Author Angie Cruz joins us to talk about how her fictional character, Ana, in novel reflects the lives of so many real women.
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The Evolution of Urban Parks
Urban design critic John King joins guest host John McCaa to talk about how urban parks have evolved to offer a variety of experiences.
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History’s Greatest Buildings
James Crawford joins us to talk about how the Tower of Babel, the Library of Alexandria and other important buildings were used and abused.
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Friendship From Dorm To City
This hour, we’ll talk with Hanya Yanagihara about her story of how friends who met in college started a life together in New York City. She writes about what turned their close relationship into something resembling a family in her novel “A Little Life.”
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All By Myself
This hour, we’ll talk with Olivia Laing about loneliness, how we connect with other people and the walls we put up to keep others out, the subject of her memoir “The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone.”
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Putting New York On The Map
This hour, we’ll talk about how smart urban planning transformed an unruly town into a metropolis with the author of “City on a Grid: How New York Became New York.”
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A Chat With Aasif Mandvi
This hour, we’ll talk to him about his journey from his native India to growing up in England to ultimately landing in New York City, which he writes about in No Land’s Man.
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