Today on The Joan Hamburg Show: The First Lady of New York Radio sits down with Award-winning Historian, Professor at Vassar College, and Author Paulina Bren to talk about her new novel “The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free.” In addition, Joan catches up with Chief Theater Critic for The New York Times Jesse Green to talk about the memoir he co-wrote called “Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers” which tells the life of legendary theater composer Mary Rodgers and her father, and the importance of theater in New York City.

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