The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'.

Phillip Lopate

The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'.

Phillip Lopate

  

Get into it

 

Hear to him drop my name like it ain't no thing:

 

www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2010/02/05/segments/14...

From The Starbucks Session. (By session I mean placing my point-and-shoot on a unoccupied table and going nuts with the self-timer).

 

I was in the middle of reading a great book about Susan Sontag written by Phillip Lopate

called Notes on Sontag ...... I guess it compelled me to strike an Intellectual pose!

This couple was sitting at one of the outside tables at a Le Pain Quotidien restaurant, located on Broadway between 91st and 92nd Street. I had the impression that the young man had been staring at the woman for several minutes while she pecked away at the keyboard of her Blackberry device...

 

Note: this photo was published in a June 2009 BooRah blog about Le Pain Quotidien. It was also publised in an Aug 5, 2009 blog titled "Keep Talking, I’m Listening – NOT."

 

Moving into 2010, the photo was published in a Mar 3, 2010 blog titled "A Romantic Moment: Something to Savor or Broadcast?" And it was published in an Apr 13, 2010 Romanian blog titled "Cat rezisti fara telefon." It was also published in a Jun 8, 2010 blog titled "Hedging Your Bets." And it was published in an undated (late Sep 2010) blog titled "Lots Of Phone Cases For You." It was also published in a Dec 9, 2010 blog titled "Presently Somewhere Else."

 

Moving into 2011, the photo was published in a Mar 22, 2011 blog titled "My Life Without A Cell Phone: An Amazing Tale Of Survival," as well as a Mar 21, 2011 blog titled "An ‘electric’ way to reduce lower back pain – Israel 21C." And it was published in an undated (early Jun 2011) Russian blog titled "Как Разжечь в Нем Интерес на Первом Свидании." It was also published in a Jul 1, 2011 "The Vine" blog, with the same caption and detailed notes as this Flickr page. And it was published in an Aug 11, 2011 blog titled "15 normas de etiqueta digital para novatos (y no tan novatos)." It was also published in an Aug 22, 2011 blog titled "7 Powerful Tips To Becoming a Better Listener," the text of which was republished in a Sep 1, 2011 blog titled "Can I Have Your Attention?" And it was published in an undated (early Sep 2011) "Mag for Women" blog titled "10 Funny Excuses To Get Out Of A Bad Date."

 

Moving into 2012, the photo was published in a Jan 2,2012 blog titled "Stebo ging off-line...." And it was published in an Apr 4, 2012 blog titled "Upper Back Pain – Numerous Causes Uncovered." It was also published in a May 10, 2012 blog titled "Logistical problems still hinder the contribution method that has proved successful for charitable giving." And it was published in a May 23, 2012 blog titled "ACTUALIZADO: NÚMEROS DE SMS PREMIUM CANCELADOS (2012)." It was also published in a Jun 11, 2012 Forbes blog titled "Help! My Husband Doesn't Support My Business Idea." And it was published in a Jun 13, 2012 blog titled "Ignoramos a las personas sue amamos," as well as an Aug 31, 2012 blog titled "Another Nightmare On Elm Street."

 

Moving into 2013, the photo was published in a Feb 22, 2013 blog titled "Spending Attention." It was also published in a Jun 15, 2013 blog titled "You Will Spend Over $17,000 on Dating in Your Lifetime." And it was published in an Aug 26, 2013 blog titled glidea.com/blog/48, as well as an Oct 10, 2013 blog titled "A Scientific Guide to the Perfect First Date." It was also published in an Oct 19, 2013 blog titled "Six Things Guys Should Never Say to a Woman." And it was published in a Nov 4, 2013 Atlantic magazine blog titled "How Not to Be a Jerk With Your Stupid Smartphone," as well as a Nov 21, 21013 blog titled "We Have Trouble Communicating."

 

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Looking back on some old photos from 40-50 years ago, I was struck by how visible the differences were between the culture of then, versus the culture of now. In some cases, it was evident from the things people wore, or carried, or did, back then which they no longer do today. But sometimes it was the opposite: things that didn't exist back in the 1960s and 1970s have become a pervasive part of today's culture.

 

A good example is the cellphone: 20 years ago, it simply didn't exist. Even ten years ago, it was a relatively uncommon sight, and usually only on major streets of big cities. Today, of course, cell phones are everywhere, and everyone is using them in a variety of culture contexts.

 

However, I don't think this is a permanent phenomenon; after all, if you think back to the early 1980s, you probably would have seen a lot of people carrying Sony Walkmans, or "boom-box" portable radios -- all of which have disappeared...

 

If Moore's Law (which basically says that computers double in power every 18 months) holds up for another decade, then we'll have computerized gadgets approximately 100 times smaller, faster, cheaper, and better -- which means far better integration of music, camera, messaging, and phone, but also the possibility of the devices being so tiny that they're embedded into our eyeglasses, our earrings, or a tattoo on our forehead.

 

So the point of this album is to provide a frame of reference -- so that we can (hopefully) look back 10-20 years from now, and say, "Wasn't it really weird that we behaved in such bizarre ways while we interacted with those primitive devices?"

You can listen livestream or after the show has aired. We will be discussing our work documenting the disappearing storefronts of New York City, and our newly released Mini edition of our book, "Store Front II-A History Preserved".

 

One of the wonderful #momandpop stores which appears in our book is Auggie's Coffee ☕️ of the South Village. We not only loved this shop's coffee but also its#vintage #signage with the telephone ☎️ number WO6-5750.

 

Natalie Dessay in the WNYC studios on April 22. She spoke to Leonard about starring in a new production at the Metropolitan Opera. You can listen to the interview here.

Patrick Stewart in the WNYC studios on February 22. He spoke to Leonard about playing Macbeth at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. You can listen to the interview here.

This goes to the I've Had It All These Years, and it addresses "My Story" and "My Life As" and the "Photography with a Story" group/pools.

For the Soul of a Photograph group I think the soul is all the fascinating bubbles in the glass.

 

THE STORY:

 

I really don't remember ever NOT having this bowl around, with all of its awe-inspiring bubbles, and brilliant color. I don't know where it came from, but both of my parents were Interior Designers; so perhaps from a store they worked in when they didn't have their own store. It is about 8 inches across, and maybe 3/4th to 1 inch thick. Getting the bubbles in there seemed magic to me. It was always on a coffee table or end table. Most of the time, it was empty. When I was a young girl, I was supposed to clean the ashtrays and dust; and though it didn't have a little groove or slot for a cigarette, sometimes people would use it as an ashtray. As an aside here, if you ever want your kid to grow up and not be a smoker, just have them clean up the ashtrays after other people's mess for years.

 

I left home and the bowl was still there. It was always in the living room of whatever home they had. They moved around a lot; but it was a little object that provided some continuity for me. Sometimes, they would just up and sell almost everything they owned, and then redecorate. The Orange Bubble Bowl survived all the moving and all the selling off. It probably went through 35 moves.

 

I finally asked my mother one day if I could have the orange bowl when they were gone. After my father died, in 1995, she gave it to me. It has not had ashes nor candy nor anything in it for years. It has always been in whatever living room I have had too. I never put cigarettes in it; and I don't smoke. Sometimes I put loose change in it; but mostly I like it empty.

 

One time when I was maybe 10 years or 12 years old, my father took me with him to go shopping for some cocktail glasses. He wanted something bold and in about the same color as the bowl. In those days (the 1950s) some department stores in San Franciso had 3 to 5 floors of departments. He found some cocktail glasses and asked my opinion if they went well with the bowl. He bought them. Sorry to say, I have not one single one of those today; I guess my brothers got them, or they all were broken over the years. I do have one or more snapshots, where they show up in the picture.

 

I set the bowl on top of a camelback trunk to give it some interest and a place to perch while I photographed it. It has a lot of memories for me, most of them good ones.

 

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"If you are tempted to criticize the size, resolution or quality of this image ~ please don't ~ I used a Sony Mavica Digital (sub-megapixel) camera, which was State of the Art in 1999 ~ Digital Cameras have since come a long way"

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Marietta was opened by Marietta Chirico in 1940 and is now run by her two sons. Photo and full interview appear in our newly released book, "STORE FRONT II- A History Preserved". To hear more about mom-and-pop stores from our new book, please listen to us on WNYC's The Leonard Lopate Show tomorrow, December 22nd at 1:20 - 2pm.

The Leonard Lopate Show hosts the conversation New Yorkers turn to each afternoon for insight into contemporary art, theater, and literature, plus expert tips about the ever-important lunchtime topic: food. Produced by WNYC. Airs weekdays at 12:00 noon to 2pm on WNYC New York 93.9FM / AM 820 Rebroadcasting at midnight on 93.9FM

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Actress Catherine Deneuve and Leonard Lopate in the WNYC studios. She was on the Lopate Show March 25, 2011, to talk about her new film, "Potiche." You can listen to that interview here. Photo by Melissa Eagan.

One passage from a book, one from a magazine:

 

“Intellectuals have always been drawn to film. Not, be it said, for narcissistic reasons, to see mirror reflections of themselves onscreen, but for the movement and erotic glimmer of the material world. (Wittgenstein was said to rush off to Betty Grable movies when the mental pressure became too great.) Movies have offered a quick, painless way for those devoted to refinements and ‘elitist’ esoteric problems to participate in, or catch up on, the interests of their fellow-men.”

 

—Phillip Lopate, “The Last Taboo: The Dumbing Down of American Movies,” _Totally, Tenderly, Tragically: Essays and Criticism from a Lifelong Love Affair with the Movies_, p. 263.

  

“9. Would you rather read a good novel or get a peek inside a well-built woman’s blouse?

 

Read a novel: 46.5%

Get a peek: 52.7%”

 

—_Esquire_, October 1991, p. 154.

 

Thanks to the beautiful women who appear in my portfolio! For whatever reason, we love their looks, so we look.

   

Film director David Lynch in the WNYC studios on January 11. He spoke to Leonard about his book, "Catching the Big Fish." You can listen to the interview here.

From thelemming.com:

"Walter Benjamin posits in his description of the flâneur that “Empathy is the nature of the intoxication to which the flâneur abandons himself in the crowd. He … enjoys the incomparable privilege of being himself and someone else as he sees fit. Like a roving soul in search of a body, he enters another person whenever he wishes” (Baudelaire 55). In this way the flâneur parasite, dragging the crowd for intellectual food—or material for his latest novel (Ponikwer 139-140). In so doing, he wanders through a wonderland of his own construction, imposing himself upon a shop window here, a vagrant here, and an advertisement here. He flows like thought through his physical surroundings, walking in a meditative trance, (Lopate 88), gazing into the passing scene as others have gazed into campfires, yet “remain[ing] alert and vigilant” all the while (Missac 61) .

The flâneur is the link between routine perambulation, in which a person is only half-awake, making his way from point A to point B, and the moments of chiasmic epiphany that one reads of in Wordsworth or Joyce. Like Poe’s narrators, he is acutely aware, a potent intellectual force of keen observation—a detective without a lead. If he were cast a character in the “drama of the world,” he would be its consciousness."

 

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The Digital Flâneur

by Michael Macfeat

 

The flâneur, long thought lost wandering an obsolete past, has a contemporary model with technological legs. No longer employing the tactic of a slow-paced physical meanderer with a lobster on a leash, the flâneur now circumnavigates with previously unfathomable speed provided by computer technology.

No longer is the flâneur afforded the luxury of leisure enjoyed by the Nineteenth Century haute bourgeoisie. The contemporary flâneur is an educated proletarian who has found leisure thrust upon them by the failing economy and ruthless machinations of Human Resources Departments in late-Capitalist bureaucracies. The digital flâneur's free time is imposed upon them by their lack of gainful employment and it is a ticking time bomb. The excessive time spent on the web that identifies the digital flâneur often originates with the pursuit of non-existent jobs. It is not entirely accurate to describe the jobs as "non-existent." They do exist but they have been outsourced to India and China because it is illegal to pay workers 87 cents an hour to workers in the United States. The global ruling class cannot possibly do without these drones to feed their profiteering habits. Their insatiable and covetous greed demands it.

The digital flâneur is not to be confused with the obsessive and masturbatory narcissism of the Facebook addict. Facebook is the stalker's paradise and the shut-in's delusion of a functioning social life. Millions flock to Facebook because their marital status resembles a low-security prison. They did not come to Facebook with 647 "friends." It is impossible to maintain 647 friendships let alone meet 647 people that will, through social discourse and repeated human interaction become "friends." A herd of this size cannot be managed by sitting on your sofa, initiating impotent flirting with people from high school and eating potato chips at the same time and couching it as multi-tasking. The sedentary lifestyle of a Facebook addict requires the posting of outdated icon photographs which give no hint of the onset of morbid obesity. Be forewarned; that mid-nineties coiffure is not making a comeback, it is from that period.

Gaining familiarity with the repeated use of computer technology, the idle mind wanders through a labyrinthian library of information, leading one into areas so far removed from their original pursuits that it becomes nearly impossible to retrace your steps. Hours can be spent enjoyably perusing philosophical and cultural sites knowing full well that they have no practical use in finding gainful employment. There is something positive in that realization.

A lack of pragmatism is shared by the perambulators of the past and present. It is senseless to examine sites containing unattainable commodities while disabled by their limited and dwindling resources. This indifference to materialism shares common ground in both communities of flâneur; they have no intention of purchasing anything. In the present case it is due to an inability to purchase rather than a disinterest in the cheap and poorly made commodities offered.

The legendary dandyism of the previous sect of flâneurs has been downgraded to the cliche of the digital flâneur's pajamas, although this author insists on a modicum of discretion and style, even if just spending time at the keyboard but it certainly is a minority position. For the last 20 years Americans have dressed as if they were on vacation. Their wish has come true with endemic double-digit unemployment which may just prove to be permanent. Soon they may have time and motivation for a stroll when they can no longer afford gasoline.

No, Mom! I'm NOT coming home for Thanksgiving!

 

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Henry Kissinger was on the Leonard Lopate Show on May 31, 2011, to talk about foreign policy and his new book, On China. You can listen to that interview here. Photo by Melissa Eagan.

Fisher Price Little People (the kind that have not been manufactured for years) in a gumball machine. There is also a small ceramic sculpture of a mother and child. The flags you can readily see are Hawaii, Scotland, USA and Canada. (fpgumballmachine)

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People dig the annual list of books that I finished, so here's 2017. There's a big writeup over at my site. (r) means it's a reread.

 

Rumi's Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love - Brad Gooch • Download our podcast (and listen to our 2015 podcast)

 

The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries - Jessa Crispin • Download our podcast (and listen to our 2014 podcast)

 

The B Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song - Ben Yagoda • Download our podcast

 

Why I Am Not A Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto • Download our podcast (and listen to our 2014 podcast)

 

Memoir: A History - Ben Yagoda • Download our podcast

 

A Mother's Tale - Phillip Lopate • Download our podcast (and listen to our 2013 podcast)

 

Note Book - Jeff Nunokawa • Download our podcast

 

Private Citizens: A Novel - Tony Tulathimutte • Download our podcast

 

What Belongs to You - Garth Greenwell • Download our podcast

 

Snowed Under - Antje Ravic Strubel

 

Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives - Sarah Williams Goldhagen • Download our podcast

 

The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway (r)

 

Moving the Palace - Charif Majdalani • Download our podcast

 

Toscanelli's Ray - Wallis Wilde-Menozzi • Download our podcast (and listen to our 2013 podcast)

 

Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem - George Prochnik • Download our podcast! (and listen to our 2014 podcast)

 

Dear James: Letters to a Young Illustrator - R.O. Blechman • Download our podcast

 

Mary Astor's Purple Diary: The Great American Sex Scandal of 1936 - Edward Sorel

 

Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

 

This Is How You Lose Her - Junot Diaz • podcast coming someday!

 

This Is What a Librarian Looks Like: A Celebration of Libraries, Communities, and Access to Information - Kyle Cassidy • Download our podcast (and listen to our 2012 podcast!)

 

Lovecraft Country: A Novel - Matt Ruff • Download our podcast

 

Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy: Annihilation; Authority; Acceptance - Jeff VanderMeer • podcast coming someday!

 

Bad Monkeys: A Novel - Matt Ruff • Download our podcast

 

Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr - John Crowley • Download our podcast (and listen to our 2013 one)

 

Totalitopia - John Crowley •Download our podcast (and listen to our 2013 one)

 

Playboy Laughs: The Comedy, Comedians, and Cartoons of Playboy - Patty Farmer • Download our podcast

 

After Henry: Essays - Joan Didion

 

The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion

 

The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare

 

Survival In Auschwitz - Primo Levi

 

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges: Stories - Nathan Englander • podcast coming soonish!

 

The Hue and Cry at Our House: A Year Remembered - Benjamin Taylor • podcast coming soonish!

 

The Ministry of Special Cases - Nathan Englander • podcast coming soonish!

 

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: Stories - Nathan Englander • podcast coming soonish!

 

The Peregrine - JA Baker

 

Three Floors Up - Eshkol Nevo • Download our podcast

 

Behind Her Eyes - Sarah Pinborough • podcast coming someday

 

A Man Lies Dreaming - Lavie Tidhar • podcast coming soon!

 

Central Station - Lavie Tidhar • podcast coming soon!

 

Lastingness: The Art of Old Age - Nicholas Delbanco • Download our podcast

 

Curiouser and Curiouser: Essays - Nicholas Delbanco • Download our podcast

 

The Years - Nicholas Delbanco • Download our podcast

 

The Art of Youth: Crane, Carrington, Gershwin, and the Nature of First Acts - Nicholas Delbanco • Download our podcast

 

The Man Who Made the Movies: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox - Vanda Krefft • Download our podcast

 

Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press - Eddy Portnoy • Download our podcast

 

Cartoon County: My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of Make-Believe - Cullen Murphy • Download our podcast

 

Dinner at the Center of the Earth: A novel - Nathan Englander • podcast coming soonish!

 

Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America - Cullen Murphy • Download our podcast

 

How to Read Nancy: The Elements of Comics in Three Easy Panels - Paul Karasik & Mark Newgarden • podcast coming soon!

 

Happiness Is a Choice You Make: Lessons from a Year Among the Oldest Old - John Leland • podcast coming soon!

 

Exit Ghost - Philip Roth (r)

 

Everyman - Philip Roth (r)

 

Dolly Parton and host Leonard Lopate at WNYC January 13, 2012. She spoke to him about her latest film, "Joyful Noise," with Queen Latifah , and about how she's been writing songs since she was five! Listen to the interview here.

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Anthony Hopkins in the WNYC studios in October. He spoke to Leonard about writing his first screenplay for "Slipstream." You can listen to the interview here.

Emmylou Harris in the WNYC studios on June 11. She spoke to Leonard about her new album, "All I Intended to Be." You can listen to the interview here,.

Cast members from "Downton Abbey," Elizabeth McGovern, Hugh Bonneville, and Joanne Froggatt at WNYC's studios on December 15, 2011.They were interviewed by host Leonard Lopate about the popular show. Listen to the interview here!

Credit Melissa Eagan.

Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman and director Peter Sellers in the WNYC studios on September 9, 2009. They spoke with Leonard about Shakespeare's "Othello" at the Public Theater. You can listen to that interview here

Yul Vazquez, Elizabeth Rodriguez, and Bobby Cannavale in WNYC's studios June 2, 2011. They spoke with Leonard Lopate about their roles in "The Motherf***er with the Hat." You can listen to the interview here. Photo by Melissa Eagan.

Gabriel Byrne and Alan Cumming in the WNYC studios on March 18. Gabriel Byrne spoke to Leonard about starring in HBO's "In Treatment." Alan Cumming spoke about starring in the Classic Stage Company's production of "The Seagull." You can listen to Gabriel Byrne's interview here.

Shailene Woodley and Judy Greer at WNYC on November 28. They spoke with host Leonard Lopate about shooting in Hawaii and dealing with George Clooney's pranks when they were filming Alexander Payne's new film, "The Descendants." Listen to the interview here.

Credit Melissa Eagan

New Orleans French Quarter street corner taken in 1994 with a first generation consumer digital camera (image resolution 768 x 512). Corner of Decatur St and Governor Nicholls St.

 

This style of weathering and wear and tear at that time would be quaint and historic.

 

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Director Luc Besson at the WNYC studios on January 9, 2005. He spoke to Leonard about his new film, "Arthur and the Invincibles." You can listen to the interview here.

Elizabeth Olsen and Josh Radnor dropped by WNYC's studios to chat with host Leonard Lopate about their new film, "Liberal Arts," on September 10th.

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Charlotte Gainsbourg juggled her baby on November 11, 2011, at WNYC. She spoke with host Leonard Lopate about her new album and about starring in the film "Melancholia." Listen to the interview here.

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There's a big blog-post attached to this alumni photo of all the books I finished in 2013, except for James Salter's Solo Faces, which I read on my Kindle and which my library system doesn't have (and (r) means it's a re-read, btw):

 

Bleak House - Charles Dickens (r)

 

Confusion - Stefan Zweig

 

The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War - Fred Kaplan

 

Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis

 

A Sport and a Pastime - James Salter

 

Engine Summer - John Crowley

 

The Original 1982 - Lori Carson

 

Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments - Michael Dirda

 

Distrust That Particular Flavor - William Gibson

 

The Other Side of the Tiber: Reflections on Time in Italy - Wallis Wilde-Menozzi

 

Chess Story - Stefan Zweig (r)

 

Moby-Dick - Herman Melville (r)

 

Little, Big - John Crowley (r)

 

Sabbath's Theater - Philip Roth (r)

 

Portrait Inside My Head: Essays - Phillip Lopate

 

To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction - Phillip Lopate

 

Bug Music: How Insects Gave Us Rhythm and Noise - David Rothenberg

 

The Oresteia - Aeschylus (tr. Lattimore) (r)

 

Payback: The Case for Revenge - Thane Rosenbaum

 

A Month in the Country - JL Carr

 

Checkpoint - Nicholson Baker

 

Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth (r)

 

The Death of Ivan Ilych - Leo Tolstoy (r)

 

Stoner - John Williams

 

A Month in the Country - JL Carr (r)

 

Vineland - Thomas Pynchon (r)

 

The Ministry of Guidance Invites You to Not Stay: An American Family in Iran - Hooman Majd

 

Lucky Bruce: A Literary Memoir - Bruce Jay Friedman

 

The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning - Peter Trachtenberg

 

Another Insane Devotion: On the Love of Cats and Persons - Peter Trachtenberg

 

Everyman - Philip Roth (r)

 

The Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual Persuasion - Virginia Postrel

 

The Fifty-First State - Lisa Borders

 

The Devil That Never Dies: The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism - Daniel Goldhagen

 

Solo Faces - James Salter

 

Getting Personal: Selected Essays - Phillip Lopate

 

Barracuda in the Attic - Kipp Friedman

 

Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution: From The Sopranos and The Wire to Mad Men and Breaking Bad - Brett Martin

 

The Collected Short Fiction of Bruce Jay Friedman - Bruce Jay Friedman

 

Listen to The Virtual Memories Show!

Ben Whishaw, Andera Riseborough, and Hugh Dancy in the WNYC studios on February 26, 2010. They spoke with Leonard about their roles in the play "The Pride." You can listen to that interview here.

A family walking at Wollaton Park.

 

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Padma Lakshmi in the WNYC studios on February 8. She spoke to Leonard about her new cookbook. You can listen to the interview here.

Gina Carano, the mixed martial arts star who's now the star in Steven Soderbergh's new film, "Haywire," and Steven Soderbergh, at WNYC on January 17, 2012. They spoke with host Leonard Lopate about the film. Listen to the interview here.

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Katie Couric in the WNYC studios April 12, 2011. She spoke with Leonard about her career, her move to teh anchor chair at the CBS Evening News, and her new book, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives. You can listen to that interview here. Photo by Melissa Eagan.

Pamela Druckerman at WNYC February 29, 2012. She was on the Leonard Lopate Show to explained why she feels the French make for better parents, and to talk about her book Bringing Up Bebe. Listen to the interview here.

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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in the WNYC studios on July 28. She spoke to Leonard about her new book, Know Your Power. You can listen to the interview here.

Chef Gabrielle Hamilton, owner of the restaurant Prune, in the Leonard Lopate Show studios on February 28, 2011. She was on the show to discuss her career and her memoir, Blood, Bones and Butter. Listen to that interview here. Photo by Melissa Eagan.

Veteran interviewer Dick Cavett performing some card magic in WNYC's studios. He was on with John Hodgman, who was filling in for Leonard on June 20, 2011. Listen to the interview here! Photo by Melissa Eagan.

The ever-dapper Tom Wolfe came by WNYC on November 14th to chat with host Leonard Lopate about the 25th anniversary of the publication of "The Bonfire of the Vanities" -- which was selected for THE LEONARD LOPATE BOOK CLUB. He was excited to show off his special socks, and shoes, afterwards.

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Amy Sedaris dropped by The Leonard Lopate Show offices at WNYC on June 20, 2011. She was preparing to be interviewed by guest host John Hodgman, and was thinking about questions she could ask him. ou can listen to the interview here. Photo by Melissa Eagan.

Pixie Jane Powell and TCM host Robert Osborne were on the Leonard Lopate Show November 15, 2011, to talk about movies ("Royal Wedding," "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers," and "Two Weeks with Love"), movie posters, and why the Hollywood studio system was important. Listen to the interview here.

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Actors Ethan Hawke and Philip Seymour Hoffman with Director Sidney Lumet in the WNYC studios on October 25. They spoke to Leonard about their new film, "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead." You can listen to the interview here.