A new year may just be the right time for a new gig. As a part of our new 'Taking Care of You in 2022' series, Rob Barnett, headhunter and author of Next Job, Best Job: A Headhunter's 11 Strategies to Get Hired Now joins us to talk tips to get your resume noticed, plus we'll take listener calls.

The latest film directed by George Clooney is "The Tender Bar," starring Ben Affleck and based on the memoir of the same name by J.R. Moehringer. Both the film and memoir tell the story of a young J.R., who found a sense community at a local bar after his father left the family before he could remember him. Moehringer, who is also an executive producer of the film, joins us to discuss.

At the onset of the pandemic and into the extended lockdown, France became captivated with a novel. The Anomaly, by Hervé Le Tellier, was published in the summer of 2020, and since has sold over a million copies in France. The book tells the story of an Air France flight from Paris to New York, but not everything goes smoothly... Recently, the book made it's U.S debut, translated into English by Adriana Hunter. Le Tellier speaks with us about the novel.

As more and more Broadway stars test positive for COVID-19, understudies have had to step in to keep the lights on and the show going. Journalist Alexis Soloski joins us to discuss her reporting for the New York Times, "On Broadway, Newly Vital Understudies Step Into the Spotlight." We also take some calls from our listeners who may be understudies themselves.

There are lots of events to look forward to, look out for, and just be aware of in the New Year, from the Winter Olympics to the 70th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's reign in England. For a special 2022 Review/Preview, we are joined by journalist Masha Goncharova, who walks us through her list of "Events to Shake, or Gently Rattle, the World in 2022," published in the New York Times.