May 25, 2020
Chris Molanphy is a music journalist for Slate, a pop-chart expert, and host of the fabulous podcast "Hit Parade", which dissects how the songs you love (or hate) rule the airwaves and make their way to the top 40. We geek out majorly on music talking about his obsession with charts and interesting trivia about artists...
May 19, 2020
A.B. Stoddard is a celebrated political writer and TV
personality. Three months ago, she made unexpected headlines when
President Trump lashed out at her for saying he had some disastrous
debate performances. She talks about that drama as well as: what
being a political columnist looks like behind the scenes,
how...
May 12, 2020
Sue Monk Kidd didn’t start writing fiction until she
was 53 years old, and what a run it’s been since. She’s written
three bestsellers, including The Secret Life of
Bees and The Invention of Wings. Now she has
a new novel, The Book of
Longings, which
imagines what Jesus’s life would have been
like had he been...
May 4, 2020
Betsey Johnson went from a “cornball Connecticut” childhood to hanging out with Andy Warhol and selling clothes to Prince. She joined me on the podcast to chat about her new memoir, which includes stories on:
- How she got her start in fashion sewing clothes at night to sell to her co-workers
- Hiring sex workers and...