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In this new kind of interview show, Randy Cohen talks to guests about a person, a place, and a thing they feel strongly about. The result: some great talkers tell stories they never have before. Visit PersonPlaceThing.org.

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May 29, 2014

Eric Fischl came to fame in the New York art world of the nineteen-eighties (well yeah, not the eighteen-eighties) an experience he describes in Bad Boy: My Life on and off the Canvas. One thing it omits: we went to school together, at Cal Arts, in 1973, but we didn’t know each other then, a detail sure...


May 23, 2014

In addition to his own drawings – you’ll recognize his pointilistic style – Robert Mankoff is the cartoon editor of The New Yorker. His cartoon captioned, “No, Thursday’s out. How about never—is never good for you?” is the magazine’s most frequently reprinted. And it provides the title for his new...


May 19, 2014

No one moves more gracefully between Hollywood and New York than Theresa Rebeck. Out west, she wrote for “NYPD Blue,” among many TV shows, before creating her own, “Smash.” Back east, her plays include Mauritius, Seminar, and the Pulitzer finalist Omnium Gatherum. She won the Edgar Award from the Mystery...


May 9, 2014

Annabelle Gurwitch came to broad attention as a comic performer on the TBS television series “Dinner and a Movie.” I believe she played Dinner. Or perhaps Movie. She has since written several books, most recently I See You Made an Effort, a humorous look at turning fifty. - See more...