Katie Couric's New Memoir, Listening Party: Santigold's 'Spirituals,' Abdulrazak Gurnah's Latest Novel 'Afterlives,' 'Once Upon A (korean) Time'
All Of It with Alison Stewart | Sep 12, 2022
News anchor Katie Couric is used to being the one asking the probing questions. But in her new memoir, Going There, Couric turns her gaze inward, chronicling her childhood, the difficult early days of her career in journalism, and the tragic death of her husband, which left her widowed with two young children. Couric joins us to discuss Going There.Â
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Fresh off being namedropped in Beyonce's "Break My Soul (The Queens Remix)," pioneering musician Santigold is out with her fourth studio album, Spirituals. She joins us for a Listening Party.
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Abdulrazak Gurnah is the latest Nobel Prize recipient in literature, receiving the award for his decades of writing about colonialism, refugees, and family. Gurnah joins us to discuss his career and his latest novel, Afterlives, a story of characters living under German colonial rule in East Africa.Â
The Montclair Art Museum has a new fall slate of shows opening this week. Every day we will speak with curators and artists about the shows. Today, executive director Ira Wagner and chief curator Gail Stavitsky join us to discuss the exhibits "George Inness: Visionary Landscapes" and "Life and Landscape: Inspired by George Inness" which is a juried exhibition of works done in collaboration with Studio Montclair, an organization supporting emerging artists.
The playwrighting debut from actor Daniel K. Isaac is an ambitious tale of family and grief, using Korean fairytales to tell the story of how one family passes down trauma and resilience in the wake of conflict and war. The play is titled, "Once Upon A (korean) Time" and is playing at La MaMa through September 18. Isaac joins us to discuss.
