Episodios

  • Best of Design Matters: Lucy Sante

    Best of Design Matters: Lucy Sante
    Apr 14 2025
    Renowned writer, cultural critic, and scholar of the demimonde Lucy Sante joins to discuss her career and a new memoir, “I Heard Her Call My Name,” reflecting on her transition and self-actualization in her sixties.

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    59 m
  • Carol Leifer

    Carol Leifer
    Apr 7 2025
    Writer’s Guild Award winner and Emmy-nominated comedian, writer, and producer for television shows such as Seinfeld, The Larry Sanders Show, Saturday Night Live, The Oscars, Modern Family, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and more; Carol Leifer joins to talk about her new book, her writing, and her four-decade career in comedy.

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    1 h y 15 m
  • Jon Batiste

    Jon Batiste
    Mar 31 2025
    Widely recognized as a musical genius and once-in-a-generation talent, Jon Batiste is one of history’s most brilliant, prolific, and accomplished musicians. The Grammy, Emmy, and Oscar-winning star joins to discuss his legendary career, connecting people through a shared love of music.

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    1 h y 5 m
  • Michael Goldberg

    Michael Goldberg
    Mar 24 2025
    Michael Goldberg is the Founder and CEO of Something Special Studios, a creative agency building brands, campaigns, and experiences designed to shape culture. He joins to discuss his multifaceted career and a recent creative endeavor, Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy, a spectacular second showing of the world’s first art amusement park.

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    41 m
  • Todd Pruzan

    Todd Pruzan
    Mar 17 2025
    Todd Pruzan—a prolific writer, editor, and journalist—recently inherited a collection of several thousand New Yorker covers from his family spanning the past 77 years. He joins to read an essay that explores a number of realizations while reviewing the covers, including his family’s Jewish identity.

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    45 m
  • Best of Design Matters: Nell Irvin Painter

    Best of Design Matters: Nell Irvin Painter
    Mar 10 2025
    Throughout her prolific writing career, Nell Irvin Painter has published works on such luminaries as Sojourner Truth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Malcolm X. Her unique vantage on American history pushes the boundaries of personal narrative and academic authorship and asks readers to reconsider ideas of race, politics, and identity. She joins to discuss her legendary career as a distinguished historian, award-winning author, and artist.

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    1 h y 15 m
  • Best of Design Matters: Suzan-Lori Parks

    Best of Design Matters: Suzan-Lori Parks
    Mar 3 2025
    Named one of TIME magazine’s “100 Innovators for the Next New Wave,” Suzan-Lori Parks is the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Topdog/Underdog. She joins to discuss her long and illustrious career as a playwright, musician, and novelist.

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    48 m
  • Todd St. John

    Todd St. John
    Feb 24 2025
    Founder and Creative Director of the design consultancy HunterGatherer, Todd St. John, joins to discuss his career as a multi-disciplinary artist and designer working in illustration, animation, graphic design, photography, furniture, and industrial design.

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    51 m
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