Each weekday morning, WAMC’s President and CEO and Political Observer, Alan Chartock, and Roundtable Host Joe Donahue are joined by various experts, journalists, educators, and commentators to discuss current events. On Roundtable Panel: The Week in Review, we feature your favorite panelists discussing the most important issues of the week, giving you a chance to catch up, ponder or reconsider.

Appointed by Philip Roth and granted independence and complete access, Blake Bailey spent years poring over Roth’s personal archive, interviewing his friends, lovers, and colleagues, and engaging Roth himself in breathtakingly candid conversations. His new book is: "Philip Roth: The Biography." Bailey shows how Roth emerged from a lower-middle-class Jewish milieu to achieve the heights of literary fame, how his career was nearly derailed by his catastrophic first marriage, and how he championed

In the revised edition of the essay collection "Goodbye to All That," thirty writers share their own stories of loving and leaving New York, capturing the mesmerizing allure the city has always had for writers, poets, and wandering spirits. Their essays often begin as love stories do, with the passion of something newly discovered. They also share the grief that comes like a gut-punch, when the grand metropolis loses its magic and the pressures of New York's frenetic life wear thin for even the

The Roundtable Panel : a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, Former EPA Regional Administrator, Visiting Professor at Bennington College, President of Beyond Plastics Judith Enck, Chairman of Capital Distric Latinos Dan Irizarry, and Albany County District Attorney David Soares.

Dr. Michio Kaku is one of the most charismatic and visible figures in science today and is beloved by his extensive fan base of millions of readers and followers. A media mainstay as the national science contributor for CBS This Morning, he also hosts the radio programs Science Fantastic and Exploration and is the number one New York Times bestselling author of "The Future of the Mind." His new book is "The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything."

Although nearly half of working women in the United States are now their household's main breadwinner, the majority of women still aren't raised to think like breadwinners. In fact, they're actually discouraged from building their own wealth, pursuing their full earning potential, and providing for themselves and others financially. Financial expert Jennifer Barrett addresses the issue in her new book "Think Like A Breadwinner: A Wealth-Building Manifesto for Women Who Want to Earn More (and

The Roundtable Panel : a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, Professor of Sociology at UAlbany Angie Y. Chung, Siena College Professor of Comparative Politics Vera Eccarius-Kelly, and Publisher Emeritus of The Daily Freeman Ira Fusfeld.

The Roundtable Panel : a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, investigative journalist and UAlbany adjunct professor Rosemary Armao, Lecturer and Adjunct Professor in Communications for SUNY New Paltz and RPI Terry Gipson, and Dean of the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland and Cybersecurity at the University at Albany Robert Griffin.

During the summer of 1776, just three days after patriots declared independence from Britain, an enemy invasion from Canada loomed. "Valcour: The 1776 Campaign That Saved the Cause of Liberty" by historian Jack Kelly is the wild, suspenseful story of this crucial and often neglected campaign of the Revolutionary War. There will be an Oblong Books Online Book Launch on Thursday night at 7 p.m. via Crowdcast.

This week's Book Picks come from owner of Bennington Bookshop , Phil Lewis. List: The Searcher by Tana French Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby The Smash-Up by Ali Benjamin The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz We Begin At the End by Chris Whitaker