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#1747: Gary Shteyngart’s “Our Country Friends” | The Book Show
Eight friends, one country house, and six months in isolation. Gary Shteyngart's latest "Our Country Friends" is a novel about love, friendship, family, and betrayal hailed as a "virtuoso performance" (USA Today) and "an homage to Chekhov with four romances...
WAMC News Podcast – Episode 261
We speak with Richard Rifkin of the Government Law Center at Albany Law School about the status of the redistricting process in New York state after the commission charged with presenting new electoral maps deadlocked.
#1597: The threat to Democracy coverage | The Media Project
The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with WAMC’s CEO Alan Chartock, former Times Union Editor Rex Smith, former Editor of the Daily Gazette and Vice President for Editorial Development for the New York Press Association, Judy...
#1633: The forgotten story of Clinton Melton | The Best of Our Knowledge
A few weeks back we spoke about the murder of Emmett Till and what it meant to the civil rights movement. But history tends to repeat itself. Today on the Best of Our Knowledge, a story about a lesser known casualty of the Jim Crow south....
#2201: During her first State of the State, Hochul vows to bring NY out of pandemic darkness | The Legislative Gazette
On this week’s Gazette: New York Governor Kathy Hochul delivers her first state of the state address; our political observer Alan Chartock will share his thoughts on the speech. Also, a New York Congressman remembers the January 6th riot last year at the U.S. Capitol.
#1694: Women Religious Leaders, Part Three | 51%
On this week’s 51%, we speak with Sangeetha Kowsik, a Hindu Chaplain at New York University, as part of our series speaking with women religious leaders and scholars. Kowsik discusses the multitude of ways Hinduism is practiced, her love of pujas, and her thoughts on...