Icons Day Part 2: Margaret Atwood, Al Pacino and more...

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Aug 25, 2023

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Today, we present collection of recent conversations with some of the culture's most iconic figures.

[REBROADCAST FROM March 8, 2023] Preeminent author Margaret Atwood joins us to discuss her latest short story collection, Old Babes in the Wood, containing fifteen works of short fiction.

[REBROADCAST FROM October 6, 2022] Oscar-winning actor Al Pacino joins us to discuss the 75th anniversary of The Actor's Studio, of which he is co-president.

[REBROADCAST FROM April 24, 2023] Legendary singer Barry Manilow joined us to speak about a one-night show at Carnegie Hall this past Spring celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the New York Pops, and his own career. Manilow was honored by various artists, including pop singers and Broadway balladeers.

[REBROADCAST FROM May 16, 2023] Over the last fifty years, Henry Threadgill has been one of the most renowned American composers, never afraid of leaning into innovation and experimentation. He's one of three Jazz artists to ever win a Pulitzer Prize. Today is the publishing day for his autobiography, Easily Slip into Another World: A Life in Music, which details his early years in Chicago, playing in an Infantry Division Band in Vietnam, and how he settled in New York and made a name for himself in the East Village in the 1970s. The book comes around the same time as the release of his latest composition, The Other One. Threadgill joins us in studio to discuss both projects.

[REBROADCAST FROM October 19, 2022] Journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault has reported on Black lives for over fifty years, a career that came after she won a legal challenge to become one of two black students to desegregate the University of Georgia in 1961. Reporting for The New York Times, The New Yorker, PBS, and NPR, now she's released a book, My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives, which compiles much of her writing throughout her career. Hunter-Gault is with us to reflect on her career, and the state of journalism today.

[REBROADCAST FROM May 12, 2023] MTV News, the newsroom that spoke to a new generation of engaged viewers, voters, and music fans, is shutting down, 36 years after it was launched. Former MTV correspondent John Norris joins former MTV correspondent Alison Stewart to reflect on the legacy of the alternative news institution, along with NPR media critic Eric Deggans. And listeners call in to share their memories of the program and reflect on its closure.

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