Analyzing Pop Music, 'American Oligarchs,' A Silicon Valley Memoir, Black Women in Film

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Jan 14, 2020

Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding, the hosts of the podcast Switched on Pop, join us to break down some more pop music, and walk us through some of the Oscar nominations for Best Original Song.

WNYC planning editor Kate Hinds joins us for a new installment of "Kate Has a Plan."

Andrea Bernstein joins us with a sneak peak of Act II of her book, American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power, which comes out January 14.

Anna Wiener, contributing writer for The New Yorker, joins us to discuss her Silicon Valley memoir, Uncanny Valley.

Anna Perling join us to discuss her recent article for Wirecutter, “The Best Reusable Produce Bags, Beeswax Wraps, and Other Ways to Reduce Plastic Waste.”

Film historian and author Donald Bogle joins us to discuss the Film Forum series, Black Women: Trailblazing African American Performers & Images, 1920 – 2001, which runs from from January 17 through February 13.

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