Eric Molinsky reports for Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen and hosts a podcast about sci-fi and other fantasy genres called Imaginary Worlds. He co-produced several hours of Studio 360’s American Icons series, and his work has also appeared on NPR, Marketplace, 99% Invisible, and KCRW’s un-Fictional.
Eric Molinsky appears in the following:
Germany’s Traumatized Kriegskinder Speak Out
Friday, May 05, 2023
Burkhard Bilger talks about the generation of Germans who were children during the Second World War. After decades of silence, they are just beginning to acknowledge their trauma.
Jamie Lee Curtis, the Original Scream Queen
Friday, December 06, 2019
The star of “Halloween” scares easily, and won’t watch a slasher film. But she’s bravely confronted real taboos: her history with addiction, and the terror of Hollywood beauty standards.
Bon Iver Live at The New Yorker Festival
Friday, November 29, 2019
Justin Vernon and some of his collaborators in the celebrated indie band talk with Amanda Petrusich, and play songs off their latest album, “i,i.”
Watching the Moon Landing in Real Time
Friday, July 19, 2019
Three accounts from a 1969 issue of The New Yorker describe what it was really like to watch the “giant leap for mankind.”
The Star Witnesses Against El Chapo
Friday, November 16, 2018
Twin brothers from Chicago who became major drug traffickers led authorities to the drug kingpin known as El Chapo. Now they have to testify against him.
For a Palestinian Community Leader, a Contested Election in Jerusalem
Friday, August 31, 2018
Ramadan Dabash is taking his life in his hands to run for the city council in Jerusalem, which Palestinians have long boycotted.
Three Actors Explain What It Means to be “Presidential”
Friday, August 17, 2018
The actors behind President Whitmore, President Payton, and President Grant on how to convincingly play the leader of the free world.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Discovering America
Friday, January 26, 2018
The novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, from Nigeria, is a keen observer of American attitudes about race, but she’s not afraid to challenge leftist orthodoxy.
Don’t Worry, the Robots Can’t Do Your Job—Yet
Friday, December 08, 2017
A business reporter looks at a surge of advances in robotic technology and sees a looming wave of unemployment that our country is not preparing for.
The Case Against Assad
Friday, August 11, 2017
At an undisclosed location in Western Europe, a group called the CIJA is gathering evidence of war crimes perpetrated by the Syrian government.
Senator Al Franken Really Is Senatorial
Friday, August 04, 2017
Senator Franken and David Remnick discuss the health-care vote, the Russia investigation, and how his sense of humor has been a liability.
Jon Ronson on the Surreal Film “Okja”
Friday, June 30, 2017
A giant (and apparently very tasty) super-pig is kidnapped by Tilda Swinton, in a new film co-written by Jon Ronson.
Tracy K. Smith in the Woods
Friday, June 30, 2017
The Poet Laureate says that “green space has fed the inner silence that I think most writers are seeking.”
Ivanka Trump Plays Well in China
Friday, June 23, 2017
Women in China are torn between modern success and Confucian ideals. Many there wonder, How does Ivanka Trump pull it off so well?
It’s Tommy Westphall’s Universe, We Just Live in It
Thursday, June 15, 2017
Taken to its logical conclusion, the enigmatic final episode of the show “St. Elsewhere” suggests that nearly all TV shows exist within the mind of one very creative boy.
Hugh Everett Is Alive and Well in an Alternate Universe
Thursday, June 15, 2017
When he was 19, Mark Everett’s father died. But his big idea, a surprising interpretation of quantum mechanics, lived on. And if that idea is right, he might still be alive … somewhere.
Rita Dove Dances till Dawn
Friday, June 09, 2017
After a poet lost her home, she started a new life as a ballroom dancer.
Emily Greenhouse Picks Three
Friday, June 02, 2017
A David Bowie-like song by the indie rock group Shearwater is a recent favorite of The New Yorker’s Emily Greenhouse.
The Real Twin Peaks
Thursday, May 11, 2017
Not just a TV town: what it’s like to live in the towns where “Twin Peaks” was filmed, and to experience tragedy in a town that’s actually called Twin Peaks.
American Icons: Buffalo Bill
Thursday, May 04, 2017
William F. Cody’s stage show presented a new creation myth for America, bringing cowboys, Indians, settlers, and sharpshooters to audiences.
