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WAMC News Podcast – Episode 244

Just before Election Day, we spoke with Nancy Solomon, managing editor of New Jersey Public Radio, about Governor Phil Murphy’s chances to win a second term. A new poll out that day showed Murphy comfortably ahead. That was then….and now we know that Murphy barely...

#1739: Anthony Doerr – Cloud Cuckoo Land | The Book Show

#1739: Anthony Doerr – Cloud Cuckoo Land | The Book Show

“Cloud Cuckoo Land” is the highly anticipated new novel from Anthony Doerr, who won the Pulitzer Prize for “All the Light We Cannot See.” In his latest novel, Doerr uses one of humanity’s oldest technologies, a book, to illuminate our abiding opportunities for...

#1738: Louise Erdrich’s “The Sentence” | The Book Show

#1738: Louise Erdrich’s “The Sentence” | The Book Show

Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich’s new book is a ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage, and of a woman's relentless errors. “The Sentence” asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the...

#1588: Turning away from the news | The Media Project

#1588: Turning away from the news | 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, Barbara Lombardo, former Editor of the Saratogian and a Journalism Professor at the University at Albany, and Daily Freeman...