Steve Martin's Life in Cartoons, Milk Bar's Founder on New Cookie Book, Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums, 'The Rabbit Hutch'

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Nov 15, 2022

The legendary comedian Steve Martin has teamed up again with cartoonist Harry Bliss on a graphic memoir called Number One Is Walking: My Life in the Movies and Other Diversions. They discuss the book, and the art of humor. Martin is performing tonight with his "Only Murders In The Building" co-star Nathan Lane at New York City’s Town Hall.

Most New Yorkers have been to or at least are familiar with Milk Bar, the popular bakery that opened in the East Village in 2008 and has since expanded to multiple locations around the city. One of Milk Bar's most popular orders is a Compost Cookie, made up of foods like pretzels, potato chips, graham crackers, coffee, oats, and butterscotch. Milk Bar's latest cookbook, All About Cookies, is directed to the cookie lovers. The bakery's founder Christina Tosi joins to give us the secrets to making the best cookies and take your calls.

Rolling Stone magazine has released their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in book form, filled with pictures, musings, and top 10 lists from other artists. Jon Dolan, who edited the book, joins us to discuss the list, and take calls from listeners about their pick for the best album of all time.

This week is the ceremony for the National Book Award, and one of the finalists is Tess Gunty, whose debut novel, The Rabbit Hutch, is a finalist in the fiction category. The novel tells the story of various residents in a low-income housing development in Vacca Vale, Indiana. Gunty joins us to discuss.

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