a good life.

Shige is the Marshall Field IV Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago. He is one of the foremost authorities on happiness, meaning, and culture. His work has been featured in many major media outlets, including The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal as well as many professional journals.

https://psychology.uchicago.edu/directory/Shigehiro-Oishi

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Join Michael in his conversation with Randy Blythe the frontman for the Lamb of God heavy metal band about his new memoir Just Beyond The Light, Making Peace with the Wars Inside our Head.

Randy is a writer, photographer, actor, and frontman for the heavy metal band Lamb of God. This is his second book. He lives in Richmond, VA when he is not on the road touring.

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Legendary author Judith Viorst joins Michael to talk about her latest book, Making the Best of What's Left, When We're Too Old to Get the Chairs Reupholstered, in which she writes about the late life meaning of wisdom, happiness, second chances, and being home. Judith is the author of the beloved Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day, the Lulu books, including Lulu and the Brontosaurus, the New York Times bestseller, Necessary Losses, four musicals, and poetry for children and adults.

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Join Michael in his conversation with Melissa Ludtke about her new book Locker Room Talk, A Woman’s Struggle To Get Inside which chronicles her years long effort to get major league baseball to provide her and other women sports reporters with equal access to the NY Yankees locker room so she could do her job as a baseball reporter for Sports Illustrated.

Melissa was a reporter for Sports Illustrated, a correspondent for Time magazine, and an editor of the Nieman Reports at Harvard University. She received the Yankee Quill Award and the Mary Garber Pioneer Award and was a Nieman Fellow and a Prudential Fellow at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. This is her third book. She lives in Cambridge, MA and roots for the Boston Red Sox.

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Join Michael Zeldin in his conversation with Jeffrey Toobin about his new book, The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy, which explores the most controversial pardon in American history—Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon—and its profound implications for our current political situation. 

Jeffrey is a longtime CNN Legal Analyst, author of ten books including, Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism which we featured on this podcast in June 2023. 

Jeffrey is an instructor in the Trial Advocacy Workshop at Harvard Law School and has recently joined the New York Times as an opinion writer.

A Conversation with Jeffrey Toobin, Author, Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism

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Join Michael in his conversation with Don Lemon about his new book   I Once Was Lost, My Search for God in America which tells his personal journey as a person of deep religious faith but also serves as a warning about the hijacking of religion by the religious right and its implications for American Democracy.

Don Lemon is an award winning journalist who has spent three decades on local and national TV, a trusted voice after the Sandy Hook massacre, in war-torn Eastern Europe, and during the riots of 2020. Anchoring Don Lemon Tonight on CNN, he was known for hard-hitting interviews with public officials and compassionate dialogue with everyday people. 

The Don Lemon Show is now streaming on all platforms.

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Join Michael in his conversation with Juan Williams about his new book New Prize for These Eyes, The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement which traces the rise of the second civil rights movement beginning with then Illinois State Senator Barack Obama’s 2004 keynote

address to the Democratic National Convention. It is a perfect primer for understanding the Trump 2.0 attacks on the movement for racial justice.

Juan is a prizewinning journalist and historian. He has written several bestselling books including the prequel to this book entitled Eyes on the Prize. America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 as well as articles for numerous publications including the New York Times, The Wall

Street Journal, and the Atlantic among others. He is currently the senior political analyst for the Fox News Channel and a columnist for The Hill.

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Join Michael in his conversation with Charles Duhigg about his book Supercommunicators, How To Unlock the Secret Language of Connection which is a fascinating exploration of what makes conversations work, and how we can all learn to be supercommunicators at work and in life. It is especially interesting for those who are dating.

Charles is an American journalist and non-fiction author. He was a reporter for The New York Times where he was part of a Pulitzer Prize Award winning team for explanatory writing. He is also the recipient of a The George Polk award and the Gerald Loeb award among others.

This is his third book. He currently writes for The New Yorker Magazine.

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