Get Lit: Harvey Fierstein and Tituss Burgess, Celebrating the 2022 Grammy Nominees

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Apr 1, 2022

We air highlights from our interview with Harvey Fierstein as part of our March "Get Lit with All Of It" book club event. It's our first in-person event in over two years! We spent the month reading Fierstein's new memoir, I Was Better Last Night. The memoir details Fierstein's life and career, his activism, and his struggles with addiction. Kirkus says of the book, "A poignant, clever, and entertaining look at an impressive, unique career." 

We also air highlights from the audience Q & A portion of our interview. 

We air highlights from the interview and performance portion of our March "Get Lit with All Of It" book club event. It's our first in-person event in over two years! After Harvey Fierstein, we're joined for a performance by actoTituss Burgess, whose Broadway credits include, "Guys and Dolls," "The Little Mermaid," and "Jersey Boys." You also know him as Titus Andromedon from "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and a regular on the animated musical series, "Central Park."

[REBROADCAST FROM October 1, 2020] Robin Pecknold, singer-songwriter, guitarist and frontman of Fleet Foxes, joins us to talk about their album, Shore. The album serves as a bright counterpart to the band's last critically acclaimed album, Crack-Up.

[REBROADCAST FROM September 28, 2021] Esperanza Spalding’s new album, Songwrights Apothecary Lab, is named after the roaming creative workshop into which she invited musicians, neuroscientists, ethnomusicologists, and other specialists. Six of the twelve songs on the resulting LP were recorded during a session of live sets in New York this summer. Spalding joins us for a Listening Party.

[REBROADCAST FROM July 29, 2021] The title of Leon Bridges's third album, Gold-Digger’s Sound, comes from the Los Angeles hotel and studio where the Grammy winner wrote and recorded it. Bridges joins us for a Listening Party.

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