October 30, 2008
Susan Squire
A Contrarian History of Marriage. Susan Squire gives us a history of marriage from a contrarian's perspective — from Adam and Eve, to the Renaissance, to modern ideas of love matches. Her new book is I Don't.

August 8, 2008
Patricia Clarkson and Isabel Coixet
The new film "Elegy" is based on a novella by Philip Roth; it's about a cultural critic whose life is thrown into disarray when he becomes romantically involved with one of his students. Isabel Coixet is the director; Patricia Clarkson co-stars. It opens today at the Angelika and Lincoln Plaza Cinemas.

June 5, 2008
Sue Halpern
Find out about the latest cutting-edge research into memory, and what scientists are doing to prevent and treat Alzheimers and other forms of dementia. Sue Halpern's new book is Can't Remember What I Forgot: The Good News from the Front Lines of Memory Research.

April 23, 2008
Scott Weidensaul
There are millions of birders in the U.S. today. Find out the history of birdwatching in America, from the colonial times to the present. Scott Weidensaul's recent book is Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding.

April 17, 2008
Geroge O'Connor and Charles Gehring
In the 17th century, Dutch trader Van den Bogaert set out through present-day New York's Indian territory in search of beaver pelts. His actual diary entries have been brought to life in a new graphic novel, Journey Into Mohawk Country, by writer and illustrator George O'Connor and historian Charles Gehring.

April 10, 2008
Thomas Graboys
Dr. Thomas Graboys is a physician battling a particularly aggressive form of Parkinson's disease and progressive dementia. His new memoir about dealing with his illness is Life in the Balance: A Physician's Memoir of Life, Love, and Loss with Parkinson's Disease and Dementia.

March 13, 2008
Laton McCartney
The Teapot Dome Scandal of 1922 was a major federal corruption disaster under Warren G. Harding, who's widely considered one of the worst presidents in American history. Laton McCartney's new book is The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country.

March 6, 2008
Patricia Clarkson and Chris Cooper
Actors Chris Cooper and Patricia Clarkson co-star in the new film "Married Life." It's a dark comedy about a 1940s man who falls for a younger woman but still loves his wife.

February 28, 2008
John Burnham Schwartz
John Burnham Schwartz's new novel, The Commoner, is based on the life of Japan's Empress Michiko, who was the first commoner to marry into the Japanese imperial family.

February 21, 2008
Antonio Skarmeta
Antonio Skarmeta, author of The Postman, has set his latest novel in Chile. It's called The Dancer and the Thief.

February 6, 2008
Tupper Thomas, Deborah Marton
Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza is the main entrance to Prospect Park, and it's been called New York City's answer to the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. However, the space as it is used today is difficult to walk around, drive around, and is generally not very user-friendly. The Design Trust for Public Space is launching a new project to redesign Grand Army Plaza. Tupper Thomas of Prospect Park and Deborah Marton of the Design Trust for Public Space talk about how GAP could be improved.

January 31, 2008
Hugh Sampson
Dr. Hugh Sampson of Mount Sinai School of Medicine responds to our controversial interview about allergies with journalist Meredith Broussard earlier this month. Dr. Sampson is an allergy activist and director of the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute.

January 24, 2008
Sergei Tretyakov
Former spy Sergei Tretyakov ran Russia's post-Cold War espionage program in America - before he defected to the US! Pete Earley tells his story in Comrade J.

January 17, 2008
Dr. Sandeep Jauhar
80-hour workweeks, exhaustion, mental and moral challenges: the first year of medical residency is one of the most harrowing of a doctor's professional life. Dr. Sandeep Jauhar writes about his own difficult residency at a busy New York City hospital in Intern.

January 10, 2008
Daniel Schorr
NPR's Daniel Schorr has covered politics in print throughout the administrations of twelve presidents! His new book of political analysis past and present is Come to Think of It: Notes on the Turn of the Millennium.

January 2, 2008
Meredith Broussard
The risk of food-related allergies has been greatly overblown, according to journalist Meredith Broussard (who's had food allergies herself). Her article in the January issue of Harper's magazine is "Everyone's Gone Nuts."

December 18, 2007
Joan Jeffri, Deborah Beck and Estelle Levy.
As rents keep rising, New York is an increasingly difficult place to be a working artist - let alone an aging working artist. We look into the pros and cons of staying and toughing it out, for artists of all ages. Artist Estelle Levy has decided to stay, while artist Deborah Beck has recently moved away. Professor Joan Jeffri is director of the Research Center for Arts and Culture at Columbia's Teachers College.

December 12, 2007
James Draper
James Draper is curator of an exhibition of Lorenzo Chiberti's gilded bronze doors at the Met.

December 5, 2007
Bennie Wallace
Tenor saxophonist Bennie Wallace pays tribute to be-bop pioneer Coleman Hawkins in his new album, "Disorder at the Border."

November 28, 2007
Elizabeth Samet
Author of Soldier's Heart, about teaching literature at West Point.

November 22, 2007
Michael Neufeld
Author of new biography, Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War.

November 14, 2007
Hank Sapoznik
Producer of new anthology of ballads about disasters and murder.

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Akiva Eldar
Author of Lords of the Land: The War for Israel's Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967-2007.

November 1, 2007
Kid Delicious and L. Jon Wertheim
They discuss Running the Table, about world-class pool player Kid Delicious.

October 24, 2007
Josh Swiller
Author of The Unheard, a memoir about going to Africa with the peace corps as a deaf person.

October 4, 2007
Dorothy Hamill
Gold medal winning figure skater talks about her new memoir.

September 27, 2007
Ralph M. Steinman, Albert Starr and Anthony Fauci
Winners of the 2007 Lasker awards, the Nobel Prize for America's medical community.

September 20, 2007
Michael Korda
Author of new biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower.

September 13, 2007
Richard Berge
Writer, Director & Producer of "Rape of Europa", a documentary film

September 5, 2007
Alan Alda
Actor. Author of "Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself"

August 29, 2007
Rudy Crew
Former Chancellor of NYC Schools. Current Superintendent of Miami Dade County Schools

August 22, 2007
Michael Stephenson
Author of "Patriot Battles: How the War of Independence Was Fought"

August 16, 2007
Gino Segrè
Physicist. Author of "Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics"

August 08, 2007
R.A. Scotti
Author of "Basilica", about the building of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome

August 01, 2007
Frank Deford
Sports Commentator, author of "The Entitled"

July 26, 2007
Linda Thompson
Folk/Rock musician, new CD is "Versatile Heart"

July 18, 2007
Lore Segal
Fiction writer, author of "Shakespeare's Kitchen"

June 28, 2007
Meryl Secrest
Biographer. Author of "Shoot the Widow"

July 12, 2007
Joost Hilterman
Human Rights activist, author of "A Poisonous Affair"